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Chiara Corbari, Giovanni Ravazzani, Alessandro Perotto, Giulio Lanzingher, Gabriele Lombardi, Matteo Quadrio, Marco Mancini and Raffaele Salerno
This paper presents a system for supporting hydropower production on mountainous areas. The system couples the outputs of a numerical weather prediction model and a snow melting and accumulation temperature-based model. Several procedures are presented f...
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Haonan Guo, Shaoyong Wang, Xiaobo He, Yongjian Ding, Yawei Fan, Hui Fu and Xiaofeng Hong
The Qinghai?Tibet Plateau (QTP), known as the Earth?s third pole, is highly sensitive to climate change. Various environmental degradation has occurred due to the effects of climate warming such as the degradation of permafrost and the thickening of acti...
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Qi Chen, Yuhua Xing, Dapeng Zhang, Haitao Sun and Pei Wang
Quantification of the water budget of an arid inland river ecosystem is essential but still a challenge for the sustainable development of water resources. In situ observed data were used to analyze the monthly and annual water budgets and the soil hydro...
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Shuohao Cai, Xiaoning Song, Ronghai Hu and Da Guo
The spatiotemporal variation characteristics of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and its climate response patterns are of significance in deepening our understanding of regional vegetation and climate change. The response of vegetation t...
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Xiaofang Sun, Meng Wang, Guicai Li, Junbang Wang and Zemeng Fan
As a newly emerging satellite form of data, solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) provides a direct measurement of photosynthetic activity. The potential of SIF for drought assessment in different grassland ecosystems is not yet clear. In this stu...
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Xiaoxu Wei, Changzhen Yan and Wei Wei
Qinghai province is an important part of the Tibetan Plateau, and is characterized by extremely fragile ecosystems. In the last few decades, grasslands in this province have been influenced profoundly by climate change, as well as human activities. Here,...
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Valle Raidla, Enn Kaup, Sigrid Hade, Jüri Ivask and Alvar Soesoo
The study focuses on chemical composition of stream and subsurface water in the catchments of two small arctic alpine lakes in the Kilpisjärvi area (northwest Finland). Differences and changes in chemical components of both water types are followed in or...
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John Bershaw
Deuterium excess (d-excess) is a second-order stable isotope parameter measured in meteoric water to understand both the source of precipitation and the evolution of moisture during transport. However, the interpretation of d-excess patterns in precipita...
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Jun Liu, Donghui Shanguan, Shiyin Liu and Yongjian Ding
Multisource reanalysis datasets provide an effective way to help us understand hydrological processes in inland alpine regions with sparsely distributed weather stations. The accuracy and quality of two widely used datasets, the China Meteorological Assi...
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María José Pérez-Palazón, Rafael Pimentel and María José Polo
Snow constitutes a key component of the water cycle, which is directly affected by changes in climate. Mountainous regions, especially those located in semiarid environments, are highly vulnerable to shifts from snowfall to rainfall. This study evaluates...
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