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Dan Li and Sakdirat Kaewunruen

Railway networks are exposed to various environmental conditions. It is thus critical that infrastructure components can tolerate such effects by design. Railway sleepers are a critical safety component in ballasted track systems. Prestressed concrete is ... see more

Julia Bilbao, Roberto Román and Argimiro De Miguel

Maximum (Tmax), minimum (Tmin), mean (Tmean) air temperature and diurnal temperature range (DTR) trends on a seasonal and annual time scale are evaluated from data recorded at nine Spanish weather stations during the period 1950–2011. Temporal and s... see more

Michele Zinzi and Matheos Santamouris

Buildings and construction is the most important economic sector in the world after agriculture [...]

Jean-François Rousseau, Sarah Turner and Yiqiang Xu

In the wake of important economic reforms and an ongoing agrarian transition, non-timber forest products, most notably black cardamom, have emerged as significant trade options for ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese borderlands. Ye... see more

Abdoul Rasmane Bagagnan, Issa Ouedraogo, William M. Fonta, Musa Sowe and Anne Wallis

In The Gambia, climate change has affected, and continues to affect, the agriculture sector. Thus, there is a need to develop and understand effective agricultural adaptation policies. The present study used protection motivation theory to describe farmer... see more

Oleg Onishchenko, Viktor Fedun, Wendell Horton, Oleg Pokhotelov and Gary Verth

According to modern concepts, the main natural sources of dust in the atmosphere are dust storms and associated dust devils—rotating columns of rising dust. The impact of dust and aerosols on climate change in the past, present and future is one of ... see more

Alla A. Tashilova, Boris A. Ashabokov, Lara A. Kesheva and Nataliya V. Teunova

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Konstantia Tolika

Heat waves are considered one of the most noteworthy extreme events all over the world due to their crucial impacts on both society and the environment. For the present article, a relatively new heat wave index, which was primarily introduced for the stud... see more

Lawin Agnidé Emmanuel, Nina Rholan Hounguè, Chabi Angelbert Biaou and Djigbo Félicien Badou

This paper assessed the current and mid-century trends in rainfall and temperature over the Mono River watershed. It considered observation data for the period 1981–2010 and projection data from the regional climate model (RCM), REMO, for the period 2018–... see more

Dadang Jainal Mutaqin

The impact of natural hazards on agriculture in Indonesia is becoming increasingly severe. Therefore, improving farmers’ capacity to undertake risk coping strategies is essential to maintaining their prosperity. The objective of this study was to in... see more

Nazzareno Diodato, Lelys Bravo De Guenni, Mariangel Garcia and Gianni Bellocchi

Severity of drought in California (U.S.) varies from year-to-year and is highly influenced by precipitation in winter months, causing billion-dollar events in single drought years. Improved understanding of the variability of drought on decadal and longer... see more

Vivek Shandas, Jackson Voelkel, Joseph Williams and Jeremy Hoffman

The emergence of urban heat as a climate-induced health stressor is receiving increasing attention among researchers, practitioners, and climate educators. However, the measurement of urban heat poses several challenges with current methods leveraging eit... see more

Md Masud Hasan, Barry F. W. Croke and Fazlul Karim

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Ngamindra Dahal, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Anita Tuitui and Hemant Raj Ojha

Nepal has experienced recent changes in two crucial climatic variables: temperature and precipitation. Therefore, climate-induced water security concerns have now become more pronounced in Nepal as changes in temperature and precipitation have already alt... see more

Rita Hounguè, Agnidé Emmanuel Lawin, Sounmaila Moumouni and Akambi Abel Afouda

This work focuses on trend analysis of rainfall, evaporation, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and sunshine duration over the Ouémé Delta in Bénin. Eight temperature based indices and fifteen rainfall based indices are comp... see more

Mohammad Fahmy, Hisham Kamel, Hany Mokhtar, Ibrahim Elwy, Ahmed Gimiee, Yasser Ibrahim and Marwa Abdelalim

Urban climatology is a complex field owed to the intersecting parameters. In city planning, neighborhood fabric and vegetation plays a great role in modifying arid microclimates. This work presents an approach to enable urban designers to find the optimum... see more