11 articles in this issue
Carles Sanchis Ibor,José Luis Iranzo Quevedo,Francisca Segura-Beltran
During the latter half of the twentieth century, Mediterranean ephemeral rivers underwent a profound metamorphosis. Fluvial adjustment processes narrowed the channels, simplified their planform pattern and notably reduced sediment availability. Today, thi... see more
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino,Rosanna Salvia,Gianluca Egidi,Luca Salvati,Antonio Giménez-Morera,Giovanni Quaranta
Land degradation and, subsequently, desertification processes are conditioned by biophysical factors and human impacts. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest by social scientists to assess its implications. Especially, it is relevant to the potential ... see more
Nívea Oliveira Santos,Ricardo Augusto Souza Machado,Rubén Camilo Lois González
Desertification is one of the most serious current environmental problems and corresponds to the impoverishment and decrease of moisture in sandy soils located in regions with a sub-humid, arid and semiarid climate, with its main causes related to climati... see more
Leandro F. da Silva,Bartolomeu I. de Souza,Rafael Cámara Artigas
The objective of this study is to identify and analyse the main characteristics of areas potentially degraded by desertification and of preserved areas using the Soil Surface Moisture Index (SSMI), alongside the Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Normaliz... see more
Graham A. Sexstone,Steven R. Fassnacht,Juan I. López-Moreno,Christopher A. Hiemstra
Given the substantial variability of snow in complex mountainous terrain, a considerable challenge of coarse scale modeling applications is accurately representing the subgrid variability of snowpack properties. The snow depth coefficient of variation (CV... see more
José M. Cuadrat,Roberto Serrano-Notivoli,Samuel Barrao,Miguel Ángel Saz,Ernesto Tejedor
We analyse the temporal intensity and variability of the urban heat island (UHI) in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), and assess the role of wind as an important atmospheric conditioning factor. Based on the time data provided by the city’s urban mesoscale me... see more
Indalecio Mendoza Uribe
The impacts of Climate Change are not homogeneous globally or for a country or region as a whole. Consequently, it is essential to carry out studies to identify its effects in particular areas. Due to its geographical and topographic characteristics, Chih... see more
Teodoro Lasanta,Carlos Baroja-Sáenz,Melani Cortijos-López,Estela Nadal-Romero,Ignacio Martín,Enrique García-Escudero
Climate change is promoting increasingly hot and dry conditions in the vineyards of the Mediterranean basin, affecting both the physiology and phenology of the vine, as well as the production and quality of the grape. In this context, adaptation and mitig... see more
Rafael Cámara Artigas,Bartolomeu Israel de Souza,Raquel Porto de Lima
The state of Paraíba in northeast Brazil contains four of the seven biomes present in the country: Mata Atlântica, Cerrado, Caatinga and Matas Serranas. On the other hand, Amazônia, Pantanal and Pampa were not found in this area. This special situation al... see more
Beatriz E. Murillo-López,Alexander Feijoo-Martínez,Andrés F. Carvajal
Understanding how and what land cover changes and transitions have occurred in a territory is crucial to planning and managing high-demand surfaces. At the landscape level, the challenge is determining the allocation and management of various land cover o... see more
Marcela Rosas-Chavoya,José Luis Gallardo-Salazar,Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano,Pedro Camilo Alcántara-Concepción,Ana Karen León-Miranda
QGIS is the most popular free geospatial software in the world. QGIS belongs to the Open-Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Among the main strengths of this Geographic Information Systems are: the incorporation of tools via plugins, and a community of ... see more