Abstract The Middle East and southwest Asia are a region that is water stressed, societally
vulnerable, and prone to severe droughts. Large-scale climate variability, particularly La …

The Saudi Arabia (SA) climate varies greatly, depending on the geography and the season.
According to Köppen and Geiger, the climates of SA is “desert climate”. The analysis of the …

The rainfall and temperature climatology over the Arabian Peninsula are analysed on an
annual basis using various gridded datasets. For Saudi Arabia, the area of which represents …

The timing and abruptness of the initiation and termination of the Early Holocene African
Humid Period are subjects of ongoing debate, with direct consequences for our …

Abstract The Arabian Peninsula has experienced pronounced interannual to decadal
variability in dust activity, including an abrupt regime shift around 2006 from an inactive dust …

This paper presents key results from analysis of surface meteorological observations
collected in the Northern Arabian/Persian Gulf (N Gulf; Kuwait, Bahrain, and NE Saudi …

Abstract While El Niño is known to cause failure of Kiremt (boreal summer) rainfall in
Ethiopia, the mechanisms are not fully understood. Here we use the ECHAM5 Atmospheric …

High-resolution real-time satellite-based precipitation estimation datasets can play a more
essential role in flood forecasting and risk analysis of infrastructures. This is particularly true …

The relationships between large-scale atmospheric circulation types and seasonal regimes
of daily precipitation over Iran are assessed using daily precipitation from a high-resolution …

Drought is known as one of the most devastating climate extremes, which the world is facing
in recent decades. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) lies in the water-stressed region …