Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Quantifying the spatial and interconnected structure of regional to continental scale droughts
is one of the unsolved global hydrology problems, which is important for understanding the …

Climatic observables are often correlated across long spatial distances, and extreme events,
such as heatwaves or floods, are typically assumed to be related to such teleconnections …

Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Continental moisture recycling is a crucial process of the South American climate system. In
particular, evapotranspiration from the Amazon basin contributes substantially to …

Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution
of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …

Network theory, as emerging from complex systems science, can provide critical predictive
power for mitigating the global warming crisis and other societal challenges. Here we …

Changing climatic conditions have led to a significant increase in the magnitude and
frequency of extreme rainfall events in the Central Andes of South America. These events …

We investigate the spatial characteristics of extreme rainfall synchronicity of the South
American Monsoon System (SAMS) by means of Complex Networks (CN). By introducing a …