Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

C Grossiord, TN Buckley, LA Cernusak… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent decades have been characterized by increasing temperatures worldwide, resulting
in an exponential climb in vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD has been identified as an …

The influence of climate change on global crop productivity

DB Lobell, SM Gourdji - Plant physiology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Climate trends over the past few decades have been fairly rapid in many agricultural regions
around the world, and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and ozone (O3) …

Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

L Gudmundsson, J Boulange, HX Do, SN Gosling… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Anthropogenic climate change is expected to affect global river flow. Here, we analyze time
series of low, mean, and high river flows from 7250 observatories around the world covering …

Global multi-model projections of local urban climates

L Zhao, K Oleson, E Bou-Zeid, ES Krayenhoff… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Effective urban planning for climate-driven risks relies on robust climate projections specific
to built landscapes. Such projections are absent because of a near-universal lack of urban …

Calibration‐free complementary relationship estimates terrestrial evapotranspiration globally

N Ma, J Szilagyi, Y Zhang - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our
understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current …

A Ti3C2Tx MXene-Based Energy-Harvesting Soft Actuator with Self-Powered Humidity Sensing and Real-Time Motion Tracking Capability

P Li, N Su, Z Wang, J Qiu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
A smart soft actuator with multiple capabilities of humidity-driven actuating, humidity energy
harvesting, self-powered humidity sensing, and real-time motion tracking is reported. It is …

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

S Sippel, N Meinshausen, EM Fischer, E Székely… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
For generations, climate scientists have educated the public that 'weather is not climate', and
climate change has been framed as the change in the distribution of weather that slowly …

Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia

ES Im, JS Pal, EAB Eltahir - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and
level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35° C …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature and humidity based projections of a rapid rise in global heat stress exposure during the 21st century

ED Coffel, RM Horton… - Environmental Research …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
As a result of global increases in both temperature and specific humidity, heat stress is
projected to intensify throughout the 21st century. Some of the regions most susceptible to …

[HTML][HTML] Increase in extreme precipitation events under anthropogenic warming in India

S Mukherjee, S Aadhar, D Stone, V Mishra - Weather and climate extremes, 2018 - Elsevier
India has witnessed some of the most devastating extreme precipitation events, which have
affected urban transportation, agriculture, and infrastructure. Despite the profound …