Effects of climate change on greek forests: A review

PP Koulelis, N Proutsos, AD Solomou, EV Avramidou… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study reviews the impacts of climate change on Greek forests, analysing factors such as
climate trends, forest management, biodiversity, genetics, insects, and wildfires, using data …

Water temperature drives phytoplankton blooms in coastal waters

T Trombetta, F Vidussi, S Mas, D Parin, M Simier… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Phytoplankton blooms are an important, widespread phenomenon in open oceans, coastal
waters and freshwaters, supporting food webs and essential ecosystem services. Blooms …

Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees' vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

I Dorado‐Liñán, G Piovesan… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change may reduce forest growth and increase forest mortality, which is connected
to high carbon costs through reductions in gross primary production and net ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of climate change on wastewater treatment plants performances and energy costs in Apulia, south Italy

E Ranieri, G D'Onghia, L Lopopolo, P Gikas, F Ranieri… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the influence of temperature and of rainfall intensity and the effect of such
variations on the treatment efficiencies and on the electrical consumptions in seven medium …

Unravelling precipitation trends in Greece since 1950s using ERA5 climate reanalysis data

G Varlas, K Stefanidis, G Papaioannou… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Precipitation is one of the most variable climatic parameters, as it is determined by many
physical processes. The spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation have been …

Seasonal rainfall trends of a key Mediterranean area in relation to large-scale atmospheric circulation: How does current global change affect the rainfall regime?

M Luppichini, M Bini, M Barsanti, R Giannecchini… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current global warming causes a change in atmospheric dynamics, with consequent
variations in the rainfall regimes. Understanding the relationship between global climate …

Artificial intelligent systems optimized by metaheuristic algorithms and teleconnection indices for rainfall modeling: The case of a humid region in the mediterranean …

B Zerouali, CAG Santos, CAS de Farias, RS Muniz… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Characterized by their high spatiotemporal variability, rainfalls are difficult to predict,
especially under climate change. This study proposes a multilayer perceptron (MLP) …

An investigation on the non-stationarity of flood frequency across the UK

M Chen, K Papadikis, C Jun - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water infrastructure design and flood mitigation projects are currently based on a so-called
stationary assumption. However, this assumption has been challenged in recent years due …

Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment plants in Southeast of Italy

E Ranieri, G D'Onghia, L Lopopolo, P Gikas… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
An evaluation of the operative functioning data of 183 Wastewater Treatment Plants
(WWTPs) in Apulia (Southeast of Italy) has been carried out aimed to assess their Green …

Statistical relationships between large-scale circulation patterns and local-scale effects: NAO and rainfall regime in a key area of the Mediterranean basin

M Luppichini, M Barsanti, R Giannecchini, M Bini - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigated the correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
index and the rainfall trend in Tuscany (Italy) by using a large number of rain gauges for a …