Climate warming and wetting poses a severe threat to permafrost engineering stability on the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau
Available online 14 February 2025
Permafrost underpins engineering in cold regions but is highly sensitive to climate change. The mechanisms linking climate warming, precipitation changes, and permafrost degradation to infrastructure...
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Fragmentation of ground surface freezing processes in Northeast China from 1950 to 2022
Available online 13 February 2025
Current studies mainly employ the onset and end dates of freezing, freeze duration and freeze depth to describe the freeze state, often overlooking the discontinuous nature of the freezing process....
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The sensitivity of the Asian summer monsoon simulation to horizontal resolution and air‒sea coupling in the FGOALS-f climate system model
Available online 5 February 2025
The relative importance between horizontal resolution and air‒sea coupling on improving Asian summer monsoon (ASM) simulation skill remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the sensitivity of...
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Assessing the combined effect of China’s restarting of the CCER market: Coupling of CGE and GAINS models
Available online 31 January 2025
China’s relaunch of the Certified Voluntary Emission Reduction (CCER) market is essential to the operation of the carbon emission trading market. Traditional single policy effect evaluation models cannot...
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Projection for the occurrence dates of heat stress in North China
Available online 30 January 2025
High humidity has been causing extreme heat stress during summer in North China, presenting threats to human life. Although future changes in the intensity and frequency of heat stress have been well...
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Identifying practical adaptations to health risks from extreme weather events for multi-actors
Available online 29 January 2025
To address escalating health risk posed by extreme weather due to climate change, it’s particularly important to identify tailored adaptation measures for various actors, enabling them to respond quickly...
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Traditional ecological knowledge in High Mountain Asia: A pathway to climate resilience in agriculture amidst changing climates
Available online 28 January 2025
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) often represents centuries of empirical observation and adaptation to specific ecological conditions, which is relevant to meaningful nature-human relations. Yet,...
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Calibrating the simulated summer precipitation trend over the southern slope of the Tibetan Plateau in CMIP6 models using a sub-selection method
Available online 27 January 2025
Precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is crucial for Asian water balance and global climate patterns. The southern slope of the TP (SSTP), a precipitation center in summer, has experienced a long-term...
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Assessing the added value of convection-permitting modeling for urban climate research: A case study in eastern China
Available online 27 January 2025
Accurate urban-resolving climate data are essential for urban climate research and applications. However, General Circulation Models (GCMs) often lack the resolution and urban representation needed...
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Technology pathway to decarbonisation in the building sector based on a policy review of major economies
Available online 25 January 2025
Building decarbonisation is crucial to achieve the carbon neutrality targets. Although many studies have been conducted, a gap remains in the research concerning technology development and policy design....
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Regional reallocation of zero-carbon ammonia production in China with carbon neutrality targets
Available online 20 January 2025
Current studies have shown that local feedstocks such as coal, natural gas, and solar resources support regional industrial decarbonization pathways but fail to consider inter-regional cooperation....
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The interaction between thermokarst lake drainage and ground subsidence accelerates permafrost degradation
Available online 20 January 2025
Since it is not viable to directly evaluate permafrost change based on remote sensing, thermokarst lake drainage (TLD) and ground subsidence serve as indicators for depicting permafrost degradation....
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Future climatic risks faced by the Beautiful China Initiative: A perspective for 2035 and 2050
Available online 15 January 2025
Identifying high-risk areas for climatic disasters and their overlaps during the implementation of the Beautiful China Initiative fills a critical gap in disaster risk research, which often lacks quantitative...
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Future changes in population exposure to intensified heatwaves over three major urban agglomerations in China based on Excess Heat Factor
Available online 6 January 2025
Heatwave events (HWs) have become more frequent and intense due to climate change and urbanization, posing risks to human health, yet the influence of rapid temperature fluctuation on human adaptation...
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Thermal enhancement of targeted cooling thermosyphon array applied to the embankment–bridge transition section of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway in warm permafrost
December 2024
Permafrost degradation in the embankment–bridge transition section (EBTS) along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway has led to extensive damage to bridge structures, posing a serious threat to railway safety....
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Decadal variations in near-surface wind speed across the Northern Hemisphere on a centennial timescale and their possible causes
December 2024
The reduction in near-surface wind speed (NSWS), followed by its recent recovery, could be a feature of decadal variations. However, existing studies mainly analyse the characteristics and causes of...
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Decoupling effect and influencing factors of carbon emissions in China: Based on production, consumption, and income responsibilities
December 2024
Carbon emissions at the provincial level are mostly calculated based on production responsibility, which ignores the carbon emission accounting perspectives of consumption and income responsibility....
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Representative CO2 emissions pathways for China's provinces toward carbon neutrality under the Paris Agreement's 2 °C target
December 2024
China has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. It is essential to develop representative CO2 emissions pathways at the provincial level that align with the national target to facilitate...
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Timber and carbon sequestration potential of Chinese forests under different forest management scenarios
December 2024
Developing forestry action plans with the goal of carbon neutrality is a critical task to identify carbon sink potential and balance the pathways of China's forests. Current research that predicts forest...
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How do gridded meteorological datasets perform in a typical data-scarce cryospheric basin?
December 2024
Gridded meteorological datasets have been widely used in meteorological and hydrological studies, especially in data-scarce regions. However, assessments of these datasets in cryospheric basins, which...
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Detection, attribution and projection of changes in the extreme temperature range in the Northern Hemisphere
December 2024
The extreme temperature range (ETR) is the span between the highest and lowest temperature of a given year, and is a manifestation of extreme temperature variability. It is regarded as having significant...
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Assessing the impact of artificial geotextile covers on glacier mass balance and energy fluxes
December 2024
As global warming accelerates, leading to the retreat of glaciers, the effectiveness of artificial coverings, in particular geotextiles, in reducing glacier ablation has emerged as a topic of increasing...
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Spatiotemporal pattern of ENSO-induced modulation on landscape fires over Pacific Rim from 2001 to 2020
December 2024
While El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) modulates landscape fire activities across the Pacific Rim, the detailed patterns and mode-specific variations of these effects remain poorly understood. This...
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Cognitive decline in relation to later-life high temperature exposure in a Chinese nationwide cohort
December 2024
Growing evidence has linked extreme temperature with neuropsychiatric disorders under climate warming with frequent extreme heat events over the past decades, while cognitive performance in relation...
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Elevation-dependent shift of landslide activity in mountain permafrost regions of the Qilian Mountains
December 2024
Increasing landslide activities in cold regions have been attributed to rising temperatures and consequent permafrost degradation. While previous studies have linked permafrost degradation to slope...
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