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Deserts and semiarid areas have already been affected by climate change, with some areas experiencing increases in aridity. Mixed trends of decreases and increases in vegetation productivity have been observed, depending on the time period, geographic region, detection methods used and vegetation type under consideration (high confidence1 ...
26 53% of the area had no notable change. Observed trends in deserts and semi-arid areas have led to varying 27 impacts on flora, fauna, soil, and water resources. Ecological changes in dryland ecosystems detected and 28 attributed primarily to climate change include tree mortality and loss of mesic tree species at specific sites in
As the Saharan example shows, deserts are superb repositories of past climatic events. The very aridity to which they owe their existence has facilitated the preserva-
Attribution of desertification to climate variability and change, and to human activities, varies in space and time ( high confidence). Climate variability and anthropogenic climate change, particularly through increases in both land surface air temperature and evapotranspiration, and decreases in precipitation, are likely to
Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather, such as large-scale and local-scale causes of aridity, precipitation character-istics in deserts, dust storms, floods, climate change in deserts, precipitation processes, desertification, the land-surface physics of deserts, numerical mod-eling of desert atmospheres, an...
‘Desert climates’ tackles the causes of aridity, the variety of climates that exist in deserts, and their parameters. Where are the hottest deserts on Earth? What is the reality of such climatic conditions, and can geographic factors influence them?
Climatic Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts, including geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers.
