1. Adapting rice production to climate change for sustainable blue water consumption: an economic and virtual water analysis

   • Abdullah Darzi-Naftchali
   • Fatemeh Karandish

   Original Paper 21 December 2017 Pages: 1 - 12

   

2. Unstable relationship between the Arctic Oscillation and East Asian jet stream in winter and possible mechanisms

   • Yang Liu
   • Shengping He
   • Yali Zhu

   Original Paper 22 December 2017 Pages: 13 - 27

   

3. Self-organizing map network-based precipitation regionalization for the Tibetan Plateau and regional precipitation variability

   • Nini Wang
   • Jianchuan Yin

   Original Paper 23 December 2017 Pages: 29 - 44

   

4. Spatial downscaling algorithm of TRMM precipitation based on multiple high-resolution satellite data for Inner Mongolia, China

   • Limin Duan
   • Keke Fan
   • Tingxi Liu

   Original Paper 26 December 2017 Pages: 45 - 59

   

5. Non-linear trends and fluctuations in temperature during different growth stages of summer maize in the North China Plain from 1960 to 2014

   • Cailin Wang
   • Jidong Wu
   • Ning Li

   Original Paper 27 December 2017 Pages: 61 - 70

   

6. Spatiotemporal variations of the twentieth century Tibetan Plateau precipitation based on the monthly 2.5° reconstructed data

   • Samuel S. P. Shen
   • Gregori Clarke
   • Tandong Yao

   Original Paper 28 December 2017 Pages: 71 - 83

   

7. A method for deterministic statistical downscaling of daily precipitation at a monsoonal site in Eastern China

   • Yonghe Liu
   • Jinming Feng
   • Yadi Zhao

   Original Paper 28 December 2017 Pages: 85 - 100

   

8. Prediction of onset and cessation of austral summer rainfall and dry spell frequency analysis in semiarid Botswana

   • Jimmy Byakatonda
   • B. P. Parida
   • D. B. Moalafhi

   Original Paper 07 January 2018 Pages: 101 - 117

   

9. Aerosol contamination survey during dust storm process in Northwestern China using ground, satellite observations and atmospheric modeling data

   • Mikalai Filonchyk
   • Haowen Yan
   • Shuwen Yang

   Original Paper 10 January 2018 Pages: 119 - 133

   

10. Assessing water resources under climate change in high-altitude catchments: a methodology and an application in the Italian Alps

    • T. Aili
    • A. Soncini
    • D. Bocchiola

    Original Paper 11 January 2018 Pages: 135 - 156

    

11. Fuzzy rule-based forecast of meteorological drought in western Niger

    • Zakari Seybou Abdourahamane
    • Reşat Acar

    Original Paper 12 January 2018 Pages: 157 - 168

    

12. Observed soil temperature trends associated with climate change in the Tibetan Plateau, 1960–2014

    • Xuewei Fang
    • Siqiong Luo
    • Shihua Lyu

    Original Paper Open access 12 January 2018 Pages: 169 - 181

    

13. A skilful prediction scheme for West China autumn precipitation

    • Ting Wei
    • Wenling Song
    • Xiaohang Wen

    Original Paper 14 January 2018 Pages: 183 - 192

    

14. Quantifying the sources of uncertainty in an ensemble of hydrological climate-impact projections

    • Anil Aryal
    • Sangam Shrestha
    • Mukand S. Babel

    Original Paper 15 January 2018 Pages: 193 - 209

    

15. Homogeneity revisited: analysis of updated precipitation series in Turkey

    • Bugrayhan Bickici Arikan
    • Ercan Kahya

    Original Paper 16 January 2018 Pages: 211 - 220

    

16. The spatial heterogeneity of land surface conditions and its influence on surface fluxes over a typical underlying surface in the Tibetan Plateau

    • Genhou Sun
    • Zeyong Hu
    • Xiaoqiang Yan

    Original Paper 17 January 2018 Pages: 221 - 235

    

17. Assessment of different gridded weather data for soybean yield simulations in Brazil

    • R. Battisti
    • F. D. Bender
    • P. C. Sentelhas

    Original Paper 18 January 2018 Pages: 237 - 247

    

18. Rescaled range analysis of streamflow records in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil

    • Marcelo Vitor Oliveira Araujo
    • Alcigeimes B. Celeste

    Original Paper 19 January 2018 Pages: 249 - 260

    

19. Local-scale analysis of temperature patterns over Poland during heatwave events

    • Agnieszka Krzyżewska
    • Jamie Dyer

    Original Paper 20 January 2018 Pages: 261 - 277

    

20. Climate change impacts on rainfall and temperature in sugarcane growing Upper Gangetic Plains of India

    • Ram Ratan Verma
    • Tapendra Kumar Srivastava
    • Pushpa Singh

    Original Paper 20 January 2018 Pages: 279 - 292

    

21. Temperature and Precipitation trends in Kashmir valley, North Western Himalayas

    • Mifta Ul Shafiq
    • Rehana Rasool
    • A. P. Dimri

    Original Paper 22 January 2018 Pages: 293 - 304

    

22. Differences of atmospheric boundary layer characteristics between pre-monsoon and monsoon period over the Erhai Lake

    • Lujun Xu
    • Huizhi Liu
    • Jihua Sun

    Original Paper 22 January 2018 Pages: 305 - 321

    

23. Winter North Atlantic Oscillation impact on European precipitation and drought under climate change

    • I. Tsanis
    • E. Tapoglou

    Original Paper 23 January 2018 Pages: 323 - 330

    

24. Characterization of rain heights due to 0° isotherm in tropical and subtropical climates: implication on rain-induced attenuation prediction

    • J. S. Ojo
    • P. A. Owolawi

    Original Paper 23 January 2018 Pages: 331 - 340

    

25. High-resolution analysis of 1-day extreme precipitation in a wet area centered over eastern Liguria, Italy

    • M. Brunetti
    • A. Bertolini
    • M. Maugeri

    Original Paper 24 January 2018 Pages: 341 - 353

    

26. Intra-seasonal risk of agriculturally-relevant weather extremes in West African Sudan Savanna

    • David Boansi
    • Justice A. Tambo
    • Marc Müller

    Original Paper 24 January 2018 Pages: 355 - 373

    

27. The influence of climatic changes on distribution pattern of six typical Kobresia species in Tibetan Plateau based on MaxEnt model and geographic information system

    • Zhongjun Hu
    • Ke Guo
    • Huahua Pan

    Original Paper 25 January 2018 Pages: 375 - 390

    

28. Spatiotemporal variation and statistical characteristic of extreme precipitation in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin during 1960–2013

    • Yin Zhang
    • Jun Xia
    • Dunxian She

    Original Paper 27 January 2018 Pages: 391 - 408

    

29. Suitable areas of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, Spodoptera exigua, and their host plant Phaseolus vulgaris are projected to reduce and shift due to climate change

    • Nadiezhda Yakovleva Zitz Ramirez-Cabral
    • Lalit Kumar
    • Farzin Shabani

    Original Paper 27 January 2018 Pages: 409 - 424

    

30. A quantitative method for determining the impact threshold of climate change for agriculture

    • Zhiqiang Dong
    • Zhihua Pan
    • Xuebiao Pan

    Original Paper 29 January 2018 Pages: 425 - 431

    

31. Temporal variations in reference evapotranspiration in Hubei Province, China, from 1960 to 2014

    • Hao Wu
    • Xiugui Wang
    • Xudong Han

    Original Paper 29 January 2018 Pages: 433 - 448

    

32. Temperature-based modeling of reference evapotranspiration using several artificial intelligence models: application of different modeling scenarios

    • Hadi Sanikhani
    • Ozgur Kisi
    • Zaher Mundher Yaseen

    Original Paper 01 February 2018 Pages: 449 - 462

    

33. Factors affecting yearly and monthly visits to Taipei Zoo

    • Ai-Tsen Su
    • Yann-Jou Lin

    Original Paper 01 February 2018 Pages: 463 - 472

    

34. Coherent variability between seasonal temperatures and rainfalls in the Iberian Peninsula, 1951–2016

    • F. S. Rodrigo

    Original Paper 03 February 2018 Pages: 473 - 490

    

35. Representativeness of wind measurements in moderately complex terrain

    • Michael van den Bossche
    • Stephan F. J. De Wekker

    Original Paper 03 February 2018 Pages: 491 - 504

    

36. Spatio-temporal changes in atmospheric precipitation over south-western Poland between the periods 1891–1930 and 1981–2010

    • Mariusz Szymanowski
    • Małgorzata Wieczorek
    • Krzysztof Migała

    Original Paper Open access 04 February 2018 Pages: 505 - 518

    

37. A seasonal forecast scheme for the Inner Mongolia spring drought

    • Tao Gao
    • Yaobing Si
    • Jing Gao

    Original Paper 05 February 2018 Pages: 519 - 532

    

38. Trends in autumn rain of West China from 1961 to 2014

    • Chi Zhang
    • Zunya Wang
    • Bo Xiang

    Original Paper Open access 05 February 2018 Pages: 533 - 544

    

39. Climate change impacts in Iran: assessing our current knowledge

    • Jaber Rahimi
    • Arash Malekian
    • Ali Khalili

    Original Paper 06 February 2018 Pages: 545 - 564

    

40. Changes of precipitation extremes indices in São Francisco River Basin, Brazil from 1947 to 2012

    • Bergson G. Bezerra
    • Lindenberg L. Silva
    • Gilvani Gomes de Carvalho

    Original Paper 06 February 2018 Pages: 565 - 576

    

41. Integrated drought risk assessment of multi-hazard-affected bodies based on copulas in the Taoerhe Basin, China

    • Rui Wang
    • Jiquan Zhang
    • Zhenhua Dong

    Original Paper 08 February 2018 Pages: 577 - 592

    

42. Spatiotemporal characterization of current and future droughts in the High Atlas basins (Morocco)

    • Wiam Zkhiri
    • Yves Tramblay
    • Denis Ruelland

    Original Paper 12 February 2018 Pages: 593 - 605

    

43. On the role of snow cover ablation variability and synoptic-scale atmospheric forcings at the sub-basin scale within the Great Lakes watershed

    • Zachary J. Suriano

    Original Paper 12 February 2018 Pages: 607 - 621

    

44. Variations in droughts and wet spells and their influences in China: 1924–2013

    • Shuang Wu
    • Xiaodong Yan

    Original Paper 13 February 2018 Pages: 623 - 631

    

45. The contrasting response of Hadley circulation to different meridional structure of sea surface temperature in CMIP5

    • Juan Feng
    • Jianping Li
    • Fei Li

    Original Paper 13 February 2018 Pages: 633 - 647

    

46. Evidence that global evapotranspiration makes a substantial contribution to the global atmospheric temperature slowdown

    • L. Mark W. Leggett
    • David A. Ball

    Original Paper 14 February 2018 Pages: 649 - 675

    

47. Assessment of short- and long-term memory in trends of major climatic variables over Iran: 1966–2015

    • Ameneh Mianabadi
    • Pooya Shirazi
    • Kamran Davary

    Original Paper 14 February 2018 Pages: 677 - 691

    

48. Spatiotemporal characteristics of severe dry and wet conditions in the Free State Province, South Africa

    • M. Mbiriri
    • G. Mukwada
    • D. Manatsa

    Original Paper 15 February 2018 Pages: 693 - 706

    

49. Air temperature changes in Toruń (central Poland) from 1871 to 2010

    • Aleksandra Pospieszyńska
    • Rajmund Przybylak

    Original Paper Open access 15 February 2018 Pages: 707 - 724

    

50. Impact of bias correction and downscaling through quantile mapping on simulated climate change signal: a case study over Central Italy

    • Lorenzo Sangelantoni
    • Aniello Russo
    • Fabio Gennaretti

    Original Paper 15 February 2018 Pages: 725 - 740