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Barriers and opportunities for resilient and sustainable urban forests
Urban forests mitigate rising temperatures in cities but face climate change related challenges. Four key barriers stand in the way of achieving resilient urban forests: species selection, tree supply, tree life cycle (establishment and maintenance, including irrigation), and community engagement.
The jet stream, floods, and droughts in Central Europe: A six-hundred year perspective
New 3-dimensional climate reconstructions allow studying the variability of the Atlantic-European jet stream back to the 15th century. The analysis shows that extreme climate events were related to excursion in the jet.
