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The impact of rural electrification beyond lights
Electrified groundwater irrigation majorly drives India's agricultural growth. India refocussed rural electrification towards universal household electrification in early 2000s. This paper finds regions electrifying more recently to experience far lower gains in electrified groundwater irrigation.
Supporting alternative scientific approaches to assess global climate adaptation
In 2015, the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), but using a very vague definition and without specifying how to assess progress towards it.
Causes of 2022 Pakistan flooding and its linkage with China and Europe heatwaves
Compounding factors occurring simultaneously caused the severe Pakistan flooding in summer 2022. Warming trends in recent decades contributed to the extremeness of the event. A large-scale atmospheric wave connected the flooding with heatwaves and droughts in Europe and China.
The resilience of marine organisms to overshoot global climate
We envision a decline of 4-5% of the volume of the world oceans that can support aerobic habitats even if global temperature targets are only temporarily exceeded.
Hasselmann reloaded: internal variability in marginal seas
Ensembles of regional ocean model simulations show the generation of intrinsic variability to be tied to the annual cycle and the activation of tides. This sensitivity can be attributed to"memory"- the central element in the Stochastic Climate Model of Klaus Hasselmann.
