Volume 5, Issue 19, July - September, 2019

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Changing climates have had considerable effect on the erratic rainfall and temperature patterns over the years for both locally and nationally for Ghana. The main objective of this paper is to perform a Mann-Kendall trend analysis of rainfall and temperature variables spanning the period 1986-2015 for the South-central districts of Ghana. The trend analysis was used as proxies to analyze the changing trends of rainfall and temperature regimes within four seasons Pre-Harmattan, Harmattan, Post-Harmattan and the Wet Seasons, to correspond with local 'Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring' and 'Summer' respectively. Results for temperature indicated that the maximum temperature for the period was 29.55°C recorded in the Post-Harmattan season in the years 1990 and 1998; whereas the minimum temperature was 22.5°C recorded in the Harmattan season in the year 2008. Results for the rainfall indicated that the month of June which is the Wet season recorded the maximum rainfall of 379.5mm in the year 2010; whereas the minimum rainfall was recorded in the Harmattan months. The results indicate that rainfall and temperature do not have monotonic trends.

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Climate Change & Atmospheric Science

Analysis of temperature and rainfall trends as proxy for seasonal climatic variability in South-Central Ghana

Divine Odame Appiah, Keren-Happuch Obeku

Changing climates have had considerable effect on the erratic rainfall and temperature patterns over the years for both locally and nationally for Ghana.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 131-140

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Regional scale spatiotemporal trends of precipitation and temperatures over Afghanistan

Rehana S, Krishna Reddy P, Sai Bhaskar Reddy N, Abdul Raheem Daud, Shoaib Saboory, Shoaib Khaksari, Tomer SK

Afghanistan is the most vulnerable to climate extremes related hazards, including droughts and floods that have caused huge impact on the socio-economic development of the country.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 141-149

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Climate Change & Agriculture

Measurement of technical efficiency of climatic and non-climatic factors in sugarcane farming in Indian States: Use of stochastic frontier production function approach

Ajay Kumar Singh, Narayanan KGS, Pritee Sharma

Extensive research studies have estimated the influence of climate change on sugarcane yield in India. However, most studies concise their investigations up to one state or group of few states of the nation.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 150-166

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Climate Change & Adaptation/Mitigation

Roles and effects of transformative social learning toward sustainable livelihood transformation to climate change adaptation in the Vietnam Mekong Delta: The VACB model case study in Can Tho

Le Thi Hong Phuong, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuc, Tran Duc Tuan

Sustainable livelihood transformation to climate change adaptation is an ongoing challenge worldwide. To cope with changing the climate, demographics, and market conditions in Vietnam, many livelihood models have been established in several localities in the Mekong Delta.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 167-176

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Climate Change & Strategy/Policy/Law

Assessment of indigenous climate change coping strategies among small scale farmers in Jos East L.G.A, Nigeria

Wuyep SZ, Arin HB, Samuel AJ

Climate change is conceivably the most serious environmental menace to agricultural production globally. Hence, this study assessed the indigenous strategies employed by small scale farmers to cope with these adverse effects of climate change in Jos East Plateau State.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 177-187

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Climate Change & Geotechnology

Integration of standardized precipitation index and drought severity index for assessment of drought in the Sudano- Sahelian ecological zone of Nigeria

Odewale OM, Adebola AO

Drought is a natural hazard characterized by lower than expected normal precipitation which is insufficient to meet demands of human activities and the environment

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 188-199

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Climate Change & Carbon

Carbon emissions in Indian marine fisheries sector: Cradle to Grave Analysis

Shyam S Salim, Nivedita Shridhar

Climate change impacts the oceans globally, its resources, resource users and environment; since 1960 there has been a paradigm shift in Indian marine fisheries from subsistence to mechanisation and consequent commercialisation.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 200-210

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Climate Change & Urban planning/Rural development

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in Srinagar city, India

Arshad Amin

The acceleration of population growth and the associated economic growth in urban areas leads to multiplier effects on many aspects of development. In India urban population has increased more than four times after independence.

Climate Change, 2019, 5(19), 211-227

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