Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe

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Regional Aspects of\rInteractions in Non-boreal\rEastern Europe......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
The Northern Eurasia Earth Science\rPartnership Initiative: An Introduction......Page 10
The NASA NEESPI Data Portal to Support\rStudies of Climate and Environmental Changes\rin Non-boreal Europe......Page 16
Baseline Climatological Data Sets for Eastern\rEurope Area......Page 24
Precipitation Statistics in Ukraine: Sensitivity to Informational Sources......Page 30
Ecological Challenges of Climate Change in Europe’s Continental,\rDrought-Threatened Southeast......Page 40
Climate in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries over the Northern\rEurasia: RCM and CMIP3 Simulations......Page 52
Projections of Climate Change over Non-boreal East Europe During First\rHalf of Twenty-First Century According to Results of a Transient RCM\rExperiment......Page 60
An Assessment of the Recent Past and Future Climate Change, Glacier\rRetreat, and Runoff in the Caucasus Region Using Dynamical and Statistical\rDownscaling and HBV-ETH Hydrological Model......Page 67
Regional Climate and Environmental Change: Moldova Case Study......Page 77
Aspects of Regional Climate Modelling with Focus on Precipitation......Page 90
Long-Term Forecasting of Natural Disasters Under Projected Climate\rChanges in Ukraine......Page 98
Air Pollution in Eastern Europe......Page 106
Section 5. Changes in The Black Sea and Its Coastal Zone......Page 115
Non-boreal Forests of Eastern Europe in a Changing World: The Role\rin the Earth System......Page 121
Global Land Project: Major Scientific Questions for Coupled Modeling\rof Land Systems......Page 132
Assessment of Ukrainian Forests Vulnerability to Climate Change......Page 140
Evaluating Vegetation Cover Change Contribution into Greenhouse\rEffect by Remotely Sensed Data: Case Study for Ukraine......Page 154
Soil Moisture Changes in Non-boreal European Russia: In Situ Data......Page 162
The Effects of Land Use Change on Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics\rin the Black Sea Region......Page 172
Recent Trends in Land Surface Phenologies Within the Don and Dnieper\rRiver Basins from the Perspective of MODIS Collection 4 Products......Page 180
Soil Erosion Induced Degradation of Agrolandscapes in Ukraine: Modeling,\rComputation and Prediction in Conditions of the Climate Changes......Page 187
Land Distribution and Assessment in the Ukrainian Steppe Within\rthe Dnepropetrovsk Region......Page 196
Development of Mathematical Approaches to the Ecological Differentiation\rof Arable Land in the Dnipropetrovsk Area of Ukraine......Page 206
Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition\rin Southern Romania......Page 215
Black Sea Forecasting System: Current State and Prospect......Page 225
Comprehensive Assessment of Negative Factors Affecting the Black\rSea Shallow Water in the Danube Area......Page 236
Changes of Thermohalinity Characteristics in the North-West Black\rSea Shelf During the Last 50 Years......Page 245
Specificity of Romanian Black Sea Coast Changes Under Climate\rand Human Impact......Page 253
Contributors......Page 260
Index......Page 263