Li, Jiandong Wang, Tianhe Habib, Ammara
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Journal of Meteorological Research
Cloud–radiation processes play an important role in regional energy budgets and surface temperature changes over arid regions. Cloud radiative effects (CREs) are used to quantitatively measure the aforementioned climatic role. This study investigates the characteristics of CREs and their temporal variations over three arid regions in central Asia (...
Li, Xianju Chen, Gang Liu, Jingyi Chen, Weitao Cheng, Xinwen Liao, Yiwei
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Chinese Geographical Science
Land cover classification (LCC) in arid regions is of great significance to the assessment, prediction, and management of land desertification. Some studies have shown that the red-edge band of RapidEye images was effective for vegetation identification and could improve LCC accuracy. However, there has been no investigation of the effects of Rapid...
Ran, Hui Kang, Shaozhong Li, Fusheng Du, Taisheng Ding, Risheng Li, Sien Tong, Ling
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Journal of Arid Land
Water and nitrogen (N) are generally two of the most important factors in determining the crop productivity. Proper water and N managements are prerequisites for agriculture sustainable development in arid areas. Field experiments were conducted to study the responses of water productivity for crop yield (WPY-ET) and final biomass (WPB-ET) of film-...
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In this study, using the common classification systems of IGBP-17, IGBP-9, IPCC-5 and TC (vegetation, wetlands and others only), we studied spatial and areal inconsistencies in the three most recent multi-resource land cover products in a complex mountain-oasis-desert system and quantitatively discussed the uncertainties in classification system co...
Wang, Yujie Zhou, Botao Qin, Dahe Wu, Jia Gao, Rong Song, Lianchun
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Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This paper reports a comprehensive study on the observed and projected spatiotemporal changes in mean and extreme climate over the arid region of northwestern China, based on gridded observation data and CMIP5 simulations under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios. The observational results reveal an increase in annual mean temperature since 1961, large...
Akashi, Kinya Mifune, Yuki Morita, Kaori Ishitsuka, Souichi Tsujimoto, Hisashi Ishihara, Toshiyuki
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Journal of the science of food and agriculture
These observations suggested that citrulline accumulation may be regulated in a distinct manner from other nutrients during watermelon fruit maturation. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.
Xie, Yaowen Wang, Guisheng Wang, Xueqiang Fan, Peilei
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Frontiers of Earth Science
Oasis evolution, one of the most obvious surface processes in arid regions, affects various aspects of the regional environment, such as hydrological processes, ecological conditions, and microclimates. In this paper, the historical spatio-temporal evolution of the cultivated oases in the Heihe River Basin, the second largest inland watershed in th...
Okamoto, Masanori Matsui, Akihiro Tanaka, Maho Morosawa, Taeko Ishida, Junko Iida, Kei Mochizuki, Yoshiki Toyoda, Tetsuro Seki, Motoaki
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Sm-like proteins play multiple functions in RNA metabolism, which is essential for biological processes such as stress responses in eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis thaliana sad1 mutant has a mutation of sm-like protein 5 (LSM5) and shows impaired drought and salt stress tolerances. The lsm5/sad1 mutant also showed hypersensitivity to heat stress. GFP-f...
Gong, Yanping Wang, Xusheng Hu, B. Xiao Zhou, Yangxiao Hao, Chunbo Wan, Li
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Journal of Arid Land
Groundwater-fed lakes are essential for the ecology in arid and semiarid regions. As a typical arid region, the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) is famous in the world for the presence of a large number of groundwater-fed saline lakes among the mega dunes. Based on the up to date geological surveys and observations, this study analyzed the groundwater con...
Al Ghobari, Hussein M. Mohammad, Fawzi S. El Marazky, Mohamed S.
Smart systems could be used to improve irrigation scheduling and save water under Saudi Arabia’s present water crisis scenario. This study investigated two types of evapotranspiration-based smart irrigation controllers, SmartLine and Hunter Pro-C2, as promising tools for scheduling irrigation and quantifying plants’ water requirements to achieve wa...
