Mark New

Publications

• Interannual to Interdecadal variability of winter and summer southern African rainfall, and their teleconnections.
• The impact of roads on sub-Saharan African ecosystems: a systematic review
• Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topography, carbon cycles, and biodiversity
• The hydrological regime of a forested tropical Andean catchment
• What Drives Farmers to Make Top-Down or Bottom-Up Adaptation to Climate Change and Fluctuations? A Comparative Study on 3 Cases of Apple Farming in Japan and South Africa
• Challenges in Quantifying Changes in the Global Water Cycle
• Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa
• Does a rainfall-based drought index simulate hydrological droughts?
• Observed and modelled trends in rainfall and temperature for South Africa: 1960-2010
• Synchronous fire activity in the tropical high Andes: an indication of regional climate forcing
• The hydrological regime of a forested tropical Andean valley
• Sensitivity of systematic biases in South Asian summer monsoon simulations to regional climate model domain size and implications for downscaled regional process studies
• The impact of ENSO on Southern African rainfall in CMIP5 ocean atmosphere coupled climate models
• Forging future organizational leaders for sustainability science
• Understanding the current state of collaboration in the production and dissemination of adaptation knowledge in Namibia
• Southern African summer-rainfall variability, and its teleconnections, on interannual to interdecadal timescales in CMIP5 models
• Preparing interdisciplinary leadership for a sustainable future
• A reflection on collaborative adaptation research in Africa and Asia
• Evaluation of the added value of a high-resolution regional climate model simulation of the South Asian summer monsoon climatology
• Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering could lower future risk of ‘Day Zero’ level droughts in Cape Town
• Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences
• The Effect of Inter-Organisational Collaboration Networks on Climate Knowledge Flows and Communication to Pastoralists in Kenya
• Assessing protected area effectiveness within the Caribbean under changing climate conditions: A case study of the small island, Trinidad
• Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015-2017
• Large‐Scale Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Adaptation Research: Challenges and Insights
• Perceptions of ecosystem services provision performance in the face of climate change among communities in Bobirwa sub-district, Botswana
• Priority focus areas for a sub-national response to climate change and health: A South African provincial case study
• Spatial inequality in water access and water use in South Africa
• Temperature and precipitation extremes under current, 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming above pre-industrial levels over Botswana, and implications for climate change vulnerability
• Water for sustainable development in the Berg Water Management Area, South Africa
• Added value of a high-resolution regional climate model in simulation of intraseasonal variability of the South Asian summer monsoon
• Contributions of decadal climate information in agriculture and food systems in east and southern Africa
• Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its effects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance
• Spatial variability in sustainable development trajectories in South Africa: provincial level safe and just operating spaces
• Anticipatory adaptation and the role of decadal climate information in rural African livelihood systems Lessons from the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
• Climate complexity in the Central Andes: A study case on empirically-based local variations in the Dry Puna
• Making SDGs Work for Climate Change Hotspots
• The Food-Energy-Water-Land-Biodiversity (FEWLB) Nexus and Local Economic Development in the Berg River Catchment
• A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
• Temperature and precipitation extremes under current, 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming above pre-industrial levels over Botswana, and implications for climate change vulnerability
• Changing access to ice, land and water in Arctic communities
• Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice
• The Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI): Part 3 – Coding protocol
• Benefits of water-related ecological infrastructure investments to support sustainable land-use: a review of evidence from critically water-stressed catchments in South Africa
• Managing city-scale slow-onset disasters: Learning from Cape Town's 2015–2018 drought disaster planning
• Can Sentinel-2 be used to detect invasive alien trees and shrubs in Savanna and Grassland Biomes?
• Nature-Based Solutions in Mountain Catchments Reduce Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Hydrological Drought Severity
• A SOM‐based analysis of the drivers of the 2015–2017 Western Cape drought in South Africa
• Impacts of 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming on regional rainfall and temperature change across India
• The hydrological benefits of restoration: A modelling study of alien tree clearing in four mountain catchments in South Africa
• Tracking sustainable development with a national barometer for South Africa using a downscaled "safe and just space" framework
• A review of observed and projected changes in climate for the islands in the Caribbean
• Managing hydroclimatic risks in federal rivers: a diagnostic assessment
• Modelling individual and collective species responses to climate change within Small Island States
• New views on "old" carbon in the Amazon River: Insight from the source of organic carbon eroded from the Peruvian Andes
• Spatial coherence of meteorological droughts in the UK since 1914
• Using Large Climate Ensembles to Plan for the Hydrological Impact of Climate Change in the Freshwater Environment
• Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 1. Seasonal and diurnal cycles
• Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 2. Trends and variability
• Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests
• Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications (vol 369, pg 6, 2011)
• Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications INTRODUCTION
• Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications PREFACE
• Quantification of UV-B flux through time using UV-B-absorbing compounds contained in fossil Pinus sporopollenin
• Water availability in +2 degrees C and +4 degrees C worlds
• Climate and invasive species: the limits to climate information
• Diffuse radiation and cloud fraction relationships in two contrasting Amazonian rainforest sites
• The influence of interpolation and station network density on the distributions and trends of climate variables in gridded daily data
• The UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles Improving the accessibility of Observed and Projected Climate Information for Studies of Climate Change in Developing Countries
• From climate model ensembles to climate change impacts and adaptation: A case study of water resource management in the southwest of England
• Spatial patterns and recent trends in cloud fraction and cloud-related diffuse radiation in Amazonia
• Spatial variability in correlation decay distance and influence on angular-distance weighting interpolation of daily precipitation over Europe
• Testing E-OBS European high-resolution gridded data set of daily precipitation and surface temperature
• A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950-2006
• Comparing available rainfall gridded datasets for West Africa and the impact on rainfall-runoff modelling results, the case of Burkina-Faso
• Comparison of six methods for the interpolation of daily, European climate data
• Floristic and functional affiliations of woody plants with climate in western Amazonia
• Challenges in using probabilistic climate change information for impact assessments: an example from the water sector
• Ensemble forecasting of species distributions
• Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions
• Testing the impact of climate variability on European plant diversity: 320 000 years of water-energy dynamics and its long-term influence on plant taxonomic richness
• Arctic climate change with a 2 degrees C global warming: Timing, climate patterns and vegetation change
• Changes in daily temperature and precipitation extremes in central and south Asia
• Evidence and implications of dangerous climate change in the Arctic
• 21st Century Drought Scenarios for the UK
• Water Scarcity on a Blue Planet
• MM5 simulations of interannual change and the diurnal cycle of southern African regional climate
• Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation
• Differentiating dilution and retention processes in mine effluent remediation within a natural wetland on the Zambian Copperbelt
• Two approaches to quantifying uncertainty in global temperature changes
• Modelling climate change impacts on species' distributions at the European scale: implications for conservation policy
• Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and west Africa
• Mind the gap
• Modelling the impact of climate change on water resources
• The possible impacts of high levels of climate change in 2060 and implications for migration
• Introduction
• Preface
• Arctic climate change with a 2°C global warming: Timing, climate patterns and vegetation change
• Forecasting the effects of global warming on biodiversity
• Emerging Approaches To Climate Risk Management
• Mapping invasive alien trees in water towers: A combined approach using satellite data fusion, drone technology and expert engagement
• Making cities water-wise and climate-resilient - Lessons and experience from the Cape Town drought
• Climate change and water resources in the southwestern Cape, South Africa
• Hydrologic sensitivity to climate change in the Langrivier catchment, Stellenbosch, South Africa and some implications for geomorphic processes.
• Dependence of large-scale precipitation climatologies on temporal and spatial sampling
• Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years
• Representing twentieth-century space-time climate variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology
• Representing uncertainty in climate change scenarios: a monte-carlo approach
• Representing twentieth-century space-time climate variability. Part II: Development of 1901-96 monthly grids of terrestrial surface climate
• Climate data for political areas
• Climate change scenarios for global impacts studies
• Precipitation measurements and trends in the twentieth century
• African climate change: 1900-2100
• A new world climatic mapping program to assist species selection
• A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas
• Relationships between plant traits and climate in the Mediterranean region: A pollen data analysis
• Tropical snowline changes at the last glacial maximum: A global assessment
• On the reconstruction of seasonal oceanic precipitation in the presatellite era
• Multi-agent modelling of climate outlooks and food security on a community garden scheme in Limpopo, South Africa
• Global warming and African climate change: a re-assessment
• The role of a dambo in the hydrology of a catchment and the river network downstream
• Hydrologic sensitivity to climate change and some implications for erosion in the Langrivier catchment, Western Cape, South Africa
• Sediment chemistry: A history of mine contaminant remediation and an assessment of processes and pollution potential
• Groundwater pollution on the Zambian Copperbelt: Deciphering the source and the risk
• Global warming and African climate change: A reassessment
• Competition for Land, Water and Energy (Nexus) in Food Production
• Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing Indigenous food systems
• The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions
• Climate change challenges in African cities: four perspectives on progress and opportunities
• Transition from subsistence grazing to nature-based recreation: A nuanced view of land abandonment in a mountain social-ecological system, southwestern Cape, South Africa
• Vulnerability of crop yields to variations in growing season precipitation in Uganda
• A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
• The role of farmers and organizational networks in climate information communication: the case of Ghana
• Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia
• Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones
• Potential impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection on drought risk managements over major river basins in Africa
• Progress and Challenges of Demand-Led Co-Produced Sub-Seasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Climate Forecasts in Nigeria
• Climate change adaptation to extreme heat: A global systematic review of implemented action
• A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation
• Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation
• A frame-work for complex climate change risk assessment
• Summary for Policymakers
• Technical Summary
• Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow
• Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence
• Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains
• The hydrological impacts of restoration: A modelling study of alien tree clearing in four mountain catchments in South Africa
• Towards attribution-based climate insurance: Redefining who should pay for weather-related insurance
• Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia
• Decision making options for managing risk
• Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Climate Information Communication in the African Agricultural Sector: A Systematic Analysis of Climate Services
• Climate change in South Africa: Risks and opportunities for climate-resilient development in the IPCC Sixth Assessment WGII Report
• Interactions between climate and COVID-19
• Tradeoffs and Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
• Attribution of the human influence on heavy rainfall associated with flooding events during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 March-April-May seasons in Kenya
• Potential impact of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on projected temperature and precipitation extremes in South Africa
• Attributing the driving mechanisms of the 2015–2017 drought in the Western Cape (South Africa) using self-organising maps
• Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic
• Operationalising climate-resilient development pathways in the Global South
• Drought governance: A cross-level governance analysis in Botswana
• A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact‐Low Likelihood Climate Risks
• Africa's Climate Response to Marine Cloud Brightening