Researches trace four decades of climate change in the South-Eastern Baltic region: more hot days, fewer frost days
Researcher from the Laboratory of Dara Gaeva, together with colleagues from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, have analyzed changes in extreme climate events in the south‑eastern Baltic region over the past 40 years (1981 – 2020). The results, published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology in the article “Four decades of climate change (1981–2020) in the South-Eastern Baltic region: trends and spatial patterns of air temperature and precipitation extremes”, show that the region is becoming significantly warmer, with heatwaves occurring more often and lasting longer
Boreal wetlands: new evidence on who stores carbon dioxide and who emis it
Researchers of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology took part in a major multi-institutional study of the carbon balance of Russia’s taiga peatlands
A Russian-American team of researchers used convolutional neural networks to study high-resolution satellite images of three Siberian landscapes taken at intervals of 10-15 years
The neural network analysed nearly a million 12×12 m plots and found that the rate of shrub spread varies from 2.4% to 26.1% per decade, depending on local conditions. The study showed that mature shrubs prefer well-drained slopes, while new colonisation occurs on flatter areas, which opens up opportunities for predicting further shrubification of the Arctic under climate change conditions