Contemporary Environmental Changes over the Dry Land Belt of Northern Eurasia and Their Consequences


Pavel Groisman1,2, Geoffrey M Henebry3, Alexander I Shiklomanov4, Nina Speranskaya5, Yizhao Chen6, Nadezhda M Tchebakova7, Elena I. Parfenova8, Natalia Tilinina1, Olga G. Zolina9, Ambroise Dufour10, Jiquan Chen11, Ranjeet John12, Peilei Fan13, Csaba Mátyás14, Irina Yesserkepova15 and Ildan Kaipov16, (1)Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)Hydrology Science and Services Corp, Asheville, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (5)Russian State Hydrological Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia, (6)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (7)V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (8)Forest Institute of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (9)Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement, Grenoble, France, (10)University Grenoble Alpes, IGE, Saint Martin d'Heres, France, (11)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science; CGCEO, East Lansing, MI, United States, (12)University of South Dakota, Department of Biology and Department of Sustainability and Environment, Vermillion, SD, United States, (13)Michigan State University, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, East Lansing, United States, (14)University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary, (15)Joint Stock Company "Zhasyl Damu", Almaty, Kazakhstan, (16)National Center for Space Research and Technologies, Almaty, Kazakhstan