Annual Rainfall in Pernambuco, Brazil: Regionalities, Regimes, and Time Trends

Application of Geostatistics in Time Series: Mashhad Annual Rainfall

There are numerous methods for data fillingin hydrology. Most, however, are based oncorrelations with nearby stations in a generalscheme of regionalization. These methods,though robust, fail to function when andwhere all the near stations are missed-datatoo. The Mashhad synoptic station has annualrainfall data over a 50 year period from 1951to 2000 and historic rainfall data from 1893 to1940, j...

Time trends and factors associated with breastfeeding in the state of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To analyze time trends in the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and associated protection factors. METHODS Prevalances for total breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding in a population of four-month-old infants were analyzed. Data were obtained from population surveys carried out in 1991, 1997, and 2006, with 935, 2081, and 1568 infants respectively. The data were retrieved from...

Trends in Rainfall Extremes

Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015.

We studied the clinical characteristics for 104 infants born with microcephaly in the delivery hospitals of Pernambuco State, Brazil, during 2015. Testing is ongoing to exclude known infectious causes. However, microcephaly peaked in October and demonstrated central nervous system abnormalities with brain dysgenesis and intracranial calcifications consistent with an intrauterine infection.

The influence of changes in synoptic regimes on north Australian wet season rainfall trends

[1] Precipitation over the north of Australia mainly falls during the wet season and is associated with the Australian monsoon. Recent studies have shown that precipitation in the north and northwest of Australia during the wet season has increased over the past 50 years. In previous work, daily radiosonde data at a single site (Darwin) were used to identify five distinct wet season regimes, ea...