This study reports the early biochemical changes in plasma, comparative host-immune responses and parasite recovery data in Merino sheep during the first 10 weeks of infection with Fasciola gigantica and Fasciola hepatica. One group of sheep were uninfected, four groups of sheep received incremental challenge doses of F. gigantica metacercariae (50, 125, 225 and 400, respectively) and the sixth...

The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) is scheduled to be in orbit in 2019 onboard the GEO-KOMPSAT 2B satellite and will continuously monitor air quality over Asia. The GEMS will make measurements in the UV spectrum (300–500 nm) with 0.6 nm resolution. In this study, an algorithm is developed to retrieve aerosol optical properties from UV-visible measurements for the futur...

Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) performed sea surface temperature (SST) reanalysis (RAN1) from seven AVHRR/3s onboard NOAA-15 to -19 and Metop-A and -B, from 2002–present. Operational L1b data were used as input. The time series of clear-sky ocean brightness temperatures (BTs) and derived SSTs were found to be unstable. The SSTs were empirically stabilized a...

Global mapping of essential vegetation traits (EVTs) through data acquired by Earth-observing satellites provides a spatially explicit way to analyze the current states and dynamics our planet. Although significant efforts have been made, there is still lack global consistently derived multi-temporal trait maps that are cloud-free. Here we present processing chain for spatiotemporally continuou...

Our paper discusses the unique capability of the SMAP L-band radiometer to measure strong winds in tropical and extratropical cyclones. There is no significant degradation in rain. INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE The Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission SMAP (Entekhabi et al., 2010) was launched in January 2015 and has been providing science data since April 2015. Though designed to measure soil moist...

Variations of continental water masses occur in several storage compartments such as surface water, soil moisture, snow and groundwater. These mass variations map into a considerable number of space based or insitu observation systems such as the GRACE gravity field mission, radar and laser altimeter systems, radiometers, optical sensors, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and river gauges. Surfac...

s, JAAVSO Volume 42, 2014 472 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO 103rd Spring Meeting), Held in Ontario, California, June 12–14, 2014 Recovering from the Classical-Nova Disaster Joseph Patterson Center for Backyard Astrophysics, 25 Claremont Avenue, Apt. 7C, New York, NY 10027...