Monthly mean air temperature and precipitation data, monthly dust storm frequencies (times of dust storm occurrences) of 107 stations in North China were analyzed to clarify the relationship between the climate change and dust storm occurrence. Arid regions of North China were divided into five and trends of dust storm occurrence and climate changes showed different patterns for these regions, ...

Rain nowcasting is an essential part of weather monitoring. It plays a vital role in human life, ranging from advanced warning systems to scheduling open air events and tourism. A nowcasting system can be divided into three fundamental steps, i.e., storm identification, tracking and nowcasting. The main contribution of this work is to propose procedures for each step of the rain nowcasting tool...

Thyroid storm is a rare and life-threatening complication of thyrotoxicosis that requires prompt treatment. Thyroid storm is also known to be associated with precipitating events. The simultaneous treatment of thyroid storm and its precipitant, when they are recognized, in a patient is recommended; otherwise such disorders, including thyroid storm, can exacerbate each other. Here we report the ...

The Spin tool set (Spin and Xspin) was used to validate parts of the design of a storm surge barrier control system, in particular the communication interfaces with the outside world. Promela combined with Z is used to specify crucial aspects of the design. In this talk we outline our experience with the use of Spin and Promela, and discuss some ideas for extensions/improvements.

in order to investigate the effect of chemical herbicides on control of broad leaf weeds of common bean, an experiment was conducted in 2007 at yasouj with 12 treatments in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications. treatments consisted of preplant application of trifluralin herbicide at 960 g ai ha-1; postemergence application of bentazon at 1200 g ai ha-1; imaztapir at 50, 75 and...

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................1 Rainfall and Runoff Characteristics for Urban Areas .............................................................................................2 Small Storm Hydrology.............................................................

This study discusses radar and lightning observations of two multicellular storms observed during the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study. The Lightning Mapping Array data indicated that the charge structure of the 19 June 2000 storm was consistent with a normal polarity tripole, while the 22 June 2000 storm exhibited an overall inverted tripolar charge structure. The 19...

Forests cover about 56% of the land area in Sweden and forest damage due to strong winds has been a recurring problem. In this paper we analyse recorded storm damage in Swedish forests for the years 1965–2007. During the period 48 individual storm events with a total damage of 164 Mm3 have been reported with the severe storm on 8 to 9 January 2005, as the worst with 70 Mm3 damaged forest. For t...