work “out of context,” but how cognitive engineering might help weather forecasters, in particular, remain within familiar decision-making spaces by improving on their display technology. Ballas (chap. 13, this volume) makes it clear how weather forecasting, as a workplace, is a constantly moving target by virtue of continual change in displays and data types. Since weather maps were invented a...

I n 2003, the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) began a significant restructuring of its forecasting operations in response to financial pressures. Senior management proposed that the MSC could be made more cost effective while continuing to provide quality services by pursuing a more centralized forecasting approach and increasing the automation of forecasts via numerical weather predicti...

rice blast, caused by pyricularia grisea, is one of the most important diseases of this crop in iran and all over the world. to evaluate the relationship between spore population (sp) and meteorological factors, sp was measured daily using spore trap during growing seasons of 2006-2008 in rasht and lahijan regions (guilan province, iran). weather data including precipitation, daily maximum and ...

Data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicate an abnormally rapid increase in average annual temperature recent decades. In entire history of direct instrumental observations, there has never been such a long and strong warming. Climate change is one most acute problems facing current generation, as it poses real threat to development human potential improvement quality life. U...

  Background: Industrialization and urbanization had a devastating impact on public health and caused an increase in health related morbidity and mortality. In fact, asthma is a chronic condition which is considered as one of the significant challenges of public health. In this study, we investigated the association of air pollution and weather conditions with excess emergency ward admissions o...

a State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, 46 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China b Jiangsu Institute of Meteorological Science, 16 Kunlun Load, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China c Hong Kong Observatory, 134A, Nathan Road, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China d School of Civil Engineering and Environmental, University of Oklahoma...