BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Results on the effect of weather on stroke occurrences are still confusing and controversial. The aim of this study was to retrospectively investigate in Tuscany (central Italy) the weather-related stroke events through the use of an innovative source of weather data (Reanalysis) together with an original statistical approach to quantify the prompt/delayed health effects ...

5 The diagnostic evaluation of moisture budgets in archived atmosphere model data is examined. 6 Sources of error in diagnostic computation can arise from the use of numerical methods dif7 ferent to those used in the atmosphere model, the time and vertical resolution of the archived 8 data and data availability. These sources of error are assessed using the climatological mois9 ture balance in ...

A variable-grid atmospheric general circulation model, namely, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamiquezoom, version 4 (LMDz4), with a local zoom over eastern China, is driven by 40-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Re-Analysis (ERA-40) data and is used as a downscaling tool of summer rainfall variability for the period 1958–2000. During the integration, the model tempe...

Currently available evapotranspiration (ET) products have not provided us with an accurate estimation for global irrigated land area. Thermal energy balance (EB) model has the potential to solve this problem. The of aerodynamic resistances is a major complication in most remote sensing ET models. An EB using column canopy-air turbulent heat diffusion method was developed more realistically depi...

A B S T R A C T Linkage analysis between the major histocompatibility system (HLA) and juvenile, insulindependent diabetes, assuming an autosomal recessive mode and 50% penetrance was performed on 21 juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetic multiplex families (two or more diabetics per sibship) with phenotypically normal parents. The total lod score was the highest (3.98) at a recombination fractio...

A GCM cloud microphysics parameterization is tested and improved using the CCCMA single-column model with cloud properties obtained at the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) during the period of November 1997 to September 1998. The ECMWF reanalysis water vapor profile is scaled with rawinsonde data so that the new relative humidity profiles are compatible with rawinsonde...

In this study, ear temperature and some behavioural data were determined in the four male animals of Anatolian Black cattle raised under Institute conditions. For purpose, a chip sensor (CowManager) was attached to ears animals, 51 days obtained from each animal hourly. During hourly humidity barn where housed collected, daily Temperature - Humidity Index (THI) calculated these values. Accordin...