Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is spreading rapidly throughout world, causing many deaths and severe economic damage. It believed that hot humid conditions do not favor coronavirus, yet this still under debate due to uncertainties associated with data. Here we propose surrogate data tests examine preference of virus spread different climate condition...

weather circulation patterns play a main role in the occurrence of environmental phenomena especially in middle latitude. occurrence of dry and wet spells is in relation to synoptical system repetitions and types of weather. in this research first by using of standard precipitation index (spi), extensive droughts in the province were identified. then by using principal component analysis (pca) ...

This study has used TOMS AI as well as the reanalysis dataset of thirty-four years (1979-2012) to investigate the influence of atmospheric circulation on dust transport during the Harmattan period in West Africa, using Aerosol Index (AI) data, obtained from various satellite sensors. Changes in Inter-Tropical Discontinuity (ITD), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the Gulf of Guinea, and North ...

BACKGROUND Classical dogma holds that epistaxis is more common in winter months but there is significant variability reported in the literature. No study has yet examined the effect of season, humidity and temperature on epistaxis in a location with as severe weather extremes as seen in Alberta, Canada. The objective of the study is to evaluate for an effect of these meteorological factors on t...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract. Air pollution variability is strongly dependent on meteorology. However, quantifying the impacts of changes in regional climatology on pollution extremes can be difficult due to the many non-linear and competing meteorological influences on the production, transport, ...

[1] The statistical relationship between the daily 1-hour maximum ozone (O3) concentrations and the daily maximum upper air temperature was explored for California’s two most heavily polluted air basins: the South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB) and the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin (SJVAB). A coarse-scale analysis of the temperature at an elevation of 850-mbar pressure (T850) for the period 1980–2004 w...

speeds in each lane. PORTAL also includes incident and variable message sign (VMS) data since 1999, 1 year’s worth of stop level bus data and hourly and daily weather conditions in Portland from automated weather stations. The four weather measures are temperature, visibility, wind speed, and rainfall. From the basic sensor data PORTAL computes four other measures using road segment length: veh...

abstract this research attempts to investigate the role of the blocking systems in surface cyclogenesis over eastern mediterranean sea; but particular attention is focused on the flood of iran during march 2000 over western states of iran as: hamadan, ilam, lorestan, kermanshah, kurdestan, zanjan, ghazvin.the data used for this research includes upper level and mean sea level pressure charts ev...

Background: The evidence of increased mortality attributable to extreme temperatures is widely characterized in climate-health studies. However, few of these studies have examined the role of humidity on temperature-mortality association. We investigated the joint effect between temperature and humidity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in Zhejiang Province, China. Methods: We collected...