Sickness absence rates are higher in winter than in summer and also the incidence of many diseases is affected by climatic conditions. Both these facts lead one to suspect that there is a genuine causative relationship between the weather and sickness absence. The object of this investigation is to develop a model to illustrate this relationship in order to obtain some idea of its precise form....

Prolonged periods of extreme heat or drought in the first year after fire affect the resilience and diversity of fire-dependent ecosystems by inhibiting seed germination or increasing mortality of seedlings and resprouting individuals. This interaction between weather and fire is of growing concern as climate changes, particularly in systems subject to stand-replacing crown fires, such as most ...

Communication: resource focus on research or methods on how to communicate or frame issues on climate change; surveys of attitudes, knowledge, beliefs about climate change A focus of content Communication Audience: audience to whom the resource is directed Health Professional Exposure : weather or climate related pathway by which climate change affects health Extreme Weather Event, Human Confli...

Pfender, W. F., Gent, D. H., and Mahaffee, W. F. 2012. Sensitivity of disease management decision aids to temperature input errors associated with sampling interval and out-of-canopy sensor placement. Plant Dis. 96:726-736. Many plant disease epidemic models, and the disease management decision aids developed from them, are created based on temperature or other weather conditions measured in or...

A k-means cluster analysis is used to summarize unfiltered daily atmospheric variability at regional-scale over the western Sahel and eastern tropical North Atlantic during the boreal summer season (July—September, JAS) 1961—1998. It employs zonal and meridional regional wind fields at 925, 700 and 200 hPa from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast Reanalyses. An 8-cluster solut...

Meteorological phenomena, in particular rapid events with local dynamics such as the onset of heavy rainfall, may have several instantaneous impacts on human behaviour. These impacts include, for example, the utilization of private or public transportation or the scheduling of personal and business activities. Given the increasing accuracy of weather forecasting at any scale, understanding the ...

Traffic accident data for the Zagreb area for the 1981-1982 period were analyzed to investigate possible relationships between the daily number of accidents and the weather conditions that occurred for the 5 consecutive days, starting two days before the particular day. In the statistical analysis of low accident days weather type classification developed by Poje was used. For the high accident...