this paper provides an overview of how the surface properties of ferromagnetic nanoparticles dispersed in fluids is modified by natural and biocompatible polymers. among common magnetic nanoparticles, magnetite (fe3o4) and maghemite (g-fe203) are popular candidates because of their biocompatibility. natural polymeric coating materials are the most commonly used biocompatible magnetic nanopartic...

due to its complexity and destructive nature, convection has been subject of many studies and researches among weather phenomena throughout the world. scientists have attempted for decades to generate different types of models to provide the possibility of abating or, at least, reducing convective weather phenomena effects on people’s lives. in south or southwest of iran, people are familiar wi...

abstract long-term historical weather data are needed to conduct crop simulation analysis. simulated climatic data may be used when long series of historic data are not available or convenient or when future data are needed. the aim of this study was to generate daily weather values for maximum and minimum air temperatures. a number of weather generators are compared here. data from ten station...

Hailstorms are considered to be among the most devastating weather manifestations. The devastation encouraged operational hail suppression activities to be undertaken in many countries (e.g. Ćurić,1990;Dessens,1998).“Hail suppression project” in Serbia uses the anti-hail rockets to inject the silver iodide agent into the hail clouds (one rocket has 400 g of mixture with 10-20% of AgI agent). Th...

BACKGROUND We estimated the effects of rainfall and temperature on the number of non-cholera diarrhoea cases and identified population factors potentially affecting vulnerability to the effect of the climate factors in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS Weekly rainfall, temperature and number of hospital visits for non-cholera diarrhoea were analysed by time-series regression. A Poisson regression mo...

Recently, the number of unusual extreme weather that causes natural disasters is increasing, and accompanying phenomena such as local heavy rainstorms, tornado, and gust fronts have caused an immediate and often devastating impact on a broad range of human activities. Weather radar has played an important role to survey those meteorological phenomena associated with rainfall and to mitigate mos...

Weather forecasts are nearly always portrayed from either a satellite view perspective, a numerical or symbol based representation. None of these methods actually portray weather visually from the point of view of the observer, that is, they do not represent our experience of weather. This problem presents a challenge to displaying weather using real-time 3D computer graphics. 3D Weather is a p...

The numerical forecasts made in 1950 using the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) paved the way for the remarkable advances that have been made over the past half-century in weather prediction and climate modeling. We review the circumstances in which the forecasts were made, the nature of the ENIAC machine, and the roles of the people involved. The basis for the forecasts was...

Over the last few years, the way data and products from the Swedish weather radar network (SWERAD) have been generated and mananged has undergone a significant transformation, from distributed to centralized configuration. New systems have been introduced for these purposes, along with a number of quality enhancements. This contribution attempts to summarize these recent developments, and it al...