Daily averaged TOGA COARE data are analyzed to test our hypothesis that convection is amplified (attenuated) via sub-critical (super-critical) gross moist stability which corresponds to a bottom-heavy (top-heavy) vertical velocity profile. Gross moist stability (GMS) is a quantity which represents efficiency of moist static energy (MSE) export by convection and associated large-scale circulatio...

Evaluation of metal leaching using a single leach test such as the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) is often questionable. The pH, redox potential (E(h)), particle size and contact time are critical variables in controlling metal stability, not accounted for in the TCLP. This paper compares the leaching behavior of metals in mineral processing waste via short-term extraction te...

Abstract We investigate the potential added value of running three limited-area ensemble systems (with WRF, Meso-NH, and MOLOCH models a grid spacing approximately 2.5 km) for two heavy-precipitation events in Italy. Such high-resolution ensembles include an explicit treatment convective processes dynamically downscale ECMWF global predictions, which have 18 km. The predictions are verified aga...

The Dwarf Sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is a hyperaccumulator of the heavy metals cadmium, nickel, and chromium. The molecular mechanism of hyperaccumulation and adapting to the resulting abiotic stress is largely unknown. Metal-binding and other proteins induced in response to stress conditions may play indispensable roles in allowing the metals to accumulate and the plant to adapt itself. How...

Increasing industrialization in developing country like India leading difficulty in pollution control. One of the major causes of pollution in aquatic ecosystem is discharge of heavy metals. Wastewater containing heavy metals are treated with conventional technology like chemical precipitation, ion exchange etc. Biosorption of heavy metals from aqueous solution can be considered as an alternati...

The Keersop catchment (43km(2)) in the south of The Netherlands has been contaminated by the emissions of four zinc ore smelters. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of future projected climate change on the hydrology and the leaching of heavy metals (i.e. Cd and Zn) in the catchment. The numerical, quasi-2D, unsaturated zone Soil Water Atmosphere Plant model was used with 100...

The evolution of microphysical characteristics of a rainband in Typhoon Matmo (2014) over eastern China, through its onset, developing, mature, and dissipating stages, is documented using observations from an S band polarimetric Doppler radar and a two-dimensional video disdrometer (2DVD). The drop size distributions observed by the 2DVD and retrieved from the polarimetric radar measurements in...