Determinations of soil moisture and sediment availability in arid regions are important indicators of local climate variability and the potential for future dust storm events desertification. Data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) radiometer are used to derive the relationships amongst potential soil erosion, soil moisture and thermal inertia (TI) at the spati...

Understanding the hydrological dynamics of boreal wetland ecosystems (peatlands) is essential in order to better manage hydropower inter-annual productivity at the La Grande basin (Northern Quebec, QC, Canada). Given the remoteness and the huge dimension of the La Grande basin, it is imperative to develop remote sensing monitoring techniques to retrieve hydrological parameters. The main objecti...

A variety of pressure ulcer (PU) risk factors has been identified, but not all information is consistent and some applies to specific patient populations only. The purpose of this prospective cohort study was to assess the incidence of and ascertain potential risk factors for PU formation among hospitalized orthopedic patients in the Philippines. All patients consecutively admitted to an orthop...

T o understand the potential of using multiwavelength imaging radars to detect flooding in Amazonian floodplain forests, we simulated the radar backscatter from a floodplain forest with a flooded or nonflooded ground condition at C-, L-, and P-bands. Field measurements of forest structure in the Anavilhanas archipelago of the Negro River, Brazil, were used as inputs to the model. Given the same...

Diffuse discharge along the southwest margin of the Great Artesian Basin is thought to be an important, but currently poorly understood, component of the Basin’s water budget. Remote sensing data are being investigated as a tool for mapping the salt and soil moisture variations associated with diffuse discharge zones, in order to assist in scaling up of field based discharge measurements to reg...

in temperate forests canopy gaps play an important role in driving stand dynamics. the purpose of this research was to compare soil characteristics in forest gaps with several size and its relation to beech regeneration density in lalis forest, chalous. in order to investigate factors, three gap sizes as small gap (200 m2), medium gap (400 m2), and large gap (600 m2) with three replicate were s...

Low-yielding catchments with ephemeral streams provide a stern test of the capability of conceptual catchment models for predicting the hydrologic response of the natural landscape. Sustained periods of little or no flow mean that the information content of the streamflow time-series for parameter estimation is limited. During periods with no streamflow, such ephemeral catchments also offer no ...

56 Low-yielding catchments with ephemeral streams provide a stern test of the capability of conceptual catchment models for 57 predicting the hydrologic response of the natural landscape. Sustained periods of little or no flow mean that the information content 58 of the streamflow time-series for parameter estimation is limited. During periods with no streamflow, such ephemeral catchments 59 al...

Global Positioning System (GPS) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measurements can be employed to retrieve environmental variables in multipath reception conditions, whereby direct or line-of-sight transmission is received simultaneously with coherent reflections thereof. Previous GPS SNR multipath studies of soil moisture and snow depth have focused on the legacy GPS L1 and L2 bands. In the present ...

contrasts stronger, which enhances sea breeze circulations. Together, they increase near-surface moisture flux convergence and favour convective processes leading to an overall increase of precipitation over urban areas. The diurnal cycle of these effects is reflected in the atmospheric footprint of cities on variables such as humidity and cloud mixing ratio and accompanies changes in precipita...