Wind changes, and particularly wind changes that are associated with dry cold fronts, have profound effects on fire behaviour and fire-fighting operations (e.g. Cheney et al. 2001). Huang and Mills (2006b) (hereafter Part 1) have reported on the first stage of a larger scale project that aims to improve the understanding and prediction of wind changes in Australia. In Part 1 a method of objecti...

Information about the long-term trends of surface and tropospheric ozone is important for assessing the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate. Long-term measurements from East Asia, especially China’s eastern provinces, are urgently needed to evaluate potential changes of tropospheric ozone over this economically rapid developing region. In this paper, surface ozone data from...

abstract climate change means a significant change in the long-term weather of a region in comparison with what has been observed during a long term period. precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature are three variables which are affected directly by the climate change. furthermore, the water yield of a river is one of the most important hydrological variables of a basin which is affecte...

The paper presents an adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system for predicting sea level considering tide-generating forces and oceanic thermal expansion assuming a model of sea level dependence on sea surface temperature. The proposed model named TGFT-FN (tide-Generating Forces considering sea surface temperature and Fuzzy neuro-network system) is applied to predict tides at five tide gauge sites ...

The Stazione Zoologica [2] Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter called the Station, it was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1872 by Anton Dohrn. The type of research conducted at the Station has varied since it was created, though initial research focused on embryology [3]. At the turn of the twentieth century, r...

This paper follows a game-theoretical formulation of the CDMA power control problem and develops new decentralized control algorithms that globally stabilize the desired Nash equilibrium. The novel approach is to exploit the passivity properties of the feedback loop comprising the mobiles and the base station. We first reveal an inherent passivity property in an existing gradient-type algorithm...

Fire accidents often lead to tremendous losses and smoke has been reported be the main cause of these heavy casualties. Accordingly, movement can influence escape confinement is particular significant. Dynamics Simulator software (FDS) was utilized carry out complementary full scale numerical simulations fire accident in a subway station. Different measure prevention exhaust were adopted differ...