A fundamental function of any aviation weather system is to provide accurate and timely weather information tailored to the specific air traffic situations for which a system is designed. Weather location and intensity are of prime importance to such systems. Knowledge of the weather provides “nowcasting” functionality in the terminal and en route air spaces. It also is used as input into aviat...

BACKGROUND The project "Assessment and prevention of acute health effects of weather conditions in Europe" (PHEWE) had the aim of assessing the association between weather conditions and acute health effects, during both warm and cold seasons in 16 European cities with widely differing climatic conditions and to provide information for public health policies. METHODS The PHEWE project was a t...

Species distribution models (SDMs) are used to generate hypotheses regarding the potential distributions of species under different environmental conditions, such as forecasts of species range shifts in response to climate change and predictions of invasive species range expansions. However, an accurate description of species’ geographic ranges as a function of the environment requires that spe...

In this paper, we investigate the application of data mining to existing techniques for quality control/anomaly detection on weather sensor observations. Specifically we adapt the popular Barnes Spatial interpolation method to use time series distance rather than spatial distance to develop an online algorithm that uses readings from similar stations based on current and historical observations...

The conditions of rapid change and modernization that swept the world from second half nineteenth century enforced new nationalisms, imperialisms, racisms, anti-Semitisms, and, more positively, sexualities are again sweeping today. longue durée modern globalization began with British industrialization continues our contemporary forms technological expansion, international competition, populist ...

Working in close collaboration with a number of archaeologists and other scientists, Douglass went on to found the world's first center for dendrochronological analysis, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona. Today the lab is still going strong and is just one of dozens of facilities around the world dedicated to the analysis of tree rings not just as a dating...

Air pollution is one of the emerging environmental issues of the western cities of Iran. Daily data (2009-2012) on air pollutants in Sanandaj, Iran, were collected from the Department of Environmental Protection, Kurdistan Province, Iran. Climatic parameters were collected from the Kurdistan Meteorological Bureau. The quality of air was assessed based on the air quality index (AQI). The relatio...