REPORTS Encounter with Venus: L. Colin. Initial Pioneer Venus Magnetic Field Results: Dayside Observations: C. T. Russell, R. C. Elphic, J. A. Slavin . . . . .. .. .. . . . . .... Plasma Waves Near Venus: Initial Observations: F. L. Scarf, W. W. L. Taylor, I. M. Green.................................. Initial Observations of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter Solar Wind Plasma Experiment: J. Wolfe et al...

Water management in urban areas of developing countries is a major environmental challenge for the future. Within the framework of the IWA Cities of the Future Programme, current water and wastewater management systems are investigated in Kayseri, Turkey, with the purpose of bringing water into the center of city life by a reformed pilot project. In order to assess both the quantity and dynamic...

An adjoint model for the internationally used Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling platform of the U.S. EPA is developed. The adjoint version for CMAQ (CMAQ-ADJ) provides the user community with forward (decoupled direct method or DDM) and backward (adjoint) sensitivity analysis capabilities. Current implementation is for gas-phase processes. Discrete adjoints are implemented for al...