Tropical forests have essential functions in global C dynamics but vulnerable to changes in land cover land use (LCLUC) and climate. The tropics of Caribbean are experiencing warming and drying climate and diverse LCLUC. However, large-scale studies to detect long-term trends of C and mechanisms behind are still rare. Using MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), we investigated greenness trend ...

This publication presents the impact of PM10, PM2.5, and cloudiness on power that is generated by photovoltaic panels—the actual was measured. Weather parameters were recorded a weather station taken into account, dependencies between PV panels determined. study based data from solar cell set designed to allow certain size system be able supply given load. For entire measurement year, cloudines...

Shallow cumulus clouds in the trade-wind regions are at the heart of the long standing uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates. In current climate models, cloud feedbacks are strongly influenced by cloud-base cloud amount in the trades. Therefore, understanding the key factors controlling cloudiness near cloud-base in shallow convective regimes has emerged as an important topic of investig...

[1] The indirect radiative forcing of atmospheric aerosols is sensitive to particle size and concentration, which are influenced significantly by nucleation processes. Via its role in aerosol formation, cosmic ray may affect the cloud condensation nuclei abundance and hence the global cloud properties and climate. Systematic variations in ionization rates due to the modulation of cosmic ray rad...

Continuous all-sky camera images supported by direct visual observations of jet contrails have been carried out in Fairbanks since March 2000. These data together with FAA information of all commercial flights and the twice-daily radiosonde data, give the meteorological conditions at flight level under which contrails are formed. If we correct for daylight and clear sky conditions, which make c...

Introduction: Medical Assistance, Assistance and research, the principles initiated by Nuremberg Code, were materialized through written documents called Consent Forms. The present study aims to assess understanding of consent form in hospitals state São Paulo. Method: Terms that meet inclusion criteria retrieved analysis with textual readability analysis, specific online assessment instrument ...