Abstract Using the daily 2 m maximum temperature (Tmax), minimum (Tmin) and cloud cover data measured at ground sites of China Meteorological Administration in North from 2000 to 2017, this study investigates influence clouds on range (DTR) defined as difference between Tmax Tmin. As expected, shows similar averaged spatial distribution monthly variation with Surprisingly, it also average Tmax,...

shift changes and heterogeneity analyses of hydro-climatic variables is very important in water resources planning and management. in order to shift changes and heterogeneity analyses of tmin and tmax, precipitation and discharge, 2, 7 and 7 stations was used over the 40 years (1972-2011), respectively. the results of annual tmin and tmax series showed that both of two stations had the signific...

Using daily minimum air-temperature (Tmin) data from the state of Illinois, the dates of spring and fall freezes – and the resulting growing-season length – are examined for trends during the period 1906–1997. Of the stations in the Daily Historical Climate Network, most show trends toward earlier spring freezes; however, trends in fall freezes are not consistent over the station network. Altho...

Records from 7 studies conducted during 1999 to 2005 were utilized to assess the effects of environmental factors on daily water intake (DWI) of finishing cattle. Data from unshaded feedlot pens (up to 24 pens utilized per study; 6 to 9 animals·pen(-1)) containing predominantly Angus crossbred cattle were obtained by dividing total water intake by the number of animals utilizing that waterer. E...

We present the first simultaneous multi-line fitting of a semi-empirical atmospheric model with a chromosphere and transition region to the H I and Ca II spectra of an RS CVn star (II Peg). The static component of the Hα emission core, the line profile of Hβ, the apparent absence of Hγ and Hδ, and the emission core profiles of Ca II K and two of the Ca II IR3 lines are all approximately fitted ...

Air temperature (Ta) is a key input in a wide range of agroclimatic applications. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Ts (Land Surface Temperature (LST)) products are widely used to estimate daily Ta. However, only daytime LST (Ts-day) or nighttime LST (Ts-night) data have been used to estimate Tmax/Tmin (daily maximum or minimum air temperature), respectively. The relationshi...

This work examines the existence of efficient polynomial-time approximation schemes (EPTAS) for a variety of problems contained in the syntactic classes Planar TMIN, Planar TMAX, and Planar MPSAT as defined by Khanna and Motwani. Based on the recent work of Alber, Bodlaender, Fernau and Niedermeier and others, we describe subclasses of problems from Planar TMIN, Planar TMAX, and Planar MPSAT th...

In the last 20 years many proposals have been made to incorporate non-monotonic reasoning into description logics, ranging from approaches based on default logic and circumscription to those based on preferential semantics. In particular, the non-monotonic description logic ALC+Tmin uses a combination of the preferential semantics with minimization of a certain kind of concepts, which represent...

We investigate the dependence of spin squeezing on the polar angle of the initial coherent spin state |θ0, φ0〉 in a generalized one-axis twisting model, where the detuning δ is taken into account. We show explicitly that regardless of δ and φ0, previous results of the ideal one-axis twisting is recovered as long as θ0 = π/2. For a small departure of θ0 from π/2, however, the achievable variance...