Capsule Red-necked Nightjars’ (Caprimulgus ruficollis) choice of road surface type is significantly affected by air temperature, which may lead to increased traffic-induced mortality under cool weather conditions. Aims To assess how seasonality and weather conditions affect road surface use by Red-necked Nightjars and, if so, to identify possible patterns in human-induced mortality as a result ...

This study quantifies the effects of stressful weather and elevated air pollution levels on cause-specific mortality in Santiago, Chile, during the austral winters from 1988 to 1996. A temporal synoptic index (TSI) is used to form weather classes and air pollution classes. Prior applications of the TSI have formed classes solely on the basis of weather and may have systematically underestimated...

This paper studies the reputation effect in which a long-lived player faces a sequence of uninformed short-lived players and the uninformed players receive informative but noisy exogenous signals about the type of the long-lived player. We provide an explicit lower bound on all Nash equilibrium payoffs of the longlived player. The lower bound shows when the exogenous signals are sufficiently no...

Weather-pattern, or weather-type, classifications are a valuable tool in many applications as they characterize the broad-scale atmospheric circulation over a given region. This study analyses the aspects of regional UK precipitation and meteorological drought climatology with respect to a new set of objectively defined weather patterns. These new patterns are currently being used by the Met Of...

This paper presents an automated approach for classifying storm type from weather radar reflectivity using decision trees. Recent research indicates a strong relationship between storm type (morphology) and severe weather, and such information can aid in the warning process. Furthermore, new adaptive sensing tools, such as the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere’s (CASA’...

Determining causes of aviation delay is essential for formulating and evaluating approaches to reduce air traffic delays. An analysis was conducted of large weather-related delays at Newark International Airport (EWR), which, located in the heart of the congested northeast corridor of the United States, is an airport with a significant number of delays. Convective weather and reduced ceiling an...

*Correspondence: Ahmed M. El Kenawy, Earth System Observations and Modeling Group, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia e-mail: [email protected] An automated version of the Lamb weather type classification scheme was employed to characterize daily circulation conditions in Saudi Arabia from 1960 to 2005. Daily gridded fi...