The occurrence of non-fatal acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is examined in relation with the local bioclimatic conditions in the Ierapetra area, in the southernmost part of Crete Island, Greece, during the period 2004-2007. Daily ACS counts and corresponding meteorological parameters, such as maximum and minimum air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and cloudiness, were analyzed. Beside...

The use of weather satellite recordings has been growing rapidly over the last three decades. Determining patterns between meteorological and topographical features is an important scientific job. Cloud cover analysis properties can be utmost significance for potential cloud seeding. Here, was conducted by means Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) recordings. resolution used d...

The MERIS standard algorithm for detection of clouds is serving various purposes and therefore a compromise of various requirements. The detection of thin clouds and ice haze for ocean colour applications needs to be improved significantly. We present a method similar to the 'Novelty Detection' (DOI 10.1007/s10661-006-9538-5) but analysing all 15 bands between 412nm and 900nm, calculating the t...

The main objective of this study is to use Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) intensive observation period (IOP) data to refine a cloudiness parameterization, as proposed by Xu and Randall (1996a). The cloudiness parameterization uses the large-scale average condensate (cloud water and cloud ice) mixing ratio as the primary predictor. The large-scale relative humidity and cumulus mass flux...

Large intra-season differences in mixing ratios of CO and O3 were detected at Miyun, a rural site north of Beijing, in summer 2006. Despite an increase in mean daytime mixing ratio of CO from 500 ppbv in June to 700 ppbv in July, mean daytime O3 dropped from 67 ppbv in June to 50 ppbv in July and August. The observed changes in CO and O3 are attributed to the influence of the summer monsoonal c...