The primary goal of this study was to incorporate data-derived harmonic constants into a complex dynamic model using a form of variational data assimilation, with a view to improve the prediction of 7 dominant tidal constituents in the Adriatic Sea. Firstly, harmonic-constant data for 6 Adriatic stations were fed into a steady-state, 3-D, forward/inverse model to furnish optimal boundary condit...

[1] Microwave humidity measurements from polar orbiting satellites are affected by diurnal sampling biases which are caused by changes in the local observation time of the satellites. The long-term data records available from these satellites thus have spurious trends, which must be corrected. Diurnal cycles of the microwave measurements have been constructed by combining data over the period 2...

The response of ice streams to ocean tides is investigated. Numerical modelling experiments are conducted using a two-dimensional flow-line model of coupled ice-stream and ice-shelf flow. The model includes all components of the equilibrium equations, and uses a non-linear viscoelastic constitutive equation for ice. Basal sliding is simulated with a Weertman type sliding law where basal sliding...

Abstract. Recent developments and options in the GF (Grell Freitas, 2014; Freitas et al., 2018) convection parameterization are presented. The has been expanded to a trimodal spectral size simulate three modes: shallow, congestus, deep. In contrast usual entrainment detrainment assumptions, we assume that beta functions (BFs), commonly applied represent probability density (PDFs), can be used c...

Objective(s): to investigate the chronopharmacological effects of growth hormone on executive function and the oxidative stress response in rats. Materials and Methods: Fifty male Wistar rats (36-40 weeks old) had ad libitum access to water and food and were separated into four groups: diurnal control, nocturnal control, diurnal GH-treated, and nocturnal GH-treated animals. Levels of Cu, Zn sup...

to evaluate the effect of intravenous infusion of a soybean based lipid emulsion (lipovenoes 10%) on some blood constituents in sheep, a replicated 2 × 2 latin square design experiment was conducted in four clinically healthy ewes. lipid emulsion (le group) or normal saline (ns group) was infused intravenously at a rate of 0.025 ml kg-1 per min for 6 hr and the concentrations of blood triglycer...

papaver bracteatum lindly (papaveraceae) is an endemic species of iran which has economic importance in drug industries. the main alkaloid of the plant is thebaine which is used as a precursor of the semi-synthetic and synthetic compounds including codeine and naloxone, respectively. this systematic review focuses on main component of papaver bracteatum and methods used to determine thebaine. a...

the fruit essential oil of ferula gummosa boiss., umbelliferae, which has been used as an antiepileptic remedy in iranian traditional medicine, was evaluated for anticonvulsant activity against experimental seizures. the essential oil had no effect against seizures induced by maximal electroshock. however, it protected mice against pentylenetetrazole-induced tonic seizures. the protective dose ...