Abstract SSM/I has been applied in derivation of liquid water and precipitation for many years. Due to the uncertainty in variance of surface emissivity and characters of precipitation, the comparison of rainfall retrieval with ground truth remains a controversial issue. In order to investigate this issue, data set for precipitation from stratus clouds over ocean area were collected for 5 years...

The biosorption mechanism is an alternative for chemical precipitation and ultrafiltration which have been employed to treat heavy metal contamination with a limited success. In the present study, three species of Bacillus which were isolated from solar salterns were screened for their detoxification potential of the heavy metals, lead, chromium, and copper, by biosorption. Biosorption potentia...

Source control by on-site retention and infiltration of stormwater is a sustainable and proven alternative to classical drainage methods. Unfortunately, sedimentary particles and pollutants from drained surfaces cause clogging and endanger soil and groundwater during long-term operation of infiltration devices. German water authorities recommend the use of infiltration devices, such as swales o...

during february of 2005 the north of iran witnessed the development and activity of a variety of severe meteorological systems accompanied with unusual heavy precipitation, mostly snow and hail. the rate and amount of snow in the northern coastal region was so heavy that it made a new record for that region with a report of more than 3m of snow in rasht, a city located in that area. also the da...

Heavy precipitation affected Central Europe inMay/June 2013, triggering damaging floods both on the Danube and the Elbe rivers. Based on amodelling approach with COSMO-CLM,moisture fluxes, backward trajectories, cyclone tracks and precipitation fields are evaluated for the relevant time period 30May 2 June 2013.We identify potential moisture sources and quantify their contribution to the flood ...

Because of the broad range of altitudes spanned by its catchment, the American River is notable for its occasional, very large winter floods. These floods typically are spawned by warm and exceptionally wet storms that deposit heavy rain or wet snows on broad expanses of the river’s watershed, generating rapid runoff and high streamflows. On flood and longer time scales, the American River is n...

The objectives were (i) to evaluate the relationship between recent climate change and extreme hydrological events and (ii) to characterize the behavior of hydrological events along the Alazeya River. The warming rate of air temperature observed at the meteorological station in Chersky was 0.0472 ◦C·year−1, and an extraordinary increase in air temperatures was observed in 2007. However, data fr...

An adaptation technique based on the synoptic atmospheric circulation to forecast local precipitation, namely the analogue method, has been implemented for the western Swiss Alps. During the calibration procedure, relevance maps were established for the geopotential height data. These maps highlight the locations were the synoptic circulation was found of interest for the precipitation forecast...