Abstract. The Western INDian Ocean Simulation (WINDS) is a regional configuration of the Coastal and Regional Community Model (CROCO) for southwestern Indian Ocean. WINDS has horizontal resolution 1/50∘ (∼2 km) spans latitudinal range 23.5∘ S–0∘ N longitudinal from East African coast to 77.5∘ E. We ran two experiments using configuration: WINDS-M, full 28-year multidecadal run (1993–2020); WIND...

Abstract. The mountainous snow cover is highly variable at all temporal and spatial scales. Snowpack models only imperfectly represent this variability, because of uncertain meteorological inputs, physical parameterizations, unresolved terrain features. In situ observations the height (HS), despite their limited representativeness, could help constrain intermediate large-scale modeling errors b...

The skins of crocodylids and gavialids can be distinguished from those of alligatorids by the presence of darkly pigmented pits, known as integumentary sense organs (ISOs), on the postcranial scales. The structure of ISOs, in Crocodylus porosus, was studied using light microscopy and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The stratum corneum of the epidermis in the area of the IS0 is th...