Looking through the history, people have always been associating suicide with weather conditions, trying to understand and identify the relationship between meteorological factors and suicide. The aim of this study was to determine and analyze the meteorological conditions in the time of attempted or committed suicides, and examine the possible link between the changes of meteorological factors...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has flown three Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounders (SSMIS), first conceived in early 1989, and first flown in October of 2003. Many technical challenges have been overcome during the design, build, and test phases of the program, and many challenges have presented themselves during the calibration and validation phases of the program for...

An automated Fourier Transform Spectroscopic (FTS) solar observatory was established in Darwin, Australia in August 2005. The laboratory is part of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network, and measures atmospheric column abundances of CO2 and O2 and other gases. Measured CO2 columns were calibrated against integrated aircraft profiles obtained during the TWP-ICE campaign in January– February ...

(G) and observed discharge (Q), whereas the other data-driven model, ANN-Ensemble (ANN-E), and the two conceptual models, HBV and GR4J, use forecasted meteorological inputs (P and PET), whereby we employ ensemble seasonal meteorological forecasts. We compared low flow forecasts without any meteorological forecasts as input (ANN-I) and five different cases of seasonal meteorological forcing: (1)...

1 Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites (KLRCV), National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration (NSMC/CMA), Beijing 100081, China 2 Centre for Atmosphere Watch & Services (CAWAS), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration (CMA), Beijing 100081, China 3 Institute of remote sensing...

Ten years of earth observation by the MIPAS instrument aboard the European environmental satellite Envisat [1] led to a considerable amount of measurement and processed data, which has to be managed and visualized by powerful and flexible software tools. This paper gives an overview about new concepts, tools and methods for the 3D visualisation of continuous, multidimensional, meteorological Sa...

We use Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) retrieved between 1982 and 2001 from the AVHRR instrument. The year-to-year variations of vegetation greenness in Europe were estimated and related the North Atlantic Oscillation NAO. Here, we intend to show the sequence of intermediate relevant physical mechanisms responsible for the changes induced in vegetation by the NAO. Therefore, upper...

Dust storms are meteorological phenomena that may affect human life. Therefore, it is of great interest to work towards the development of a stand-alone dust storm detection system that may help to prevent and/or counteract its negative effects. This work proposes a dust storm detection system based on an Artificial Neural Network, ANN. The ANN is designed to identify not just dust storm areas ...

Two orthogonal, precise and low drift tiltmeters have been installed in the Vosges mountains in order to study environmental surface loading. The first results show the great sensitivity (10−10 radians), stability (negligible drift) of the instrument, and its ability to be used as a tool to study hydrological loading. This work focuses on local and regional hydrological physical modelling, with...

The SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat Second Generation satellite with both fine spatial and temporal resolution allows to detect and follow the dynamics of fast developing meteorological events like spreading smoke plumes and the lifecycles of convective clouds. Smoke plumes have the ability to change the atmospheric heat content due to absorption and reduced reflection of solar radiation. By ...