Ozone uptake was studied in a pine forest in Tenerife, Canary Islands, an ecotone with strong seasonal changes in climate. Ambient ozone concentration showed a pronounced seasonal course with high concentrations during the dry and warm period and low concentrations during the wet and cold season. Ozone uptake by contrast showed no clear seasonal trend. This is because canopy conductance signifi...

Government statistical agencies are required to seasonally adjust non-stationary time series resulting from aggregation of a number of cross-sectional time series. Traditionally, this has been achieved using the X-11 or X12-ARIMA process by using either direct or indirect seasonal adjustment. However, neither of these methods utilizes the multivariate system of time series which underlies the a...

the microgrid concept provides attractive solutions for reliability enhancement of power distribution systems. normally, microgrids contain renewable-energy-based distributed generation (dg) units, which their output power varies with different environmental conditions. in addition, load demand usually changes with factors such as hourly and seasonal customer activities. hence, these issues hav...

this study was conducted to investigate hematophagic tendencies of the malaria vector based on a seasonal basis as well as by geographical region in a malaria endemic area in kahnouj, southern iran. this study was carried out for 14 months from apr/ 2002 up to the end of may 2003. female anophelines were collected from different shelters in hilly and plain regions of kahnouj district and their ...