Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data T. Nauss and A. A. Kokhanovsky Laboratory of Climatology and Remote Sensing, University of Marburg, Germany Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany Received: 9 November 2005 – Accepted: 20 December 2005 – Published: 20 February 2006 Correspondence to: T. Nauss ([email protected]) © ...

Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin 'If it is raining and it might not be raining, …' sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin 'If it is raining and I don't know it, …'. These facts pose a prima facie problem for an orthodox treatment of epistemic modals, according to...

drought is one of the natural disasters that causes a lot of damages each year. this phenomenon is a result of severe and repeated spatial-temporal anomalies in atmosphere circulation patterns. thus, studying and identifying the synoptic patterns of this phenomenon is inevitably necessary. in this study, first yearly rainfalls in selected stations of the uremia lake basin were temporally standa...

Clay ball is a pavement surface defect which refers to a clump in which clay or dirt is 8 mixed with hot asphalt mixture. Clay ball is typically caused by a combination of aggregate 9 contamination of clay or soil, high aggregate moisture, and low production temperature at the 10 asphalt plant. It usually appears a few weeks or months after paving under traffic load, after being 11 liquefied an...

When I tell you that it’s raining, I describe a way the world is—viz., rainy. I say something factual, something whose truth turns on how things are with some aspect of the world. Likewise when I tell you that the weatherman thinks that it’s raining. Here the truth of what I say turns on a different feature of the world, namely, the weatherman’s state of mind. Likewise when I tell you that I th...