Oviposition is a major event in the life history of mosquitoes, shaping both individual fitness and vectorial capacity. Several exogenous factors have been shown as important for the dynamic forcing of oviposition at finely (hourly) and coarsely (monthly or season to season) grained temporal scales. However, field studies addressing the interplay of weather factors on oviposition dynamics at th...

Two dryline-like humidity drops without considerable temperature change were detected by the ground-based microwave radiometer profiler (MWRP) at the Richard-Aßmann-Observatory Lindenberg (52.21◦N, 14.12◦E) on April 28, 2007. The detailed analysis of these two events includes cloud radar and radar wind profiler measurements at the site as well as data from the surface synoptic network and from ...

BACKGROUND Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important viral agent causing severe respiratory disease in infants and children. In temperate climates, RSV activity typically peaks during winter. We have described the seasonal variation in RSV activity and investigated which meteorological variables are related to RSV outbreaks for different time lags. METHODS Eleven laboratories in...

This work presents an empirical simulation to estimate the extent to which weather affects consumer spending. For the spending prediction purpose, the regression technique has been applied on the historical daily data of the following meteorological parameters: temperature, snow, sun, rain and humidity. The experimental results demonstrate the effectives of the model for predicting sales trends...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrologic budget because it expresses the exchange of mass and energy between the soil-water-vegetation system and the atmosphere. Prevailing weather conditions influence potential or reference ET through variables such as radiation, temperature, wind, and relativity humidity. In addition to these weather variables, actual ET (ETa) is al...

We introduce a system to measure individual happiness based on interpreting body sensors on smartwatches. In our prototype system we use a Pebble smartwatch to track activity, heartrate, light level, and GPS coordinates, and extend it with external information such as weather data, humidity, and day of the week. Training our machine learning-based mood prediction system using random forests wit...

Temperature and humidity retrievals from an international network of ground-based microwave radiometers (MWR) have been collected and synchronized to exploit the potential for data assimilation into Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modeling. This activity is carried on in preparation to the HyMeX Special Observing Period starting in September 2012. The domain under analysis is the HyMeX West ...

We present a calibration method for a water vapour Raman lidar using a meteorological probe lifted by a kite, flown steadily above the lidar site, within the framework of the Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX) and Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment (ChArMEx) campaigns. The experiment was carried out in Menorca (Spain) during June 2013, using the mobile water vapo...

On 21 September 2012 the entire sky was covered by contrails over the Gulf of Lyon (NW of the Mediterranean basin). These clouds were well recorded by ground observers as well as by Meteosat imagery. The atmospheric characteristics at the levels where these anthropic clouds formed are analyzed by performing a WRF simulation in the area where Meteosat recorded contrail clouds. According to the v...

PURPOSE To study the association between weather-related measures and objectively measured trail use across 3 seasons. BACKGROUND Weather has been reported as a barrier to outdoor physical activity (PA), but previous studies have explained only a small amount of the variance in PA using weather-related measures. METHODS The dependent variable of this study was trail use measured as mean hou...