It is well established that some acarines, insects and isopods maintain water balance in subsaturated air by actively absorbing water from the atmosphere (O'Donnell and Machin, 1988). Investigations of water balance physiology by Lees (1946) in the Ixodoidea demonstrated that partially desiccated ticks gain weight in water vapour activities (av=relative humidity/100) significantly lower than th...

BACKGROUND The loss of perfluorocarbon (PFC) vapour in the expired gases during partial liquid ventilation should be minimized both to prevent perfluorocarbon vapour entering the atmosphere and to re-use the recovered PFC liquid. Using a substantially modified design of our previously described condenser, we aimed to determine how much perfluorocarbon liquid could be recovered from gases contai...

Measurement of nitric oxide levels in exhaled air is commonly performed using a chemiluminescence detector. However, water vapour and carbon dioxide affect the chemiluminescence process. The influence of these gases at the concentrations present in exhaled air, has not yet been studied. For this in vitro study, mixtures of 50, 100 and 200 parts per billion (ppb) NO in air were prepared and fed ...

X-ray photoelectron and electron energy loss spectroscopic (XPS-EELS) studies reveal that the following species are present when a mixture of CO2 and water vapour is exposed to the clean Mg(100) surface at 110K: CO3(a), C(a) CH(a), OH(a). The reactive chemisorptions of CO2 and H2O vapour coadsorbed on a Mg surface ...

In this study backward trajectories from the tropical lower stratosphere were calcu-5 coupled chemistry climate model (CCM) data. The calculated trajectories were analyzed to determine the distribution of points where individual air masses encounter the minimum temperature and thus minimum water vapour mixing ratio during their ascent through the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) into the stratos...

In a new hydrometallurgieal process for recovery of lead from lead oxide secondaries, liquid effluence is minimized by jointly treating contaminated was~ting water and leaehant bleed. To enable internal recycling of the leachant bleed and recover pure water, it is necessary to incorporate a concentration unit. In this paper different technologies for concentrating the mixed stream are compared....

Evaluation of ECMWF water vapour analyses by airborne differential absorption lidar measurements: a case study between Brasil and Europe H. Flentje, A. Dörnbrack, A. Fix, G. Ehret, and E. Hólm Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany European Centre For Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK Received: 8 March 2007 – ...

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Mesoscale modelling of water vapour in the tropical UTLS: two case studies from the HIBISCUS campaign V. Marécal, G. Durry, K. Longo, S. Freitas, E. D. Rivière, and M. Pirre Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement, CNRS and Université d’Orléans, 3A Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071 Orléans cedex 2, France Groupe de Spectroscopie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, CNRS and Unive...

GIS-NaP1 zeolite samples were synthesized using seven different Si/Al ratios (5-11) of the hydrothermal reaction mixtures having chemical composition Al2O3:xSiO2:14Na2O:840H2O to study the impact of Si/Al molar ratio on the water vapour adsorption potential, phase purity, morphology and crystal size of as-synthesized GIS-NaP1 zeolite crystals. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) observations reveal tha...