The design of rigid pavements in Austria is currently based on a catalogue standard structures, which can be chosen depending traffic-related parameters. This approach does not allow the consideration real material characteristics, detailed traffic load information, local climate conditions, and other boundary conditions. To overcome these limitations, new mechanistic-empirical pavement method ...

A very high resolution oceanic model forced by a regional atmospheric model is used to investigate, under realistic conditions, storm surges observed in the Lagoon of Venice and scenarios of sea level variations related to local manifestations of larger scale climatic changes.

Those components of climate that are likely to have major effects upon the geographical distribution, seasonal incidence and prevalence of vector-borne diseases are described. On the basis of existing and predicted climatic variations, examples are given of the types of changes that are to be expected, using several internationally important human and animal arboviral diseases including Rift Va...

Human skin is subject to frequent changes in ambient temperature and humidity and needs to cope with these environmental modifications. To decipher the molecular response of human skin to repeated climatic change, a versatile model of skin equivalent subject to "hot-wet" (40°C, 80% relative humidity [RH]) or "cold-dry" (10°C, 40% RH) climatic stress repeated daily was used. To obtain an exhaust...

Using National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration/Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA/AVHRR) and Climatic Research Unit (CRU) climate datasets, we analyzed interannual trends in the growing-season Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in China from 1982 to 2011, as well as the effects of climatic variables and human activities on vegetation variation. Growing-season...