Abstract Concepts like the 100-year flood event can be misleading if they are not updated to reflect significant changes over time. Here, we model observed annual maximum daily streamflow using a nonstationary approach provide first global picture of in: (a) magnitudes 20-, 50-, and floods (i.e., flows given exceedance probability in each year); (b) return periods floods, as assessed 1970 fixed...

To evaluate the performance and energy savings of different ventilative cooling systems, three mixed forms were described most promising rule-based heuristic control criteria used as applicable strategies based on various parameters. Parametric analyses including set-points frequencies have been conducted. EnergyPlus was to perform aforementioned a typical office building. Case studies verified...

[1] A multi-platform sampling strategy was used to investigate carbon cycling in a cold-core eddy that formed in the lee of Hawaii during September 2000. Microheterotroph biomass and Th-derived carbon export rates within the eddy were 2 to 3 times higher than those observed for adjacent waters. If this eddy is representative of other cyclonic eddies that are frequently formed in the lee of Hawa...

Since the end of the Cold War, states have increasingly come under pressure to intervene militarily and, in fact, have intervened militarily to protect citizens other than their own from humanitarian disasters. Recent efforts to enforce protected areas for Kurds and no-fly zones over Shiites in Iraq, efforts to alleviate starvation and establish some kind of political order in Somalia, the huge...

Cold climate air-to-air heat pumps (CCHP) offer a strong potential for energy use reductions in Canadian homes. Proper selection of the unit is critical order to take advantage improved efficiency and increased capacity at low ambient temperatures ability modulate meet wide range heating loads. A new performance rating procedure (CSA EXP07) was developed better represent seasonal CCHP systems v...

The Antarctic Dry Valleys (ADV) are generally classified as a hyper-arid, cold-polar desert. The region has long been considered an important terrestrial analog for Mars because of its generally cold and dry climate and because it contains a suite of landforms at macro-, meso-, and microscales that closely resemble those occurring on the martian surface. The extreme hyperaridity of both Mars an...

The evolut ion of four dynamic radar glacier zones at the surface of an alpine icefield in British Columbia is monitored using a time series of 35 First European Remote Sensing Satellite ( ERS-I ) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) i mages acquired from 1992 to 1994 . These zones result from changing wetness and textural properties, and ap­ pear to represent: (I) cold snow with no l iquid water pre...

The geographical distribution and ecological preferences of Haemaphysalis in domestic animals in Iran were studied 4 times a year from April 2003 to March 2005. A total of 1,622 ixodid tick specimens were collected from 3 different zones. Among them, 108 (6.7%) Haemaphysalis ticks, consisting of 6 species, were identified; H. punctata (3.4%), H. parva (0.5%), H. sulcata (0.6%), H. choldokovskyi...

Abstract. China's forests rank fifth in the world by area, covering a broad climatic gradient from cold-temperate to tropical zones, and play key role global carbon cycle. Studies of forest soil respiration (Rs) have increased rapidly China over last two decades, but resulting Rs data need be summarized. Here, we compile comprehensive dataset undisturbed ecosystems literature published up 31 De...

Inconel 713C is a nickel-based superalloy usually considered as material of poor weldability due to its susceptibility hot cracking in the heat-affected zones. Cold spray, solid-state deposition technology that does not involve melting, can be proposed methodology deposit for surface enhancement other target components. In this study, coating was deposited on 718 substrate with high-pressure co...