In the western United States, more than 79000 km has been converted to irrigated agriculture and urban areas. These changes have the potential to alter surface temperature by modifying the energy budget at the land–atmosphere interface. This study reports the seasonally varying temperature responses of four regional climate models (RCMs) – RSM, RegCM3, MM5-CLM3, and DRCM – to conversion of pote...

0. Introduction. In this paper we will establish the convergence to Brownian motion of a random walk in a symmetric random environment in a critical case that has not been covered by the papers [1, 3]. We begin by recalling the “random conductance model” (RCM). We consider the Euclidean lattice Z with d ≥ 2. Let Ed be the set of nonoriented nearest neighbour bonds, and, writing e = {x, y} ∈ Ed ...

This ESG Lab Review documents the benefits of leveraging VCE Vision Intelligent Operations with VCE converged infrastructure systems and the VCE Release Certification Matrix (RCM) to simplify the process of upgrading a complete IT infrastructure. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the time to upgrade four common infrastructure deployments were conducted: a traditional “do it yours...

[1] Two scenarios of spectral solar forcing, namely Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM)‐based out‐of‐phase variations and conventional in‐phase variations, are input to a time‐dependent radiative‐convective model (RCM), and to the GISS modelE. Both scenarios and models give maximum temperature responses in the upper stratosphere, decreasing to the surface. Upper stratospheric peak‐to‐ peak respon...

Environment Canada is the largest Government of Canada user of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data produced by the Canadian RADARSAT missions. Near real-time imagery from both RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 are used operationally for daily ice monitoring and oil pollution detection programs. Additionally, Environment Canada is assessing the use of marine wind information extracted from SAR data to s...

Regulatory compliance management (RCM) is a problem gaining wide interest in the business process management (BPM) community. However, research has not yet provided a non-ambiguous and agreedupon definition of RCM, and it is hard for newcomers to this field of research to get a clear overview of available results. This paper surveys and analyzes solutions proposed in research on RCM from the pe...

This paper discusses results of a simulation with the regional climate model HIRHAM for 1958-2001, driven by the ECMWF reanalysis (ERA40) data over the Arctic domain. The aim is to analyze the ability of the model to capture certain features of climate extremes derived from daily mean, maximum and minimum temperatures. For this purpose, a range of climate indices (frost days, cold and warm spel...

Substantial research in the field of context modeling has explored aspects related to the use of contextualization in various mobile scenarios. The current context of a mobile user has been often limited to his/her current position, neglecting the possibilities offered by modern mobile devices of providing a much richer representation of the current user’s context. This research aims to improve...

[1] A state‐of‐the‐art ensemble of regional climate model (RCM) simulations provided by the European Union–funded project ENSEMBLES is used to test the ability of RCMs to reproduce the mean and extreme precipitation regimes over Spain. To this aim, ERA‐40– driven simulations at 25 km resolution are compared with the 20 km daily precipitation grid Spain02, considering the period 1960–2000. This ...

-From the preliminary stage of software engineering, selection of appropriate enforcement of standards remained a challenge for stakeholders during entire cycle of software development, but it can lead to reduce the efforts desired for software maintenance phase. Corrective maintenance is the reactive modification of a software product performed after delivery to correct discovered faults. Stud...