Rainfall variability over the tropical Atlantic region is dominated by changes in the surface temperature of the surrounding oceans. In particular, the oceanic forcing over Northeast of South America is dominated by the Atlantic interhemispheric temperature gradient, which leads its predictability. Nevertheless, in recent decades, the SST influence on rainfall variability in some tropical Atlan...

drought is a natural hazard that has significant impact on economic, agricultural, environmental, and social aspects. in the present study details analysis of rainfall data has been carried out for the years 1981-2011. standard precipitation index (spi) has been used to evaluate the precipitation deficit in the karun watershed of iran. the results indicated that 1981-82,82-83,83-84,84-85,88-89,...

BACKGROUND Cholera is an endemic disease in certain well-defined areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The west of the country, including the mega-city Kinshasa, has been free of cases since mid 2001 when the last outbreak ended. METHODS AND FINDINGS We used routinely collected passive surveillance data to construct epidemic curves of the cholera cases and map the spati...

In the last decade record-breaking rainfall events have occurred in many places around the world causing severe impacts to human society and the environment including agricultural losses and floodings. There is now medium confidence that human-induced greenhouse gases have contributed to changes in heavy precipitation events at the global scale. Here, we present the first analysis of record-bre...

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital district of Kerala state, has witnessed an alarming rise in dengue fever cases since 2010. An approach to analyze spatial and temporal trends was not yet undertaken in the State. The objective of this study was to geographically map the confirmed cases and to determine relation to climatic correlates. Epidemiological data and meteorological data from January 2011...

The objective of this study is to develop artificial neural network (ANN) models, including multilayer perceptron (MLP) and Kohonen self-organizing feature map (KSOFM), for spatial disaggregation of areal rainfall in the Wi-stream catchment, an International Hydrological Program (IHP) representative catchment, in South Korea. A three-layer MLP model, using three training algorithms, was used to...

the aim of this research is the assessment of the relation between rainfall and large scale synoptically patterns at khorasan razavi province. in this study, using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system, the rainfall estimation has been done from april to june in the area under study. spring rainfall data including the information of 38 synoptic, climatologic and rain gauge stations from 1970 to...

Article history: Received 3 October 2013 Received in revised form 20 February 2014 Accepted 27 February 2014 Available online 10 March 2014 This work aims to study typical Droplet Size Distributions (DSDs) for different types of precipitation systems and Cloud Condensation Nuclei concentrations over the Vale do Paraíba region in southeastern Brazil. Numerous instruments were deployed during the...

Identifying the pattern of natural climate variability is of immense importance to delineate the effects of anthropogenic climate changes. Global and regional climates are suspected to vary, in unison or with delays, with the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) at decadal to centennial timescales. Here we show that the Indian summer monsoon rainfall correlates well with the temporal derivative of TSI ...