Traveling to high altitudes can expose the eye to reduced ambient cold and low-pressure environments. These conditions can affect the physiology of the eye and may result in ocular problems and visual disturbances. In this paper, ocular disorders related to high altitudes are briefly reviewed. Then, high-altitude ocular disorders are categorized in three parts: those related to dry and cold env...

[1] A two-dimensional cloud-resolving model with detailed spectral bin microphysics is used to examine the effect of aerosols on three different deep convective cloud systems that developed in different geographic locations: south Florida, Oklahoma, and the central Pacific. A pair of model simulations, one with an idealized low cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) (clean) and one with an idealized h...

In this second part of the series, an overview of applications of polarimetric radar observations is given. This includes a summary of improvements to data quality, and interpretation of signatures and output of algorithms for observations made in warmand cold-season precipitation. Examples of operational products include hydrometeor classification, hail detection and sizing, and quantitative p...

The existing French Application Radar a la M et eorologie Infrasynoptique (ARAMIS) operational radar network covers a vast majority of the country of France, yet likemany national networks, gaps in coverage are present in regions of mountainous and high terrain. Many of these areas are prone to extreme, orographyinduced precipitation events, and therefore expansion of national radar networks in...

An extracellular cold active lipase from Pseudomonas sp. VITCLP4 was concentrated by two methods, ammonium sulphate precipitation and ultrafiltration. Ammonium sulphate precipitation with 40% saturation was found to give good results with 125-fold partially purified lipase and yield of 63%. Further purification by DEAE-Sephadex ion exchange chromatography resulted in 4.6-fold purified enzyme wi...

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction–National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP–NCAR) reanalysis data are used to indicate mechanisms responsible for extreme summer convection over South America. The threedimensional reflectivity field is analyzed to define three types of extreme echo, deep convective cores, wi...

The ongoing changes in vegetation spring phenology in temperate/cold regions are widely attributed to temperature. However, in arid/semiarid ecosystems, the correlation between spring temperature and phenology is much less clear. We test the hypothesis that precipitation plays an important role in the temperature dependency of phenology in arid/semiarid regions. We therefore investigated the in...