pistachio is one of the most important export items in iran, comprising more than 23% of iran non-oil exports. yazd is considered as the second biggest province of iran from the viewpoint of pistachio production, standing after kerman province. since frostbite phenomenon, especially, strong spring frostbite, has incurred many damages into pistachio gardens of this area, it is necessary to study...

Abundances of Culicoides imicola, the insect vector of several livestock viruses, including bluetongue and African horse sickness, were recently published for 34 sites in southern Africa, together with associated climate data. Here, these data are analysed statistically in combination with certain satellite-derived variables, with the aim of developing predictive models of C. imicola abundance....

Statistical methodology is devised to model time series of daily weather at individual locations in the southeastern U.S. conditional on patterns in large-scale atmosphere–ocean circulation. In this way, weather information on an appropriate temporal and spatial scale for input to crop–climate models can be generated, consistent with the relationship between circulation and temporally and/or sp...

. introduction most of the warming over the last 50 years has been caused by emissions of carbon dioxide (co2) and other greenhouse gases due to human activities. observed changes in the climate due to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations have made it essential to investigate these changes. the general circulation model (gcm) is the most current method of investigating climate change studie...

introductionclimate change has played an important role in all aspects of human life. therefore, climatepredictions in atmospheric general circulation models (gcm) will have particular importance.in this study, downscaling by a1b scenarios, ipcm4 and bcm2 of atmosphere generalcirculation models in lars-wg model are used for analysis of climate change impacts onmaximum and minimum temperature, s...

Vesicular stomatitis (VS) outbreaks occurred in the southwestern United States of America in 1995, 1997 and 1998. The epidemiology of VS is not understood completely and some of the epidemiologic aspects of this disease are currently under investigation. In this study, daily maximum temperature, daily minimum temperature, daily mean temperature, daily mean relative humidity and daily total prec...