A dynamical forecast model is applied to study thlJ moisture variation in the planetary boundary layer under the chosen synoptic condition. The observed l2-hour moisture patterns are compa.red with the forecast patterns. Four numerical experiments, using the same initial data on 0600 CST, March 25, 1967, are made. However, in one case only the effects of evaporation from the Gulf of Mexico, and...

BACKGROUND The transmission of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is influenced by environmental determinants. This study aimed to explore the association between atmospheric moisture variability and the transmission of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) for the period of 1991-2010 in Changsha, China. METHODS AND FINDINGS Wavelet analyses were performed by using monthly re...

To meet the demand of regional hydrological and agricultural applications, a new method named near infrared-red (NIR-red) spectra-based disaggregation (NRSD) was proposed to perform a disaggregation of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) products from 36 km to 250 m resolution. The NRSD combined proposed normalized soil moisture index (NSMI) with SMAP data to obtain 250 m resolution soil moistu...

We investigated the effect of weekends and school holidays on the daily frequency and severity of respiratory and other symptoms among children attending schools with (index) or without (reference) moisture damage in Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland. Throughout 1 year, parents of 419 children with a respiratory condition attending index (n=15) or reference (n=10) primary schools completed th...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the technique sensitivity of a one-bottle total-etch adhesive and a self-etch primer adhesive to the moisture condition of the dentine substrate. METHODS The methods used were hydraulic conductance, light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. RESULTS When the moisture conditions of the dentine surface are modified with respect to the st...

introduction oat is an important crop which is cultivated in 9,679,190 hectares and produced as much as 22,504,708 ton worldwide (fao. 2011). this crop is used mainly as forage cereal; however, it is also used for human consumption in the form of oatmeal and rolled oats because of high amounts of b and e vitamins (25). regarding to calcareous soils of kermanshah province (iran) and the importan...

Many global and regional climate modeling studies have demonstrated the importance of the initial soil water condition in their simulations of regional rainfall distribution. However, none of these modeling studies has been tested against directly observed data. This study tests the hypothesis that soil saturation is positively correlated with subsequent precipitation by analyzing a 14-year soi...

Different heat-moisture levels were applied to native starches from different cultivars of sweet potatoes available in Sri Lanka (Wariyapola red, Wariyapola white, Pallepola variety, Malaysian variety and CARI 273) to study the digestibility level. Samples were treated with 20, 25, and 30% moisture at 85°C and 120°C for 6 h and in vitro starch digestibility was tested with porcine pancreatin en...