weather circulation patterns play a main role in the occurrence of environmental phenomena especially in middle latitude. occurrence of dry and wet spells is in relation to synoptical system repetitions and types of weather. in this research first by using of standard precipitation index (spi), extensive droughts in the province were identified. then by using principal component analysis (pca) ...

Many impact studies require climate change information at a finer resolution than that provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs). In the last 10 years, downscaling techniques, both dynamical (i.e. Regional Climate Model) and statistical methods, have been developed to obtain fine resolution climate change scenarios. In this study, an automated statistical downscaling (ASD) regression-based appro...

Background: Knowing the human platelet angens (HPA) and genes frequency in different populaons is important not only for populaon studies but also for clinical transfusion pracce. HPA genes frequency in Iran is not evaluated, so we invesgated the HPA-2, HPA-3, and HPA-5 frequency and their polymorphism. Materials and Methods: DNA from 120 Iranians (99 Iranian blood donors and 21 paents wi...

Background: Thrombocytopenia occurs in 1-5 % of newborns (platelet count < 150 × 109/L). Low platelet 50 109/L leads to the hemorrhagic syndrome, with one its causes being neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia resulting from incompatibility between mother and fetus human antigens (HPA) inherited father absent mother, which formation maternal antibodies. Anti-HPA-1a, anti-HPA-5b, anti-HPA-3a, ...

During heavy rain on 1–2 June 2015 in central China, the Wuhan mesosphere–stratosphere–troposphere (MST) radar was applied to record atmospheric responses with a 30 min period. According vertical gradient of echo power above 500 hPa, tropopause height could be determined by MST detection. The descent clearly observed few hours before rain, and then recovered usual heights during rain. observati...

the aim of this research is investigating the relations between climatic large scale signals and spring rainfall of khorasan-e razavi province. in this research, we have analyzed 38 years of rainfall data in khorasan-e razavi province, located in northeastern iran. we attempted to train artificial neural network based upon climatic large scale signals with 38 years of rainfall data. for perform...

to analysis the mechanisms of blocking high effects on heavy precipitations in northwest of iran, we selected a short period of heavy precipitation (25-28 october 2008). in this case, weather maps such as mean of sea level pressure, 850-hpa and 500-hpa geopotential height levels were assessed and analyzed for the whole period. the position and movement of the atmospheric systems such as cyclone...

Solar energy is an intermittent source that faces a substantial challenge for its power dispatchability. Hence, concentrating solar (CSP) plants and process heat (SPH) applications employ thermal storage (TES) technologies as link between generation optimal load distribution. Ordinary Portland cement (OPC)-based materials are widely used in sensible TES, but their use limited to operation tempe...

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis data on tropospheric humidity are examined for the period 1973 to 2007. It is accepted that radiosonde-derived humidity data must be treated with great caution, particularly at altitudes above the 500 hPa pressure level. With that caveat, the face-value 35-year trend in zonal-average annual-average specific humidity q is signif...