Understanding the effects of climate change on phenological structure plant communities will require measuring variation in sensitivity among thousands co‐occurring species across regions. Herbarium collections provide vast resources with which to do this, but may also exhibit biases as sources data. Despite general recognition these caveats, validation herbarium‐based estimates against obtaine...

Previous findings of time-of-day differences in athletic performance could be confounded by diurnal fluctuations in environmental and behavioral "masking" factors (e.g., sleep, ambient temperature, and energy intake). The purpose of this study was to examine whether there is a circadian rhythm in swim performance that is independent of these masking factors. Experienced swimmers (n = 25) were a...

This study aims to evaluate NASA POWER reanalysis products for daily surface maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) temperatures, solar radiation (Rs), relative humidity (RH) wind speed (Ws) when compared with observed data from 14 distributed weather stations across Alentejo Region, Southern Portugal, a hot summer Mediterranean climate. Results showed that there is good agreement between all parame...

Abstract. Near-surface air temperature (Ta) is an important physical parameter that reflects climate change. Many methods are used to obtain the daily maximum (Tmax?), minimum (Tmin?), and average (Tavg) temperature, but affected by multiple factors. To Ta data (Tmax?, Tmin?, Tavg) with high spatio-temporal resolution in China, we fully analyzed advantages disadvantages of various existing data...

The study of space-time vernier (STV) provides information on the spatio-temporal structure of the visual system in the same way that the classical spatio-spatial vernier (SSV) provides information on its spatial structure. The transposition of a SSV task into a STV one yields the following experimental format: an object (in the present case a Gaussian Blob) drifts with a constant velocity, V, ...

Near-surface meteorological forcing (NSMF) datasets, mixed observations, and model forecasts are widely used in global climate change sustainable development studies. For practical purposes, it is important to evaluate NSMF especially those released latest, determine their strengths limitations. In this study, we the performance of Multi-Source Weather (MSWX) China over period 1979–2016. compar...

shift changes and heterogeneity analyses of hydro-climatic variables is very important in water resources planning and management. in order to shift changes and heterogeneity analyses of tmin and tmax, precipitation and discharge, 2, 7 and 7 stations was used over the 40 years (1972-2011), respectively. the results of annual tmin and tmax series showed that both of two stations had the signific...