The response of clouds and their radiative effects to global warming represents a longstanding and considerable area of uncertainty in our understanding of climate change. At present, it is not known whether changes in cloudiness will exacerbate, mitigate, or have little effect on the increasing global surface temperature caused by anthropogenic greenhouse radiative forcing. Another substantial...

The Rab1-Nielsen formulas are used to make predictions for solar pond operations for four locations situated in different solar insulation zones in Iran. The inputs to the computer program for determining the temperature variation at the bottom of the pond are the total insulation (corrected for cloudiness). ambient temperature, insolating layer thickness, convection layer thickness and load. T...

Several cationic-amphiphilic drugs such as chloroquine and amiodarone are known to induce phospholipidosis in the cornea by systemic administration. However, the characteristics of ophthalmological and pathological changes when phospholipidosis-inducing drugs are topically applied have not been well studied. This study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of corneal changes caused b...

Forecasting of solar irradiance will become a major issue in the future integration of solar energy resources into existing energy supply structures. As far as short-term time horizons (up to 2h) are concerned, satellite data are a high quality source for information about radiation with excellent temporal and spatial resolution. Due to the strong impact of cloudiness on surface irradiance the ...

Tropical forests have essential functions in global C dynamics but vulnerable to changes in land cover land use (LCLUC) and climate. The tropics of Caribbean are experiencing warming and drying climate and diverse LCLUC. However, large-scale studies to detect long-term trends of C and mechanisms behind are still rare. Using MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), we investigated greenness trend ...

How spatial organization of clouds at the mesoscale contributes to daily cycle shallow cumulus and precipitation is here explored, for first time, using three years high-frequency satellite- ground-based observations. We focus on four prominent patterns cloud – Sugar, Gravel, Flowers Fish which were found recently characterize well variability North Atlantic winter trades. Our analysis based a ...