Since relatively little is known about the effects of acid precipitation on growth and productivity of crop plants, a crop survey was initiated to study effects of H 2SO 4 rain simulants on growth, yield, and quality of selected crops which were chosen to represent diverse taxo nomic groups and crop products. Yield responses of 28 crop cultivars were examined. Plants were grown in pots in field...

This study investigated the effect of rain-shelter cultivation on the biosynthesis of flavonoids and volatiles in grapes, with an aim of determining whether rain-shelter application could help to improve the sensory attributes and quality of grapes. Vitis vinifera L. Chardonnay grapes, grown in the Huaizhuo basin region of northern China, were selected within two consecutive years. A rain-shelt...

Three detailed meteorological case studies are conducted with the global and regional atmospheric chemistry model system ECHAM5/MESSy(→COSMO/MESSy), shortly named MECO(n). The aim of this article is to assess the general performance of the on-line coupling of the regional model COSMO to the global model ECHAM5. The cases are characterised by intense weather systems in Central Europe: a cold fro...

[1] We examined the effects of snow, event size, basin size, and forest harvest on floods using >1000 peak discharge events from 1953 to 2006 from three small (<1 km), paired‐watershed forest‐harvest experiments and six large (60–600 km) basins spanning the transient (400–800 m) and seasonal (>800 m) snow zones in the western Cascades of Oregon. Retrospectively classified rain‐on‐snow events de...

A study was performed using the first full year of rain gauge records from a newly deployed network in the Southern Appalachian mountains. This is a region characterized by complex topography with orographic rainfall enhancement up to 300% over small distances (<8 km). Rain gauge observations were used to assess precipitation estimates from the Precipitation Radar (PR) on board of the TRMM sate...

The fade slope is a stochastic parameter and varies with time. The probability distribution of fade slope can depend on attenuation, on the drop size distribution and therefore on the type of rain, and on the wind velocity perpendicular to the path. Furthermore, if several rain cells and/or different kinds of rain may be present, the fade slope is likely to decrease with path length, and theref...

The objective is to remove rain from videos without blurring the object. The algorithm helps to devise the system which removes rain from videos to facilitate video surveillance, and to improve the various visionbased algorithms. Rain is a noise that impairs videos and images. Such weather conditions will affect stereo correspondence, feature detection, segmentation, and object tracking and rec...