It has been well established that Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images over the ocean can provide wind information over small spatial scales. SAR image data can be used quantitatively as an imaging scatterometer if the SAR is calibrated and a suitable wind retrieval model is available [Vachon & Dobson 1996; Wackerman et al. 1996; Fetterer et al. 1998]. Canada’s Radarsat SAR (C-band HH polarisa...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune disease, featuring fibrosis in multiple organs. The serum from SSc patients contain inflammatory mediators, contributing to SSc pathogenesis and could be used to develop cell culture models. Here, we compared the fibrotic effects of serum samples from SSc patients with TGFβ1 on human dermal fibroblasts (HDFs). HDF cells were cultured in four diff...

Abstract. Automatic determination of fronts from atmospheric data is an important task for weather prediction as well research synoptic-scale phenomena. In this paper we introduce a deep neural network to detect and classify multi-level ERA5 reanalysis data. Model training evaluated using two different regions covering Europe North America with services. We apply label deformation within our lo...

This study evaluates the laser in situ scattering and transmissometry (LISST) instrument LISST-SL2, a diffraction for suspended sediment sampling rivers, with concurrent physical measurements of concentration (SSC) particle size distribution (PSD) as well velocity by an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). We collected 136 LISST-SL2 samples along 61 SSC measurement, which 24 included PSD m...

Numerical modeling of infrasound propagation is necessary to support accurate infrasound source location and phase identification. Predicting the details of infrasound propagation relies both on propagation models that capture the fundamental physical processes and on characterization of the propagation medium, namely the global atmosphere from the ground to altitudes above 100 km. The accuracy...

A new methodology is presented for the model estimation of an import–export pollution balance across country borders based on the classification of the synoptic scale atmospheric circulation. As an application, the transboundary transport of SO2 and NOx across the Greek borders is investigated for the year 1995. The annual total inflow–outflow fluxes were derived by weighting the model results ...

To screen for concomitant autoimmune disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (overlap SSc) and to describe their clinical characteristics prognosis. This was a two-center retrospective observational study. Patients diagnosed SSc according the 2013 ACR-EULAR scleroderma classification criteria were screened rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Sjögren syndrome (SgS) lupus erythematosus (SLE). Patient ...

RATIONALE Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may be classified as idiopathic (IPAH) or familial (FPAH) or associated with various conditions and exposures such as dexfenfluramine intake (Dex-PAH) or systemic sclerosis (SSc-PAH). Because fibroblast dysfunction has been identified in SSc and IPAH and antifibroblast antibodies (AFAs) with a pathogenic role have been detected in the serum of SSc...

We propose to extend CART for bivariate marked point processes provide a segmentation of the space into homogeneous areas interaction between marks. While usual tree considers marginal distribution response variable at each node, proposed algorithm, SpatCART, takes account spatial location observations in splitting criterion. introduce dissimilarity index based on Ripley’s intertype K-function ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease of inner organs and skin. Its cutaneous manifestations are called scleroderma but the terms “systemic sclerosis” and “scleroderma” are sometimes used interchangeably (Fett, 2013). The American College of Rheumatology and the European League against Rheumatism have recently issued a consensus statement for the classification of SSc (van den...