BACKGROUND Heat stress evaluation and timely notification, especially using meteorological data is an important issue attracted attention in recent years. Therefore, this study aimed at answering the following research questions: 1) can enthalpy as a common environmental parameter reported by meteorological agencies be applied accurately for evaluation of thermal condition of outdoor settings, ...

Total Precipitable Water (TPW) in a column of atmosphere is one of the important parameters useful for a number of meteorological applications. In the present study, a neural network based algorithm has been developed for the retrieval of TPW using NOAA-16 AMSU measurements. The TPW has been derived experimentally using NOAA-16 AMSU measurements locally received from High Resolution Picture Tra...

Solar energy is one of the most important energy sources with increasing penetration into the power supply systems of many countries, due to the reduced environmental impact of its operation. One of the important factors of the efficiency of photovoltaic systems is the predictability of solar radiation, which depends on the clouds and the meteorological conditions, the occurrence of which is a ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have identified strong correlations between winter months and acute, unintentional carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. In this study, we aimed to investigate the incidence pattern of acute domicile-related CO poisoning in Beijing and its relation with climatic factors. METHODS Data on CO poisoning were collected from the emergency medical service system during August 1, 20...

12 While the significance of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on instantaneous leaf13 level processes such as photosynthesis and transpiration is rarely disputed, its integrated 14 effect at ecosystem level and at long-time scales remains a subject of debate. In part, the 15 uncertainty stems from the inherent leaf-to-leaf variability in gas exchange rates. By 16 combining 10 years of lea...

An atmospheric visibility measurement system capable of quantifying the most common operating range of onboard exteroceptive sensors is a key parameter in the creation of driving assistance systems. This information is then utilized to adapt sensor operations and processing or to alert the driver that the onboard assistance system is momentarily inoperative. Moreover, a system capable of either...

Qingyu Jia 1,2 ID , Wenying Yu 2, Li Zhou 3 and Chenghua Liang 1,* 1 College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China; [email protected] 2 Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang 110166, China; [email protected] 3 Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, 46 Zhongguancun...

greece has experienced particularly severe and frequent forest fires during summer 2007 together with exceptionally dry meteorological conditions culminated in distinct heat waves. the present study analyzes the time pattern of daily values of two fire risk indices (nesterov and angstrom) based on meteorological data made available for a number of gauging stations between 1 june and 31 august o...

The main sources of meteorological data at high altitudes are radiosondes and Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) data [1]. Mode-select (Mode-S) radars are capable of getting similar readings from aircraft as AMDAR; however, this source of meteorological data has not been used systematically so far. In this article, we analyze the meteorological data obtained by means of Mode-S radars an...