Pore water pressure, build up by recharge of hydrosystems, is one of the main triggering factors of deep seated landslides. Effective rainfall, which is the part of the rainfall which recharges the aquifer, is a significant parameter. Soil-water balance is an accurate way to estimate effective rainfall. Nevertheless this approach requires evapo5 transpiration, soil water storage and runoff char...

Precipitation is a major input in hydrological models. Radar rainfall data compared with rain gauge measurements provide higher spatial and temporal resolutions. However, radar data obtained form reflectivity patterns are subject to various errors such as errors in reflectivity-rainfall Z-R relationships, variation in vertical profile of reflectivity, and spatial and temporal sampling among oth...

This study sought to evaluate the utility of radar derived rainfall data as a unique resource for analysing the interplay between rainfall and ecosystem dynamics in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology’s Weather Watch radar network was investigated as a potential source of spatially explicit radar data that could be processed to create estimates of accumulated ra...

East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall impacts the world’s most populous regions. Accurate EASM rainfall prediction necessitates robust paleoclimate reconstructions from proxy data and quantitative linkage to modern climatic conditions. Many precisely dated oxygen isotope records from Chinese stalagmites have been interpreted as directly reflecting past EASM rainfall amount variability, but ...

Introduction and Purpose: It is now apparent that the changing weather patterns are associated with climate change according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the wake of relatively little work looking at rainfall pattern in tropical countries of developing nations, especially in Sierra Leone, we conducted a retrospective analysis on the amount of rainfall over the past fe...

A rapid carbohydrate utilization test for the identification of N. gonorrhoeae was investigated, with reference to its use in a routine diagnostic laboratory. The rapid test was shown to give accurate results in agreement with those of a conventional serum-free sugar medium. Because of the shorter time taken for the confirmation of an isolate, and several other advantages, it is proposed that t...

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