The interactions between the semi-annual oscillation (SAO), near-surface wind speed and cloudiness at seven Antarctic stations are described, as is how near-surface temperature is affected. A firmly established half-yearly wave, in both the mean annual cycle of wind speed and of cloudiness, was found at two stations with limited local disturbances: Halley and Faraday. Following a significant we...

The goal of this project is to increase our understanding of the modification of complex atmospheric dynamics, cloudiness, and fog due to the interaction of the air, sea, and land in a coastal region. This increased understanding will lead to improvements in parameterizations of turbulence, cloudiness, and fog. In general, it will improve the episodic and seasonal forecasting of coastal weather...

Our long-term goal is unchanged from last year. It is to learn how to predict the cloudiness, entrainment rate, and turbulent fluxes in the marine boundary layer under any and all large-scale conditions. In particular the effects of varying sea surface temperature, varying inversion strength, and varying mean winds must be included. The cloudiness types encompassed include fog, stratus, stratoc...

New data on clouds and moisture, made possible by reanalysis of weather satellite observations, show that the atmosphere reacts to warm ocean pools in the Western Pacific Ocean with increased moisture and cloudiness~ suggesting a negative feedback limiting the rise in seasurface temperature. The reverse was observed over hot deserts where both moisture and cloudiness decrease, suggesting a posi...

Clouds are primary modulators of Earth's energy balance. It is thus important to understand the links connecting variabilities in cloudiness other state variables climate system, and also describe how these would change a changing climate. A conceptual model global can help elucidate points. In this work we derive simple representations cloudiness, that be useful creating theory cloudiness. The...

The proposed influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation is tested for the effect of sudden intensity changes of CR (Forbush decreases) on cloudiness. An attempt is made to widen the investigated period covered by satellite observation of cloudiness. As an indicator of cloud cover, the diurnal temperature range (DTR a quantity anticorrelated with cloudiness) is used. The superposed epoch analys...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of main emulsion components namely, modified starch, propylene glycol alginate (PGA), sucrose laurate and sucrose stearate on creaming index, cloudiness, average droplet size and conductivity of soursop beverage emulsions. Generally, the use of different emulsifiers or a mixture of emulsifiers has a significant (p < 0.05) effect on the response...

BACKGROUND/AIM Environmental factors may influence the disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the in- fluence of air pollution and seasonal climate factors of any on number of relapses in MS patients during a consecutive 5 years of observation. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data of MS patients from the town of...

Ecosystem light use efficiency (LUE) is a key factor of production models for gross primary production (GPP) predictions. Previous studies revealed that ecosystem LUE could be significantly enhanced by an increase on diffuse radiation. Under large spatial heterogeneity and increasing annual diffuse radiation in China, eddy covariance flux data at 6 sites across different ecosystems from 2003 to...