The mechanism of the dissolution of the atmospheric chloride particles into rain drops by their mutual collision has been studied. The results obtained are as follows. 1. Relations among the chloride content per drop, the radius and the number of falling drops have been obtained, assuming that there is no supply of the chloride particles by an exchange or a flow of the air mass, and that the nu...

OBJECTIVES To identify and characterise clusters of emergency department (ED) visits for fall injuries during the 2007-2008 winter season. METHODS Hospital ED chief complaints and diagnoses from hospitals reporting to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense system were analysed. The authors performed descriptive analyses, used time series charts on data aggregated by metropoli...

The Ka-band radars are particularly suited for cloud droplets and small rain drop regime measurements, by their capability to penetrate through rainand snow-falls and to detect small hydrometeors. Traditionally three moments of Doppler spectra are used as basis to retrieve microphysical cloud parameters, e. g. characteristic particle size (Gossard, 1997), liquid water content (Liao, 1994) and t...

A general understanding of grazing effects on plant diversity in drylands is still missing, despite an extensive theoretical background. Cross-biome syntheses are hindered by the fact that the outcomes of disturbance studies are strongly affected by the choice of diversity measures, and the spatial and temporal scales of measurements. The aim of this study is to overcome these weaknesses by app...

Introduction This experiment was designed to discover whether or not acid rain stunts the growth of the fast plant brassica rappa. When pollution from various sources combines with moisture in the atmosphere, it falls back to earth as acid rain. Acid rain pollutes lakes, damages trees and wildlife, and washes nutrients out of the soil. Data collected from the early 1960's from New Hampshire's H...

Birth traits of 68 Angus and 49 Charolais x Angus calves sired by four Angus and seven Charolais bulls, respectively, were studied. Timed intervals during the calving process were compared between breed of sire groups. The Charolais sired calves required an average of 3.7 rain longer from the first appearance of the water bag until the feet were first visible; 8.1 rain longer (P<.01) from the t...

I. About the “Where the Rain Falls” Global Policy Report Climate change is likely to worsen the situation in parts of the world that already experience high levels of food insecurity. Greater variability of rainfall has significant repercussions for food security, the livelihoods of millions of people, and the migration decisions of vulnerable households. In order to make informed decisions ab...