Mechanistic crop growth models are becoming increasingly important in agricultural research and are extensively used in climate change impact assessments. In such studies, statistics of crop yields are usually evaluated without the explicit consideration of sample size requirements. The purpose of this paper was to identify minimum sample sizes for the estimation of average, standard deviation ...

We examine the variable-coefficient Kortweg-de Vries equation for the situation when the coefficient of the quadratic nonlinear term changes sign at a certain critical point. This case has been widely studied for a solitary wave, which is extinguished at the critical point and replaced by a train of solitary waves of the opposite polarity to the incident wave, riding on a pedestal of the origin...

This thesis presents a simple, meanline analysis of the impact of blade roughness on the mass flow, work coefficient, and efficiency of a three-stage axial compressor as a function of the location of fouling. First, an extensive review is presented on the state-ofthe-art of measuring compressor degradation and on the impact of roughness on loss and deviation in a compressor cascade. The perform...

In the present work, parametric interaction is considered when the phase change of interacting pump, signal and idler waves is studied in the materials of mid-infrared range of spectrum for GaSxSe1-x crystals. The values of refractive indices, angle of phase matching and angular dispersion coefficient of the first order have been calculated for GaS0.4Se0.6 crystal. It was shown that GaS0.4Se0.6...

The current study presents an algorithm to retrieve surface Soil Moisture (SM) from multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. The developed algorithm is based on the Cumulative Density Function (CDF) transformation of multi-temporal RADARSAT-2 backscatter coefficient (BC) to obtain relative SM values, and then converts relative SM values into absolute SM values using soil information....

Areas and spatial distribution information of paddy rice are important for managing food security, water use, and climate change. However, there are many difficulties in mapping paddy rice, especially mapping multi-season paddy rice in rainy regions, including differences in phenology, the influence of weather, and farmland fragmentation. To resolve these problems, a novel multi-season paddy ri...

Satellite-based rainfall products have extensive applications in global change studies, but they are known to contain deviations that require comprehensive verification at different scales. In this paper, we evaluated the accuracies of two high-resolution satellite-based rainfall products: the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) rainfall product 3B42V7 and the Climate Prediction Center...

This paper proposes a new approach to the synthesis of low coefficient sensitivity digital filters using Genetic Programming (GP). GP is applied to the synthesis problem by establishing a mapping between the Sexpressions and the filters. Genetic operators can then be applied to change the connections between the elements in the filters, and consequently to change the coefficient sensitivities o...

The Middle Route Project(MRP) of the Southto-North Water Transfer Scheme (SNWT) in China will require a very large financial expenditure to ensure the water supply and the associated water quality to northern China. An eco-compensation mechanism between the water service source areas and its beneficiaries is essential. This paper establishes an analytic framework of ecocompensation standard for...