Extreme weather events such as ice storms cause significant damage to life and property. Accurately forecasting ice storms sufficiently in advance to offset their impacts is very challenging because they are driven by atmospheric processes that are complex and not completely defined. Furthermore, such forecasting has to consider the influence of a changing climate on relevant atmospheric variab...

The notion of m-regular system on the Hermitian variety H(n, q2) was introduced by B. Segre (Ann. Math. Pura Appl. 70:1–201, 1965). Here, three infinite families of hemisystems on H(5, q2), q odd, are constructed.

In the last three decades we have experienced the first close-up exploration of the planets of the solar system. American, Russian, and (increasingly) European planetary space missions have now explored the atmospheres and environments of many different worlds, returning data with which we can begin to understand the Earth in its wider context as never before. The new discipline of Comparative ...

Clouds are essential for life to exist on earth due to their influential climatological impact. Clouds help control the radiation balance of the earth by reflecting incoming solar radiation, a cooling process; however, clouds also act as absorbers of terrestrial infrared radiation, a warming process. This dual role is a primary motive to examine the effects clouds have on the global climate. Qu...