The authors have analyzed global station data and created a gridded dataset of monthly precipitation for the period of 1900–88. Statistical analyses suggest that discontinuities associated with instrumental errors are large for many high-latitude station records, although they are unlikely to be significant for the majority of the stations. The first leading EOF in global precipitation fields i...

Recent observations of cod movement across stock boundaries are generally consistent with historical tagging data as well as information from other stock identification approaches. This working paper provides a historical context in which to consider recent tagging data for spatial delineation of cod stock assessments (TOR C). Introduction The objective of this report is to review the literatur...

Anterior temporal lobe resection controls seizures in 50–60% of patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy but may impair memory function, typically verbal memory following left, and visual memory following right anterior temporal lobe resection. Functional reorganization can occur within the ipsilateral and contralateral hemispheres. We investigated the reorganization of memory function ...

Nine species of the Parapolybia indica species-group in eastern parts of Asia are reviewed. Four new species are described: P. flava sp. nov. (Vietnam), P. crocea sp. nov. (Japan), P. nana sp. nov. (Vietnam), and P. albida sp. nov. (Vietnam). Parapolybia indica (de Saussure, 1854), P. bioculata van der Vecht, 1966 and P. tinctipennis (Cameron, 1900) are redescribed. The status is reinstanted fo...

Annually resolved temperature records spanning the past few centuries are limited in Southwest China. In this paper, we present a robust 250-year winter minimum reconstruction based on tree rings of Abies georgei Orr from Luoji Mountain, The exhibit significant correlations with temperatures (Tmin) previous November to current March (pNov–cMar). Based relationship, reconstructed pNov-cMar Tmin ...

We present a status report of an ongoing effort to develop robust tunable all-solid-state sources up to 1900 GHz for the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory. GaAs based multi-chip power amplifier modules at W-band are used to drive cascaded chains of multipliers. We have demonstrated performance from chains comprised of four doublers up to 1600 GH...

[1] We compare historical global temperature time series, based on bias-adjusted sea-surface temperatures with independent temperature time series, for the upper 20 meter layer of the ocean based on the latest update of an historical hydrographic profile data set. Despite the two underlying data sets being different in number of data points, instrumentation and applied adjustments, both of the ...

J. Batle, M. Casas, A. Plastino, and A. R. Plastino Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears and IMEDEA-CSIC, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Argentina’s National Research Council (CONICET), Casilla de Correo 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina Department of Physics, National University La Plata, Casilla de Correo 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina Faculty of Astronomy and Geophysics, Nation...