OBJECTIVE The study aimed at elucidating a potential correlation between specific meteorological variables and the prevalence and intensity of migraine attacks as well as exploring a potential individual predictability of a migraine attack based on meteorological variables and their changes. METHODS Attack prevalence and intensity of 100 migraineurs were correlated with atmospheric pressure, ...

A new open source neural network temporal downscaling model is described and tested using CRU-NCEP reanalysis and CCSM3 climate model output. We downscaled multiple meteorological variables in tandem from monthly to sub-daily time steps while also retaining consistent correlations between variables. We found that our feed forward, error backpropagation approach produced synthetic 6 hourly meteo...

The frequency of extreme meteorological events such as heat waves and rainstorms is predicted to increase with climate change. However, there is still little information about how extreme weather influences reproduction in animals. It may not only affect breeding success but might also alter offspring sex ratio if males and females are differentially sensitive to meteorological conditions durin...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to determine whether intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage have different incidence patterns based on monthly variations in meteorological and air pollution parameters in the Seongdong district of Seoul, South Korea. METHODS From January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2014, 1,477 consecutive hemorrhagic stroke events (>19 years old) were registe...

Major comments: 1) In this study, the authors try to compare an offline-couple model and an online-coupled model. However, the meteorological evaluation only focuses on WRF results which are only used for the offline model. Due to the feedbacks of air pollutants and complex interactions between meteorological variables with pollutants, the online-coupled model should have different meteorologic...

Jointly owned by the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU), the Oklahoma Mesonet has provided valuable meteorological measurements since the early 1990’s. With over 110 stations located across the state of Oklahoma, the Mesonet is a state-ofthe-art network that measures several hydrological, agricultural, and meteorological variables (Brock et al. 1995; McPherson et al...

INTRODUCTION In France, rates of hospital admissions increase at the peaks of influenza epidemics. Predicting influenza-associated hospitalizations could help to anticipate increased hospital activity. The purpose of this study is to identify predictors of influenza epidemics through the analysis of meteorological data, and medical data provided by general practitioners. METHODS Historical da...

This study aims to develop a forecasting model by assessing the weather variability associated with seasonal fluctuation of Aedes aegypti oviposition dynamic at a city level in Orán, in northwestern Argentina. Oviposition dynamics were assessed by weekly monitoring of 90 ovitraps in the urban area during 2005-2007. Correlations were performed between the number of eggs collected weekly and weat...