This study evaluates the effects of flooding conditions on two Okra cultivars (Ibadan local and Jokoso) at Abeokuta, Nigeria. The vary from continuous Flooding (FLD), Wetting after three Days (W3D), five (W5D), seven (W7D), andWetting ten (W10D). agronomic parameters (leaf width, leaf length, plant height, numbers leaves, area) yield data (weight, fruit diameter, length) were subjected to analy...

Soil moisture is one of the vital environmental variables in land–atmosphere cycle. A study sensitivity analysis bistatic scattering coefficients from bare soil at Ku-band presented, with aim deepening our understanding features and exploring its potential retrieval. First, a well-established advanced integral method was adopted for simulating response soil. Secondly, index normalized weight qu...

Moisture is an important variable that must be kept under control to guarantee a safe operation of power transformers. Because of the hydrophilic character of cellulose, water mainly remains in the solid insulation, while just a few parts per million are dissolved in oil. The distribution of moisture between paper and oil is not static, but varies depending on the insulation temperature, and th...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of Campomanesia adamantium seeds to desiccation by drying in activated silica gel (fast) and under laboratory conditions (slow). To assess the sensitivity of the seeds to desiccation, we used drying with silica gel and drying under laboratory conditions (25 °C), in order to obtain seeds with moisture content of 45, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and...

Soil moisture content is a parameter of major importance for land applications at both watershed and regional scale such as hydrology and agriculture. In the past, a vast number of experimental and theoretical studies relating radar measurements to soil and vegetation parameters have been conducted. Such studies have widely demonstrated the sensitivity of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) measurem...

An adjoint sensitivity analysis of the relaxed Arakawa–Schubert scheme in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration GEOS-1 GCM with respect to perturbations in large-scale environmental fields was conducted. The response functions were defined as measures of the strength of convective cloud precipitation, the cloud-induced heating and drying (moistening) in both the instantaneous and ti...

The results of an investigation into the effects of pre-bond moisture absorbed by fibrecomposite substrates prior to bonding with various structural epoxy adhesives are presented. Substrates were bonded in the as-received condition (where substrates had been exposed to atmospheric moisture for periods of greater than three months) and were also bonded in the fully-dried condition (after drying ...

Differing from the structure of traditional parallel plate capacitive sensor a semi cylindrical capacitive sensor has been introduced in this present work to measure the soil moisture conveniently. Here, the numerical analysis method to evaluate the capacitance from the semi-cylindrical capacitive sensor is analyzed and discussed. The changes of capacitance with the variation of soil moisture o...

[1] The mass change of South America (SA) continent measured by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) imposes a constraint on the uncertainties in estimating the annual variation of rainfall measured by Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM) and ocean moisture influx derived from QuikSCAT data. The approximate balance of the mass change rate with the moisture influx less climatolo...

Systematic relationships between aspects of intraseasonal variability (ISV) and mean state bias are shown in a number of atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) simulations. When AGCMs are categorized as either strong ISV or weak ISV models, it is shown that seasonal mean precipitation patterns are similar among models in the same group but are significantly different from those of the oth...