INTRODUCTION We investigated patterns of blood glucose and exogenous insulin requirement in the intensive care unit, and questioned whether they reflect fluctuations in insulin activity. METHODS Records for burn intensive care unit patients with 7 days of glucose control with insulin were reviewed. Hourly blood glucose and insulin dose were matched for time collected and analyzed with linear ...

Nocturnal precipitation cells and lines occur near the coastline in the whole Mediterranean basin in all seasons. The precipitation events are mainly located in areas where coastal mountain ranges and rivers enhance convergence though the interaction of nocturnal mesoscale and local flows (land breeze, katabatic and drainages winds) with prevailing synoptic wind or with other mesoscale and loca...

in this study, a new array of meteorological elements and a synoptic climatologic classification to produce abaseline climate and to derive meteorological factors that are effective on air pollution in tehran, which is located in a semi-enclosed basin was developed. the data set includes daily sea-level pressure and 500mb geopotential height fields from ncep-ncar and tehran upper air sounding d...

29 The influence of synoptic-scale circulations on air quality is an area of increasing interest to 30 air quality management in regards to future climate change. This study presents an analysis 31 where the dominant synoptic " types " over the region of Melbourne, Australia are determined 32 and linked to regional air quality. First, a self-organising map (SOM) is used to generate a 33 time se...

[1] In this paper, by using a dynamic model with synoptic eddy and low-frequency flow (SELF) interaction, we show that the SELF feedback is of significant importance for the formation of the AO/NAO in both winter and summer. Although background storm activity is significantly weaker in summer than that in winter, the positive SELF feedback associated with the AO/NAO mode in summer can be as str...

the upper level pressure patterns control the climate of the surface. the identification of these patterns in the regional scale is useful for the study of the surface climate elements and their forecasting. in order to understand the pressure centers controlling the climate of iran during the cold period of the year, the daily 500 hpa. geopotential height of the grid points of 2.5 degrees dist...

The work examines the seasonality and large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns associated with debris-flow occurrence in the Trentino–Alto Adige region (eastern Italian Alps). Analysis is based on classification algorithms applied to a uniquely dense archive of debris flows and hourly rain gauge precipitation series covering the period 2000–2009. Results highlight the seasonal and synoptic ...