Climate change is found to be the most important global issue in the 21st century, so to monitor its trend is of great importance. Atmospheric General Circulation Models because of their large scale computational grid are not able to predict climatic parameters on a point scale, so small scale methods should be adapted. Among downscaling methods, statistical methods are used as they are easy to...

The MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is one of the key instruments for the NASA s Earth Observing System (EOS). MODIS ProtoFlight Model (PFM) was launched on-board the EOS Terra spacecraft on December 18, 1999 and the MODIS Flight Model (FM-1) was launched on-board the EOS Aqua spacecraft on May 4, 2002. MODIS has 36 spectral bands with wavelengths ranging from 0.41 to 14.5...

MODIS Protoflight Model, launched on-board the NASA EOS Terra spacecraft on December 18, 1999, has been in operation for more than two years, providing the science community calibrated data sets for the global studies of the land, oceans, and atmosphere. MODIS has 36 spectral bands, covering the spectral range from 412 to 14200 nm, and provides spatial resolutions of 0.25 km (2 bands), 0.5 km (...

Precipitation is an important meteorological indicator that has a direct and significant impact on ecology, agriculture, hydrology, other vital areas of human health life. It therefore essential to monitor variations this parameter at global local scale. To predict long-term changes in climate elements, Global Circulation Models (GCMs) can provide simulated global-scale climatic processes. Due ...

In this paper, we propose a new, efficient logging protocol, called lazy logging, and a fast crash recovery protocol, called the prefetch-based crash recovery (PCR), for software distributed shared memory (SDSM). Our lazy logging protocol minimizes failure-free overhead by logging only data indispensable for correct recovery, while our PCR protocol reduces the recovery time by prefetching data ...