Ria de Aveiro is a shallow coastal lagoon located in the Northwest coast of Portugal. The implementation and the assessment (calibration and validation) of the hydrodynamic, salt and heat transport models for Ria de Aveiro lagoon is presented. During the calibration the models parameters were adjusted to give the best fit of the model results to the field data. The hydrodynamic model calibratio...

the correlation coefficient of climatic factors necessary for cultivation of saffron between sabzevar stations and those of southem parts of khorasan is strong. in october, no frost can be seen in sabzevar, but it can be seen in other stations. this study showed that there was no difference in viewpoints of climatic factors in cultivation stations in both areas. comparing the correlation coeffi...

Over India, heat waves occur during the summer months of April to June. A gridded daily temperature data set for the period, 1961-2013 has been analyzed to examine the variability and trends in heat waves over India. For identifying heat waves, the Excess Heat Factor (EHF) and 90(th) percentile of maximum temperatures were used. Over central and northwestern parts of the country, frequency, tot...

This paper presents simulation model and results obtained during the practical experiments on secondary net of distribution heating system. It covers systems for urban location, typically housing estate or groups of family houses. Such systems deal with distribution between heat exchanger and individual door stations. The experiment was based on similar day identification and subsequent predict...

The Alpine region is warming fast, and concurrently, the frequency and intensity of climate extremes are increasing. It is currently unclear whether alpine ecosystems are sensitive or resistant to such extremes. We subjected Swiss alpine grassland communities to heat waves with varying intensity by transplanting monoliths to four different elevations (2440-660 m above sea level) for 17 d. Half ...

The global climate has changed significantly, characterized by the warming of the surface air temperature, which seriously affects public health. We examined the trends of extreme temperatures, heat waves and cold spells in a subtropical city of Guangzhou, China, during 1951–2015. Specifically, the relationship between ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) events and heat waves/cold spells was di...

The objective of this study is to investigate the climate sensitivity of health in a moderate climate of SW Germany. Daily mortality rates for the 30 yr period 1968–1997 for Baden-Württemberg (SW Germany) have been investigated with regard to the possible impacts of the thermal environment. A complete heat budget model of the human being (Klima-Michel model with outcome ‘perceived temperature’)...

Heat waves have been responsible for more deaths worldwide than all other natural disasters combined. In Europe, this “silent killer” caused 70000C excess deaths in 2003, and more recently 3500C people died during 2 separate heat waves in India (May 2015) and Pakistan (June 2015) (Fig. 1). Groups among the most vulnerable include the elderly, poor, and people with cardiovascular disease. Identi...