background: the municipal waste landfill sites have high a potential of contaminating the ‎ environment and having effects of the human health due to waste degradation, production of leachate, carbon dioxide and ‎ methane gases. the present study aims to evaluate the location of the solid waste landfill using gis and based on the oleckno index. assessment parameters included average annual rain...

Efficacy of a single dip treatment in coumaphos at 0.182% active ingredient was determined against all parasitic stages of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Canestrini) on infested cattle exposed to various levels of rainfall immediately after treatment. One group of calves remained untreated with no exposure to rainfall to serve as a negative control. A second group of cattle treated with c...

BACKGROUND The incidence of cholera in Bangladesh shows clear seasonality, suggesting that weather factors could play a role in its epidemiology. We estimated the effects of rainfall on the incidence of cholera in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS We examined time-series patterns of the weekly number of hospital visits due to cholera in relation to weekly rainfall from 1996 to 2002. We used Poisson ...

In this paper we use farmers' actual experiences with changes in rainfall levels and theirresponses to these changes to assess if patterns of fertilizer use are responsive tochanges in rainfall patterns. Using plot and farm level panel data from the centralHighlands of Ethiopia matched with corresponding village level rainfall data; resultsshow that both the current year’s d...

In this study, nine-years (1998-2006) of monthly precipitation data from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are used to examine the relations between tropical rainfall and surface temperature. A technique is developed to adjust the PR monthly rainfall data in the Tropics (whole ocean and whole land) to account for the effect of the TRMM orbit boost from 350 km to 402 km in August 2001. ...

sensors, actuators, and mobile devices is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. We will soon find computing power, memory, and communication capabilities on temperature sensors and motion detectors, on door locks, light bulbs, and alarms, on every cellular phone, in every vehicle, and soon in every person's wallet or on their key ring. Emerging networking techniques ensure ...

Consistency and trend in the Northeast and Southwest monsoon rainfall of Tamil Nadu have been studied utilizing the data for the 60-year period from 1941 to 2000. It is seen that both the Northeast and Southwest monsoon rainfall of Tamil Nadu is consistent in double mass curve analysis method. Frequency distribution of Northeast and Southwest monsoon rainfall of Tamil Nadu is normal. Decreasing...

Themountainous Caribbean island of Dominica was chosen as a natural laboratory for studying orographic convection in the tropics. Here, the authors focus on a prototypical case study, taken from the Dominica Experiment (DOMEX) field campaign in the spring of 2011. Airborne measurements and high-resolution numerical experiments are used to examine the mesoscale dynamics of moist airflow over Dom...