Weather Extremes
Characterising the relationship between weather extremes in Europe and synoptic circulation features
... to weather extremes provides direct and intuitive insight into the atmo- spheric processes causing the extreme ...specific weather types or circulation in- ...precipitation extremes to ...
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Weather extremes from anthropogenic global warming
... The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty of nature with its utility [28]. Is beauty “in the eye of the beholder” or/and an encounter with the Divine? Without divinely created beauty, nature becomes an object ...
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The Impact of Weather Extremes on Agricultural Production Methods: Does Drought Increase Adoption of Conservation Tillage Practices?
... USDA/FSA. Weather extremes: Although previous studies often include the long-term average climate information into the explanatory function, they have failed to identify its significance in the adoption ...
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Economic Impacts of Climate Change and Weather Extremes on Canadian Prairie Mixed Farms
... climate extremes by including projected inter-annual climate ...Climate Extremes in the Americas” and the study sites are intended to represent the project catchment areas in the provinces of Alberta and ...
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Inferences on weather extremes and weather-related disasters: a review of statistical methods
... Occasionally, other trend approaches for extreme indica- tors are reported. Frei and Sch¨ar (2001) apply logistic re- gression to time series of very rare precipitation events in the Alpine region of Switzerland. They ...
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Three Hundred Years of Weather Extremes from the Annals of Connacht
... integrity of weather reports may have been assured thorough preservation, supposing that the best way to hide a lie is by making it as close to the truth as possible. So, what of the general purpose of the annals? ...
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Approximate Bayesian computing for spatial extremes
... some weather-related random variable and s is a pre-specified strike ...“typical” weather patterns of temperature or precipitation, but on ...of extremes is different from the dependence exhibited by ...
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Human Factors Explain the Increased Losses from Weather and Climate Extremes*
... to weather extremes ...1997 weather impacts workshop found annual U.S. losses to extreme weather and climate conditions total in the tens of billions of dollars and thousands of casualties ...
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Simulation of extreme weather events by a stochastic weather generator
... stochastic weather generator is a model capable of generating daily weather patterns that are statistically similar to the observed ...patterns. Weather generators are commonly used in climate change ...
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Weather and Climate Extremes on the Canadian Prairies: An Assessment with a Focus on Grain Production
... summer weather and climate extremes on the Canadian prairies during May-July, the critical growing period for grain and oilseed crops such as wheat, canola and ...of weather extremes on ...
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One-class classification of point patterns of extremes
... EVT, on the other hand, provides a class of models for the tail region where training data are sparse and is able to estimate the threshold exactly by using a statistical distribution th[r] ...
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Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT510 The Most Essential of Weather
... The Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT510 is a compact and lightweight multi-sensor instrument that measures the most essential weather parameters. It is a configurable product that can measure wind speed and ...
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SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF INFOCROP TO WEATHER AND NON-WEATHER PARAMETERS
... in weather parameters indicated that, with incremental unit increase in mean temperature, the simulated yields decreased and vice ...under extremes of potential and stressed conditions gave an insight about ...
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Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China
... specific weather station over a period of time and thus resolves the problem of underwriting what could be tens of millions of micro insurance ...the weather insurance does not discourage best management ...
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Betting. weather. Weather affects all types. on the
... 5,000 weather contracts have been transacted between October 1997 and April 2001, according to the latest comprehensive study of the weather market, conducted jointly by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Wash- ...
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Mechanisms and evolution of resistance to environmental extremes in animals
... One such animal is the tardigrade, more commonly known as the water bear (Fig. 1d). Tardigrades are a group of microscopic animals renowned for their ability to survive a number of environmental extremes includ- ...
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Timing the market: the economic value of price extremes
... It remains unknown whether price extremes contribute to forecasting asset returns. Despite a great deal of research on range-based volatility, few studies, to our know- ledge, have related asset returns to price ...
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Distribution and dependence of extremes in network sampling processes
... useful extremes of the sampled sequence like the kth largest value, clusters of exceedances over a threshold, and first hitting time of a large value are ...of extremes into a single parameter that appears ...
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Factors of climate extremes hyperactivity: a study on MENA
... The climatology is mainly a science of climate predictions. Prediction is not only the main purpose of climatology but a very challenging issue. Statistical trends, which are applied for traditional climate predictions, ...
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Naturalistic Extremes in Al Aswaany’s The Yacoubian Building
... This paper explores Alaa Al Aswaany’s The Yacoubian Building (2004) from the perspective of the literary theory of naturalism to understand and analyze the responses of the fictional ch[r] ...
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