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Omneya Ibrahim, Bayoumy Mohamed and Hazem Nagy
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts on marine life. The frequency of MHWs, gauged with respect to historical temperatures, is expected to rise significantly as the climate continues to warm. The MHWs intensity and count are pronounced w...
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Sarah A. Tennille and Kelsey N. Ellis
The climatology of tropical cyclones is an immediate research need, specifically to better understand their long-term patterns and elucidate their future in a changing climate. One important pattern that has recently been detected is the poleward shift o...
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André André Attogouinon, Agnidé E. Lawin, Yèkambèssoun N?Tcha M?Po and Rita Houngue
This study analyzed trends in extreme precipitation based on daily rainfall data provided by Bénin Méteo Agency for the Upper Ouémé valley in Benin over the period 1951?2014. Eleven indices divided into two groups were considered. The first group consist...
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Mohammed Alzahrani and Bradley J. Roth
The purpose of this paper is to calculate the maximum electric field in the brain tissue surrounding a microcoil. The microcoil is represented as a wire coupled capacitively to the surrounding tissue. For a 1 mA, 3 kHz current in the wire, the value of t...
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Alexey Konovalov, Ilia Orlin, Andrey Stepnov and Yulia Stepnova
In the present study, empirical attenuation relations for multiple ground motion intensity measures (PGA, PGV, Ia, FIV3, CII, and MFAS) were developed for Sakhalin Island (in the far east of Russia). A recorded strong motion dataset was used, making GMPE...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Alfredo Ibañez, Juan Pino, Diego Rivera, Pablo García-Chevesich and Ben Ingram
This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970?2016 and distributed between 29°12' S and 39°30' S. This area was divided ...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Alfredo Ibañez, Juan Pino, Diego Rivera, Pablo García-Chevesich and Ben Ingram
This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970?2016 and distributed between 29°12' S and 39°30' S. This area was divided ...
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Xiaolian Zhang, Can Huang, Sipeng Hao, Fan Chen and Jingjing Zhai
Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) plays an important role in increasing the efficiency of a wind energy conversion system (WECS). In this paper, three conventional MPPT methods are reviewed: power signal feedback (PSF) control, decreased torque gain (D...
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Elis Dener Lima Alves and António Lopes
This study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI). Simulations of the UHI based on the increase of normalized di...
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Muhammad Yazid and Usa Humphries
This study analyzed the trends of extreme daily rainfall indices over the Indochina Peninsula from 1960 to 2007. The trends were obtained from high-resolution gridded daily rainfall data compiled by APHRODITE with coordinates of 4°N?25°N and 90E°?112°E. ...
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Ahmad Abu Arra and Eyüp Sisman
As a catastrophic phenomenon, drought has destructive impacts on water resources, the environment, and the ecosystem. Consequently, drought plays a vital role in risk assessment, water resources management, and drought mitigation plans. The main aim of t...
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Taylor Mason, Jeong-Hoi Koo, Young-Min Kim and Tae-Heon Yang
Vibrotactile feedback is a key feature of many modern touch displays, which greatly enhances user experiences when interacting with an onscreen interface. Despite its popularity in small touch screen devices, this haptic feature is absent in most large d...
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Shijun Zhao and Yulong Shan
Low-level wind shear is a vital weather process affecting aircraft safety while taking off and landing and is known as the ?aircraft killer? in the aviation industry. As a result, effective monitoring and warning are required. Several ramps detection alg...
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Alejandro Ivan Aguirre-Salado, Humberto Vaquera-Huerta, Carlos Arturo Aguirre-Salado, José del Carmen Jiménez-Hernández, Franco Barragán and María Guzmán-Martínez
We introduced a novel spatial model based on the distribution of generalized extreme values (GEV) to analyze the maximum intensity levels of earthquakes with incomplete data (randomly censored) on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico using a random censo...
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Wang Yuan-qing, Luo Jing
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Compared with normal weather, the traffic flow characteristics changed under the condition of adverse weather, which accounted for the difference of driving behavior. The influence of freeway traffic flow characteristics caused by different rainfall inte...
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Jihong Xia and Launia Nehal
Vegetation in riparian zones has a significant influence on resistance, velocity distribution and turbulence intensity. This study experimentally investigated the effect of emergent bending riparian zone vegetation on the flow. The results showed that th...
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Hadi Heidari, Baptiste Francois and Casey Brown
Reservoir expansion is commonly considered an adaptation strategy to attenuate water shortage conditions. In many locations in the United States, there are ongoing discussions about the effectiveness and feasibility of reservoir expansion with regard to ...
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Mohammad Akrami, Alaa H. Salah, Mahdieh Dibaj, Maxime Porcheron, Akbar A. Javadi, Raziyeh Farmani, Hassan E. S. Fath and Abdelazim Negm
The need for sustainable desalination arises from fast-occurring global warming and intensifying droughts due to increasing temperatures, particularly in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions. Lack of water resources has meant that the countri...
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Eleanor R. Stern, Federico Riva and Scott E. Nielsen
Forest fragmentation threatens forest biodiversity and ecosystem function. One of the concerns relates to increases in edge effects, which among other things affects the forest microclimate that influences the distribution and behavior of species. In Alb...
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Jian Jiao, Derong Su, Liliang Han, Yadong Wang
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Estimating canopy interception of water by plants during rainfall or sprinkler irrigation is a critical step for evaluating water-use efficiency. Most existing experimental studies and mathematic models of canopy interception have paid little attention t...
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