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On the role of soil moisture in the generation of heavy rainfall during the Oder flood event in July 1997

, 2015
Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks play an important role in the regional climate over many regions worldwide, not only for the mean climate but also for extreme events.
Hagemann, S., Ho-Hagemann, H., Rockel, B.   +2 more
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances and prospects in reconstruction approaches for snow cover mapping using polar-orbiting satellites

Frontiers in Earth Science
Snow cover is recognized as one of the most variable land cover parameters and plays a critical role in the global energy balance, climate change, and hydrological processes.
Jun Zhang, Xiaoyue Zeng, Xiaoyue Zeng, Xiaoyue Zeng, Jun Wan, Jun Wan, Jun Wan, Jinghui Liu, Jinghui Liu, Jinghui Liu, Zhihong Xia, Zhihong Xia, Zhihong Xia   +12 more
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Localized revision and application of assessing indices for regional heavy rainfall events in Hubei Province

暴雨灾害, 2020
Based on the operational provisions of important regional weather event monitoring and evaluation issued by CMA in 2019, in terms of the monitoring and evaluation method for regional heavy rainfall event within, also for being easy to compare the ...
Guoping HONG
doaj   +1 more source

Bayesian retrieval of complete posterior PDFs of oceanic rain rate from microwave observations [PDF]

, 2006
A new Bayesian algorithm for retrieving surface rain rate from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) over the ocean is presented, along with validations against estimates from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR).
Adler, Alishouse, Bauer, Bauer, Cho, Conner, Di Michele, Evans, Grant W. Petty, Houze, Ison, J. Christine Chiu, Jameson, Kedem, Kedem, Kedem, Kummerow, Kummerow, Kummerow, Liebe, Marshall, Marzano, Marzano, Nzeukou, Olson, Olson, Petty, Petty, Sauvageot, Swift, Tassa, Wilheit, Wilks   +32 more
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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Profiles and Cloud Properties by Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers in Central China

Remote Sensing
Thermodynamic and liquid water profiles can be retrieved by a ground-based microwave radiometer (MWR) in nearly all weather conditions, which is useful for detecting mesoscale phenomena.
Guirong Xu
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Evolution Characteristics of Compound Extreme Climate Events in the Yangtze River Basin from 1961 to 2022 [PDF]

长江科学院院报
[Objective] Global warming has exacerbated extreme climate events and their compound hazards, causing increasingly severe impacts on both ecological environments and socioeconomic systems.
XIA Zhi-hong, CHEN Xiao-xiao
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Climate and Land Degradation [PDF]

, 2005
On the occasion of the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has prepared this brochure which explains the role of different climatic factors in land degradation and WMO's contribution in addressing ...

core   +1 more source