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Dangerous Weather Phenomena in Europe in The Year 2000 and their Dependence on Circulation
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2006 In the paper the influence of atmospheric circulation on selected dangerous weather phenomena in Europe in the year 2000 has been presented. Dangerous weather phenomena include: 30 days with thunderstorms in Poland and 26 examples of such phenomena in ...
Grabowska Katarzyna
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Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how salient sustainability risks from near‐miss natural disasters influence board composition. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, I find that firms located in counties neighboring disaster‐affected areas significantly increase the presence of directors with sustainability expertise following the disaster.
Bo Wang
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Effectiveness of windstorm-producing thunderstorms early warning issues in Peninsular Malaysia [PDF]
, 2015 The study is intended to evaluate the accuracy of windstorm-producing thunderstorms issued warning by Malaysia Meteorological Department (METMalaysia) in Peninsular Malaysia.
Bachok, Mohd. Fairuz +2 more
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Multi‐year occupancy and habitat use in a threatened butterfly reintroduced onto a restored peatland
Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Over half of insect species reintroductions are unsuccessful, frequently because of insufficient habitat resources and a knowledge‐gap regarding the target species habitat requirements. Multi‐season occupancy models, seldom used with invertebrates, offer the opportunity to disentangle the effects of habitat suitability and ...
Andrew W. Osborne +4 more
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, 2000 This section of the Windows to the Universe site offers information, images and illustrations of thunderstorm development cycle and types of thunderstorms.
Roberta Johnson
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Pre‐tactical convection prediction for air traffic flow management using LSTM neural network
Meteorological ApplicationsThis paper aims to explore machine learning techniques for post‐processing high‐resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) products for the early detection of convection.
Aniel Jardines +4 more
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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer +2 more
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North by East piece on hail and thunderstorms in Maine.
, 1997 North by East piece on hail and thunderstorms in ...
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The ‘lactate paradox’ revisited after 35 years: In memoriam Paolo Cerretelli
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Some decades ago significant scientific interest was raised by the concept of the ‘lactate paradox’ occurring during altitude acclimatization. In short, in acute hypoxia blood lactate− concentration ([La]b) is higher, compared to normoxia, at any given submaximal work rate, whereas peak [La]b at exhausting exercise is unchanged.
Bruno Grassi
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The link between cereal thrips and thunderstorms
, 2004 Across much of northern Europe, there is a traditional link between thunderstorms and the mass appearance of thrips migrating from cereal crops. The link is reflected in the common names for thrips in seven countries.
Kirk, W. D. J., W. Kirk
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