Convective weather, through its heavy showers, strong winds and hail, significantly impacts human activities, having the potential to inflict serious damage on social and environmental sectors. Limited research has been conducted on this phenomenon w...
Accurate weather-regime classification is increasingly important for climate-sensitive decision-making in agriculture, aviation, disaster preparedness, and territorial planning, particularly in regions where strong climatic heterogeneity complicates...
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is one of the most prominent and widely accepted forecasting tools for flight planning. The reliability of this instrument is crucial for its practical applicability, and its quality may further affect the overal...
Rapid growth in connected devices, artificial intelligence applications, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is driving demand for ultra-high data rates, low latency, and energy-efficient communication infrastructure. Wireless optical communication (WOC...
Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs) and long TAFs are issued by forecasters in the Hellenic National Meteorological Service for the upcoming 9 or 24 h respectively, for all airports to aid in flight planning. The most important predicted parameters a...
The latest improvements in infrared detectors enable the use of infrared thermography in many applications for outdoor temperature measurements through a low cost and easy to maintain solution. However, converting the radiative fluxes received by the...
At the molecular level, response to an external factor or an internal condition causes reprogramming of temporal and spatial transcription. When an organism undergoes physiological and/or morphological changes, several signaling pathways are activate...
Although cloud base height is a relevant variable for many applications, including aviation, it is not routinely monitored by current geostationary satellites. This is probably a consequence of the difficulty of providing reliable estimations of the...
In this study, the influence of an extraordinary Saharan dust episode over Turkey on 23–24 March 2016 and the atmospheric conditions that triggered this event were evaluated in detail. PM10 (particulate matter less than 10 μm) observations from 97 ai...
Meteorological conditions significantly affect air traffic safety and can also affect a pre-planned flight plan. Difficult meteorological conditions are particularly hazardous during take-off and landing procedures. Still, they can also cause disrupt...
The design of graded and multifunctional lattice cores is driven by the increasing demand for high-performance components in lightweight engineering. This trend benefits from significant achievements in additive manufacturing, where the lattice core...
In the packaging industry, corrugated boards are widely used due to many factors like biodegradability, a high strength-to-weight ratio, and also ease of manufacturing. In this study, the finite element analysis of corrugated cardboards under the fla...
Weather events have a significant impact on airport performance and cause delayed operations if the airport capacity is constrained. We provide quantification of the individual airport performance with regards to an aggregated weather-performance met...
Recently, artificial intelligence and data science have witnessed dramatic progress and rapid growth, especially Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Consequently, new end...
Clouds are crucial in regulating the Earth’s energy budget. Global cloud top heights have been easily retrieved from satellite measurements, but there are few methods for determining cloud base height (CBH) from satellite measurements. The Clou...
Fog and low stratus (FLS) are meteorological phenomena that have a significant impact on all ways of transportation and public safety. Due to their similarity, they are often grouped together as a single category when viewed from a satellite perspect...
An analysis of 17 years of half-hourly aeronautic observations (METAR) and special observations (SPECI) in the three international airports of mainland Portugal indicates strong variations in fog properties. Fog is a rare event at Faro, a winter phen...
The prediction of fog is a challenging task in operational weather forecast. Due to its dependency on small-scale processes, numerical weather models struggle to deal with under scale features, resulting in uncertainties in the fog forecast. Unawaren...
The accurate prediction of atmospheric low-visibility events due to fog, haze or atmospheric pollution is an extremely important problem, with major consequences for transportation systems, and with alternative applications in agriculture, forest eco...
This study conducts a detailed 23-year analysis of Density Altitude (DA) at 34 major airports across China, utilizing Meteorological Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) datasets, and discovers significant regional DA variations due to the country...
Few-shot knowledge graph (KG) completion is challenged by the dynamic and long-tail nature of real-world KGs, where only a handful of relation-specific triples are available for each new relation. Existing methods often over-rely on neighbor informat...
In this study, the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)—Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) High Resolution Visible channel (HRV) is used in synergy with the narrow band MSG-SEVIRI channels for daytime fog detection. A new algorithm, n...
This study investigated advancements in atmospheric forecasting by integrating real-time observational data into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model through the WRF-Data Assimilation (WRF-DA) framework. By refining atmospheric models, we...
Forecasting in-flight icing conditions is crucial for aviation safety, particularly in regions with variable and complex meteorological configurations, such as Greece. Icing accretion onto the aircraft’s surfaces is influenced by the presence o...
The availability and intensity of sunlight are among the major factors of growth, development and metabolism in plants. However, excessive illumination disrupts the electronic balance of photosystems and leads to the accumulation of reactive oxygen s...
Climate change (CC) is widely recognized as a major human concern, affecting society across all aspects and activities. Among various economic sectors, aviation is one of the most affected due to its exposure to adverse weather events. Consequently,...
Parabolic trough collector (PTC) systems, often deployed in arid regions, are vulnerable to dust accumulation (soiling), which reduces mirror reflectivity and energy output. This study presents a physically based soiling forecast algorithm (SFA) desi...
Dust storms represent one of the most severe, if underrated, natural hazards in drylands. This study uses ground observational data from meteorological stations and airports (SYNOP and METARs), satellite observations (MODIS level-3 gridded atmosphere...
This study examines the impact of wind/gust speed conditions on airside traffic flows at vertiports in the context of on-demand urban air mobility based on the Vertidrome Airside Level of Service Framework. A wind-dependent operational concept introd...
The ultraviolet radiation index (UV index–UVI) is a dimensionless indicator that informs the intensity of ultraviolet radiation on the Earth’s surface. It makes it easier for people to assess UV levels and understand how to protect themse...
Fog has a substantial influence on various ecosystems and it impacts economy, traffic systems and human life in many ways. In order to be able to deal with the large number of influence factors, a spatially explicit high-resoluted data set of fog fre...
Flight distance is consequential but often simplified in aviation carbon inventories. Using 269,408 paired flights at Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG) in 2023, this study compares distances corrected using the International Civil Aviatio...
The gut microbiome plays a critical role in training adaptation and athletic performance. Athletes exhibit elevated gut microbial α-diversity and enrichment of short-chain fatty acid (SCFA)-producing genera, although these associations may be c...
Fog is a major aviation hazard that reduces visibility and disrupts airport operations. This study presents the first integrated assessment of fog climatology, operational forecast evaluation, and meteorological controls at King Fahd International Ai...
The increased number of severe weather events caused by global warming in recent years is a major turbulence factor for airport operation and results in more irregular flights. Quantifying the system response status towards turbulence is critical, in...
Objectives: Metatarsalgia continues to be a problem in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in remission (remRA), as well as in the non-rheumatic population, with a mechanical origin. Identify and compare clinical, morphological, disability, synov...
Reduction in visibility (Vis) due to fog is one of the deadliest severe weather hazards affecting aviation and public transportation. Nowcasting/forecasting of Vis reduction due to fog using current models is still problematic, with most using some t...