Effective representation of precipitation inputs is one of the essential components in hydrological model structures, especially when gauge measurements for the modelled catchment are sparse. Assessment of the impact of precipitation pre-processing i...
This study presents a pre-processing approach adopted for the radar reflectivity data assimilation and results of simulations with the Harmonie numerical weather prediction model. The proposed method creates a 3D regular grid in which a horizontal si...
Glaciers and snowmelt supply the Naryn and Karadarya rivers, and about 70% of the water available for the irrigated agriculture in the Ferghana Valley. Nineteen smaller catchments contribute the remaining water mainly from annual precipitation. The l...
Drought is a prolonged period of low precipitation that negatively impacts agriculture, animals, and people. Over the last decades, gradual changes in drought indices have been observed. Therefore, understanding and forecasting drought is essential t...
Global warming is inevitably the cause of local climate change, which will have a profound impact on regional ecology, especially in the desertified steppe and steppefied desert transition zones with fragile ecological environments. In order to inves...
Although cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds are the main source of precipitation in south China, the relationship between Cb cloud characteristics and precipitation remains unclear. Accordingly, the primary objective of this study was to thoroughly analyze the...
Anthropogenic activities and natural climate changes are the central driving forces of global ecosystems and agriculture changes. Climate changes, such as rainfall and temperature changes, have had the greatest impact on different types of plant prod...
Accurate precipitation prediction can help plan for different water resources management demands and provide an extension of lead-time for the tactical and strategic planning of courses of action. This paper examines the applicability of several fore...
This study addresses the challenge of utilizing incomplete long-term discharge data when using gridded precipitation datasets and data-driven modeling in Iran’s Karkheh basin. The Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN), a rainfall-runoff...
Background: This research aimed to compare the traditional in-solution digestion (inSol) and solid-phase-enhanced sample preparation (SP3) methods for salivary proteomics, with a focus on identifying mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS)-relevant proteins. Met...
In the present work, different aging treatments were performed to investigate the pre-aging effect on the formation of Ω phase and mechanical properties in Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy. The results showed that pre-strain could inhibit the formation of &Om...
Polygonati Rhizoma is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with complex pre-processing steps. Fermentation is a common method for processing TCM to reduce herb toxicity and enhance their properties and/or produce new effects. Here, in thi...
Precipitation in any form—such as rain, snow, and hail—can affect day-to-day outdoor activities. Rainfall prediction is one of the challenging tasks in weather forecasting process. Accurate rainfall prediction is now more difficult than b...
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) is related to China’s ecological security and the improvement of ecological environment; thus, the vegetation’s response to climate changes in IMAR has become an important part of current global cha...
Pre-aging precipitates in 2024 Al alloy re-dissolved during rolling, and Mg and Cu atoms were enriched in the dislocation structure to form “precipitate embryo”, which is beneficial for the formation of second phase during the subsequent natural agin...
The effects of pre-stretching on creep behavior, mechanical properties and microstructure during the creep aging process of Al-Cu-Li alloy were investigated. AA2195 was taken as the representative of Al-Cu-Li alloys. It is found that the total creep...
In this paper, the effect of thermomechanical treatment process on the hardening behavior, grain microstructure, precipitated phase, and tensile mechanical properties of the new high-strength and high-ductility Al-10.0Zn-3.0Mg-2.8Cu alloy was studied...
Pre-stretching was carried out to modify the microstructure of Mg-Nd-Zn-Zr alloy to enhance its age strengthening. The results indicated that more heterogeneous nucleation sites can be provided by the high density of dislocations caused by the plasti...
This study significantly enhances the mechanical properties of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy through the implementation of a pre-aging process. By optimizing the microstructure of the Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy with different pre-aging treatments, the evolution of the...
The microstructure, high-temperature tensile properties and fracture behavior of the Mg-10Gd-5Y-0.5Zr alloy after thermo-mechanical processing (pre-tension between solution and aging treatment) were investigated. The pre-deformed alloy shows the acce...
This study introduces a systematic methodology whereby different technologies were utilized to download, pre-process, and interactively compare the rainfall datasets from the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Mission (IME...
Currently, Al-Li alloys have been widely concerned in the aerospace and other fields due to their excellent comprehensive mechanical properties. However, the limitation of the long thermomechanical treatment still needs further improvement. Therefore...
In the present study, different solid solution and aging processes of as-cast and as-compressed ZM6 (Mg2.6Nd0.4Zn0.4Zr) alloy were designed, and the microstructure and precipitation strengthening mechanisms were discussed. After the pre-aging treatme...
By utilizing thermodynamic calculations, the possible removal path of spent lead-acid battery electrolytes was modeled. The process was divided into precipitation and carbonation processes. In the carbonation process, two scenarios were discussed, na...
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the extent to which a combination of pre-deformation and aging procedures could enhance the corrosion and wear resistance of the Ti-15Mo alloy for biomedical materials. The initial grains were refine...
The residual stress generated in a superalloy during heat treatment affects the subsequent processing of the workpiece and may even adversely affect its performance. This paper investigates the effects of pre-stretching (in the range from 0% to 9%) b...
In order to ascertain the mechanical properties and fracture performance of AA6016 aluminum sheets after cold forming and heat treatment processes, uniaxial tensile tests and fracture tests were conducted under various pre-strain conditions and heat...
A landslide susceptibility assessment is one of the critical steps in planning for landslide disaster prevention. Advanced machine learning methods can be used as data-driven approaches for landslide susceptibility zonation with several landslide con...
This study explored the impact of Hot Forming–Quenching (HFQ) and heat treatment processes on the mechanical properties of AA6016 sheets. The experimental findings demonstrated that at high-temperature pre-straining (HT-PS) of 15%, the strength...
The influences of aging treatments on microstructures and the corrosion properties of an Al–Cu–Li alloy were investigated through an immersion test in intergranular corrosion (IGC) solutions, a potentiodynamic polarization test, and elect...
The main purpose of this study is to explore the runoff generation mechanism and isotopic variation of precipitation during typhoon and plum rain events in the mountainous region mainly covered with bamboo in southeastern China. The isotopic value of...
In South China, the large quantity of rainfall in the pre-summer rainy season can easily lead to natural disasters, which emphasizes the importance of improving the accuracy of precipitation forecasting during this period for the social and economic...
Wildfires pose significant threats to tropical ecosystems, yet, fire precursors in these regions are not well understood. This study conducts a statistical analysis of fire precursors in the tropical area of Antioquia, Colombia, using remote sensing...
This study proposes a modified vegetation-dependent temperature-vegetation dryness index (TVDI) model for analyzing regional drought disasters in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region (BTHMR) of China. First, MODIS monthly normalized differen...
The clinical success of dental titanium implants is profoundly linked to implant stability and osseointegration, which comprises pre-osteoblast proliferation, osteogenic differentiation, and extracellular mineralization. Because of the bio-inert natu...
The present study investigates the significance of pre-strain on the T6 aging behavior of an Al 7075 alloy for evaluating the applicability of hot stamping. In practice, the alloy was pre-strained up to 15% during solution heat treatment at 480 °C pr...
The influence of pre-stretch on the mechanical properties of 2219 Al alloys sheets were systematically investigated, with the aim of examining the age-strengthening in parts draw-formed from as-quenched sheets. The precipitation was characterized bas...
In this paper, hot rolling pre-deformation treatment was applied to an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy after solid solution treatment, followed by peak aging treatment. The effect of the degree of deformation was discussed. The microstructure of the alloy after tr...
In order to obtain fine grained structure efficiently, a new multi-step rolling process (MSR: pre-deformation + intermediate annealing + hot deformation) was applied in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu plates. Conventional hot rolling (CHR) was also carried out as a cont...
In view of the current situation wherein acid resources and valuable components in titanium dioxide waste acid cannot be effectively extracted and are prone to secondary pollution, our research team proposed a new technique consisting of step extract...
In this work, the effect of double-ageing heat treatments on the microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour of a metastable β-titanium Ti-3.5Al-5Mo-4V alloy is investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) a...
A pre-hot-deformation process was applied for a polycrystalline nickel-base superalloy to active deformation twins and dislocations, and subsequent slow cooling treatment was used to achieve grain refinement and microstructure homogenization. The mic...
Further improving the corrosion resistance of the ASTM Grade 13 (Gr13) titanium alloy was achieved by manipulating the cathodic modification effect. The cathodic modification of Gr13 was mainly related to the Ti2Ni precipitate, where minor Ru was con...
The isotopic composition of precipitation provides valuable information about its source and transportation. However, raindrops interact with vegetation before reaching the earth’s surface, leading to isotopic changes in the infiltrating water....
In the present study, the influence of the initial heat-treatment conditions on the artificial aging behavior after conventional linear extrusion at room temperature was investigated for the precipitation hardening of a 6056 aluminum alloy. A solutio...
In order to obtain the optimal heat treatment process of Er-containing 7075 aluminum alloy, the effects of pre-stretching and the interval time between pre-stretching and aging on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Er-containing 7075 alu...
Fengyun-3G (FY-3G), successfully launched on 16 April 2023, is China’s first and the third in the world satellite dedicated to precipitation measurement. In this study, the reflectivity factors of the FY-3G satellite Precipitation Measurement R...
Clay authigenesis mostly concerns: (a) the formation of clays by direct precipitation from solution, called “neoformation” and (b) development of clays by transformation of precursor minerals. Precipitation from solution implies that a new mineral st...
High-concentration polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) wastewater from 3D printing applications presents significant treatment challenges due to PVA’s water solubility, chemical stability, and resistance to biodegradation. In this study, we investigated th...
A study of the effect of rotary swaging (RS) on the microstructure and properties of the pre-extruded and pre-quenched Cu-0.5%Cr-0.08%Zr alloy was performed. RS leads to the formation of an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure. UFG structure format...
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