Eight current re-analyses—NCEP/NCAR Re-analysis (NCEPI), NCEP/DOE Re-analysis (NCEPII), NCEP Climate Forecast System Re-analysis (CFSR), ECMWF Interim Re-analysis (ERA-Interim), Japanese 55-year Re-analysis (JRA-55), NASA Modern-Era Retrospecti...
The re-analysis of nondiagnostic exome sequencing (ES) has the potential to increase diagnostic yields in individuals with rare diseases, but its implementation in the daily routines of laboratories is limited due to restricted capacities. Here, we d...
This study systematically examines the global uncertainties and biases in the carbon dioxide (CO2) mixing ratio provided by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). The global greenhouse gas re-analysis (EGG4) data product from the Europe...
Dietary fiber shapes both gut microbial community structure and the fermentable substrates available to resident taxa, yet how fiber deprivation reshapes taxonomic representation and predicted functional potential remains incompletely resolved. We pe...
A method to estimate air density as a function of elevation for wind energy resource assessments is presented. The current practice of using nearby measurements of pressure and temperature is compared with a method that uses re-analysis data. It is f...
In this paper, a novel re-engineering mechanism for the generation of word embeddings is proposed for document-level sentiment analysis. Current approaches to sentiment analysis often integrate feature engineering with classification, without optimiz...
In this article, we examine a specific type of Wh-Doubling (WhD) that can be observed in some Northern Lombard varieties. Differently from all the previous types of WhD described for Lombard and other Northern Italo-Romance varieties, in the phenomen...
This paper presents performance analysis results on supercritical carbon dioxide (
The association between a common PRSS1-PRSS2 haplotype and alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP), which was revealed by the first genome-wide association study of chronic pancreatitis (CP), has been consistently replicated. However, the association wi...
The atmospheric molecular number density can be obtained from atmospheric temperature and pressure profiles and is a significant input parameter for the inversion of lidar measurements. When measurements of vertical profiles of temperature and pressu...
Autonomous driving technology requires rigorous testing and validation of perception, decision-making, and control algorithms to ensure safety and reliability. Although existing simulators and testing tools play critical roles in algorithm evaluation...
Large proportions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are family controlled and play an important role not only in the development of many national economies, but also have great potential to reduce negative effects of human activities on th...
Dead standing trees (DSTs) generally decompose slower than wood in contact with the forest floor. In many regions, DSTs are being created at an increasing rate due to accelerating tree mortality caused by climate change. Therefore, factors determinin...
The wintertime outbreaks of Saharan dust, increasing in intensity and frequency over the last decade, have become an important component of the global dust cycle and a challenging issue in elucidating its feedback to the ongoing climate change. For t...
This study proposes a CO2 re-liquefaction system utilizing the cold energy of LNG and liquid hydrogen (LH2) to efficiently manage boil-off gas in alternative fuel-based CO2 carriers. Process simulations using Aspen HYSYS V11 under 100% and 70% propul...
Objective: This study aimed to assess the potential of PARP inhibitors to prevent cardiotoxicity. Methods: First, a re-analysis and update of a previously published study was conducted. Additional searches were conducted of the PubMed and Cochrane Ce...
Wind speed data derived from reanalysis datasets has been used in the plan and design of wind farms in China, but the quality of these kinds of data over China remains unknown. In this study, the performances of five sets of reanalysis data, includin...
This research aims to describe the synoptic and general circulation environment in which Eta developed using the ERA5 reanalysis; design experiments with the WRF model; and describe, from the numerical outputs, the meteorological conditions that infl...
10 October 2019
Behavioral variables might play an important role in explaining the differences in injury rates across winter sport disciplines and injury prevention programs might be more specifically designed based on this knowledge. On ski slopes, alpine skiing,...
Molecular diagnosis is highly sensitive to the human genome assembly used in a bioinformatics pipeline. Panels designed on GRCh37 (hg19) inherit its exon annotation, whereas transcript standards and interpretation databases are anchored to GRCh38 (hg...
Rare diseases impact the lives of 300 million people in the world. Rapid advances in bioinformatics and genomic technologies have enabled the discovery of causes of 20–30% of rare diseases. However, most rare diseases have remained as unsolved...
(1) Background: The basophil activation test (BAT) is a functional whole blood-based ex vivo assay to quantify basophil activation after allergen exposure by flow cytometry. One of the most important prerequisites for the use of the BAT in the routin...
Land abandonment and the subsequent re-forestation are important drivers behind the loss of ecosystem services in mountain regions. Agent-based models can help to identify global change impacts on farmland abandonment and can test policy and manageme...
This study aims to assess the accuracy of the reference evapotranspiration (ET0) estimated by CLDAS, ERA5 reanalysis products, and the quality of reanalysis weather variables required to calculate PM-ET0. For this purpose, the applicability of surfac...
The presented study illustrates the use of photoelasticity as an effective tool for validating the results of finite element method (FEM) simulations of auxetic structures. This research focuses on comparing stress distributions in planar auxetic mod...
Several vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, are sensitive to climate and weather conditions. When unusual conditions prevail, for example, during periods of heavy rainfall, mosquito populations can multiply and trigger epidemics. This study, whic...
Attention should always be given to which reanalysis dataset to use when preparing analysis for a project. The accuracies of three reanalysis datasets, two global (ERA5 and MERRA-2) and one high-resolution regional reanalysis (MÉRA), are assessed by...
The Beijing Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration (BCC/CMA) has developed a gauge-satellite-model merged gridded daily precipitation dataset with complete global coverage, called BCC Merged Estimation of Precipitation (BMEP). Usin...
We have produced a global ensemble mean of the four third-generation climate reanalysis models for the years 1981–2010. The reanalysis system models used in this study are National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast Sy...
Structural reanalysis methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of structural analysis. However, the methods are typically only applicable to their specific type of structural modification. Since the optimization process often involves mul...
Sea surface salinity (SSS) is one of the Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) as defined by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Acquiring high-quality SSS datasets with high spatial-temporal resolution is crucial for research on the hydrologica...
Continuous satellite-derived cloud records now extend over three decades, and are increasingly used for climate applications. Certain applications, such as trend detection, require a clear understanding of uncertainty as it relates to establishing st...
1 September 2019
Reducing social inequalities in physical activity (PA) has become a priority for public health. However, evidence concerning the impact of interventions on inequalities in PA is scarce. This study aims to develop and test the application of a strateg...
The Pacific Walker circulation (PWC) is one of the most important components of large-scale tropical atmospheric circulations. The PWC and its influences have been studied extensively by numerical models and reanalysis. The newly released ERA5 and NC...
Performance plays a critical role in the practical use of global streamflow reanalysis. This paper presents the combined use of random forest and the Shapley additive explanation to examine the mechanism by which catchment attributes influence the ac...
Reanalysis datasets can provide alternative and complementary meteorological data sources for hydrological studies or other scientific studies in regions with few gauge stations. This study evaluated the accuracy of two reanalysis datasets, the China...
Precipitation serves as a crucial indicator of climate change and a vital part of the water cycle in mountainous regions. ERA5-Land, a cutting-edge global reanalysis dataset designed for land applications, has been extensively utilized in climate-rel...
This study validates the hourly satellite based and reanalysis based global horizontal irradiance (GHI) for sites in South Africa. Hourly GHI satellite based namely: SOLCAST, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), and Satellite Application...
The structure of the equatorial atmospheric circulation, as defined by the zonal mass streamfunction (ZMS), computed using the new fifth-generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather (ERA-5) and the National Centers for Environmental...
In recent years, several studies have evaluated the potential of renewable energy sources in response to climate change and high energy demand. Due to its equatorial location and significant solar and wind potential, Brazil has incorporated alternati...
At present, the global reliability and accuracy of Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) from different reanalysis products have not been comprehensively evaluated. In this study, PWV values derived by 268 Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) stations...
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In the last thirty years, Synthetic Aperture Radar interferometry (InSAR) and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) have become fundamental space geodetic techniques for mapping surface deformations due to tectonic movements. One major limiti...
Reanalysis datasets provide a reliable reanalysis of climate input data for hydrological models in regions characterized by limited weather station coverage. In this paper, the accuracy of precipitation, the maximum and minimum temperatures of four r...
This study evaluates three wind data sources in East Iceland’s coastal environment: the high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based Sentinel-1, the regional reanalysis Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA), and the global reana...
The scarcity of in situ observation stations and the unreliability of long-term satellite data necessitate the use of reanalysis datasets to study elevation-dependent climate change (EDCC) in the third pole (TP) region. We analyzed elevation-dependen...
Reanalysis products are often taken as an alternative solution to observational weather and climate data due to availability and accessibility problems, particularly in data-sparse regions such as Africa. Proper evaluation of their strengths and weak...
Surface air temperature is a critical element in the surface–atmosphere interaction, energy exchange, and water cycle. Multi-source fusion reanalysis products (hereafter referred to as reanalysis) have spatiotemporal continuity and broad applic...
Accurate estimation of tropospheric delay is significant for global navigation satellite system’s (GNSS) high-precision navigation and positioning. However, due to the random and contingent changes in weather conditions and water vapor factors,...
Understanding East Asian monsoon (EAM) has been a crucial issue due to its socio-economic effects on one-fifth of the world’s population and its interactions with the global climate system. However, the reliabilities of climate reanalysis data...
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