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38 Citations
20,036 Views
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6 March 2021

A systematic review of heliobiological studies of the last 25 years devoted to the study of the potential influence of space weather factors on human health and well-being was carried out. We proposed three criteria (coordinates), according to which...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,054 Views
23 Pages

Effect of Synchronization Between Millihertz Geomagnetic Field Variations and Human Heart Rate Oscillations During Strong Magnetic Storms

  • Tatiana A. Zenchenko,
  • Natalia I. Khorseva,
  • Tamara K. Breus,
  • Andrey V. Drozdov and
  • Olga Y. Seraya

15 February 2025

Protecting people with various diseases from the adverse effects of space weather factors requires an understanding of their effects on healthy people who participate in heliobiological research as a ‘control group’. This study aimed to i...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,464 Views
30 Pages

The Space and Terrestrial Weather Variations as Possible Factors for Ischemia Events in Saint Petersburg

  • Olga M. Stupishina,
  • Elena G. Golovina,
  • Sergei N. Noskov,
  • Gennady B. Eremin and
  • Sergei A. Gorbanev

21 December 2021

The Space and Terrestrial Weather (Weather Complex) impact on ischemia cases in Saint Petersburg is investigated. The results show the main feature of the Weather Complex when it was related to the days of the different ischemia situations in the dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Effect of Helio-Geomagnetic Activity in the Geo-Environment and by Extension to Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,605 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2024

This study aimed to investigate the effect of human heart-rate synchronization with variations in the geomagnetic field (GMF) (“biogeophysical synchronization effect”). We analyzed 403 electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings of 100 or 120 min...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Insights into the Effects of Space Weather on Human Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,687 Views
27 Pages

The Status of Space Weather Infrastructure and Research in Africa

  • Paul Baki,
  • Babatunde Rabiu,
  • Christine Amory-Mazaudier,
  • Rolland Fleury,
  • Pierre J. Cilliers,
  • Joseph Adechinan,
  • Anas Emran,
  • Aziza Bounhir,
  • Claudio Cesaroni and
  • Jean-Louis Zerbo
  • + 17 authors

5 December 2023

Space weather science has been a growing field in Africa since 2007. This growth in infrastructure and human capital development has been accompanied by the deployment of ground-based observing infrastructure, most of which was donated by foreign ins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ionospheric and Magnetic Signatures of Space Weather Events at Middle and Low Latitudes: Experimental Studies and Modelling (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,468 Views
11 Pages

Factors Influencing Visitors to Suburban Open Space Areas near a Northern Japanese City

  • Tetsuya Aikoh,
  • Reina Abe,
  • Ryo Kohsaka,
  • Mari Iwata and
  • Yasushi Shoji

12 April 2012

Visitor information often serves as the basis for the management plan of parks. However, there exist few scientific and fundamental surveys for parks and open spaces in Japan. We analyzed the correlation between the number of visitors and the various...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Expanding Forests’ Benefits: Forest-based Recreation and Tourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,327 Views
22 Pages

25 July 2020

It is difficult to comprehensively master and precisely regulate the external factors distribution of automobile weathering in non-uniform thermal environment as well as the consequent disequilibrium weathering problem, while exploring weather-resist...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,541 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2023

This study identifies how weather-related factors affect crash severity and the number of fatalities from roadway crashes. We use pooled cross-section data for weather-related variables from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) an...

(This article belongs to the Collection Accident Prevention and Risk Management for Safe and Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,142 Views
19 Pages

A Multi-Satellite Space Environment Risk Prediction and Real-Time Warning System for Satellite Safety Management

  • Ning Kang,
  • Liguo Zhang,
  • Weiguo Zong,
  • Pan Huang,
  • Yuqiang Zhang,
  • Chen Zhou,
  • Jian Qiao and
  • Bingsen Xue

20 May 2024

In response to the need for a space security situation assessment during orbit, the multi-satellite space environmental risk prediction and early warning system is based on the detection results of the space weather payload of the Fengyun 4A and 4B s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Remote Sensing Satellites to Explore the Electromagnetic Environment and Natural Hazard Disturbances in Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,587 Views
27 Pages

The use of outdoor space is closely related to local microclimate conditions. Some studies have shown that people form perceptual schemata based on their perceptual experience of microclimate conditions, which leads to perceptual bias, so it is neces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,485 Views
21 Pages

31 August 2024

The aging of the population is not only a global challenge, but it is also a major concern in the research on environmental behaviors. Urban green spaces are regarded as crucial for the well-being of the elderly. However, there is still a lack of in-...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,619 Views
15 Pages

Tropical Weathering Effects on Neat Gasoline: An Analytical Study of Volatile Organic Profiles

  • Khairul Osman,
  • Naadiah Ahmad Mazlani,
  • Gina Francesca Gabriel,
  • Noor Hazfalinda Hamzah,
  • Rogayah Abu Hassan,
  • Dzulkiflee Ismail and
  • Wan Nur Syuhaila Mat Desa

Gasoline is the most common ignitable liquid used to initiate fires, making its detection and identification in fire debris crucial for determining incendiary origins. Fire debris is typically collected after extinguishment and safety clearance, ofte...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Methods, Instrumentation and Miniaturization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,473 Views
15 Pages

27 January 2022

Global warming, high temperatures, and heatwave weather are some of the factors affecting human settlement environment health. In high-temperature weather, human production and life are seriously threatened, as long-term exposure to high temperatures...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Comfort in Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,808 Views
18 Pages

Accounting for Climate When Determining the Impact of Weather on Retail Sales

  • Stanko Dimitrov,
  • Régis Y. Chenavaz and
  • Octavio Escobar

11 September 2023

In this paper, we explore the importance of accounting for climate when determining the impact of weather on product sales. Using a France-wide scanner panel dataset provided by our industry partner, we show that if climate is not accounted for, prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,276 Views
23 Pages

Non-Parametric and Robust Sensitivity Analysis of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model in the Tropical Andes Region

  • Jhon E. Hinestroza-Ramirez,
  • Juan David Rengifo-Castro,
  • Olga Lucia Quintero,
  • Andrés Yarce Botero and
  • Angela Maria Rendon-Perez

6 April 2023

With the aim of understanding the impact of air pollution on human health and ecosystems in the tropical Andes region (TAR), we aim to couple the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) with the chemical transport models (CTM) Long-Term Ozone Si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Weather Prediction Models and Ensemble Prediction Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,545 Views
13 Pages

Transmission Lines in Poland and Space Weather Effects

  • Agnieszka Gil,
  • Renata Modzelewska,
  • Szczepan Moskwa,
  • Agnieszka Siluszyk,
  • Marek Siluszyk,
  • Anna Wawrzynczak,
  • Mariusz Pozoga and
  • Sebastian Domijanski

9 May 2020

We analyze the solar influence of space weather events on Polish energy infrastructure via geomagnetic disturbances. We consider two time intervals of very different levels of solar activity (SA) in the course of the solar activity cycle 24: 2010&mda...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,131 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2022

Cosmic rays were discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess in 1912 in a series of balloon experiments performed between 1911 and 1912. Cosmic rays are an integral part of fundamental and applied research in the field of solar–terrestrial...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,810 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2022

The regularity and demand predictions of shared cycling are very necessary and challenging for the management and development of urban pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The bicycle-sharing system has the problem of spatial and temporal demand fluctuati...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,822 Views
16 Pages

8 May 2019

An ionospheric spatial decorrelation is one of the most dominant error factors that affects the availability of safety-critical differential global navigation satellite systems (DGNSS). This is because systems apply significant conservatism on the er...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,161 Views
18 Pages

6 August 2021

Outages in an overhead power distribution system are caused by multiple environmental factors, such as weather, trees, and animal activity. Since they form a major portion of the outages, the ability to accurately estimate these outages is a signific...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,171 Views
19 Pages

In weather radar applications, the Z-R relationship is considered one of the most crucial factors for providing quality quantitative precipitation estimates. However, the relationship’s parameters vary in time and space, making the derivation o...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrological Measurements and Instrumentation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,979 Views
15 Pages

Role of Winter Weather Conditions and Slipperiness on Tourists’ Accidents in Finland

  • Élise Lépy,
  • Sinikka Rantala,
  • Antti Huusko,
  • Pentti Nieminen,
  • Marjo Hippi and
  • Arja Rautio

(1) Background: In Finland, slippery snowy or icy ground surface conditions can be quite hazardous to human health during wintertime. We focused on the impacts of the variability in weather conditions on tourists’ health via documented accidents duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,915 Views
23 Pages

Incident Analysis in Micromobility Spaces at Metro Stations: A Case Study in Valparaíso, Chile

  • Sebastian Seriani,
  • Vicente Aprigliano,
  • Catalina Toro,
  • Gonzalo Rojas,
  • Felipe Gonzalez,
  • Alvaro Peña and
  • Kamalasudhan Achuthan

29 November 2024

This study analyzes passenger incidents in metro stations and their relationship with safety in Valparaiso, Chile. The primary aim is to examine how factors such as station design, passenger flow, and weather conditions influence the frequency and ty...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,657 Views
50 Pages

Uncertainty Introduced by Darkening Agents in the Lunar Regolith: An Unmixing Perspective

  • Marcel Hess,
  • Thorsten Wilhelm,
  • Christian Wöhler and
  • Kay Wohlfarth

21 November 2021

On the Moon, in the near infrared wavelength range, spectral diagnostic features such as the 1-μm and 2-μm absorption bands can be used to estimate abundances of the constituent minerals. However, there are several factors that can darken the o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cartography of the Solar System: Remote Sensing beyond Earth)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,535 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this study was to assess the wellbeing of 248 young Polish adults between 18 and 26 years old (M = 22.35; SD = 2.20) involved in adventure blue space recreational activities. The adventure water recreational activities were measured by usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,412 Views
18 Pages

Morphophysiology, Productivity and Quality of Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) cv. Merlin in Response to Row Spacing and Seeding Systems

  • Marta Jańczak-Pieniążek,
  • Jan Buczek,
  • Dorota Bobrecka-Jamro,
  • Ewa Szpunar-Krok,
  • Renata Tobiasz-Salach and
  • Wacław Jarecki

23 February 2021

The appropriate row spacing and sowing density of soybeans are the basic non-input and pro-environmental agrotechnical factors. The optimal spacing of plants in the field can be crucial in terms of reducing competition between plants for water, nutri...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,761 Views
23 Pages

17 September 2023

In humid subtropical areas, outdoor sports activities in winter and spring are very common. However, there is minimal research surrounding this topic, especially in terms of thermal comfort. This study explored the complex relationship between microc...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,756 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2021

We investigate a target detection probability (TDP) using path loss of an airborne radar based on air-to-air scenarios in anomalous atmospheric and weather environments. In the process of calculating the TDP, it is necessary to obtain the overall pat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies for Earth Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
512 Views
32 Pages

25 April 2026

The development of metro-led urban underground public spaces (UUPSs) provides urban residents with extensive pedestrian-friendly activity areas sheltered from rain, snow, strong winds, and other extreme weather conditions. Although an increasing numb...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,518 Views
17 Pages

14 November 2019

Weather conditions are among the major factors leading to the increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from the agricultural soils. In this study, variations in the soil GHG fluxes with precipitation and soil temperatures at different elevation ranges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,300 Views
14 Pages

Performance Analysis of Hybrid PDM-SAC-OCDMA-Enabled FSO Transmission Using ZCC Codes

  • Ammar Armghan,
  • Meshari Alsharari,
  • Khaled Aliqab,
  • Mehtab Singh and
  • Somia A. Abd El-Mottaleb

23 February 2023

The need for a high-speed transmission network has become essential due to the exponential increase in traffic. In this paper, a free-space-optics (FSO) link modelled by integrating two multiplexing techniques, i.e., spectral amplitude coding-optical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments, Emerging Trends and Technologies for Optical Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,668 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2025

Environmental sustainability and resilience have become urgent priorities in contemporary urban planning as cities confront the disruptive impacts of climate change, extreme weather, and global health crises. Within this framework, university campuse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Analysis and Spatial Planning for Sustainability in Urban Areas)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,000 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2024

Fractures are the main reservoir space in basement weathering crusts and control the development of dissolution/alteration pores. A clear understanding of the main factors controlling fracture formation is needed to accurately predict reservoir chara...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
17,629 Views
24 Pages

Small Area and Individual Level Predictors of Physical Activity in Urban Communities: A Multi-Level Study in Stoke on Trent, England

  • Thomas Cochrane,
  • Rachel C. Davey,
  • Chris Gidlow,
  • Graham R. Smith,
  • Jon Fairburn,
  • Christopher J. Armitage,
  • Hilde Stephansen and
  • Svetlana Speight

Reducing population physical inactivity has been declared a global public health priority. We report a detailed multi-level analysis of small area indices and individual factors as correlates of physical activity in deprived urban areas. Multi-level...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Health: Feature Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,828 Views
19 Pages

20 October 2020

The requirement for energy is increasing worldwide as populations and economies develop. Reasons for this increase include global warming, climate change, an increase in electricity demand, and paucity of fossil fuels. Therefore, research in renewabl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Solar Thermal Energy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,788 Views
55 Pages

31 October 2022

Increased capacity, higher data rate, decreased latency, and better service quality are examples of the primary objectives or needs that must be catered to in the near future, i.e., fifth-generation (5G) and beyond. To fulfil these needs, cellular ne...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,449 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2018

With the acceleration of urbanisation and industrialisation, atmospheric particulate pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems in China. In this study, green spaces in Baoji city were classified into different patterns on th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Quality in China: Past, Present and Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,003 Views
15 Pages

1 January 2025

During extreme space weather events, transient geomagnetic disturbances initiated by solar eruptive activities can induce geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), which have severe impacts on power grid systems and oil/gas pipelines. Observations ind...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,448 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2023

This review paper discusses the effect of polymers, especially thermoplastics, in environments with low earth orbits. Space weather in terms of low earth orbits has been characterized into seven main elements, namely microgravity, residual atmosphere...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characterization and Modelling of Composites, Volume III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,128 Views
26 Pages

Insights into the Weathering Crust Reservoirs of Granitoids: A Case Study from Qinghai Oilfield of Qaidam Basin, Northwest China

  • Xiaoqin Jiao,
  • Huapeng Niu,
  • Qingbin Xie,
  • Massimiliano Zattin,
  • Yongshu Zhang,
  • Zhixiong Wu,
  • Yuhe Chen,
  • Xian Zhao,
  • Shan Liu and
  • Xinhong Wei

23 December 2022

With proven reserves of 9.836 × 1010 m3, the largest known natural gas reservoir among terrigenous basement rocks has been discovered within the granitoids of the northern Qaidam Basin. Due to their high heterogeneity, the genesis of basement r...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,834 Views
33 Pages

How to Get the Best from Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors: Guidelines and Practical Recommendations

  • Erika Brattich,
  • Alessandro Bracci,
  • Alessandro Zappi,
  • Pietro Morozzi,
  • Silvana Di Sabatino,
  • Federico Porcù,
  • Francesca Di Nicola and
  • Laura Tositti

29 May 2020

Low-cost sensors based on the optical particle counter (OPC) are increasingly being used to collect particulate matter (PM) data at high space and time resolution. In spite of their huge explorative potential, practical guidelines and recommendations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Particulate Matter and Air Pollution)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,205 Views
37 Pages

12 March 2022

The smart use of water is a key factor in increasing food production. Over the years, irrigation has relied on historical data and traditional management policies. Control techniques have been exploited to build automatic irrigation systems based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Irrigation Strategies for Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,270 Views
27 Pages

The Optimization of Maize Intercropped Agroforestry Systems by Changing the Fertilizing Level and Spacing Between Tree Lines

  • Zibuyile Dlamini,
  • Ágnes Kun,
  • Béla Gombos,
  • Mihály Zalai,
  • Ildikó Kolozsvári,
  • Mihály Jancsó,
  • Beatrix Bakti and
  • László Menyhárt

8 January 2026

Agroforestry is defined as a multifunctional approach to land management that enhances biodiversity and soil health while mitigating environmental impacts compared to intensive agriculture. The efficacy of maize cultivation in agroforestry systems is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Land Management: Innovations and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,531 Views
15 Pages

Periodic traffic prediction and analysis is essential for urbanisation and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). However, traffic prediction is challenging due to the nonlinear flow of traffic and its interdependencies on spatiotemporal features....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,053 Views
28 Pages

24 December 2023

At a time of rising urbanisation and climate change, urban green spaces (UGSs) are an essential element to help adapt to extreme weather events. Especially in urban core areas, heat and drought are regarded as human stress factors. The delineation of...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,145 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2018

In order to improve the accuracy of wind power prediction (WPP), we propose a WPP based on multivariate phase space reconstruction (MPSR) and multivariate linear regression (MLR). Firstly, the multivariate time series (TS) are constructed through rea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,469 Views
14 Pages

Basement Reservoirs in China: Distribution and Factors Controlling Hydrocarbon Accumulation

  • Qixia Lyu,
  • Weiming Wang,
  • Qingchun Jiang,
  • Haifeng Yang,
  • Hai Deng,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Qingguo Liu and
  • Tingting Li

9 August 2023

The oil reserves of global basement reservoirs are 248 × 108 t and natural gas reserves are 2681 × 108 m3; they are crucial links in the future oil and natural gas exploration field and play an irreplaceable role in increasing oil and nat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,071 Views
17 Pages

Optimal Control of a Virtual Power Plant by Maximizing Conditional Value-at-Risk

  • Whei-Min Lin,
  • Chung-Yuen Yang,
  • Zong-Yo Wu and
  • Ming-Tang Tsai

23 August 2021

This research acquired data from the Central Weather Bureau Observation Data Inquiry System (CODIS) for historical weather information, such as observation time, temperature, humidity, wind speed, global radiation, etc., and constructed a historical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,650 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2023

Nearly 100 million tons of reserves have been explored in the Well 471 area of the Hongche Fault zone. The Carboniferous volcanic rock reservoir is the main oil-bearing reservoir in the well CH471 area and is the main target of exploration and develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,634 Views
20 Pages

20 September 2022

In recent years, the THz frequency band (0.3 THz–10 THz) has attracted an increasing research interest for the realization of emerging high-speed wireless communication links. Nevertheless, the propagation of THz signals through the atmospheric...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)

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