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rain, etc ; activated sludge; microplastics; wastewater treatment; water quality; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) has great potential to regulate microplastics (MPs) emissions, but few studies have focused on this subject. The present study performed a long-term investigation in a typically combined sewers WWTP. Compared to dry weather, rainfall contributed approximately 1.5 times more MPs to the inlet of the combined WWTP. The equalization tank served as a primary site for M ...
rain, etc ; aerosols; air pollution; case studies; dust; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Fugitive road dust (FRD) contributes a great deal to urban rainwater and air pollution and is commonly controlled by water-sprinkling in most Chinese cities. However, there is a lack of information on its effectiveness. We used the Testing Re-entrained Aerosol Kinetic Emissions from Roads (TRAKER) method to monitor different types of roads in Baoding city before and within 1 hr after water-sprinkl ...
rain, etc ; altitude; basins; case studies; models; snow; snowmelt; soil water; spring; summer; temperature; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Shallow landslides (SLs) are rapid soil mass movements, typically occurring in the mountain areas, involving the most superficial soil layers up to 5 to 10 m in depth. Damages, and casualties due to shallow landslides are recorded globally, and in literature a variety of models to study landslides have been implemented hitherto. Often times, shallow landslides occur in the wake of snowfall events, ...
rain intensity, etc ; climate change; climatic factors; cost effectiveness; green roofs; model validation; storms; stormwater; watersheds; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Green roof, as a popular low impact development practice, has become important to mitigate adverse impacts of future climate change on urban stormwater. However, there is limited information regarding assessment of the effectiveness of green roofs in response to uncertain future climate change challenges. In this study, the validated model was used to simulate the reduction performance of green ro ...
rain, etc ; agricultural industry; air quality; data collection; environment; meteorological data; models; people; prediction; regression analysis; temperature; Pakistan; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Variations in rainfall negatively affect crop productivity and impose severe climatic conditions in developing regions. Studies that focus on climatic variations such as variability in rainfall and temperature are vital, particularly in predominant rainfed areas. Forecasting rainfall is very essential in the agriculture sector due to the dependence of many people, while it is very complex to accur ...
rain, etc ; climate; decision making; electric energy consumption; environment; green roofs; greenhouses; primary energy; research and development; temperature; vegetation; Mexico; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The residential sector is one of the primary energy consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases. Given the environmental problem, one of the methods of mitigating electricity consumption and reducing the temperature in buildings is green infrastructure: green roofs and walls. This article presents a compilation of the studies carried out in México about green infrastructure; the energy, thermal and ...
rain, etc ; Coffea canephora; climate; climate change; crop yield; environment; equations; fertilizers; fruiting; irrigation; phenology; risk; temperature; total nitrogen; tree age; Vietnam; Show all 16 Subjects
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... A shift towards earlier flowering is a widely noted consequence of climate change for the world's plants. However, whether early flowering changes the way in which plants respond to climate stress, and in turn plant yield, remains largely unexplored. Using 10 years of flowering time and yield observations (Total N = 5580) from 558 robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) farms across Vietnam we used stru ...
rain, etc ; bunds; capital; contingent valuation; farmers; farms; irrigation; labor; market development; opportunity costs; precision agriculture; rice; technology; water utilization; wheat; willingness to pay; Nepal; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Farmers commonly split large, undulating crop fields, even those at similar elevation range or contour, into a patchwork of small sub-plots in plane areas of Nepal. Specifically, to ensure irrigation or rainwater throughout their cultivated rice or wheat growing areas, structures like bunds, dikes, and ditches are commonly built. These structures not only require significant labor hours to build b ...
... The cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedling stage frequently experiences waterlogging due to heavy autumn rainfall in tropical areas, which impairs cherry tomato growth and development. In this study, we investigated the effects of exogenous spermidine and calcium on the morphological, physiological and biochemical traits of two popular cherry tomato cultivars (Hongfei6: flooding-insensit ...
... Soil respiration, the second largest CO₂ flux in terrestrial ecosystems, involves the microbial respiration of litter from aboveground sources, belowground litter and root respiration, from rhizodeposition. In the subtropical forests of the Ailao Mountain, a chamber with automated CO₂ efflux was set up with two treatments: a control treatment with litterfall to measure the total soil respiration ( ...
... Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications is essential to ensure crop yields and lower environmental risks under climate change. The DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC) model was employed to investigate the impacts of irrigation regime (RF, rainfed; MI, minimum irrigation; CI, critical irrigation; FI, full irrigation) and N fertilizer rate (N60, N90, N120, N150, N180, N210, N ...
... Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data have been widely used to analyze extreme precipitation, but the data have never been validated for the Indonesian Maritime Continent (IMC). This study evaluated the capability of IMERG Early (E), Late (L), and Final (F) data to observe extreme rain in the IMC using the rain gauge data within five years (2016–2020). The capability of IMERG ...
rain; rain intensity, etc ; aerosols; models; research; storms; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The warm-phase version of the Spectral-Bin Microphysics (SBM) scheme has been implemented into the ICON model and has been tested in a supercell storm simulation. The results of two-moment (2M) bulk scheme which exists in ICON and SBM were compared in all aspects related to warm processes, especially with regards to sensitivity to aerosols. In all simulations a strong storm with maximum updrafts e ...
rain; rain gauges, etc ; hydrology; satellites; snow; winter; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The latest generation of satellite precipitation estimates, Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement Version 06 (IMERG V06), calibrated by monthly rain gauge data, is applied to investigate the changing characteristics of precipitation in different phases (rain, snow, and sleet) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) from 2001 to 2020. The performance of the IMERG product ...
rain; rain gauges, etc ; basins; satellites; summer; winter; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Rainfall erosivity is an important indicator for quantitatively representing the erosive power of rainfall. This study expanded three satellite-based precipitation products (SPPs) for estimating and mapping rainfall erosivity in a subtropical basin in China and evaluated their performance at different rainfall erosivity intensities, seasons, and spaces. The results showed that the rainfall erosivi ...
rain; rain gauges, etc ; coasts; mountains; research; topography; Indonesia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This study investigated fundamental issues on diurnal cycle variations over Sumatra, especially concerning land - sea contrasts and rain event propagations according to changing rain duration and seasons. Based on the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) final-run product version 6 covering 2015–2019 and observed precipitation data from 97 rain gau ...
rain; rain intensity, etc ; Japan; hydrometeorology; prediction; probability; Indonesia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Accurate prediction of heavy rainfall events is crucial to mitigate hydrometeorological disasters. The real-time cloud observation by weather satellites Himawari-8 has enabled researchers to develop a nowcasting method (short-term prediction) to identify rainfall events in advance, namely the Rapidly Developing Cumulus Area (RDCA) method. The RDCA index, which is the product of the RDCA method, is ...
rain; rain intensity, etc ; case studies; runoff; stormwater management; watersheds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... An in-depth understanding of the rainfall-runoff process is essential for effective stormwater management. However, the understanding of the hierarchy of rainfall characteristics in terms of their importance in influencing runoff generation is limited. This paper investigates the influence of rainfall characteristics and catchment characteristics on runoff generation in urban catchments. The outco ...
rain; rain intensity, etc ; hydrologic models; model validation; runoff; watersheds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Floods resulting from high‐intensity rainfall events are known to be difficult to simulate. The catchment response to such events is very heterogeneous due to complex combinations of hydrological processes at fine temporal and spatial scales. The goal of this study is to find a way to inform the structure of a hydrological model on the variability in catchment response to rainfall events. To that ...
rain; rain gauges, etc ; altitude; hydrometeorology; probability; satellites; seasonal variation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Accurate precipitation observations are crucial for water resources management and as inputs for a gamut of hydrometeorological applications. Precipitation data from Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) (IMERG) have recently been widely used to complement traditional rain gauge systems. However, the satellite precipitation data needs to be validated befo ...