The patterns of summer dryness and wetness in eastern China
The objective of this study is to evaluate quantitatively the spatial distribution, the year-to-year variation, and the regionalization of summer dryness and wetness in eastern China. Application of a cluster analytical technique to evaluate
the percentage departure from normal of summer precipitation (PDP)
Effectiveness of teaching pedagogical content knowledge through summer geography institutes
Responses of teachers who went through summer geography institutes in the USA in 1992 were analyzed to assess how effective they were in pedagogical content. - (DWG)
The analysis of maximum monthly sums of precipitation in Moravia over the period 1901-1980 as reported by 180 rainfall measuring stations with 50 years of observation. Geographical distribution is presented on tables and maps. (MS).
Summer thaw depths in cold regions and fossil cryoturbation
An analysis of data from the literature, on summer thaw depths and cryoturbation in present-day cold areas, shows that the thickness of fossil cryoturbated deposits cannot be correlated to the July temperature of that time. It is suggested
Impact of climate on summer residential electricity consumption in Hong Kong
Applied climatology ; Climatic cooling ; Cloud ; Hong Kong ; Model ; Radiation ; Regression analysis ; Summer ; Temperature ; Wind speed
This study investigates the influence of climatic variables on summer residential electricity consumption in Hong Kong. The relationships between cooling degree days (CDD) and Clo, a measure of amount of Clothing insulation to maintain comfort
, a potential weather stress index, and summer electricity consumption are also examined.
Extreme summer and winter temperatures in the Czech Lands after A.D. 1500 and their Central European context
Air temperature ; Climate ; Climatic trend ; Climatic variability ; Czech Republic ; Summer ; Temperature ; Time series ; Winter
Extremely cold/mild winters (DJF) and extremely cold/warm summers (JJA) in the Czech Lands were derived from series of temperature indices based on documentary evidence (1500–1854) and from series of air temperatures measured at the Prague
-Klementinum station (1771–2007) over the past 500 years. Altogether 24 cold winters, 23 mild winters, 18 cold summers and 21 warm summers emerged. Czech extremes were compared with the Central European temperature series and series of documentary-based
Contrasting synoptic weather events over Southern Africa in the dry summer of 1983
Short-lived subtropical circulation systems which affected summer convection over the plateau of southern Africa during 1983 are studied. Upper air flow patterns and associated drought patterns are analysed. - (AJC)
. Consequently, they were the duration of summer and growing season, the risk of frosts in summer, the humidity of summer, the duration of the period in winter without thaws and the mean depth of the maximum snow cover.
The paper is a study based on a questionnaire survey directed to package holiday-makers leaving Dublin Airport in summer for sun destinations. Consideration of the destinations and components of the holiday is followed by an investigation
Summer and winter regimes of runoff generation and soil erosion on cultivated loess soils (The Netherlands)
Monthly runoff and soil loss data of three fallow experimental plots are presented, comprising a summer and following winter season. Implications for runoff and erosion of climatic change, involving increased rainfall amounts or intensities
A study on moisture conditions for winter wheat and summer maize production in the Heilonggang area of Hebei Province
Winter wheat and summer maize are two important crops in the Heilonggang area which is the driest part of the North China Plain. The thermal-light conditions are satisfactory for double cropping of winter wheat-summer maize, but rainfall
Summer energy balance on West Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, and linkages to a temporal synoptic index
This paper analyzes summer, 1986, daily surface energy budgets, ablation, and variations of synoptic weather types experienced on the West Gulkana Glacier. Daily summer (June-August) synoptic conditions analyzed for the period 1948-86 were
The relationship of large volcanic eruption in the world and the summer drought/flood in China
China ; Drought ; Flood ; Precipitation ; Sichuan ; Statistics ; Summer ; Temperature ; Volcanic eruption ; Weather type
Based on data in the last 500 years for strong volcanic activity and the summer drought/flood types available in China, the statistical relations of the volcanic eruptions in seasons and several regions and the drought/flood types and grade index
Sensitivity of vegetation (NDVI) to climate over Southern Africa : relationships with summer rainfall and OLR
AVHRR ; Climate ; NOAA ; Plant canopy ; Precipitation ; Radiation ; Remote sensing ; Seasonal variation ; South Africa ; Summer ; Vegetation index
Relationships between satellite normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data are studied over Southern Africa. Analysis of the seasonal cycle confirms an inverse relationship, whereby reduced OLR in summer