China ; Climatic variability ; Foehn ; Global change ; Monsoon ; Seasonal variation ; Spatial variation ; Temperature
The objectives of this study are to determine the existence of any temperature variability trend(s) for the period 1951 through 1996, and to map temperature variability for China on a seasonal basis to depict the geographical patterns of thermal
Modelling the geomorphological impact of climatic variability and extreme events in a semi-arid environment
Arid area ; Badland ; Castilla-La Mancha ; Climatic variability ; Climatic variation ; Desertification ; Ecosystem ; Heavy rain ; Model ; Semi-arid area ; Soil erosion ; Spain
This paper examines the impact of climatic variability on hydrology and vegetation cover using the PATTERN ecosystem model. Significant inter-annual and medium-term variability in the components of the hydrological budget and in vegetation
Temporal variability of climate in South-eastern Australia : a reassessment of flood- and drought-dominated regimes
Atmospheric circulation ; Australia ; Climatic variability ; Concept ; Drought ; Flood ; Hydrological regime ; Hydrology ; Land use ; New South Wales ; Statistics ; Watershed
The spatial variability of overbank sedimentation on river floodplains
The study reported uses Cs 137 measurements on sediment cores to investigate the spatial variability of sediment deposition on selected floodplain reaches of five British lowland rivers. Attention is given both to the overall reach and to more
recalculer ces variables à l'aide des pondérations spécifiques des Etats. Exemple des exportations industrielles des Etats des Etats-Unis. L'aptitude à prévoir hors échantillon ces variables selon la pondération étatique est meilleure que celle des variables
variables which, in turn, determine transport capacity, there may be one or more hydraulic variables which capture the effect of surface roughness on transport capacity sufficiently well for good predictions of transport capacity to be achieved from data
on these variables alone. To investigate this possibility, regression analyses were performed on data from 1506 flume experiments.
) using a break of slope rule on downslope profiles. Each slope unit is an aggregated object of continuous pixels and is summarized with 5 suites of variables : shape, topography, topographic variability, spectral characteristics, and variability
Spatial variability of floodplain sedimentation at the event scale in the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands
This article addresses spatial variability of contemporary floodplain sedimentation at the event scale. Measurements of overbank deposition were carried out using sediment traps on 11 floodplain sections along the rivers Waal and Meuse
Atmospheric circulation ; Climate ; Climatic variability ; Forecast ; Global change ; Human impact ; Mathematical model ; Model
In this paper the nature, state and variability of the climate system are described briefly. Of particular importance in open systems such as components of the climatic system is feedback. Mathematical models provide a new way to not only understand
Generalized linear modelling (GLM) is a statistical technique used to model the relation between a response variable and a set of explanatory variables. In this paper, GLM is explained and 2 examples of the application of the technique
This study examines factors affecting the spatial variability of soil infiltration in cultivated fields in a Mediterranean environment. The study area is a wine growing catchment located near the town of Roujan (Hérault). The factors affecting
variability of soil infiltration were analyzed. A simple classification of the topsoil structures is proposed. The results show that 40% of the total variance of observed infiltration rates can be explained either by differences between fields
The paper explores the extent to which it is possible to describe and measure a local dimension to party organization. It presents data on nine organizational variables collected from a national survey of the national parties'local organizations
. Using constituency level data on position, party and the socio-economic local environment as independent variables, it demonstrates that there is a distinctive local dimension to party organization.