Drought is a creeping phenomenon, difficult to understand and define due to differences in hydro-meteorological variables and socio-economic factors along with the stochastic nature of water demand in various r
Through a comparison of time series data on traffic accidents and meteorological factors, the researchers established that certain factors could serve as determinants for abnormal changes in the traffic situation within controlled areas. Bhogaraju and Korupalli (2020) examined the impact of implementing ...
The impact of climate change on their livelihoods mainly manifests in the long-term changes in climate factors and the adverse effects of sudden meteorological disasters on these farmers’ assets, livelihood activities and capabilities (Yan et al., 2022). As highlighted by Fan et al. (2022), ...
However, simultaneous exposure to a variety of pesticides in low concentrations may trigger additive or synergistic effects, especially when the exposure is during a long period of time (Laetz et al., 2009) or when certain substances (e.g., azole fungicides) are involved (Martin et al., ...
The results showed that the applied aerosol source control measures, such as shutting down industries and reducing traffic, had a huge impact on the reduction of aerosol pollution in Beijing. However, the meteorological conditions, especially rainfall, certainly also contributed to the successful ...
Emissivity refers to the ratio of energy radiated by the surface compared to the radiation emitted by a black body at the same temperature and determines the contribution of material to the UHI [60,64,65]. Table 3 shows typical values of albedo and emissivity for a variety of urban surfaces...
Meteorological factors have a significant influence on the formation, deposition and transformation of air pollution. Therefore, a semi-empirical multiple lognormal regression (MLR) model was used to estimate surface PM2.5 concentration in China (Equation (1)). The MLR model incorporates ground-based...
Thus, an attempt has been made to collate documented studies, analysis and assessments within this study scope, as well as to identify the necessary factors for mobilising this region and other similar regions in the world towards a sustainable future of building energy demand. This paper is ...
[36,44]. The choice of locations for deploying the plates, which serve as artificial substrates, can be based on anthropogenic influences and range from commercial traffic and shipping channels to recreational traffic and a variety of physical environments [44]. Plates can be deployed once at ...
There can be a variety of failure routes with multiple components. It is believed that a resilience measure needs to consider information on the various failure routes such as occurrence probability of the routes or joint fragility functions for the components in the failure routes. Meanwhile, ...