Palais de justice et prisons départementales de Pau (1850-1865) by Cécile Devos

“…Ancient capital of a kingdom, which has become the chief town of a department, Pau experienced one of the turning points in its history in the second half of the 19th century, thanks to its new reputation as a tourist and climatic resort. Its geographic and demographic expansion is supervised and relayed as it should be by the various authorities exercised on its territory. …”
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Queensland Fruit Fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., Thomas R. Fasulo

“… The Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), occurs in climates ranging from temperate to tropical. Within its range, it is one of the most important pests with which pome and stone fruit growers have to contend, and at times it has been a very destructive pest of citrus. …”
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Performance comparison of land change modeling techniques for land use projection of arid watersheds by S.M. Tajbakhsh, H. Memarian, K. Moradi, A.H. Aghakhani Afshar

“…This research was mainly aimed to assess the validity of two major types of land change modeling techniques via a three dimensional approach in Birjand urban watershed located in an arid climatic region of Iran. Thus, a Markovian approach based on two suitability and transition potential mappers, i.e. fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and artificial neural network-multi layer perceptron was used to simulate land use map. …”
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An Emotion Detection GIS-Based Framework for Evaluating Exposure to Heatwave Scenarios in Urban Settlements During a Pandemic by Barbara Cardone, Ferdinando Di Martino, Cristiano Mauriello, Vittorio Miraglia

“…The study of impacts on and risks to citizens generated by climatic or environmental phenomena in urban settlements is made complex by the coexistence of events that can affect the risk assessment. …”
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Reversing LeTID in PV power plants: a feasibility study by Fokuhl Esther, Gebhardt Paul, Schnabel Erdmut, Kleinhans Alexander, Armbruster Cornelius, Mikolajick Thomas, Wesselak Viktor, Philipp Daniel

“…The general feasibility of such a procedure is first demonstrated by climatic chamber experiments on strongly degraded mc-Si PERC PV modules. …”
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Collecting Data of Late Recordings of Dragonflies in Poland in the Period of 2013-2020, as an Example of the Citizen Science by Agnieszka Tańczuk, Grzegorz Tończyk

“…The goal of the present paper is to show the data concerning the very late appearances of dragonflies and damselflies in the years 2013 – 2020, to enrich the knowledge about the phenology of various species in comparison to published data, which is no longer valid, taking into consideration the climatic changes over the last decades. It would not have been possible to gather such a great amount of information, if not for the amateurs engaged into a project like that (ca. 100 people). …”
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Hybrid Models for Daily Global Solar Radiation Assessment by Abdelkerim Souahlia, Abdelhalim Rabehi, Abdelazize Rabehi

“…Despite the huge number of proposed forecasting techniques, an accurate estimation remains a significant challenge because of the non-stationary variation of solar radiation components due to the continuously changing climatic conditions. Usually, several input data predictors are used for the forecasting process, which can cause redundancy and correlation between data features. …”
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Operation of Hydroelectric Power Plants, Dam Reservoirs, and Energy Trade Using Artificial Neural Networks by Sibel Akkaya Oy, Serkan İnal, Ali Ekber Özdemir

“…As the water level in the reservoir varies throughout the year depending on climatic conditions, it is important to estimate energy production in order to operate the HEPP most effectively. …”
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Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships by Guiyao Zhou, Nico Eisenhauer, Zhenggang Du, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Kaiyan Zhai, Miguel Berdugo, Huimin Duan, Han Wu, Shengen Liu, Daniel Revillini, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Hua Chai, Xuhui Zhou, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

“…The impacts of fire are most strongly negative in cold climates, conifer forests, and under wildfires with high intensity and frequency. …”
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Redefining the Tea Green Leafhopper: <i>Empoasca onukii</i> Matsuda (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) as a Vital Asset in Premium Tea Production by Unisa Conteh Kanu, Zhaohong Wang, Chenshi Qiu, Qiaojun Wen, Xueyan Li, Dongliang Qiu, Yinwei Gan, Runqian Mao

“…Furthermore, the dynamic interplay between climatic factors, <i>E. onukii</i> population dynamics, and tea cultivation practices necessitates integrated pest management strategies that balance the beneficial and detrimental impacts of this leafhopper. …”
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A Chromosome level assembly of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) variety grown in arid environment by Himanshu V. Patankar, Luis F. Rivera, Fatima Omari Alzahrani, Rod A. Wing, Ikram Blilou

“…Pomegranates can tolerate arid climates and are considered among the fruits that will play a major role in food security. …”
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Influence of Mountain Wildfires on the Insulation Properties of Air Gaps in Power Grids by Fangrong Zhou, Hao Geng, Gang Wen, Yutang Ma, Yi Ma, Guofang Wang, Jun Cao, Jiaze Xu, Hongwei Mei

“…This paper establishes an experimental platform simulating wildfire climatic conditions and conducts experimental research on air gaps between rod–rod gaps and conductor–ground gaps. …”
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Chemical and Physical Characteristics in Uncultivated Soils with Different Lithology in Semiarid Mediterranean Clima by Daniel Moraetis, Nikolaos Lydakis-Simantiris, Despina Pentari, Emmanouil Manoutsoglou, Chryssa Apostolaki, Vasilios Perdikatsis

“…The aim of this study is to identify the chemical and physical characteristics in uncultivated soils derived from different parent materials under semiarid Mediterranean climatic conditions which favoured the formation of fragile soils. …”
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Conversion of 10 min Rain Rate Time Series into 1 min Time Series: Theory, Experimental Results, and Application in Satellite Communications by Emilio Matricciani, Carlo Riva

“…To develop the method, we used a very large data bank of 1 min rain rate time series collected in several sites with different climatic conditions. The experimental and simulated 1 min rain rate time series agree very well. …”
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Analysis of homogeneity and isotropy of the flow in the watercourses by applying the RAPS and IPTA methods by Bojan Đurin, Mirna Raič, Petra Sušilović, Hossein Banejad

“…Due to the frequent climatic changes occurring worldwide, which are related to extreme meteorological parameters as well as human activities, it is obvious that these influence the flow regimes of rivers. …”
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Heat transfer software for local materials in Cameroon (HTSLM 1.0): simplified building energy software based on local realities by Lynda Phalone Ndjonnou Tchawa, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, Joël Durel Tchinang Tchameu, Ramses Tanankem Menkem, Florian Kamsu Kom, Jacques Lionel Ntamag, Joseph Pondi

“…The curves obtained for hourly indoor temperatures for the chosen days in the five climatic zones defined for the software, all show a realistic bell-shaped evolution, thus prefiguring a digital decision support tool for such admitted infrastructures to be made of materials from the Local Materials Promotion Authority of Cameroon.…”
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Influence of winter Saharan dust on equatorial Atlantic variability by Ignasi Vallès-Casanova, Ori Adam, Marta Martín Rey

“…This relationship is particularly important due to the strong influence of equatorial Atlantic variability on both local and remote climates. Here, we use observational and reanalysis data to investigate Saharan dust’s role in boreal winter, a period when dust transport is typically near the equator. …”
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Benchmarking data-driven inversion methods for the estimation of local CO₂ emissions from synthetic satellite images of XCO₂ and NO₂ by D. Santaren, J. Hakkarainen, G. Kuhlmann, E. Koene, F. Chevallier, I. Ialongo, H. Lindqvist, J. Nurmela, J. Tamminen, L. Amorós, D. Brunner, G. Broquet

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A Power Case Study for Monocrystalline and Polycrystalline Solar Panels in Bursa City, Turkey by Ayşegül Taşçıoğlu, Onur Taşkın, Ali Vardar

“…The efficiency of monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar panels was calculated depending on the climatic data’s measurements. As the result of the study, the average performances of monocrystalline and polycrystalline panels are 42.06 and 39.80 Wh, respectively. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Changes in Soil Quality at Shooting Ranges: A Case Study in Croatia by Željka Zgorelec, Nikica Šprem, Radovan Abramović, Marija Galić, Iva Hrelja, Domina Delač, Toni Safner, Ivica Kisić

“…The sites differ in soil type (fluvisols, leptosols and terra rossa) and climatic conditions (Mediterranean and continental). …”
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