An Assessment of Ammonia Emissions from Dairy Facilities in Pennsylvania by James D. Ferguson, Zhengxia Dou, Charles F. Ramberg

“…Atmospheric ammonia contributes to acid rain, eutrophication of estuaries and lakes, and particulate air pollution. …”
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Infrared Image Enhancement: A Review by Qingwang Wang, Pengcheng Jin, Yuhang Wu, Liyao Zhou, Tao Shen

“…Under special conditions such as night, rain, and fog, visible light imaging technology often performs poorly, while radar and other imaging technologies are limited due to their high costs. …”
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Multimodal sequential cross-modal transformer for predicting plant available water capacity (PAWC) from time series of weather and crop biological data by Dung Nguyen, Peter de Voil, Andries Potgieter, Yash P. Dang, Thomas G. Orton, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Scott C. Chapman

“…Deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) have been applied widely to satellite data of vegetation indices to infer indirect features associated with soil characteristics that affect crop performance in rain-fed environments. In this paper, we propose a DL model for prediction of plant available water capacity (PAWC) of the soil from sequential multi-modal data including time series of biomass, leaf area index (LAI), normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), and cumulative weather variables. …”
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Ensuring Africa’s Food Security by 2050: The Role of Population Growth, Climate-Resilient Strategies, and Putative Pathways to Resilience by Belay Simane, Thandi Kapwata, Natasha Naidoo, Guéladio Cissé, Caradee Y. Wright, Kiros Berhane

“…We conclude that Africa’s current food systems are unsustainable, lacking resilience to climate shocks and relying heavily on rain-fed agriculture with inadequate infrastructure and technology. …”
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Comparison of Statistical, Graphical, and Wavelet Transform Analyses for Rainfall Trends and Patterns in Badulu Oya Catchment, Sri Lanka by Ashika M. Ruwangika, Anushka Perera, Upaka Rathnayake

“…The catchment is important as it is in the intermediate climate zone and rich in agricultural productions. Four rain gauges (namely, Badulla, Kandekatiya, Lower Spring Valley, and Ledgerwatte Estate) were used to analyze the rainfalls in the resolutions of monthly, seasonally, and annually. 30-year monthly cumulative rainfall data for the above four gauging stations are analyzed using various standard tests. …”
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Seasonal and Regional Differences in Extreme Rainfall Events and Their Contribution to the World’s Precipitation: GPM Observations by Shailendra Kumar, Yamina Silva, Aldo S. Moya-Álvarez, Daniel Martínez-Castro

“…The EREs are defined based on the PFs area, depth (maximum height of radar reflectivity), and the rain rate and called them largest, deepest, and intense EREs, respectively. …”
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Epidemiologic Investigation of Intestinal Parasite Infection and Associated Risk Factors among Primary Schoolchildren in the Manzini and Lubombo Provinces, the Kingdom of Eswatini by Ai-Wen Yin, Yueh-Lun Lee, Sindisiwe Dlamini, Gugu Maphalala, Chien-Wei Liao, Chia-Kwung Fan

“…Personal hygiene like washing hands before a meal has a significant protection effect (OR = 0.32, 95% CI = 0.14–0.75, p=0.009). Rain or well water and the type of water supply from which they drank also showed a considerable risk factor (OR = 2.44, 95% CI = 1.25–4.79, p=0.04). …”
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Advancing precision agriculture with deep learning enhanced SIS-YOLOv8 for Solanaceae crop monitoring by Ruiqian Qin, Yiming Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Helong Yu

“…The research introduces three key modules: 1) a Fusion-Inception Conv module to improve feature extraction against complex backgrounds like rain and haze; 2) a C2f-SIS module incorporating Style Randomization to enhance generalization ability for different crop diseases and extract more detailed disease features; and 3) an SPPF-IS module to boost model robustness through feature fusion. …”
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Reconstruction of climatic events from the 16th century in Transylvania: interdisciplinary analysis based on historical sources by Ovidiu Răzvan Gaceu, Tudor Caciora, Ștefan Baias, Cezar Morar, Mihai Dudaș, Marius Stupariu, Maria Maxim

“…In contrast, the second half of the century is defined by increased rainfall, with numerous reports of flooding and excessive rain, particularly in the 1590s. These extreme climatic events profoundly affected society, contributing to food shortages and increased mortality from starvation and diseases (especially the plague). …”
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Reassessing the schedule of the sugar season in maple under climate warming by Gian de Lima Santos, Roberto Silvestro, Sara Yumi Sassamoto Kurokawa, Guillaume de Lafontaine, Sergio Rossi

“…We collected air temperatures and daily sap production at four study sites in 2022 and 2023 using rain gauges for simulating a gravity collection of sap. …”
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A comprehensive review of the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Thailand by Muhammad Waqas, Adila Naseem, Usa Wannasingha Humphries, Phyo Thandar Hlaing, Muhammad Shoaib, Sarfraz Hashim

“…The impacts on crop water requirements and livelihoods reveal vulnerabilities due to extreme weather events. Rain-fed agriculture faces significant yield declines and reduced crop water productivity, exacerbating economic impacts on rural households and leading to food insecurity and financial instability. …”
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Impact of the Westerly Jet on Rainfall/Runoff in the Source Region of the Yangtze River during the Flood Season by Xin Lai, Yuanfa Gong, Sixian Cen, Hui Tian, Heng Zhang

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Usability Evaluation of Foods with Function Claims Labelling as Health Information in Japan: A User-Testing Study by Yamamoto M, Yamamoto K, Takano-Ohmuro H, Yamamoto R, Saruwatari J

“…Michiko Yamamoto,1,* Ken Yamamoto,2,* Hiromi Takano-Ohmuro,3 Rain Yamamoto,4 Junji Saruwatari1 1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto-city, Kumamoto, Japan; 2Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida-city, Tokyo, Japan; 3Faculty of Pharmacy, Musashino University, Nishitokyo-city, Tokyo, Japan; 4Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Michiko Yamamoto, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oehonmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-city, Kumamoto, Japan, Email m-yamamoto@kumamoto-u.ac.jpPurpose: The saturation of health foods in the market is coupled with inadequate information on their safe usage. …”
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Turbulent energy budget analysis based on coherent wind lidar observations by J. Xian, J. Xian, Z. Qiu, H. Luo, Y. Hu, X. Lin, C. Lu, Y. Yang, H. Yang, N. Zhang, N. Zhang

“…We explore the generation and dissipation mechanisms of turbulence under different weather conditions, and find that the buoyancy generation term plays a role in dissipating TKE under low-cloud and light-rain conditions. During the day, turbulent transport and the dissipation rate are the main dissipation terms, while buoyancy generation is the main dissipation term at night. …”
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An analysis of observed and predicted extreme heat and precipitation trends across four pulse producing regions in North America: North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan, and Northeast... by Sophia Weiss, Erin Coughlan de Perez

“…Future expansion of pulse production should incorporate adaptation measures to manage extreme heat and the potential for rain events during harvest.…”
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Land cover change mitigated 20 % of the total increased evapotranspiration in tropical Lancang-Mekong River Basin during 2001–2019 by Houbing Chen, Yaoliang Chen, Lamin R. Mansaray, Longwei Li, Shusen Wang

“…This decrease in ET, may intensify the surface runoff and raise the risk of extreme floods in the rain season. These findings enhance our understanding of the relationship between LCCs and ET in tropical regions, and provide valuable insights for trans-boundary collaborations and water resource management in the TLMRB.…”
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A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions by D. Liu, T. Jing, T. Jing, T. Jing, M. Yan, I. Gultepe, Y. Bao, Y. Bao, Y. Bao, H. Wang, F. Zu

“…<p>Fog, rain, snow, and ice are the high-impact weather events that often lead to highway blockings, which in turn causes serious economic and human losses. …”
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The variability and predictability of summer southwest monsoon intensity measurement index across mainland indochina: from local synoptic to large scale perspectives by Kyaw Than Oo, Yinshuo Dong, Kazora Jonah

“…This large-scale index is influenced by key pressure systems, such as the Tibet Low and the Mascarenes High, and is characterized by the movement of a concentrated north-south rain belt and a quasi-stationary low-level jet. Our analysis reveals strong correlations between the SMII and regional rainfall patterns, particularly during the peak intensity of the summer months. …”
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Combining UAV-Based Multispectral and Thermal Images to Diagnosing Dryness Under Different Crop Areas on the Loess Plateau by Juan Zhang, Yuan Qi, Qian Li, Jinlong Zhang, Rui Yang, Hongwei Wang, Xiangfeng Li

“…Furthermore, the TVDI demonstrated higher sensitivity in dryness monitoring compared with the TVMDI, making it more suitable for assessing dryness variations in rain-fed agriculture in arid regions.…”
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Declining suitability for conversion of drylands to paddy fields in Northeast China: Impact of future climate and socio-economic changes by Jiacheng Qian, Huafu Zhao, Xiaoxiao Wang, Tao Wang, Zhe Feng, Congjie Cao, Xiao Li, Aihui Zhang

“…Conversion of dryland to paddy fields (CDPF) is an effective way to transition from rain-fed to irrigated agriculture, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change on agriculture and increase yields to meet growing food demand. …”
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