Land-surface influences on weather and climate

Land-surface influences on weather and climate are reviewed. The interrelationship of vegetation, evapotranspiration, atmospheric circulation, and climate is discussed. Global precipitation, soil moisture, the seasonal water cycle, heat transfer, and atmospheric temperature are among the parameters considered in the context of a general biosphere model

Numerical simulation of the clustering of constant-volume balloons in the global domain

Numerical simulation of motion and clustering of balloons originally randomly spaced in upper and lower tropospher

Numerical simulation of the 1970 to 1971 Eole experiment

Numerical simulation of global atmospheric circulation for predicting performance of balloons in Eole experimen

Minimizing information overload in a communications system utilizing temporal scaling and serialization

Presented at the 12th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), London, UK, June 20-23, 2006.Recent Navy research has identified the monitoring of multiple communications streams as a performance bottleneck. We introduce a novel approach for improved monitoring of multichannel voice communications which makes use of timecompression of speech in order to present communications serially, and discuss some of its potential benefits and pitfalls. An experiment currently being developed and piloted is detailed as part of a larger series of studies designed to examine the plausibility of this new approach. This study will explore the effects of sped up speech on listeners' comprehension of vocal radio transmissions

Bereavement support provision in primary schools: an exploratory study

In the UK, approximately 1 in 29 children have experienced the death of a parent or sibling. It is argued that schools are suitably positioned to provide support to bereaved children. However, there is a gap in research exploring bereavement support provision (BSP) in primary schools. This paper presents the qualitative phase of a mixed-methods study which aimed to gain insight into BSP in primary schools in one UK Local Authority. After completing an online questionnaire, 16 school staff took part in semi-structured interviews. The findings of this study highlighted that BSP is characterised by emotional support and other indirect responses. A key finding is that providing emotional support to a bereaved child has a negative impact on the emotional well-being of staff. This study discusses how educational psychologists (EPs) are well placed to provide whole school and targeted bereavement support to children and school staff