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Seven year satellite observations of the mean structures and variabilities in the regional aerosol distribution over the oceanic areas around the Indian subcontinent
International audienceAerosol distribution over the oceanic regions around the Indian subcontinent and its seasonal and interannual variabilities are studied using the aerosol optical depth (AOD) derived from NOAA-14 and NOAA-16 AVHRR data for the period of November 1995?December 2003. The air-mass types over this region during the Asian summer monsoon season (June?September) are significantly different from those during the Asian dry season (November?April). Hence, the aerosol loading and its properties over these oceanic regions are also distinctly different in these two periods. During the Asian dry season, the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal are dominated by the transport of aerosols from Northern Hemispheric landmasses, mainly the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Arabia. This aerosol transport is rather weak in the early part of the dry season (November?January) compared to that in the later period (February?April). Large-scale transport of mineral dust from Arabia and the production of sea-salt aerosols, due to high surface wind speeds, contribute to the high aerosol loading over the Arabian Sea region during the summer monsoon season. As a result, the monthly mean AOD over the Arabian Sea shows a clear annual cycle with the highest values occurring in July. The AOD over the Bay of Bengal and the Southern Hemisphere Indian Ocean also displays an annual cycle with maxima during March and October, respectively. The amplitude of the annual variation is the largest in coastal Arabia and the least in the Southern Hemisphere Indian Ocean. The interannual variability in AOD is the largest over the Southeast Arabian Sea (seasonal mean AOD varies from 0.19 to 0.42) and the northern Bay of Bengal (seasonal mean AOD varies from 0.24 to 0.39) during the February?April period and is the least over the Southern Hemisphere Indian Ocean. This study also investigates the altitude regions and pathways of dominant aerosol transport by combining the AOD distribution with the atmospheric circulation. Keywords. Atmospheric composition and structure (Aerosols and particles) ? Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Climatology) ? Oceanography: physical (Ocean fog and aerosols
Seven year satellite observations of the mean structures and variabilities in the regional aerosol distribution over the oceanic areas around the Indian subcontinent
Does the Number of Hours Spent on Learning Affect Academic Achievement?
Examinations are measurement tools designed to assess learnersâ
achievement of course learning outcomes. Past studies have shown that
factors such as motivation and study time play a part in enhancing learner
achievement in assessment. The objective of this exploratory study is to
develop a Regression Model that will be used to identify the possible
relationship between the learnersâ study time with their academic achievement.
An online questionnaire survey was administered to 98 respondents of year 1
distance learners of the Principle of Management course in the January 2021
semester at Open University Malaysia. The data on the self-report of study time
by the learners for the two variables were analysed. A regression analysis via
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) analysis tool was performed to
study the relationship between the study time (for completing the assignment
and preparing for the final examination) and academic achievement. The
findings of this study suggest that a regression model can significantly predict
academic achievement. However, based on this model, only the study time
allocated for completing the assignment appears to be significantly correlated
to the course assessment achievement. It is hoped that the findings gathered
will lay the foundation for future research that take into consideration other
relevant factors associated with study time and academic achievement
Lidar Observations of aerosol layers just below the tropopause level during IFP-INDOEX
A lidar system has been used at Gadanki (13.5Âș,
79.2ÂșE) to study the characteristics of aerosol layer
(cloud) occurring just below the tropical tropopause.
The preliminary results of the lidar observations indicate
that the cloud occurs ~ 2 km below the tropopause.
The top and bottom edges of the cloud have
propensity for ice crystal presence with liquid droplets/
vapours in-between. The clouds show temporal fluctuations
(in their backscattering ratio) with temporal
scales of the order of 30â90 min
Pseudo-3-Branes in a Curved 6D Bulk
We consider a model involving a 4-brane in a 6D bulk which carries sigma
model fields. An axion field on the 4-brane cancels the pressure along one
direction leading to an effective codimension-2 3-brane. For a range of
parameters of the theory, we get a transverse space which is non-compact,
providing a possible solution to the cosmological constant problem. A setup
with two branes in a compact space is also treated. In this case, a mild
fine-tuning between the radii of the two 4-branes is necessary. Finally, we
explore the 4-brane problem in the Gauss-Codazzi formulation and we discuss
general aspects of gravity in the presence of additional brane sources.Comment: 13 page
Kicking the Rugby Ball: Perturbations of 6D Gauged Chiral Supergravity
We analyze the axially-symmetric scalar perturbations of 6D chiral gauged
supergravity compactified on the general warped geometries in the presence of
two source branes. We find all of the conical geometries are marginally stable
for normalizable perturbations (in disagreement with some recent calculations)
and the nonconical for regular perturbations, even though none of them are
supersymmetric (apart from the trivial Salam-Sezgin solution, for which there
are no source branes). The marginal direction is the one whose presence is
required by the classical scaling property of the field equations, and all
other modes have positive squared mass. In the special case of the conical
solutions, including (but not restricted to) the unwarped `rugby-ball'
solutions, we find closed-form expressions for the mode functions in terms of
Legendre and Hypergeometric functions. In so doing we show how to match the
asymptotic near-brane form for the solution to the physics of the source
branes, and thereby how to physically interpret perturbations which can be
singular at the brane positions.Comment: 21 pages + appendices, references adde
EAACI Biologicals Guidelines-Recommendations for severe asthma
Severe asthma imposes a significant burden on patients, families and healthcare systems. Management is difficult, due to disease heterogeneity, co-morbidities, complexity in care pathways and differences between national or regional healthcare systems. Better understanding of the mechanisms has enabled a stratified approach to the management of severe asthma, supporting the use of targeted treatments with biologicals. However, there are still many issues that require further clarification. These include selection of a certain biological (as they all target overlapping disease phenotypes), the definition of response, strategies to enhance the responder rate, the duration of treatment and its regimen (in the clinic or home-based) and its cost-effectiveness. The EAACI Guidelines on the use of biologicals in severe asthma follow the GRADE approach in formulating recommendations for each biological and each outcome. In addition, a management algorithm for the use of biologicals in the clinic is proposed, together with future approaches and research priorities.Peer reviewe
Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990â2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study
18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates have not been available so far for all major diseases and risk factors. Thus, we aimed to estimate the disease burden and risk factors in every state of India as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016
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