Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are the focus of many open questions, spanning from weather to climate and from local to global scales. The relationship between moisture uptake and precipitation over different mesoscale ETC structures remains poorly understood. The availability of moisture parameters to the scientific community through tracer dispersion models benefits the representation of the processes involving moisture, the dynamics of ETCs and the understanding of the associated meteorological fields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe terrestrial and oceanic origins of precipitation over 50 major river basins worldwide were investigated for the period 1980-2018. For this purpose, we used a Lagrangian approximation that calculates the humidity that results in precipitation from the entire ocean area (ocean component of the precipitation, PLO) and the entire land area (land component, PLT) as well as the sum of both components (Lagrangian precipitation, PL). PL and its components were highly correlated with precipitation over the basins, where PLT accounted for >50 % of the PL in most of them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the capabilities of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) for calculating the power of an intraocular lens (IOL) to be implanted and in achieving a given postoperative stable refraction.
Setting: Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology, Havana, Cuba.
Design: Retrospective review.