New canicula index to study its impact on Agriculture in the Central American Dry Corridor and its connection with El Niño

New canicula index to study its impact on Agriculture in the Central American Dry Corridor and its connection with El Niño
Author: Rojas, O., Rodriguez de España, M.V., Hernández, T.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2020-12-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9251337225
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The canicula is the reduction of rainfall during the rainy season, in July and August, which can mainly affect basic grains during the crop flowering and grain filling phases. This natural climatic event manifests from the south of Mexico to the Central American Dry Corridor and ends in the Dry Arc of Panama. It affects the Pacific zone of Nicaragua with higher frequency and intensity, followed by areas in Honduras, Panama (provinces of Los Santos and Herrera, and some areas of the Darien province) and part of the Dry Corridor of Guatemala (Chiquimula and Zacapa). The intensity and accentuation of the canicula in Central America is more correlated with the version of Modoki El Niño than with the version of Canonical El Niño. The Modoki El Niño version has increased its frequency of occurrence in the last decades, presenting favourable conditions for an increase in the frequency of occurrence of extended caniculas in the region. The objective of the index is to evaluate the reduction of rainfall during the rainy season which, in years of extreme canicula, causes considerable losses in annual crops.

Canícula

Canícula
Author: Norma E. Cantú
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826318282
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In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood.

Glimpses

Glimpses
Author: J.E. Taylor
Publisher: J.E. Taylor
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Glimpses: A Collection of Stories This collection includes novellas, a bonus novel, and a dozen short stories. The following titles are included: WOLF MOON Alessandra and Hunter have a price on their heads. Can they escape their fate, or will the sins of the past lead them to their death? THE DEVIL’S OFFER Tricked into a deal with the devil, will Layla lead someone else to death to save her own soul? WINTER’S HEART Lisa Winters is supposed to save the small town of Opal from destruction with magic she does not possess. Will she succeed in slaying the white tiger or die trying? LILITH – A NIGHT HAWK PREQUEL Obsession puts Lilith within the grasp of immortality, but the price for living forever creates a different, much darker fixation. JOY – A SILENT NIGHT PREQUEL Santa Clause gets a special protector for his annual ride. SILENT NIGHT It seems the monsters have come out to play with Santa’s sleigh. If Chrissy doesn’t put a stop to it, children all over the world will wake to a Christmas that never was. MESSIAH Love was André’s motivation for preventing his parent's execution on his home planet, now in Earth's refuge, will love be his undoing again? The following short stories are also included in GLIMPSES: ARMAGEDDON, ABYSS, GRAYSON HOUSE, IRON RAIN, NIGHTMARES, POLLYWOGS & WATER MOCCASINS, FLIGHT PLAN, SAVIOR, and THE UNDERSTUDY.

Fish Physiology

Fish Physiology
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Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 1983-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080585299
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Fish Physiology

Winter's Heart

Winter's Heart
Author: J.E. Taylor
Publisher: J.E. Taylor
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Myths. Magic. And a prophecy realized. Lisa Winters is supposed to save the small town of Opal from destruction with magic she does not possess. The white tiger has awoken, and he wants revenge on the people who betrayed him, as well as the sorceress who bound him in frost. Lisa was not that witch. And yet, everyone believes she is the fated one. The one who will finally end the white tiger’s reign of terror. Even her mentor, Herk, thinks so. Lisa doesn’t want to let anyone down, but she can barely start a fire with a match and lighter fluid, let alone do anything magical. That is, until the moment she meets the white tiger. His majestic beauty stirs deep within her soul. Her magic, dormant for so long, sparks to life like a shooting star streaking across the universe. But as the burst fades, so does her strength, leaving her vulnerable to the tiger’s wrath.

Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers
Author: Gerard L'E. Turner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040235719
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This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world. An international authority on historical scientific instruments, Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West, and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. It is necessary to 'read' the instruments themselves, and astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information, mathematical, astronomical, metallurgical, in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship, the existence of workshops, and economic and social conditions. There is a strong forensic element in instrument research, and Gerard Turner's achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator, all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays deal with the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop, and of a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.