The severity of rainfall exposure endured by vertical building facades is often quantified using the "annual driving rain index (aDRI)" subjected to the availability of adequate wind and rainfall data.
Cumulative rainfall exposure was not normally distributed, and, therefore, the variable was log2 transformed before analysis.
Monthly rainfall data were summed over the 6 months prior to delivery to represent rainfall exposure during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters.
Given a mean incubation period of 9 days for acute melioidosis, we used rainfall in the 14 days before admission for each patient (14-day rainfall) to broadly reflect the rainfall exposure around the infecting event.
Their flavor reflects the environment in which they are grown and can vary based on a wide range of factors: time of year, location, rainfall, sun exposure, the composition of the sand or soil in the ocean or river bed below, what they filtered from the surrounding water as food, and the temperature and salinity of that water as it washes over their calcium-rich shells, day after day.
The word you hear over and over is terroir (tair-WHAR), which literally means "soil," but in winemaker-speak embraces the semimystical totality of a vineyard's specific subsoil, sun exposure, rainfall, nighttime temperatures, length of growing season on and on.
However, Madagascar's rain forests are unusually stochastic in terms of rainfall, temperature, and exposure to cyclones [ 5], which may violate theoretical assumptions of relative stability by continually resetting the ecological stage.
First, in this study we assumed that the exposure (rainfall and temperature) will be similar for households that are found in the same zone (group) as climate impacts populations rather than individuals [ 25].
Excessive heat, rainfall, or wind exposures may be a short-term feature of each day or it may continue during the whole day.
Thus, we felt that given the suspected timing of exposure from rainfall and incubation of the likely infectious agents, a lag window of 1 7 days from rainfall would be appropriate for investigation.
Rainfed farming in Ethiopia is the main contributor to crop production, but highly variable due to its exposure to rainfall variability (Ford et al. 2015; Conway and Schipper 2011; Deressa et al. 2009).
