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Earth, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2024 - 14 articles

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Cover Story: The accumulation of carbon emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere has raised significant concerns about the increasing weather volatility and its effects on livestock performance. We explore the impacts of the changes in weather conditions on milk productivity using spatial panel econometric models to reduce the bias of omitted weather variables that can be time-varying and spatially correlated. Our analysis reveals an inverse U-shaped effect of summer heat stress on milk production per cow, indicating that milk productivity reacts positively to a low-level increase in summer heat stress and then declines as heat stress continues increasing beyond a threshold value of 72. Additionally, the spatial panel econometric models are recommended relative to the conventional panel models due to their improved prediction performance. View this paper

Articles (14)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,103 Views
16 Pages

A Case Study of the Possible Meteorological Causes of Unexpected Fire Behavior in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil

  • Flavio T. Couto,
  • Filippe L. M. Santos,
  • Cátia Campos,
  • Carolina Purificação,
  • Nuno Andrade,
  • Juan M. López-Vega and
  • Matthieu Lacroix

18 September 2024

This study provides insights into large fires in the Pantanal by analyzing the atmospheric conditions that influenced the rapid fire evolution between 13 and 14 November 2023, when fire fronts spread rapidly, leading to critical situations for firefi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,701 Views
57 Pages

14 September 2024

Earth data is essential for global environmental studies. Many Earth data types are naturally modeled by multidimensional arrays (tensors). Array (Tensor) DBMSs strive to be the best systems for tensor-related workloads and can be especially helpful...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,694 Views
14 Pages

11 September 2024

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission-induced climate change, particularly occurring since the mid-20th century, has been considerably affecting short-term weather conditions, such as increasing weather variability and the incidence of extreme weather-relate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,099 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of the Status of Irrigation Management in North Carolina

  • Anuoluwapo Omolola Adelabu,
  • Blessing Masasi and
  • Olabisi Tolulope Somefun

7 September 2024

Farmers in North Carolina are turning to irrigation to reduce the impacts of droughts and rainfall variability on agricultural production. Droughts, rainfall variability, and the increasing demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel necessitate the urgen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,095 Views
43 Pages

6 September 2024

This paper addresses the problem of mapping land cover types in Senegal and recognition of vegetation systems in the Saloum River Delta on the satellite images. Multi-seasonal landscape dynamics were analyzed using Landsat 8-9 OLI/TIRS images from 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,955 Views
16 Pages

Index-Based Alteration of Long-Term River Flow Regimes Influenced by Land Use Change and Dam Regulation

  • Raoof Mostafazadeh,
  • Mostafa Zabihi Silabi,
  • Javanshir Azizi Mobaser and
  • Bita Moezzipour

31 August 2024

The growing population and expansion of rural activities, along with changing climatic patterns and the need for water during drought periods, have led to a rise in the water demand worldwide. As a result, the construction of water storage structures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,743 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2024

Land surface temperature (LST) variations and anomalies associated with tectonic plate movements have been documented before large earthquakes. In this work, we propose that spatially extended and dynamic linear zones of high temperature anomalies at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,224 Views
17 Pages

16 August 2024

Petrochemical clusters are forms of industrialization that use compounds and polymers derived directly or indirectly from gas or crude oil for chemical applications. They pose a variety of short- and long-term risks to the environment and the people...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,985 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2024

The growing interest in environmental sustainability issues and, at the same time, the advantages offered by blockchain technology have strong connections to each other. This study explores the application of blockchain technology across various envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,125 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of Land Cover on Nest Occupancy of the White Stork (Ciconia ciconia (L.)): A Case Study of Kampinos Forest, 2006–2018

  • Joanna Bihałowicz,
  • Axel Schwerk,
  • Izabela Dymitryszyn,
  • Adam Olszewski and
  • Jan Stefan Bihałowicz

1 August 2024

Land cover is one of the spatial factors influencing the ecological niche of animal populations. Some types of land cover predetermine a particular site as a habitat for certain species. One of the flagship species of agrocenosis is the white stork (...

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