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Hair ice is a rare type of ice formation that resembles thin strands of hair and is found only on rotting wood in specific weather conditions and locations. The peculiar formation of the ice is dependent on the presence of a particular fungus on dead wood from broadleaf woodland, which helps to shape the ice hairs and prevents them from recrystallising. This article details a recent sighting of hair...
Under clear skies and a low Sun, a dark patch appears on a surface of water at 90° from the Sun. The phenomenon is a naked‐eye manifestation of the polarisation of light of the blue sky. Although this every‐day occuring phenomenon is very conspicuous, it is only since 1980 that it has been discussed in the literature.
We begin this month's issue with the first in a series of papers re‐examining one aspect associated with the sinking of the Titanic. In ‘Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current’ on p. 119, Mila Zinkova presents an excellent review of the meteorology of visibility over cold waters and the areas where mixing occurs.
At the beginning of...
Meteorological factors are known to influence the morbidity of bacillary dysentery in humans in a number of different regions. To investigate the effect of meteorological factors on the incidence of this disease in the Hunan Province of China, Xiangxi, the region with the highest annual average incidence of bacillary dysentery in the Hunan province from 2005 to 2010 (44.07 cases per 100 000 people)...
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