Publications

Agricultural productions are very much influenced by weather conditions. Favorable weather significantly boosts productions while unfavorable weather may cause extensive losses. So agriculture needs agro meteorological models to predict and forecast crop yields and productions, to support decision and to minimize environmental costs of agriculture with short-term consequences (quality of products, fertilization:N, Pesticide) and outputs or inputs with long-term consequences (reduction of water resources, modifications of climate).

The new precariousness of the welfare state and the growing influence of the market, are challenging children’s life worlds, their everyday lives in families, schools, kindergartens and leisure areas. Demographic changes are leaving children vulnerable in the competition for public resources, access to space and use of time. Children are marginal at the big stage of political and economic actors. They do not have strong interest group to defend their rights to resources. But societies can not do without children’s contributions to society. Broad social changes call for deeper analyses as to the cultural blindness to children’s input to the societal fabric, and their consequences for children. These country studies explore children’s welfare from available sources across European countries.

This topical volume of the Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics utilizes new information not previously accessible for fog related research; it focuses on surface and remote sensing observations of fog, various numerical model applications using new parameterizations, fog climatology, and new statistical methods.