Publications

Radar date have eciting potential for improving forecasts from operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models in Europe. The COST Action 717 entitled ‘Use of radar observations in hydrological and NWP models’ offers a framework in which European radar and NWP scientists, along with those from the hydrological community, can work together to realise this potential. This review by members of WG3 seeks to inform the radar and NWP communities about each other’s disciplines and provide an accessible introduction to the literature for those working at the intersection of these fields.

This issue of Holzforschung contains a collection of papers which summarizes the scientific activities of COST Action E35. The objective of this Action was to increase the understanding of wood machining in relation to microstructural and micromechanics aspects of wood, fracture mechanics processes associated with separation of material during cutting and machined surface characterization in relation to quality.
The contributions in this issue of the journal provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the outcomes of 4 years of highly integrated interdisciplinary work. As well as adding new and enhanced knowledge of the relationships between the behaviour of wood at several structural scales and machining, the papers identify those areas where questions remain unanswered. This should stimulate additional multi-disciplinary research efforts, basic and applied, to achieve the level of understanding that the subject deserves.