Evidence of Terrain-Induced Windshear Due to Lantau Island over the Third Runway of the Hong Kong International Airport—Examples and Numerical Simulations by Pak Wai Chan, Kai Kwong Lai

“…With the increased distance away from the mountains of Lantau Island to its south, it is not certain if terrain-induced windshear could still happen over the corridors of this runway, particularly the usual landing runway corridor (07LA) for aircraft from the west. …”
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A Regional Landslide Stability Analysis Method under the Combined Impact of Rainfall and Vegetation Roots in South China by Qinghua Gong, Jun Wang, Ping Zhou, Min Guo

“…The aim of this study was to develop a regional landslide stability analysis method considering the combined impact of rainfall and the roots of vegetation in densely vegetated areas. A typical mountainous watershed in the Nanling National Nature Reserve of South China was chosen as the study area. …”
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ASSEMBLAGES OF WOOD-INHABITING MACROFUNGI SPECIES IN BEECH FORESTS FROM EASTERN ROMANIA by Ciprian Constantin BÎRSAN, Constantin MARDARI, Catalin TANASE

“…Species composition and diversity of lignicolous fungi occurring in representative Fagus sp. forests have been analyzed along an altitude gradient, in 14 locations from the eastern region of Romania, including mountain forests (Borca, Gosman, Nemtisor, Tarcau), as well as hill forests (Arsura, Bârnova, Dalhauti, Dragomirna, Gâdinti, Homita, Humosu, Magura Ocnei, Runc, Valea Fagilor). …”
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Die Erinnerung an die Sächsische Schweiz in den Reisetagebüchern der Schwester Florentyna und Symforoza Krzyżanowska by Katarzyna Król

“…They explored the land surrounding them from three different perspectives: from the heights of the mountain hills, lowland areas and from the riverbed. …”
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Multisegment Parallel Coregistration of Sentinel-1 SAR Time-Series Images by Combining OpenMP With MPI by Yonghui Kang, Yonghong Zhang, Hong'an Wu, Jujie Wei, Xiaoxue Sun, Yue Zuo

“…Validation with 30 Sentinel-1 SAR images from Tianjin-Tangshan (plain) and Zhejiang (mountainous) regions demonstrates significant improvements. …”
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Mobilization of plant genetic resources from the territory of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic by A. B. Kurina, L. M. Kalashnikova, A. Yu. Paritov, G. Kh. Kirzhinov, A. M. Artemyeva

“…Its vegetation, especially in the mountainous and foothill areas, is very rich due to, inter alia, the extremely complex and diverse relief. …”
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Recognition of spatial distribution of convergence fluctuation of VIMFC vertical cumulative moisture on Iran’s atmosphere during 1979-2013 by Farshad Pazhoh, mehry akbary, Mohammad Darand

“…Based on the hot spots index in the first layer of troposphere low height regions, in the second layer of troposphere the  high regions of the Alborz, zagros and central mountains and in the third layer of troposphere alpine regions of central and eastern Iran's mountains has positive spatial self-correlation (hot spots). …”
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Investigation of Geological Diversity Based on the Degree of Sensitivity and the Amount of Equilibrium and Resilience of the Geosystem (Case study: The Eastern Kopet-Dagh Zone) by Sima Tavsoli, Adel Sepehr, Abbas Ghaderi

“…Here, we evaluate the geo-diversity of the Eastern Kopet-Dagh Mountains in northeastern Iran based on the geosystem's degree of sensitivity, equilibrium, and resilience. …”
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Grossschutzgebiete in den slowakischen Karpaten als Kompensation urbaner Verdichtung by Heino Meessen, Juraj Švajda, Thomas Kohler, Vladimíra Fabriciusová, Dobromil Galvánek, Miroslav Buraľ, Marcela Káčerová, Ján Kadlečík

“…In Eastern Europe’s westernmost mountain region, the Carpathians, the Slovak State Nature Conservancy is preserving a unique biodiversity in line with directives of the European Union. …”
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Epidemiology and morphology of malignant gastrointestinal tumors in Kabardino-Balkarian Republic for 25 years by A. A. Tkhakakhov

“…Incidence of oral and oropharyngeal cancer cases, stomach and colonic neoplasms in urban and lowland population is higher (1.4-2 times) as compared to rural and mountainous population, while for esophageal carcinoma, on the contrary, the prevalence is higher in the mountain part (almost double) both for the town and country populaiton. …”
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Connection and disconnection by Fruzsina Alexandra Németh

“…In addition, the Lower Zab River, which flows through this valley to reach the Mesopotamian Plain, provided a natural trade and information route between the inner parts of the Zagros Mountains, the Iranian Plateau, and the fertile plains crossed by the Tigris River. …”
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Effects of Thinning Intensities on Soil Infiltration and Water Storage Capacity in a Chinese Pine-Oak Mixed Forest by Lili Chen, Zhiyou Yuan, Hongbo Shao, Dexiang Wang, Xingmin Mu

“…The soil infiltration rate and water storage capacity of pine-oak mixed forest under three different thinning intensity treatments (15%, 30%, and 60%) were studied in Qinling Mountains of China. The thinning operations had a significant influence on soil infiltration rate and water storage capacity. …”
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Spatial Distribution of Tropospheric Ozone in National Parks of California: Interpretation of Passive-Sampler Data by John D. Ray

“…This was done in varying degrees at Mount Rainier, Olympic, Sequoia–Kings Canyon, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Rocky Mountain, and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. …”
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LAMOST Reveals Long-lived Protoplanetary Disks by Xiao-Long Wang, Min Fang, Yao Liu, Miao-Miao Zhang, Wen-Yuan Cui

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New insights into microbial bile salt hydrolases: from physiological roles to potential applications by Zixing Dong, Shuangshuang Yang, Cunduo Tang, Dandan Li, Dandan Li, Yunchao Kan, Yunchao Kan, Lunguang Yao, Lunguang Yao

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Vegetation Change and Its Response to Climate Change in Yunnan Province, China by Huaizhang Sun, Jiyan Wang, Junnan Xiong, Jinhu Bian, Huaan Jin, Weiming Cheng, Ainong Li

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Multiplicity of Solutions for a Class of Fourth-Order Elliptic Problems with Asymptotically Linear Term by Qiong Liu, Dengfeng Lü

“…Using an equivalent version of Cerami's condition and the symmetric mountain pass lemma, we obtain the existence of multiple solutions for the equations.…”
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Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for a Class of Anisotropic Double Phase Problems by Jie Yang, Haibo Chen, Senli Liu

“…We consider the following double phase problem with variable exponents: −div∇upx−2∇u+ax∇uqx−2∇u=λfx,u in Ω,u=0, on ∂Ω. By using the mountain pass theorem, we get the existence results of weak solutions for the aforementioned problem under some assumptions. …”
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Song of the Wayfarer: Auvergne According to François Cassingena-Trévedy by Eric Bordessoule, Michel Lompech

“…There are different approaches to writing travel narratives and literature about mountain wayfaring. This article studies the journey of a contemporary writer in the highlands. …”
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Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change by Melissa Ward Jones, Joachim Otto Habeck, Mathias Ulrich, Susan Crate, Glenna Gannon, Tobias Schwoerer, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Prashant Baral, Amina Maharjan, Jakob Steiner, Andrew Spring, Mindy Jewell Price, David Bysouth, Bruce C. Forbes, Mariana Verdonen, Timo Kumpula, Jens Strauss, Torben Windirsch, Christopher Poeplau, Yuri Shur, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Parlato, Fulu Tao, Merritt Turetsky, Stephanie Grand, Adrian Unc, Nils Borchard

“…These systems support local livelihoods and food production and are rarely considered in global agricultural studies but may become more relevant as climate change is increasing opportunities for food production in high latitude and mountainous areas. The exact locations and amount of agricultural production in areas containing permafrost are currently unknown, therefore we provide an overview of countries where both permafrost and agricultural activities are present. …”
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