Historical snow measurements in the central and southern Apennine Mountains: climatology, variability, and trend by V. Capozzi, F. Serrapica, A. Rocco, C. Annella, C. Annella, G. Budillon

“…For clusters including only stations above 1000 m above the sea level, a significant (at 90 % or 95 % confidence levels) decreasing trend has been found in the winter season (i.e. from December to February), with <span class="inline-formula">−3.2</span> [<span class="inline-formula">−6.0</span> to 0.0] d per 10 years for snow cover duration and <span class="inline-formula">−1.6</span> [<span class="inline-formula">−2.5</span> to <span class="inline-formula">−0.6</span>] d per 10 years for number of days with snowfall. …”
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Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the Arctic drift expedition MOSAiC by William Boulton, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Sara Calhoun, Kurt LaButti, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Allison A. Fong, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Katja Metfies, Kersten Oetjen, Sarah Lena Eggers, Oliver Müller, Jessie Gardner, Mats A. Granskog, Anders Torstensson, Marc Oggier, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Andrew Toseland, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Thomas Mock

“…This set of MAGs can be used to benchmark microbial biodiversity in the Central Arctic Ocean, compare individual strains across space and time, and to study changes in Arctic microbial communities from the winter to summer, at a genomic level.…”
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Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM) by F. Baldacchino, F. Baldacchino, N. R. Golledge, M. Morlighem, H. Horgan, H. Horgan, H. Horgan, A. V. Alevropoulos-Borrill, A. Malyarenko, A. Malyarenko, A. Gossart, D. P. Lowry, L. van Haastrecht

“…Here, we present three new velocity datasets from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations on the Ross Ice Shelf collected between early 2020 and late 2021 and show that they have two distinct peaks observed in austral summer and austral winter. These measurements do not appear to be consistent with the yearly cycle of sea surface height, which has previously been identified as a possible driver. …”
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UAV Remote Sensing Technology for Wheat Growth Monitoring in Precision Agriculture: Comparison of Data Quality and Growth Parameter Inversion by Jikai Liu, Weiqiang Wang, Jun Li, Ghulam Mustafa, Xiangxiang Su, Ying Nian, Qiang Ma, Fengxian Zhen, Wenhui Wang, Xinwei Li

“…The reliability of pixel-scale data quality was evaluated based on image quality assessment metrics, and three winter wheat growth parameters, above-ground biomass (AGB), plant nitrogen content (PNC) and soil and plant analysis development (SPAD), were inverted using machine learning models based on multi-source image features at the plot scale. …”
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First genome-scale insights into the virulence of the snow mold causal fungus Microdochium nivale by Ivan Tsers, Ekaterina Marenina, Azat Meshcherov, Olga Petrova, Olga Gogoleva, Alexander Tkachenko, Natalia Gogoleva, Yuri Gogolev, Evgenii Potapenko, Olga Muraeva, Mira Ponomareva, Viktor Korzun, Vladimir Gorshkov

“…Abstract Pink snow mold, caused by a phytopathogenic and psychrotolerant fungus, Microdochium nivale, is a severe disease of winter cereals and grasses that predominantly occurs under snow cover or shortly after its melt. …”
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Convergent evidence for the temperature-dependent emergence of silicification in terrestrial plants by Zhihao Pang, Félix de Tombeur, Sue E. Hartley, Constantin M. Zohner, Miroslav Nikolic, Cyrille Violle, Lidong Mo, Thomas W. Crowther, Dong-Xing Guan, Zhongkui Luo, Yong-Guan Zhu, Yuxiao Wang, Ping Zhang, Hongyun Peng, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Nina Nikolic, Yongchao Liang

“…Across China, leaf Si concentrations increase with temperature in high-Si plants (wheat and rice), but not in low-Si plants (weeping willow and winter jasmine). From an evolutionary perspective, 77% of high-Si families (>10 mg Si g−1 DW) originate during warming episodes, while 86% of low-Si families (<1 mg Si g−1 DW) originate during cooling episodes. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of stroke incidence from 2017 to 2022 in Songjiang District, Shanghai by SU Xuyan, WANG Yuzhuo, WU Yiling, HE Jingyi, YANG Peng, LANG Dongchen, JIANG Yonggen, ZHAO Genming, ZHENG Yang

“…The incidence of stroke presented seasonal characteristics, with the highest incidence in winter, accounting for 26.11% of the whole year.ConclusionThe incidence rate of stroke in Songjiang District shows a declined trend, but the overall incidence is still at a high level. …”
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Clinical manifestations, para-clinical features and outcome of Iranian adults with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection: a report from hospitalized patients by Maryam Shafaati, Abbas Shakoori Farahani, Mohammadreza Salehi, Mohammad Arabzadeh, Helya Bolouki Azari, Arman Soleimany, Maryam Edalatifard, Vahid Salimi, Alireza Abdollahi

“…The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical manifestations, para-clinical characteristics, and outcome of RSV infection among adult patients who were referred to the Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex during the winter and spring of 2022–2023. Methods From December 21, 2022, to May 20, 2023, we conducted a cross-sectional study on hospitalized adults having positive RT-PCR results for RSV. …”
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Levels, Temporal-Spatial Variations, and Sources of Organochlorine Pesticides in Ambient Air of Lake Chaohu, China by Hui-Ling Ouyang, Wei He, Ning Qin, Xiang-Zhen Kong, Wen-Xiu Liu, Qi-Shuang He, Qing-Mei Wang, Yu-Jiao Jiang, Chen Yang, Bin Yang, Fu-Liu Xu

“…The mean concentration of OCPs in the gas phase was significantly higher in the summer than in the winter. Seventeen types of OCPs were detected in the particle phase with a total concentration of 18.3 ± 26.1 pg/m3. …”
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Effects of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Flavor of Nanguo Pear by Ge Bai, Ya Wang, Jianrong Zheng, Xiaomin Zhang, Zhaoyue Zhuang, Danshi Zhu, Xuehui Cao

“…Frozen pears, obtained by repeated freezing and thawing under cold outdoor conditions in winter, are very popular in northeast China. The effects of three freeze-thaw cycles (FT1–FT3) on Nanguo pear flavor were studied under fast (−80°C) and slow (−20°C) freezing conditions. …”
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Within Satisfaction and Distress: Characterizing the First Cultural Transition of Young Talented Cameroonian Footballers by Boris Tachom Waffo, Denis Hauw

“…Challenges characterized tough situations players went through like contract disruption (club and team), broken In-group (team), injury (pitch), new mentality (way of life), winter (geography), long-distance relationship (home country), and experience of professionalism (High Level Athlete status). …”
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Concerns Over Vuse e-Cigarette Digital Marketing and Implications for Public Health Regulation: Content Analysis by Eileen Han, Lauren K Lempert, Francesca Vescia, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher

“…We collected all posts from October 10, 2019, when RJ Reynolds Vapor Company submitted its premarket tobacco product application to the FDA, to February 21, 2022, to cover the first winter holiday season after the MGO. Two coders developed the codebook with 17 themes based on the Content Appealing to Youth index to capture the posts’ characteristics and potentially youth-appealing content. …”
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NH3 release during the snow evaporation process in typical cities in Northeast China by Xiaoteng Liu, Hongsheng Jia, Yunze Zhao, Yachao Zhang, Haodong Hou, Yingying Xu

“…The average release flux for individual snowfall events was 688.66 μg/m2, which constituted approximately 2.44% of the NH3 concentration documented in the winter atmosphere of Changchun. During the snow evaporation or sublimation process, R was positively correlated with the environmental temperature (P < 0.05) and negatively correlated with both the environmental wind speed and snowfall amount (P < 0.05). …”
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Meteorological Anomalies During Earthquake Preparation: A Case Study for the 1995 Kobe Earthquake (M = 7.3) Based on Statistical and Machine Learning-Based Analyses by Masashi Hayakawa, Shinji Hirooka, Koichiro Michimoto, Stelios M. Potirakis, Yasuhide Hobara

“…When looking at the whole period of over one year including the day of the EQ, in the case of T/Hum only we detected three additional extreme anomalies, except in winter, but with unknown origins. On the other hand, the anomalous peak on 10 January 1995 was the largest for ACP. …”
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Gene content of seawater microbes is a strong predictor of water chemistry across the Great Barrier Reef by Marko Terzin, Steven J. Robbins, Sara C. Bell, Kim-Anh Lê Cao, Renee K. Gruber, Pedro R. Frade, Nicole S. Webster, Yun Kit Yeoh, David G. Bourne, Patrick W. Laffy

“…In contrast, nutrient levels were lower in winter, and POM production was also attributed to Prochlorococcus. …”
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White-Seeded Culinary Poppy (<i>Papaver somniferum</i> L.) Se Biofortification: Oil Quality, Fatty Acid Profile, and Seed Yield by Ivana Varga, Tihomir Moslavac, Ivana Flanjak, Dario Iljkić, Milan Pospišil, Zdenko Lončarić, Manda Antunović

“…The poppies were sown as a winter crop. Selenium biofortification was applied using different selenium sources, such as selenite, SeO₃²⁻, and selenate SeO₄²⁻. …”
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Influence of water masses and environmental variables on fish community in the south bank of Yangtze River Estuary, China by Dongrong Zhang, Dongrong Zhang, Hengtao Xu, Hengtao Xu, Xin Fang, Xin Fang, Wei Huang, Wei Huang, Youzheng Zhang, Youzheng Zhang, Jian Qian, Jian Qian

“…In this study, we employed a single-boat bottom trawl to conduct four fishery resource surveys in April (spring), August (summer), October (autumn), and December (winter) of 2020 at ten sampling sites along the south bank of the Yangtze River Estuary (SBYRE). …”
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From sea to sky: understanding the sea surface temperature impact on an atmospheric blocking event using sensitivity experiments with the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) model by S. Christ, M. Wenta, C. M. Grams, C. M. Grams, A. Oertel

“…This blocking event, which was associated with a winter heat wave with unprecedented temperatures in western Europe, was both preceded and accompanied by several rapidly intensifying extratropical cyclones originating in the Gulf Stream region and crossing the North Atlantic. …”
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Response of Soil Respiration to Snowfall in a Kubuqi Salix Plantation Forest of During Freeze-thaw Period by WANG Jixuan, LAN Xiaozhen, PEI Zhiyong, ZHANG Junyao, WANG Xinping, LI Ying, WANG Haichao, SUN Xiaotian, SUN Kai

“…[Conclusion] Snowfall in winter can provide water for vegetation growth in early spring, and it regulates the carbon budget in arid and semi-arid regions; stubble levelling and land preparation can impede the release of carbon during the freeze-thaw period in arid and semi-arid areas and indirectly slow down the loss of carbon from the soil, thus contributing to the regulation of the carbon budget of the ecosystem.…”
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Relationship between chlorophyll-a, sea surface temperature, and sea surface salinity by M. Hidayat, R. Wafdan, M. Ramli, Z. Muchlisin, S. Rizal

“…It was shown to be associated with the northeast monsoon, which causes winter. On the sea surface temperature graph, several peaks were observed in positive local extremes yearly at almost all stations. …”
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