A. Kurucz

Bio: A. Kurucz is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Land development & Land use. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

Climate change detection and annual extreme temperature analysis of the Irtysh Basin

Abstract: As the largest tributary of the Ob River, the Irtysh River is an international river partially joining the territories of China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Four meteorological stations in the Irtysh Basin were selected and the long-term observed daily temperature data were collected. The extreme temperature change was analyzed considering climate change. Detected by the heuristic segmentation by histogram comparison approach, climate was changed during the first half of the 1970s in terms of the increased mean value and decreased standard deviation of the daily temperature series. The noticeable change of the monthly mean temperature was the warmer winter. After climate change, the annual maximum temperature was little changed and its series was not segmented. However, the annual minimum temperature was significantly changed in terms of the increased mean value by more than 2°C, so its series was segmented to the pre- and post-change point subseries. The generalized extreme value distribution was fitted to the annual extreme temperature and the parameters were estimated by the maximum likelihood method. The return levels for 10/50/100-year return periods estimated by the profile likelihood method were obtained for the annual extreme temperature. The probability of occurrence of the cold extremes was decreased after 1970s.

Trends in Mango Research as seen Through Science Citation Expanded Index of Web of Science

Abstract: The publication of research work on mango carried out world over during the period 1993–2016 is reviewed for the various publications retrieved through the Science Citation Index Expanded. A total of 2984 documents were found in the search, of which 2665 are research articles and they were characterized for publication output and scientific descriptors. It was observed that there are 623 core journals involved in publication on mango research. 91.81% of the articles were published in English language and the journal Scientia Horticulturae was the most productive journal. India was the most productive country with 664 articles (24%) followed by Brazil. Among the institutions working on mango, the top three out of 10 were from India, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Central Food Technology and Research Institute, Mysore. The words “Mangifera” “mango cultivar” and “Diptera” are the most figured key words in the title of the article and the major portion of the research was concerned with genetic diversity, genetic relatedness and quality aspects of the mango. This work would be useful to the researchers to know the trends in mango research.