Abstract: Remote sensing of rainfall events is critical for both operational and scientific needs, including for example weather forecasting, extreme flood mitigation, and water cycle monitoring.

Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

"Something placed before a conclusion" The etymology comes from the Latin 'praemissa propositio' (a proposition placed before). It entered English in the 14th century as a term in logic and philosophy ...

"Something that is yours alone, and no one else's" Derived from the Old English 'āgen' (held as one's own). The difference between 'my room' and 'my own room' is that adding 'own' introduces a nuance ...

Abstract: The validation of the soil moisture retrievals from the recently launched National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) satellite is important ...

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In linguistics, collocation is the habitual and recurrent juxtaposition of words with particular other words, those words being known as collocates. Examples include the indivisible opposites right ...