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. ! . ; Main article: Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War The VHMS protocol had been in operation since 1986 and was also presented by the CAAS to the ICAO on 17 August 2011. Singapore further stated that the Seletar ILS procedure is meant to enhance the safety of the existing flight operations over Pasir Gudang and it does not create a new flight path that differs or deviates from the current air corridor that had been in operations since 1974.

Estimated global land precipitation increased by approximately 2% over the course of the 20th century though the calculated trend varies if different time endpoints are chosen complicated by ENSO and other oscillations including greater global land cloud cover precipitation in the 1950s and 1970s than the later 1980s and 1990s despite the positive trend over the century overall. Similar slight overall increase in global river runoff and in average soil moisture has been perceived! After the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate and operations in Northeastern Honshu and Hokkaido a true national army did not exist Many in the restoration coalition had recognized the need for a strong centralized authority and although the imperial side was victorious the early Meiji government was weak and the leaders had to maintain their standing with their domains whose military forces was essential for whatever the government needed to achieve the leaders of the restoration were divided over the future organization of the army Omura Masujiro who had sought a strong central government at the expense of the domains advocated for the creation of a standing national army along European lines under the control of the government the introduction of conscription for commoners and the abolition of the samurai class. Okubo Toshimichi preferred a small volunteer force consisting of former samurai. Omura's views for modernizing Japan's military led to his assassination in 1869 and his ideas were largely implemented after his death by Yamagata Aritomo Yamagata had commanded mixed commoner-samurai Choshu units during the Boshin War and was convinced of the merit of peasant soldiers. Although he himself was part of the samurai class albeit of insignificant lower status Yamagata distrusted the warrior class several members of whom he regarded as clear dangers to the Meiji state, 8 Major shareholders 1.3 Central Europe, 3 Time Zone Slight variations in Earth's motion lead to changes in the seasonal distribution of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and how it is distributed across the globe There is very little change to the area-averaged annually averaged sunshine; but there can be strong changes in the geographical and seasonal distribution The three types of kinematic change are variations in Earth's eccentricity changes in the tilt angle of Earth's axis of rotation and precession of Earth's axis Combined together these produce Milankovitch cycles which affect climate and are notable for their correlation to glacial and interglacial periods, their correlation with the advance and retreat of the Sahara and for their appearance in the stratigraphic record. .