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Colorado State University
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About: Colorado State University is a education organization based out in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Radar. The organization has 31430 authors who have published 69040 publications receiving 2724463 citations. The organization is also known as: CSU & Colorado Agricultural College.
Topics: Population, Radar, Poison control, Laser, Soil water
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TL;DR: The Common Land Model (CLM) as mentioned in this paper was developed for community use by a grassroots collaboration of scientists who have an interest in making a general land model available for public use and further development.
Abstract: The Common Land Model (CLM) was developed for community use by a grassroots collaboration of scientists who have an interest in making a general land model available for public use and further development. The major model characteristics include enough unevenly spaced layers to adequately represent soil temperature and soil moisture, and a multilayer parameterization of snow processes; an explicit treatment of the mass of liquid water and ice water and their phase change within the snow and soil system; a runoff parameterization following the TOPMODEL concept; a canopy photo synthesis-conductance model that describes the simultaneous transfer of CO2 and water vapor into and out of vegetation; and a tiled treatment of the subgrid fraction of energy and water balance. CLM has been extensively evaluated in offline mode and coupling runs with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3). The results of two offline runs, presented as examples, are compared with observations and with the simulation of three other la...
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TL;DR: Passeriform and charadriiform birds were more reservoir competent (a derivation of viremia data) than other species tested and Persistent WNV infections were found in tissues of 16 surviving birds.
Abstract: To evaluate transmission dynamics, we exposed 25 bird species to West Nile virus (WNV) by infectious mosquito bite. We monitored viremia titers, clinical outcome, WNV shedding (cloacal and oral), seroconversion, virus persistence in organs, and susceptibility to oral and contact transmission. Passeriform and charadriiform birds were more reservoir competent (a derivation of viremia data) than other species tested. The five most competent species were passerines: Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), and House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Death occurred in eight species. Cloacal shedding of WNV was observed in 17 of 24 species, and oral shedding in 12 of 14 species. We observed contact transmission among four species and oral in five species. Persistent WNV infections were found in tissues of 16 surviving birds. Our observations shed light on transmission ecology of WNV and will benefit surveillance and control programs.
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Colorado State University1, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation2, National Center for Atmospheric Research3, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration4, Massachusetts Institute of Technology5, Princeton University6, University of California, Berkeley7, Max Planck Society8, Meteorological Service of Canada9, Japan Meteorological Agency10, University of California, Irvine11, California Institute of Technology12, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology13, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory14
TL;DR: An uptake of CO2 in the southern extratropical ocean less than that estimated from ocean measurements is found, a result that is not sensitive to transport models or methodological approaches, and carbon fluxes integrated over latitudinal zones are strongly constrained by observations in the middle to high latitudes.
Abstract: Information about regional carbon sources and sinks can be derived from variations in observed atmospheric CO2 concentrations via inverse modelling with atmospheric tracer transport models. A consensus has not yet been reached regarding the size and distribution of regional carbon fluxes obtained using this approach, partly owing to the use of several different atmospheric transport models. Here we report estimates of surface-atmosphere CO2 fluxes from an intercomparison of atmospheric CO2 inversion models (the TransCom 3 project), which includes 16 transport models and model variants. We find an uptake of CO2 in the southern extratropical ocean less than that estimated from ocean measurements, a result that is not sensitive to transport models or methodological approaches. We also find a northern land carbon sink that is distributed relatively evenly among the continents of the Northern Hemisphere, but these results show some sensitivity to transport differences among models, especially in how they respond to seasonal terrestrial exchange of CO2. Overall, carbon fluxes integrated over latitudinal zones are strongly constrained by observations in the middle to high latitudes. Further significant constraints to our understanding of regional carbon fluxes will therefore require improvements in transport models and expansion of the CO2 observation network within the tropics.
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J. Craig Venter Institute1, Broad Institute2, Virginia Tech3, Johns Hopkins University4, University of Notre Dame5, Harvard University6, Colorado State University7, Northwestern University8, University of California, Riverside9, University of Oxford10, Purdue University11, Pasteur Institute12, University of São Paulo13, University of Geneva14, University of Massachusetts Amherst15, Instituto Butantan16, University of A Coruña17, University of Göttingen18
TL;DR: A draft sequence of the genome of Aedes aegypti, the primary vector for yellow fever and dengue fever, which at approximately 1376 million base pairs is about 5 times the size of the genomes of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae was presented in this paper.
Abstract: We present a draft sequence of the genome of Aedes aegypti, the primary vector for yellow fever and dengue fever, which at approximately 1376 million base pairs is about 5 times the size of the genome of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nearly 50% of the Ae. aegypti genome consists of transposable elements. These contribute to a factor of approximately 4 to 6 increase in average gene length and in sizes of intergenic regions relative to An. gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster. Nonetheless, chromosomal synteny is generally maintained among all three insects, although conservation of orthologous gene order is higher (by a factor of approximately 2) between the mosquito species than between either of them and the fruit fly. An increase in genes encoding odorant binding, cytochrome P450, and cuticle domains relative to An. gambiae suggests that members of these protein families underpin some of the biological differences between the two mosquito species.
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TL;DR: World population is likely to continue growing for the rest of the century, with at least a 3.5-fold increase in the population of Africa and the ratio of working-age people to older people is almost certain to decline substantially in all countries, not just currently developed ones.
Abstract: The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, the world population is unlikely to stop growing this century. There is an 80% probability that world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100. This uncertainty is much smaller than the range from the traditional UN high and low variants. Much of the increase is expected to happen in Africa, in part due to higher fertility rates and a recent slowdown in the pace of fertility decline. Also, the ratio of working-age people to older people is likely to decline substantially in all countries, even those that currently have young populations.
1,091 citations
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Mark P. Mattson | 200 | 980 | 138033 |
Stephen J. O'Brien | 153 | 1062 | 93025 |
Ad Bax | 138 | 486 | 97112 |
David Price | 138 | 1687 | 93535 |
Georgios B. Giannakis | 137 | 1321 | 73517 |
James Mueller | 134 | 1194 | 87738 |
Christopher B. Field | 133 | 408 | 88930 |
Steven W. Running | 126 | 355 | 76265 |
Simon Lin | 126 | 754 | 69084 |
Jitender P. Dubey | 124 | 1344 | 77275 |
Gregory P. Asner | 123 | 613 | 60547 |
Steven P. DenBaars | 118 | 1366 | 60343 |
Peter Molnar | 118 | 446 | 53480 |
William R. Jacobs | 118 | 490 | 48638 |
C. Patrignani | 117 | 1754 | 110008 |