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Naval Postgraduate School
Education•Monterey, California, United States•
About: Naval Postgraduate School is a education organization based out in Monterey, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tropical cyclone & Boundary layer. The organization has 5246 authors who have published 11614 publications receiving 298300 citations. The organization is also known as: NPS & U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Topics: Tropical cyclone, Boundary layer, Optimal control, Vortex, Turbulence
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TL;DR: In this article, an estimate of rainfall over the Atlantic Ocean between 30°S to 70°N has been constructed based on a technique that uses the present weather observations taken by ships.
Abstract: New estimates of rainfall over the Atlantic Ocean between 30°S to 70°N have been constructed based an a technique that uses the present weather observations taken by ships. Annual and quarterly rainfall maps are presented. Between the equator and 60°N, the average annual rainfall depth is 1034 mm and the annual volume is 3.93 × 104km3. Compared to the Pacific, the Atlantic is significantly drier and has less extreme values. Maps of amplitude and phase show that most of the North Atlantic cast of 60°W experiences a inter peak rainfall. The South Atlantic experiences its peak rainfall in the Southern Hemisphere summer.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine hierarchical and topological relationships between octants to design efficient recursive algorithms that operate on distributed forests of octrees for adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening.
Abstract: The forest-of-octrees approach to parallel adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening has recently been demonstrated in the context of a number of large-scale PDE-based applications. Efficient reference software has been made freely available to the public both in the form of the standalone \tt p4est library and more indirectly by the general-purpose finite element library \tt deal.II, which has been equipped with a \tt p4est backend. Although linear octrees, which store only leaf octants, have an underlying tree structure by definition, it is not fully exploited in previously published mesh-related algorithms. This is because tree branches are not explicitly stored and because the topological relationships in meshes, such as the adjacency between cells, introduce dependencies that do not respect the octree hierarchy. In this work, we combine hierarchical and topological relationships between octants to design efficient recursive algorithms that operate on distributed forests of octrees. We present three imp...
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TL;DR: In this paper, several techniques to account for mesoscale initial condition (IC) and model uncertainty in a short-range ensemble prediction system based on the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model are evaluated.
Abstract: This work evaluates several techniques to account for mesoscale initial-condition (IC) and model uncertainty in a short-range ensemble prediction system based on the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model. A scientific description and verification of several candidate methods for implementation in the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency mesoscale ensemble is presented. Model perturbation methods tested include multiple parametrization suites, landsurface property perturbations, perturbations to parameters within physics schemes and stochastic ‘backscatter’ streamfunction perturbations. IC perturbations considered include perturbed observations in 10 independent WRF-3DVar cycles and the ensemble-transform Kalman filter (ETKF). A hybrid of ETKF (for IC perturbations) and WRF-3DVar (to update the ensemble mean) is also tested. Results show that all of the model and IC perturbation methods examined are more skilful than direct dynamical downscaling of the global ensemble. IC perturbations are most helpful during the first 12 h of the forecasts. Physical parametrization diversity appears critical for boundary-layer forecasts. In an effort to reduce system complexity by reducing the number of suites of physical parametrizations, a smaller set of parametrization suites was combined with perturbed parameters and stochastic backscatter, resulting in the most skilful and statistically consistent ensemble predictions.
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TL;DR: It is shown that in particular cases, including a chain enterprise one can compute the nucleolus in O(n) operations, wheren is the number of vertices in the tree.
Abstract: In this paper we characterize the nucleolus (which coincides with the kernel) of a tree enterprise. We also provide a new algorithm to compute it, which sheds light on its structure. We show that in particular cases, including a chain enterprise one can compute the nucleolus in O(n) operations, wheren is the number of vertices in the tree.
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TL;DR: In this article, a temperature and current velocity mooring, located on the upper continental slope of the northern South China Sea, recorded a number of second baroclinic mode (mode 2) internal solitary waves (ISWs).
Abstract: [1] A temperature and current velocity mooring, located on the upper continental slope of the northern South China Sea, recorded a number of second baroclinic mode (mode 2) internal solitary waves (ISWs). These types of waves are seldom observed in nature. The mode 2 ISWs typically showed upward (downward) displacement of isotherms in the upper (lower) water column and three layers of eastward, westward, and eastward current from the uppermost to bottommost portions of a wave. In summer, westward-propagating mode 2 ISWs were observed only occasionally. These waves generally appeared after mode 1 ISWs, a feature that may relate to the diurnal tide with a period of approximately 24 hours. The displacement of isotherms induced by mode 2 ISWs was 20 ± 14 m at 75 m and ―22 ± 15 m at 240 m, and the characteristic time scale was approximately 8.0 ± 4.3 min. In winter, mode 2 ISWs were more active but mode 1 ISWs were rarely observed. Isotherm displacement by mode 2 ISWs in winter was 30 ± 18 m at 75 m and ―26 ± 16 m at 240 m, and the average characteristic time scale was 6.9 ± 4.6 min. The mode 2 ISWs thus had larger amplitudes and smaller time scales in winter than they did in summer. The observed vertical temperature profile also showed notable seasonal change. The thermocline was shallow in summer and deep in winter. In winter, vertical temperature profiles indicated that the main thermocline was located near middepth over the upper continental slope near the 350 m isobath. Mode 1 ISWs were more active in summer than in winter, reflecting the larger Ursell numbers for mode 1 ISWs in summer. Among mode 2 ISWs in summer, 90% appeared after mode 1 ISWs. These results suggest that mode 2 ISWs could be related to mode 1 ISWs. In contrast, mode 2 ISWs were more active in winter than in summer, with larger mode 2 Ursell numbers also found in winter. Among winter mode 2 ISWs, 72% appeared without mode 1 ISWs. Mode 2 ISWs in winter could be related to the main thermocline being located near middepth. These seasonal variations of mode 2 ISWs were correlated with the seasonal change of local stratification. Further study on the different generating mechanisms of mode 2 ISWs in summer and winter is needed.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Mingwei Chen | 108 | 536 | 51351 |
O. C. Zienkiewicz | 107 | 455 | 71204 |
Richard P. Bagozzi | 104 | 347 | 103667 |
Denise M. Rousseau | 84 | 218 | 50176 |
John Walsh | 81 | 756 | 25364 |
Ming C. Lin | 76 | 370 | 23466 |
Steven J. Ghan | 75 | 207 | 25650 |
Hui Zhang | 75 | 200 | 27206 |
Clare E. Collins | 71 | 560 | 21443 |
Christopher W. Fairall | 71 | 293 | 19756 |
Michael T. Montgomery | 68 | 258 | 14231 |
Tim Li | 67 | 383 | 16370 |
Thomas M. Antonsen | 65 | 888 | 17583 |
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | 65 | 521 | 14850 |
Johnny C. L. Chan | 61 | 261 | 14886 |