Naval Postgraduate School

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 & Nonlinear system. 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.

Effects of Terrain on the Surface Structure of Typhoons over Taiwan

Abstract: The island of Taiwan is situated in the main path of western North Pacific typhoons. Its dominant central mountain range (CMR), with a hoizontal scale comparable to the radius of a typhoon, often produces significant distortions in the typhoon circulation. A 20-year dataset from 22 surface stations is used to describe the effects of the Taiwan terrain on the surface structure of typhoons. Empirical orthogonal function analysis on the pressure field is used to identify the primary structure modes. The first mode is a uniform-sign anomaly pattern portraying the decrease in pressure as a typhoon is approaching. The second mode represents the strong terrain-induced west-east pressure gradient that is normal to the main axis of the CMR. The third mode results mainly from the west-cast pressure gradient arising from the relative location of the typhoon center to the east or west of Taiwan, but it also contains a weak south-north pressure gradient that can he attributed to the terrain. A regression tech...

A cultural perspective on organizations: the need for and consequences of viewing organizations as culture-bearing milieux

Abstract: Meryl Reis Louis is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Sciences in the Department of Administrative Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Before returning to the University for her doctorate, she was a management consultant on the staff of Arthur Andersen and Co. for 5 years and for several years served as a counselor working with individuals and groups in a community mental health center. Previously, Professor Louis was on the faculty at the University of illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the Department of Business Administration. Her research interests center on cognitive and cultural processes in organizational settings, career transition management, early career decisions of MBA graduates, and epistemological issues in organiZational research. She has published articles in Adminstrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, and the Proceedings of the Society for General Systems Research. She has contributed to several edited volumes, including Organizational Symbolism (edited by Louis R. Pondy et aI., Scott Foresman, in press) . Professor Louis is on the Board of Directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and is an active member of the Academy of Management.

Observation of a kink soliton on the surface of a liquid.

Abstract: When a long channel of shallow liquid is driven parametrically, there can occur a 180\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} kink in the phase of the fundamental cross mode of the surface. The kink is stable and localized, and is nonpropagating in the limit where the system is uniform. The weakly nonlinear theoretical description is a damped driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation supplemented with second harmonics. The kink is a robust state even at amplitudes where the perturbation expansion leading to this equation is unjustified.

South China Sea Wind-Wave Characteristics. Part I: Validation of Wavewatch-III Using TOPEX/Poseidon Data

Abstract: A full-spectral third-generation ocean wind-wave model, Wavewatch-III, has been implemented in the South China Sea (SCS) for investigating wind-wave characteristics. This model was developed at the Ocean Modeling Branch of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The NASA QuickSCAT data (0.25degrees resolution) 2 times daily were used to simulate the wind waves for the entire year of 2000. The significant wave heights from Wavewatch-III are compared to the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) significant wave height data over the satellite crossover points in SCS. The model errors of significant wave height have Gaussian-type distribution with a small mean value of 0.02 m (almost no bias). The model errors are comparable to the T/P altimeter accuracy (0.5 m) in the central SCS and are smaller than the T/P altimeter accuracy in the northern and southern SCS, which indicates the capability of Wavewatch-III for SCS wave simulation.