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Naval Postgraduate School
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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: This paper discusses a toolkit of designs for simulationists with limited DOE expertise who want to select a design and an appropriate analysis for their computational experiments and provides a research agenda listing problems in the design of simulation experiments that require more investigation.
Abstract: Many simulation practitioners can get more from their analyses by using the statistical theory on design of experiments (DOE) developed specifically for exploring computer models. We discuss a toolkit of designs for simulators with limited DOE expertise who want to select a design and an appropriate analysis for their experiments. Furthermore, we provide a research agenda listing problems in the design of simulation experiments-as opposed to real-world experiments-that require more investigation. We consider three types of practical problems: (1) developing a basic understanding of a particular simulation model or system, (2) finding robust decisions or policies as opposed to so-called optimal solutions, and (3) comparing the merits of various decisions or policies. Our discussion emphasizes aspects that are typical for simulation, such as having many more factors than in real-world experiments, and the sequential nature of the data collection. Because the same problem type may be addressed through different design types, we discuss quality attributes of designs, such as the ease of design construction, the flexibility for analysis, and efficiency considerations. Moreover, the selection of the design type depends on the metamodel (response surface) that the analysts tentatively assume; for example, complicated metamodels require more simulation runs. We present several procedures to validate the metamodel estimated from a specific design, and we summarize a case study illustrating several of our major themes. We conclude with a discussion of areas that merit more work to achieve the potential benefits-either via new research or incorporation into standard simulation or statistical packages.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the response of the Arctic Ocean to annual and longer-period changes in the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), focusing on the winter season when the forcing is maximal and on the postwar period.
Abstract: The climatically sensitive zone of the Arctic Ocean lies squarely within the domain of the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), one of the most robust recurrent modes of atmospheric behavior. However, the specific response of the Arctic to annual and longer-period changes in the NAO is not well understood. Here that response is investigated using a wide range of datasets, but concentrating on the winter season when the forcing is maximal and on the postwar period, which includes the most comprehensive instrumental record. This period also contains the largest recorded low-frequency change in NAO activity—from its most persistent and extreme low index phase in the 1960s to its most persistent and extreme high index phase in the late 1980s/early 1990s. This longperiod shift between contrasting NAO extrema was accompanied, among other changes, by an intensifying storm track through the Nordic Seas, a radical increase in the atmospheric moisture flux convergence and winter precipitation in this sector, an increase in the amount and temperature of the Atlantic water inflow to the Arctic Ocean via both inflow branches (Barents Sea Throughflow and West Spitsbergen Current), a decrease in the late-winter extent of sea ice throughout the European subarctic, and (temporarily at least) an increase in the annual volume flux of ice from the Fram Strait.
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TL;DR: The epistemological differences between these two approaches can help organization scientists select the mode of inquiry appropriate to the phenomenon under study and to their own abilities and purposes as discussed by the authors, which can also help organizational scientists to make better decisions.
Abstract: “Inquiry from the inside” is characterized by the experiential involvement of the researcher, the absence of a priori analytical categories, and an intent to understand a particular situation. “Inquiry from the outside” calls for detachment on the part of the researcher, who typically gathers data according to a priori analytical categories and aims to uncover knowledge that can be generalized to many situations. Greater appreciation of the epistemological differences between these two approaches can help organization scientists select the mode of inquiry appropriate to the phenomenon under study and to their own abilities and purposes.
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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 |