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    Data used in 'Local Wind Regime Induced by Giant Linear Dunes: Comparison of ERA5-Land Reanalysis with Surface Measurements.'

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    This repository contains the data used in: Gadal, C., Delorme, P., Narteau, C. et al. Local Wind Regime Induced by Giant Linear Dunes: Comparison of ERA5-Land Reanalysis with Surface Measurements. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 185, 309&ndash;332 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-022-00733-6 where wind data measured at 4 different places in and across the Namib Sand Sea are compared to the data from the ERA5/ERA5Land climate reanalyses. The use this data, one should first look at the GitHub repository https://github.com/Cgadal/GiantDunes and at the corresponding documentation https://cgadal.github.io/GiantDunes/. The description sometimes refers to scripts used in https://github.com/Cgadal/GiantDunes/tree/master/Processing. The two folders &#39;raw_data&#39; and &#39;processed_data&#39; contain the input raw_data, and the output data after processing used to make the paper figures, respectively. In each of them, &#39;.npy&#39; files contain Python dictionaries with different variables in them. They can be loaded using the Python library numpy as data = np.load(&#39;file.npy&#39;, allow_pickle=True).item(); and the different keys (variables) can be printed with data.keys() or data[station].keys() if data.keys() return the different stations. Unless specified otherwise below, note that all variables are given in the International System of Units (SI), and wind direction is given anticlockwise, with the 0 being a wind blowing from the West to the East. raw_data: DEM: contains the Digital Elevation Models of the two stations from the SRTM30, downloaded from here: https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/ ERA5: hourly data from the ER5 climate reanalysis, on surface (_BLH) and pressure levels (_levels). Downloaded from https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/ ERA5Land: hourly data from the ER5Land climate reanalysis Downloaded from https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/ KML_points: kml points of the measurement station. It can be opened directly in GoogleEarth. measured_wind_data: contains the measured in situ data. The windspeed is measured using Vector Instruments A100-LK cup anemometers, the wind direction using Vector Instruments W200-P wind vane and the time using Campbell Instruments CR10X and CR1000X dataloggers. processed_data: &#39;Data_preprocessed.npy&#39;: preprocessed_data, output of 1_data_preprocessing_plot.py &#39;Data_DEM.npy&#39;: properties of the processed DEM, the output of 2_DEM_analysis_plot.py &#39;Data_calib_roughness.npy&#39;: data from the calibration of the hydrodynamic roughnesses, the output of 3_roughness_calibration_plot.py &#39;Data_final.npy&#39;: file containing all computed quantities &#39;time_series_hydro_coeffs.npy&#39;: file containing the time series of the calculated hydrodynamic coefficients by &#39;5_norun_hydro_coeff_time_series.npy&#39;. Depending on the loaded data file, main dictionary keys can be: &#39;lat&#39;: latitude, in degree &#39;lon&#39;: longitude, in degree &#39;time&#39;: time vector, in datetime objects (https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html) &#39;DEM&#39;: elevation data array in [m], with dimensions matching &#39;lat&#39; and &#39;lon&#39; vectors &#39;z_mes&#39;, &#39;z_insitu&#39;, &#39;z_ERA5LAND&#39;: height of the corresponding velocity &#39;direction&#39;: measured wind direction, in [degrees] &#39;velocity&#39;: measured wind velocity, in [m/s] &#39;orientaion&#39;: dune pattern orientation, [deg] &#39;wavelength&#39;: dune pattern wavelength, [km] &#39;z0_insitu&#39;: chosen hydrodynamic roughness for the considered station. &#39;U_insitu&#39;, &#39;Orientation_insitu&#39;: hourly averaged measured wind velocities and direction &#39;U_era&#39;, &#39;Orientation_era&#39;: hourly 10m wind data from the ERA5Land data set &#39;Boundary layer height&#39;, &#39;blh&#39;: boundary layer height from the hourly ERA5 dataset &#39;Pressure levels&#39;, &#39;levels&#39;: Pressure levels from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Temperature&#39;, &#39;t&#39;: Temperature from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Specific humidity&#39;, &#39;q&#39;: Specific humidity from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Geopotential&#39;, &#39;z&#39;: Geopotential from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Virtual_potential_temperature&#39;: Virtual potential temperature calculated from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Potential_temperature&#39;: Potential temperature calculated from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;Density&#39;: Density calculated from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;height&#39;: Vertical coordinates calculated from the pressure levels ERA5 dataset &#39;theta_ground&#39;: Averaged virtual potential temperature within the ABL. &#39;delta_theta&#39;: Virtual potential temperature at the ABL. &#39;gradient_free_atm&#39;: Virtual potential temperature gradient in the FA. &#39;Froude&#39;: time series of the Froude number U/((delta_theta/theta_ground)*g*BLH) &#39;kH&#39;: time series of the number &#39;kH&#39; &#39;kLB&#39;: time series of the internal Froude number kU/N Other keys are not relevant and are stored for verification purposes. For more details, please contact Cyril Gadal (see authors), and look at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/Cgadal/GiantDunes, where all the codes are present.</span

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    PRODUCTION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI OF ACTIVE SORGHUM PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE WHICH CAN BE PHOSPHORYLATED

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    Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC)-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli have been complemented with a plasmid bearing a full-length cDNA encoding the C4-type form of Sorghum leaf PEPC. Transformed cells grew on minimal medium. Two clones were selected which produce a functional and full-sized enzyme protein as determined by activity assays, immunochemical behavior and SDS-PAGE. In addition, regulatory phosphorylation of immunopurified recombinant PEPC was observed when the enzyme was incubated with a partially purified plant PEPC kinase. These results establish that E. coli cells produce a genuine, phosphate-free, higher-plant PEPC. Application of immunoadsorbtion chromatography to bacterial extracts makes it possible to prepare highly pure protein available for biochemical studies. RI Vidal, Jean/A-8881-2008; Lepiniec, Loic/G-5808-201

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    Rlp7p is associated with 60S preribosomes, restricted to the granular component of the nucleolus, and required for pre-rRNA processing

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    Many analyses have examined subnucleolar structures in eukaryotic cells, but the relationship between morphological structures, pre-rRNA processing, and ribosomal particle assembly has remained unclear. Using a visual assay for export of the 60S ribosomal subunit, we isolated a ts-lethal mutation, rix9-1, which causes nucleolar accumulation of an Rp125p-eGFP reporter construct. The, mutation results in a single amino acid substitution (F176S) in Rlp7p, an essential nucleolar protein related to ribosomal protein Rpl7p. The rix9-1 (rlp7-1) mutation blocks the late pre-RNA cleavage at site C-2 in ITS2, which separates the precursors to the 5.8S and 25S rRNAs. Consistent with this, synthesis of the mature 5.8S and 25S rRNAs was blocked in the rlp7-1 strain at nonpermissive temperature, whereas 18S rRNA synthesis continued. Moreover, pre-rRNA containing ITS2 accumulates in the nucleolus of rix9-1 cells as revealed by in situ hybridization. Finally, tagged Rlp7p was shown to associate with a pre-60S particle, and fluorescence microscopy and immuno-EM localized Rlp7p to a subregion of the nucleolus, which could be the granular component (GC). All together, these data suggest that pre-rRNA cleavage at site C2 specifically requires Rlp7p and occurs within pre-60S particles located in the GC region of the nucleolus.</p

    PRODUCTION AND PROPERTIES OF RECOMBINANT C3-TYPE PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE FROM SORGHUM-VULGARE - IN-VITRO PHOSPHORYLATION BY LEAF AND ROOT PYRPC PROTEIN-SERINE KINASES

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    In this work, the C3-type form of Sorghum phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PyrPC) was produced in PyrPC-deficient strains of Escherichia coli transformed by a plasmid bearing the corresponding full-length cDNA (CPR1). The full-sized protein was purified to homogeneity by immunoaffinity chromatography. Some functional and regulatory properties were described; notably, the immunopurified PyrPC could be phosphorylated in reconstituted assay by 1) both a mammalian PKA and the PyrPC protein serine kinase purified from Sorghum leaves and 2) a novel protein kinase affinity-purified from Sorghum roots. In all cases phosphorylation was accompanied by a marked reduction in its malate sensitivity
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