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Improving the altimetric rain record from Jason-1 & Jason-2
No full textDual-frequency rain-flagging has long been a standard part of altimetric data analysis, both for quality control of the data and for the study of rain itself, because altimeters can provide a finer spatial sampling of rain than can passive microwave instruments. However, there have been many varied implementations, using different records of the surface backscatter and different thresholds. This paper compares four different measures available for the recently-launched Jason-2. The evaluation compares these measures against clearly desired properties, finding that in most cases the adjusted backscatter and that from the ice retracker perform much better than that recommended in the users' handbook. The adjusted backscatter measure also provides a much better link to observations from Jason-1, opening up a much longer period for consistent rain investigations, and enabling greatly improved analysis of the short-scale variability of precipitation. Initial analysis shows that although the spatial and temporal gradients of backscatter increase at very low winds, the spatial gradients in rain attenuation are concentrated where rainfall is greatest, whilst the temporal changes have a simple broad latitudinal pattern
Sea state and rain: a second take on dual-frequency altimetry
No full textTOPEX and Jason were the first two dual-frequency altimeters in space, with both operating at Ku- and C-band. Each thus gives two measurements of the normalized backscatter, sigma0, (from which wind speed is calculated) and two estimates of wave height. Departures from a well-defined relationship between the Ku- and C-band sigma0 values give an indication of rain.This paper investigates differences between the two instruments using data from Jason's verification phase. Jason's Ku-band estimates of wave height are ~1.8% less than TOPEX's, whereas its sigma0 values are higher. When these effects have been removed the root mean square (r.m.s.) mismatch between TOPEX and Jason's Ku-band observations is close to that for TOPEX's observations at its two frequencies, and the changes in sigma0 with varying wave height conditions are the same for the two altimeters. Rain flagging and quantitative estimates of rain rate are both based on the atmospheric attenuation derived from the sigma0 measurements at the two frequencies. The attenuation estimates of TOPEX and Jason agree very well, and a threshold of -0.5 dB is effective at removing the majority of spurious data records from the Jason GDRs. In the high sigma0 regime, anomalous data can be cause by processes other than rain. Consequently, for these low wind conditions, neither can reliable rain detection be based on altimetry alone, nor can a generic rain flag be expected to remove all suspect data
Chen Chen, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textChen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books published a UK edition in June. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and Gesundheit! (in collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein and forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press, fall 2019). His work appears in many publications, including Poem-a-Day, The Massachusetts Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Gile
Geometries for Improving and Understanding the Hydrogen Evolving Activity of a Cobalt Dithiolene Metal-Organic Framework
No full textGeometry files are stored in xyz format. Geometries are optimized using the method defined within the manuscriptAll geometries for DFT calculations performed in the study of CoTHT.Sponsorship: DE-FG02-17ER16362; MSI; NMGC; NERSC; DE-AC02-05CH11231Goodpaster, Jason D; Chen, Keying; Downes, Courtney; Eugene, Schneider; Marinescu, Smaranda. (2020). Geometries for Improving and Understanding the Hydrogen Evolving Activity of a Cobalt Dithiolene Metal-Organic Framework. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/211666
Associated Data for: Ecological drift during colonization drives within-host and between-host heterogeneity in an animal-associated symbiont
No full textThis dataset contains the results from several experiments dealing with the role of transmission bottlenecks on microbial metacommunity structure in the squash bug-Caballeronia symbiosis
Supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow-water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed-sphere geometry
No full text# Simulation results of the unstaggered shallow water model
This repository contains the supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow‐water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed‐sphere geometry, DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002280
Organization of the repository:
The tar archive with this data submission has a:
doc directory contains a README.md with information regarding naming conventions to label the model configurations for a shallow water test simulation. Additional information can also be found in README.md. Table 4 in the paper provides additional details.
The data directory contains the supporting data files (NetCDF format).Disclaimer: "This was prepared by Xi Chen under award NA18OAR4320123 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Artimpaza brevilineata Tian & Chen, 2012 in Tian, Chen & Li 2012
No full textArtimpaza brevilineata Tian & Chen, 2012 in Tian, Chen & Li, 2012: 43, figs. 1–9. (Figs. 28a, b) Type locality: China, Yunnan, Pu’er City, Yutang. Gender: female. Date collected: 2011.V.25 (2010.V.25, in the original description, is incorrect). Collector: Li-Chao TIAN & Gui-Qiang HUANG. Paratypes: 1 female, China, Yunnan, Lincang City, 1980.VI.1, Fen LIU leg. Remarks: In the original description, the type locality is “ Yunnan, Jinghong” while it is “ Yunnan, Yutang” according to the label. “Yutang” is actually in Pu’er, not Jinghong. The first author described the type locality by mistake. In the original description, the collector was only listed as Li-Chao TIAN, which was a mistake.Published as part of Li, Zhu & Chen, Li, 2020, Primary types of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Vesperidae and Disteniidae) of Southwest University (SWU), pp. 25-46 in Zootaxa 4718 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/360220
Author contributions
No full textPlease browse the "Files" tag to access the appendix specifying the author - Chen Hsi Tsai's contributions to the seven papers included in the thesis
Ying Chen\u27s Impressions of Summer
No full textChapbook of narrative/personal poems by Ying Chen originally published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Translated from the French by Peter Schulman, ODU Professor of French and International Studies.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_books/1016/thumbnail.jp
《在中法之间 — 陈伟农的艺术体验》 Zai Zhong Fa zhi jian: Chen Weinong de yishu tijian / “Between China and France. The Artistic Experience of Chen Weinong”
No full textThe author analizes the artistic production of the Chinese contemporary artist Chen Weinong, who has travelled between China and France for more ten years. In his ink paintings and calligraphies, Chen Weinong reflects the essence of both Western and Eastern cultures, succeeding in refreshing the ancient tradition as well as blazing new trails in Chinese art
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