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A Dimensionless Parameter for Predicting Convective Self‐Aggregation Onset in a Stochastic Reaction‐Diffusion Model of Tropical Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium
Full text linkAbstract We introduce a minimal stochastic lattice model for the column relative humidity (R) in the tropics, which incorporates convective moistening, horizontal transport and subsidence drying. The probability of convection occurring in a location increases with R, based on Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission observations, providing a positive feedback that could lead to aggregation. We show that the simple model reproduces many aspects of full‐physics cloud resolving model experiments. Depending on model parameter settings and domain size and resolution choices, it can produce both random and aggregated equilibrium states. Clustering occurs more readily with larger domains and coarser resolutions, in agreement with full‐physics models. Using dimensional arguments and fits from empirical data, we derive a dimensionless parameter which we call the aggregation number, Nag, that predicts whether a specific model and experiment setup will result in an aggregated or random state. The parameter includes the moistening feedback strength, the horizontal moisture transport efficiency, the subsidence timescale, the domain size and spatial resolution. Using large ensembles of experiments, we show that the transition between random and aggregated states occurs at a critical value of Nag. We argue that Nag could help to understand the differences in aggregation states between full‐physics, cloud resolving models, which show little consensus about the robustness of self‐organized patterns, whose emergence appears to be sensitive to the model setup, physics and parameterizations
A numerical framework for multiple phase cloud microphysics in regional and global atmospheric models
Full text link2012/2013The Regional Climate Model RegCM4 (Giorgi et al., 2012) treats nonconvective clouds and precipitation following the Subgrid Explicit SUBEX param- eterization (Pal et al., 2000). This scheme includes a simple representation for the formation of raindrops and solves diagnostically the precipitation: rain forms when the cloud water content exceeds the autoconversion threshold, that is an increasing function of the temperature and assumes different values over the land and over the ocean to account for the difference in number of the cloud condensation nuclei over continental and oceanic regions. The SUBEX scheme does not account for the presence of clouds ice, and the fraction of ice is diagnosed as a function of temperature in the radiation scheme. Due to the increasing emphasis on cloud representations in the climate community and the forthcoming increasing resolution due to the inclusion, in the close future, of a non-hydrostatic compressible core, the treatment of the ice microphysics and a prognostic representation of the precipitation is required in RegCM4. This thesis presents the new parameterization for stratiform cloud microphysics and precipitation implemented in RegCM4. The approach of the new parameterization is based on an implicit numerical framework recently developed and implemented into the ECMWF operational forecasting model (Tiedtke, 1993). The new parameterization solves 5 prognostic equations for the water vapour, the liquid water, the rain, the ice and the snow mixing ratios. It allows a proper treatment of mixed-phase clouds and a more physically realistic representation of the precipitation as it is no more an instantaneous response to the microphysical processes occurring in clouds and is subjected to the horizontal advection. A first discussion of the results contains an evaluation of the vertical distributions of the main microphysical quantities, such as the liquid and ice water mixing ratios and the relative fractions. It also presents a series of sensitivity tests to understand how the moisture and radiation quantities respond to the variation of the microphysical parameters used in the scheme, such as the fall speeds of the falling categories, the autoconversion scheme and the evaporation coefficient. Cloud properties are afterwards evaluated through the implementation for RegCM4 of the new cloud evaluation COSP tool (Bodas-Salcedo et al., 2011), developed by the Cloud Feedback Model In- tercomparison Project (CFMIP), that facilitates the comparison of simulated clouds with observations from passive and active remote sensing by diagnosing from model outputs the quantities that would be observed from satellites if they were flying above an atmosphere similar to that predicted by the model. Different hypothesis are presented to explain the reasons for RegCM4 biases in representing different types of clouds over the tropical band and new prospectives for the future investigations designed to answer to the open questions are outlined.XXVI Ciclo198
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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