Medium Spectral Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) oxygen A band measurements were used as a proxy for the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC),to be launched on NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The high spatial resolution of...
High-speed underwater vehicles are subjected to complex multiphase turbulent processes, such as the growth, development, shedding, and collapse of cavitation bubbles. To study the cavity evolution and pressure pulsation characteristics, in this paper...
This study investigated the prospect of producing cloud-stable orange-based juice by combining high-pressure processing (HPP) with a natural kiwifruit pectin methylesterase inhibitor (PMEI) during chilled storage. Kiwifruit is rich in a PMEI, which g...
In this paper, we present the Hefei EMI Cloud Retrieval Algorithm (HECORA), which uses information from the O2-O2 absorption band around 477 nm to retrieve effective cloud fraction and effective cloud pressure from satellite observations. The retriev...
Clouds are key to understanding the atmosphere and climate, and a long series of satellite observations provide invaluable information to study their properties. EUMETSAT has published Release 1 of the Optimal Cloud Analysis (OCA) Climate Data Record...
Results from four global cloud climate data records (ISCCP-HGM, ESA Cloud CCI V3, CLARA-A2 and PATMOS-x) have been inter-compared in global time series plots, in global maps and in zonal region plots covering the period in common, 1984–2009. Th...
Clouds act as a major reflector that changes the amount of sunlight reflected to space. Change in radiance intensity due to the presence of clouds interrupts the retrieval of trace gas or aerosol properties from satellite data. In this paper, we deve...
Recent advances in experimental techniques for visualizing cloud behavior, pit formation, and erosion in cavitating jets have been reviewed. To characterize the erosion behavior of cavitating jets and clarify their erosion mechanisms, various experim...
Remote health monitoring systems play an important role in the healthcare sector. Edge computing is a key enabler for realizing these systems, where it is required to collect big data while providing real-time guarantees. In this study, we focus on r...
This work presents a study on the preparation of plasma-polymerized aniline (pPANI) nanofibers and nanoparticles by an intense plasma cloud type atmospheric pressure plasma jets (iPC-APPJ) device with a single bundle of three glass tubes. The nano si...
The construction of a self-formed roadway without coal pillars is a new mining technology based on short-arm beam formation through roof cutting. With it, mining, tunneling and retaining roadway construction can be accomplished in a ‘three-in-o...
Collision welding processes are accompanied by the ejection of a metal jet, a cloud of particles (CoP), or both phenomena, respectively. The purpose of this study is to investigate the formation, the characteristics as well as the influence of the Co...
In smart homes, the computational offloading technology of edge cloud computing (ECC) can effectively deal with the large amount of computation generated by smart devices. In this paper, we propose a computational offloading strategy for minimizing d...
Biogas and biomethane represent promising domestic fuels compatible with decarbonization targets at a time when diversification of gas sources is essential due to market volatility and increasing security risks. In laboratory practice, however, bioga...
To identify the determining microclimatic factors affecting epiphyte distributions, we comprehensively investigated the epiphyte community of montane cloud forests in Chilan. Four sites of adjacent old-growth forests were chosen based on the degree o...
The colonization of pressurized irrigation networks by zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) poses a serious risk to water delivery, reducing pipeline capacity and potentially causing complete blockages. Despite the critical need for early detection a...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and safety assessment are very important areas for evaluating the behavior of structures. Various wired and wireless sensors can measure the physical responses of structures, such as displacement or strain. One rece...
It is necessary to conduct a safety assessment for pipelines which are regarded as important lifeline projects after an earthquake. Since the random process of loading in earthquake engineering requires a large amount of samples, this paper establish...
Wave power is an eco-friendly power generation method. Owing to the highly volatile nature of wave energy, the application of prediction techniques for power generation, failure diagnosis, and operational efficiency plays a key role in the successful...
In recent years, the large-scale integration of new power distribution technologies such as distributed power generation, electric vehicles, and flexible load control has led to a sharp increase in the operating pressure of the power cloud master sta...
In this paper, a Lagrangian-Eulerian (LE) two-way coupling model is developed to numerically study the cavitation bubble cloud. In this model, the gas-liquid mixture is treated directly as a continuous and compressible fluid and the governing equatio...
Using CloudSat/CALIPSO satellite data and ERA5 reanalysis data from 2006 to 2010, the effects of aerosols on ice- and mixed-phase, single-layer, non-precipitating clouds over the Tibetan Plateau during nighttime in the MAM (March to May), JJA (June t...
Current cavitating water jet technology for mineral liberation predominantly relies on the micro-jet impact generated by bubble collapse. Consequently, conventional nozzle designs often overlook the shear effects on mineral particles within the inter...
Measurements of the global cloud vertical structure (CVS) are critical to better understanding the effects of the CVS on climate. Current CVS algorithms based on OCO-2 have to be combined with cloud top height products from CALIPSO and CloudSat, whic...
Biodiesel is a promising alternative to petroleum diesel with the potential to reduce overall net CO2 emissions. However, the high cloud point of biodiesel must be reduced when used in cold climates. We report on the use of isomerization and hydroiso...
We obtained high-resolution spectra of Jupiter between 4.6 and 5.4 µm using NIRSPEC on the Keck 2 telescope in February 2017. We measured the spatial variation of NH
Underwater radiated noise (URN) is greatly increasing due to an increase in commercial shipping, sonar activities, and climate change. As a result, marine life is having difficulty communicating, and marine ecosystem disturbances are occurring. The n...
The Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS) onboard the Feng Yun-3D (FY-3D) satellite is the first Chinese hyperspectral infrared instrument. In this study, an improved cloud detection scheme using brightness temperature observations from...
In this study, long-term (10 years) radiosonde-based cloud data are compared with the ground-based active remote sensing product under six prevailing large-scale synoptic patterns, i.e., cyclonic center (CC), weak pressure pattern (WP), the southeast...
The use of big data, artificial intelligence, and new information and communication technologies has led to sustainable developments and improved business competitiveness. Until recently cloud services were classified as having special system require...
The use of infrared (IR) sensors to detect clouds in different layers of the atmosphere is a big challenge, especially for ice clouds. This study aims to improve ice cloud detection using Lin’s algorithm and apply it to Atmospheric Infrared Sou...
This study investigates cavitation in a rectangular-profile Venturi tube using numerical simulations and four turbulence models. The unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes technique is employed to simulate vapor cloud formation and compared a...
Supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is a versatile solvent for polymer processing; however, many partially fluorinated polymers exhibit limited solubility in neat scCO2. Organic cosolvents such as toluene can enhance polymer–solvent interactions, thereby...
This paper provides new physical insight into the coupling between flow dynamics and cavitation bubble cloud behaviour at conditions relevant to both cavitation inception and the more complex phenomenon of flow “choking” using a multiphase compressib...
Venus is known for its extreme surface temperature and its sulfuric acid clouds. But the cloud layers on Venus have similar temperature and pressure conditions to those on the surface of Earth and are conjectured to be a possible habitat for microsco...
The meteorological response to the fluctuation of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), known as the Mansurov effect, is well established. It is hypothesized that the IMF B
Aerosols modify cloud properties and influence the regional climate. The impacts of aerosols on clouds differ for various cloud types, but their long-term relationships have not been fully characterized on a cloud regime basis. In this study, we quan...
Cloud computing is changing the way organizations approach technology and its infrastructure. However, in spite of its attractiveness, cloud computing can be seen as a threat in terms of compliance. Given its intrinsic distributed nature, regulations...
Our study analyzed the occurrence frequency and distribution of seedable clouds around the Korean Peninsula in order to better secure water resources. Cloud products from the Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS), including cloud...
Focused on the unsteady property of a cavitating water jet issuing from an orifice nozzle in a submerged condition, this paper presents a fundamental investigation of the periodicity of cloud shedding and the mechanism of cavitation cloud formation a...
The aim of this study was to investigate the nucleation, growth, and surface deposition of poly(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate) [poly(TFEMA)] from the one-phase, cloud point, and two-phase regions of a supercritical CO2–toluene solvent. A te...
The investigation of entropy variation during the star formation process within collapsing molecular clouds represents a significant field of inquiry in astrophysics. As the cloud contracts, the presence of gaseous components contributes to an increa...
In aerospace, flow control techniques have improved the separation flow characteristics around airfoils by various means. In this paper, the delayed detached eddy simulation (DDES) technique is used to simulate the detailed flow field around the NACA...
Clouds are important modulators of the solar radiation reaching the earth’s surface. However, the impacts of cloud properties other than cloud cover are seldom mentioned. By combining the satellite-retrieved cloud properties, the latest radiati...
Retrieving cloud vertical structures with satellite remote-sensing measurements is highly desirable and technically challenging. In this paper, the conditional adversarial neural network (CGAN) for retrieving the equivalent cloud radar reflectivity a...
A long-term archive of cloud properties (cloud top pressure, CTP; and cloud effective emissivity, ε) determined from High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) data is investigated for evidence of regional cloud cover change. In the 17 years b...
Given the important role of clouds in our planet’s climate system, it is crucial to further improve our understanding of their governing processes as well as the resulting spatio-temporal variability of their properties. This co-variability of...
Flowing through porous media is a matter of interest in different research fields such as medicine, engineering and science. The spontaneous appearance of ionic distribution at the solid liquid interface gives place to a reduction in the flow rate, w...
Riparian zones experience many anthropic pressures and are the subject of European legislation to encourage their monitoring and management, to attenuate these pressures. Assessing the effectiveness of management practices requires producing indicato...
In order to enhance the retrieval accuracy of cloud top height (CTH) from MODIS data, neural network models were employed based on Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data. Three types of methods were established using MODIS inp...
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