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Toward Non-Invasive Measurement Of Atmospheric Temperature Using Vibro-Rotational Raman Spectra Of Diatomic Gases, Tyler Capek, Jacek Borysow, Claudio Mazzoleni, Massimo Moraldi Dec 2020

Toward Non-Invasive Measurement Of Atmospheric Temperature Using Vibro-Rotational Raman Spectra Of Diatomic Gases, Tyler Capek, Jacek Borysow, Claudio Mazzoleni, Massimo Moraldi

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We demonstrate precise determination of atmospheric temperature using vibro-rotational Raman (VRR) spectra of molecular nitrogen and oxygen in the range of 292–293 K. We used a continuous wave fiber laser operating at 10 W near 532 nm as an excitation source in conjunction with a multi-pass cell. First, we show that the approximation that nitrogen and oxygen molecules behave like rigid rotors leads to erroneous derivations of temperature values from VRR spectra. Then, we account for molecular non-rigidity and compare four different methods for the determination of air temperature. Each method requires no temperature calibration. The first method involves fitting …


Data In Support Of The Paper "Dependence Of Aerosol-Droplet Partitioning On Turbulence In A Laboratory Cloud", Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Prasanth Prabhakaran, Gregory Kinney, Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell Dec 2020

Data In Support Of The Paper "Dependence Of Aerosol-Droplet Partitioning On Turbulence In A Laboratory Cloud", Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Prasanth Prabhakaran, Gregory Kinney, Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell

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Carbon Fixation Trends In Eleven Of The World’S Largest Lakes: 2003–2018, Michael Sayers, Karl Bosse, Gary L. Fahnenstiel, Robert Shuchman Dec 2020

Carbon Fixation Trends In Eleven Of The World’S Largest Lakes: 2003–2018, Michael Sayers, Karl Bosse, Gary L. Fahnenstiel, Robert Shuchman

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Large freshwater lakes provide immense value to the surrounding populations, yet there is limited understanding of how these lakes will respond to climate change and other factors. This study uses satellite remote sensing to estimate annual, lake-wide primary production in 11 of the world’s largest lakes from 2003–2018. These lakes include the five Laurentian Great Lakes, the three African Great Lakes, Lake Baikal, and Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes. Mean annual production in these lakes ranged from under 200 mgC/m2/day to over 1100 mgC/m2/day, and the lakes were placed into one of three distinct groups …


Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Carbonaceous Aerosol Absorption In The Po Valley, Stefania Gilardoni, Paola Massoli, Angela Marinoni, Claudio Mazzoleni, Andrew Freedman, Giovanni Lonati, Silvana De Iuliis, Vorne Gianelle Dec 2020

Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Carbonaceous Aerosol Absorption In The Po Valley, Stefania Gilardoni, Paola Massoli, Angela Marinoni, Claudio Mazzoleni, Andrew Freedman, Giovanni Lonati, Silvana De Iuliis, Vorne Gianelle

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Knowledge gaps in the optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols account for a significant fraction of the uncertainty of aerosol-light interactions in climate models. Both black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) can display a range of optical properties in ambient aerosol due to different sources and chemical transformation pathways. This study investigates the optical absorption properties of BC and BrC at an urban and a rural site in the Po Valley (Italy), a known European pollution hot spot. We observed spatial and seasonal variability of aerosol absorption coefficients, with the highest values measured in winter at the urban site of …


All-Dielectric Magnetic Metasurface For Advanced Light Control In Dual Polarizations Combined With High-Q Resonances, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Dolendra Karki, Andrey A. Voronov, Mikhail A. Kozhaev, Denis M. Krichevsky, Alexander I. Chernov, Miguel Levy, Vladimir I. Belotelov Dec 2020

All-Dielectric Magnetic Metasurface For Advanced Light Control In Dual Polarizations Combined With High-Q Resonances, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Dolendra Karki, Andrey A. Voronov, Mikhail A. Kozhaev, Denis M. Krichevsky, Alexander I. Chernov, Miguel Levy, Vladimir I. Belotelov

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Nanostructured magnetic materials provide an efficient tool for light manipulation on sub-nanosecond and sub-micron scales, and allow for the observation of the novel effects which are fundamentally impossible in smooth films. For many cases of practical importance, it is vital to observe the magneto-optical intensity modulation in a dual-polarization regime. However, the nanostructures reported on up to date usually utilize a transverse Kerr effect and thus provide light modulation only for p-polarized light. We present a concept of a transparent magnetic metasurface to solve this problem, and demonstrate a novel mechanism for magneto-optical modulation. A 2D array of bismuth-substituted iron-garnet …


Scalable Structural Index Construction For Json Analytics, Lin Jiang, Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao Dec 2020

Scalable Structural Index Construction For Json Analytics, Lin Jiang, Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao

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JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON) and its variants have gained great popularity in recent years. Unfortunately, the performance of their analytics is often dragged down by the expensive JSON parsing. To address this, recent work has shown that building bitwise indices on JSON data, called structural indices, can greatly accelerate querying. Despite its promise, the existing structural index construction does not scale well as records become larger and more complex, due to its (inherently) sequential construction process and the involvement of costly memory copies that grow as the nesting level increases. To address the above issues, this work introduces Pison …


Crash Risk-Based Prioritization Of Basic Safety Message In Dsrc, Seungmo Kim, Byung Jun Kim Nov 2020

Crash Risk-Based Prioritization Of Basic Safety Message In Dsrc, Seungmo Kim, Byung Jun Kim

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Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) is one of the key technologies enabling safety-critical applications for intelligent transportation system (ITS). Considering the significance of such safety-of-life applications, it is of utmost importance to guarantee reliable delivery of basic safety messages (BSMs). However, in accordance with a V2X network being inherently dynamic in key aspects such as vehicle density and velocity, the networking behavior of a DSRC system is usually highly complicated to analyze. In addition, the United States Federal Communications Commission (US FCC) recently proposed the so-called “5.9 GHz band innovation”, which includes a plan to reduce bandwidth for DSRC to 10 …


Leveraging Very-High Spatial Resolution Hyperspectral And Thermal Uav Imageries For Characterizing Diurnal Indicators Of Grapevine Physiology, Matthew Maimaitiyiming, Vasit Sagan, Paheding Sidike, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Allison J. Miller, Misha Kwasniewski Oct 2020

Leveraging Very-High Spatial Resolution Hyperspectral And Thermal Uav Imageries For Characterizing Diurnal Indicators Of Grapevine Physiology, Matthew Maimaitiyiming, Vasit Sagan, Paheding Sidike, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Allison J. Miller, Misha Kwasniewski

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Efficient and accurate methods to monitor crop physiological responses help growers better understand crop physiology and improve crop productivity. In recent years, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and sensor technology have enabled image acquisition at very-high spectral, spatial, and temporal resolutions. However, potential applications and limitations of very-high-resolution (VHR) hyperspectral and thermal UAV imaging for characterization of plant diurnal physiology remain largely unknown, due to issues related to shadow and canopy heterogeneity. In this study, we propose a canopy zone-weighting (CZW) method to leverage the potential of VHR (≤9 cm) hyperspectral and thermal UAV imageries in estimating physiological indicators, …


Quantifying Surface Severity Of The 2014 And 2015 Fires In The Great Slave Lake Area Of Canada, Nancy H. F. French, Jeremy Graham, Ellen Whitman, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez Oct 2020

Quantifying Surface Severity Of The 2014 And 2015 Fires In The Great Slave Lake Area Of Canada, Nancy H. F. French, Jeremy Graham, Ellen Whitman, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez

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The focus of this paper was the development of surface organic layer severity maps for the 2014 and 2015 fires in the Great Slave Lake area of the Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada, using multiple linear regression models generated from pairing field data with Landsat 8 data. Field severity data were collected at 90 sites across the region, together with other site metrics, in order to develop a mapping approach for surface severity, an important metric for assessing carbon loss from fire. The approach utilised a combination of remote sensing indices to build a predictive model of severity that was …


Reconstruction Of Events Recorded With The Surface Detector Of The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al. Oct 2020

Reconstruction Of Events Recorded With The Surface Detector Of The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al.

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Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing extensive air showers. When secondary particles from the cascade arrive at the ground, they are measured by surface detector arrays. We describe the methods applied to the measurements of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to reconstruct events with zenith angles less than 60 using the timing and signal information recorded using the water-Cherenkov detector stations. In addition, we assess the accuracy of these methods in reconstructing the arrival directions of the primary cosmic ray particles and the sizes of the induced showers.


Diel Cycle Of Sea Spray Aerosol Concentration Over Vast Areas Of The Tropical Pacific Ocean And The Caribbean Sea, J. Michel Flores, Guillaume Bourdin, A. Kostinski, Orit Altaratz, Guy Dagan, Fabien Lombard, Et. Al. Sep 2020

Diel Cycle Of Sea Spray Aerosol Concentration Over Vast Areas Of The Tropical Pacific Ocean And The Caribbean Sea, J. Michel Flores, Guillaume Bourdin, A. Kostinski, Orit Altaratz, Guy Dagan, Fabien Lombard, Et. Al.

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Ocean-atmosphere interactions such as sea spray aerosol (SSA) formation have a major role in the climate system, but a global-scale assessment of this micro-scale process is highly challenging. We measured high-resolution temporal patterns of SSA number concentration over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean covering 42,000 km of open ocean waters. We discovered a ubiquitous 24-hour rhythm to the number concentration, clearly seen for particle diameters > ~ 0.58 µm, with spikes at dawn and drops at dusk throughout the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, showing more than doubling of the SSA number concentration during the day than …


Measurement Of The Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum Above 2.5×1018 Ev Using The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al. Sep 2020

Measurement Of The Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum Above 2.5×1018 Ev Using The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al.

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We report a measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays for energies above 2.5×1018 eV based on 215,030 events recorded with zenith angles below 60°. A key feature of the work is that the estimates of the energies are independent of assumptions about the unknown hadronic physics or of the primary mass composition. The measurement is the most precise made hitherto with the accumulated exposure being so large that the measurements of the flux are dominated by systematic uncertainties except at energies above 5×1019 eV. The principal conclusions are(1) The flattening of the spectrum near 5×1018 eV, the so-called …


Features Of The Energy Spectrum Of Cosmic Rays Above 2.5 × 10 18  Ev Using The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al. Sep 2020

Features Of The Energy Spectrum Of Cosmic Rays Above 2.5 × 10 18  Ev Using The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart, Et. Al.

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We report a measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5×1018  eV based on 215 030 events. New results are presented: at about 1.3×1019  eV, the spectral index changes from 2.51±0.03(stat)±0.05(syst) to 3.05±0.05(stat)±0.10(syst), evolving to 5.1±0.3(stat)±0.1(syst) beyond 5×1019  eV, while no significant dependence of spectral features on the declination is seen in the accessible range. These features of the spectrum can be reproduced in models with energy-dependent mass composition. The energy density in cosmic rays above 5×1018  eV is [5.66±0.03(stat)±1.40(syst)]×1053  erg Mpc−3.


Data Supporting The Paper “Greening The Grey Infrastructure: Green Adsorbent Media For Catch Basin Inserts To Remove Stormwater Pollutants”, Viravid Na Nagara, Dibyendu Sarkar, Kirk Barrett, Rupali Datta Aug 2020

Data Supporting The Paper “Greening The Grey Infrastructure: Green Adsorbent Media For Catch Basin Inserts To Remove Stormwater Pollutants”, Viravid Na Nagara, Dibyendu Sarkar, Kirk Barrett, Rupali Datta

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Stormwater pollution is a major cause of water quality impairment. Much of the existing stormwater infrastructures provide little or no treatment, especially for dissolved pollutants. Due to the capital cost of installing new infrastructure, retrofitting existing grey infrastructures is a promising alternative to reduce stormwater pollution. In this study, aluminum-based drinking water treatment residuals (WTR), a byproduct from drinking water treatment was combined with other common supplies (sand and carbon material) and developed as adsorbent media for use in catch basin inserts to remove total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and dissolved Cu, Pb, and Zn from stormwater runoff. Hydraulic and treatment …


Insights On Dissolved Organic Matter Production Revealed By Removal Of Charge-Transfer Interactions In Senescent Leaf Leachates, Karl M. Meingast, Brice K. Grunert, Sarah A. Green, Evan S. Kane, Nastaran Khademimoshgenani Aug 2020

Insights On Dissolved Organic Matter Production Revealed By Removal Of Charge-Transfer Interactions In Senescent Leaf Leachates, Karl M. Meingast, Brice K. Grunert, Sarah A. Green, Evan S. Kane, Nastaran Khademimoshgenani

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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a critical part of the global carbon cycle. Currently, it is understood that at least a portion of the chromophoric DOM (CDOM) character can be described through an electronic interaction of charge transfer (CT) complexes. While much work has been done to understand the influence of CT on soil and aquatic reference standard DOM, little is known about the influence of CT in fresh terrestrially derived DOM. In this study, leaf litter leachates from three tree species were treated (reduced) with sodium borohydride to determine the contribution of CT on a source of fresh terrestrial …


Article The Singular Value Expansion For Arbitrary Bounded Linear Operators, Daniel K. Crane, Mark S. Gockenbach Aug 2020

Article The Singular Value Expansion For Arbitrary Bounded Linear Operators, Daniel K. Crane, Mark S. Gockenbach

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The singular value decomposition (SVD) is a basic tool for analyzing matrices. Regarding a general matrix as defining a linear operator and choosing appropriate orthonormal bases for the domain and co-domain allows the operator to be represented as multiplication by a diagonal matrix. It is well known that the SVD extends naturally to a compact linear operator mapping one Hilbert space to another; the resulting representation is known as the singular value expansion (SVE). It is less well known that a general bounded linear operator defined on Hilbert spaces also has a singular value expansion. This SVE allows a simple …


Refinements To Data Acquired By 2-Dimensional Video Disdrometers, Michael L. Larsen, Christopher K. Blouin Aug 2020

Refinements To Data Acquired By 2-Dimensional Video Disdrometers, Michael L. Larsen, Christopher K. Blouin

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The 2-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) is a commonly used tool for exploring rain microphysics and for validating remotely sensed rain retrievals. Recent work has revealed a persistent anomaly in 2DVD data. Early investigations of this anomaly concluded that the resulting errors in rain measurement were modest, but the methods used to flag anomalous data were not optimized, and related considerations associated with the sample sensing area were not fully investigated. Here, we (i) refine the anomaly-detecting algorithm for increased sensitivity and reliability and (ii) develop a related algorithm for refining the estimate of sample sensing area for all detected drops, …


Light Scattering In A Turbulent Cloud: Simulations To Explore Cloud-Chamber Experiments, Corey D. Packard, Michael L. Larsen, Subin Thomas, Will H. Cantrell, Raymond A. Shaw Aug 2020

Light Scattering In A Turbulent Cloud: Simulations To Explore Cloud-Chamber Experiments, Corey D. Packard, Michael L. Larsen, Subin Thomas, Will H. Cantrell, Raymond A. Shaw

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Radiative transfer through clouds can be impacted by variations in particle number size distribution, but also in particle spatial distribution. Due to turbulent mixing and inertial effects, spatial correlations often exist, even on scales reaching the cloud droplet separation distance. The resulting clusters and voids within the droplet field can lead to deviations from exponential extinction. Prior work has numerically investigated these departures from exponential attenuation in absorptive and scattering media; this work takes a step towards determining the feasibility of detecting departures from exponential behavior due to spatial correlation in turbulent clouds generated in a laboratory setting. Large Eddy …


Direct Measurement Of The Muonic Content Of Extensive Air Showers Between 2× 1017 And 2×1018 Ev At The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, S. Andringa, C. Aramo, P. R. Araújo Ferreira, H. Asorey, P. Assis, G. Avila, A. M. Badescu, A. Bakalova, A. Balaceanu, F. Barbato, R. J. Barreira Luz, K. H. Becker, J. A. Bellido, C. Berat, M. E. Bertaina, X. Bertou, P. L. Biermann, T. Bister, J. Biteau, A. Blanco, J. Blazek, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart Aug 2020

Direct Measurement Of The Muonic Content Of Extensive Air Showers Between 2× 1017 And 2×1018 Ev At The Pierre Auger Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, G. A. Anastasi, L. Anchordoqui, B. Andrada, S. Andringa, C. Aramo, P. R. Araújo Ferreira, H. Asorey, P. Assis, G. Avila, A. M. Badescu, A. Bakalova, A. Balaceanu, F. Barbato, R. J. Barreira Luz, K. H. Becker, J. A. Bellido, C. Berat, M. E. Bertaina, X. Bertou, P. L. Biermann, T. Bister, J. Biteau, A. Blanco, J. Blazek, B. Fick, D. F. Nitz, A. Puyleart

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The hybrid design of the Pierre Auger Observatory allows for the measurement of the properties of extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays with unprecedented precision. By using an array of prototype underground muon detectors, we have performed the first direct measurement, by the Auger Collaboration, of the muon content of air showers between 2 × 10 17 and 2 × 10 18 eV. We have studied the energy evolution of the attenuation-corrected muon density, and compared it to predictions from air shower simulations. The observed densities are found to be larger than those predicted by models. We …


Visual Feature Extraction From Dermoscopic Colour Images For Classification Of Melanocytic Skin Lesions, Walid Al-Zyoud, Athar Abu Helou, Eslam Alqasem, Nathir A. Rawashdeh Jun 2020

Visual Feature Extraction From Dermoscopic Colour Images For Classification Of Melanocytic Skin Lesions, Walid Al-Zyoud, Athar Abu Helou, Eslam Alqasem, Nathir A. Rawashdeh

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The early diagnosis of Melanoma is a challenging task for dermatologists, because of the characteristic similarities of Melanoma with other skin lesions such as typical moles and dysplastic nevi. Aims: This work aims to help both experienced and non-experienced dermatologists in the early detection of cutaneous Melanoma through the development of a computational helping tool based on the “ABCD” rule of dermoscopy. Moreover, it aims to decrease the need for invasive biopsy procedure for each tested abnormal skin lesion. Methods: This is accomplished through the utilization of MATLAB programming language to build a feature extraction tool for the assessment of …


Text Indexing And Searching In Sublinear Time, J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, Yakov Nekrich Jun 2020

Text Indexing And Searching In Sublinear Time, J. Ian Munro, Gonzalo Navarro, Yakov Nekrich

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We introduce the first index that can be built in o(n) time for a text of length n, and can also be queried in o(q) time for a pattern of length q. On an alphabet of size, our index uses O(n log) bits, is built in O(n log f/plog n) deterministic time, and computes the number of occurrences of the pattern in time O(q/logf n+log n logf n). Each such occurrence can then be found in O(log n) time. Other trade-offs between the space usage and the cost of reporting occurrences are also possible. 2012 ACM Subject Classification Theory of …


An International Laboratory Comparison Of Dissolved Organic Matter Composition By High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Are We Getting The Same Answer?, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Juliana D'Andrilli, Jeffrey N. Agar, Mark P. Barrow, Stephanie M. Berg, Núria Catalán, Hongmei Chen, Rosalie K. Chu, Richard B. Cole, Thorsten Dittmar, Rémy Gavard, Gerd Gleixner, Patrick G. Hatcher, Chen He, Nancy J. Hess, Ryan H.S. Hutchins, Amna Ijaz, Hugh E. Jones, William Kew, Maryam Khaksari, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Jitao Lv, Lynn Mazzoleni, Beatriz E. Noriega-Ortega, Helena Osterholz, Nikola Radoman, Shuzhen Zhang, Phoebe Zito, David C. Podgorski Jun 2020

An International Laboratory Comparison Of Dissolved Organic Matter Composition By High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Are We Getting The Same Answer?, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Juliana D'Andrilli, Jeffrey N. Agar, Mark P. Barrow, Stephanie M. Berg, Núria Catalán, Hongmei Chen, Rosalie K. Chu, Richard B. Cole, Thorsten Dittmar, Rémy Gavard, Gerd Gleixner, Patrick G. Hatcher, Chen He, Nancy J. Hess, Ryan H.S. Hutchins, Amna Ijaz, Hugh E. Jones, William Kew, Maryam Khaksari, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Jitao Lv, Lynn Mazzoleni, Beatriz E. Noriega-Ortega, Helena Osterholz, Nikola Radoman, Shuzhen Zhang, Phoebe Zito, David C. Podgorski

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High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has become a vital tool for dissolved organic matter (DOM) characterization. The upward trend in HRMS analysis of DOM presents challenges in data comparison and interpretation among laboratories operating instruments with differing performance and user operating conditions. It is therefore essential that the community establishes metric ranges and compositional trends for data comparison with reference samples so that data can be robustly compared among research groups. To this end, four identically prepared DOM samples were each measured by 16 laboratories, using 17 commercially purchased instruments, using positive-ion and negative-ion mode electrospray ionization (ESI) HRMS analyses. The …


Role Of Structural Dynamics In Selectivity And Mechanism Of Non-Heme Fe(Ii) And 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenases Involved In Dna Repair, Sodiq Waheed, Rajeev Ramanan, Shobhit Chaturvedi, Nicolai Lehnert, Christopher J. Schofield, Christo Z. Christov, Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova May 2020

Role Of Structural Dynamics In Selectivity And Mechanism Of Non-Heme Fe(Ii) And 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenases Involved In Dna Repair, Sodiq Waheed, Rajeev Ramanan, Shobhit Chaturvedi, Nicolai Lehnert, Christopher J. Schofield, Christo Z. Christov, Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova

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AlkB and its human homologue AlkBH2 are Fe(II)- and 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent oxygenases that repair alkylated DNA bases occurring as a consequence of reactions with mutagenic agents. We used molecular dynamics (MD) and combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods to investigate how structural dynamics influences the selectivity and mechanisms of the AlkB- and AlkBH2-catalyzed demethylation of 3-methylcytosine (m3C) in single (ssDNA) and double (dsDNA) stranded DNA. Dynamics studies reveal the importance of the flexibility in both the protein and DNA components in determining the preferences of AlkB for ssDNA and of AlkBH2 for dsDNA. Correlated motions, including of a …


Data Supporting The Paper "The Role Of Turbulent Fluctuations In Aerosol Activation And Cloud Formation", Prasanth Prabhakaran, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Greg Kinney, Subin Thomas, Will Cantrell, Raymond Shaw May 2020

Data Supporting The Paper "The Role Of Turbulent Fluctuations In Aerosol Activation And Cloud Formation", Prasanth Prabhakaran, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Greg Kinney, Subin Thomas, Will Cantrell, Raymond Shaw

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Prasanth Prabhakaran, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon, Gregory Kinney, Subin Thomas, Will Cantrell and Raymond A. Shaw, “The role of turbulent fluctuations in aerosol activation and cloud formation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020), in review.


Richardsite, Zn2cugas4, A New Gallium-Essential Member Of The Stannite Group From The Gem Mines Near Merelani, Tanzania, Luca Bindi, John A. Jaszczak May 2020

Richardsite, Zn2cugas4, A New Gallium-Essential Member Of The Stannite Group From The Gem Mines Near Merelani, Tanzania, Luca Bindi, John A. Jaszczak

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The new mineral richardsite occurs as overgrowths of small (50–400 μm) dark gray, disphenoidal crystals with no evident twinning, but epitaxically oriented on wurtzite–sphalerite crystals from the gem mines near Merelani, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Associated minerals also include graphite, diopside, and Ge,Ga-rich wurtzite. It is brittle, dark gray in color, and has a metallic luster. It appears dark bluish gray in reflected plane-polarized light, and is moderately bireflectant. It is distinctly anisotropic with violet to light-blue rotation tints with crossed polarizers. Reflectance percentages for Rmin and Rmax in air at the respective wavelengths are 23.5, 25.0 …


Secular Changes In Atmospheric Turbidity Over Iraq And A Possible Link To Military Activity, Alexandra Chudnovsky, A. Kostinski May 2020

Secular Changes In Atmospheric Turbidity Over Iraq And A Possible Link To Military Activity, Alexandra Chudnovsky, A. Kostinski

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We examine satellite-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) data during the period 2000-2018 over the Middle East to evaluate the contribution of anthropogenic pollution. We focus on Iraq, where US troops were present for nearly nine years. We begin with a plausibility argument linking anthropogenic influence and AOD signature. We then calculate the percent change in AOD every two years. To pinpoint the causes for changes in AOD on a spatial basis, we distinguish between synoptically "calm" periods and those with vigorous synoptic activity. This was done on high-resolution 10 km AOD retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor …


Characterization And First Results From Lacis-T: A Moist-Air Wind Tunnel To Study Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Interactions, Dennis Niedermeier, Jens Voigtländer, Silvio Schmalfuß, Daniel Busch, Jörg Schumacher, Raymond A. Shaw, Frank Stratmann Apr 2020

Characterization And First Results From Lacis-T: A Moist-Air Wind Tunnel To Study Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Interactions, Dennis Niedermeier, Jens Voigtländer, Silvio Schmalfuß, Daniel Busch, Jörg Schumacher, Raymond A. Shaw, Frank Stratmann

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The interactions between turbulence and cloud microphysical processes have been investigated primarily through numerical simulation and field measurements over the last 10 years. However, only in the laboratory we can be confident in our knowledge of initial and boundary conditions and are able to measure under statistically stationary and repeatable conditions. In the scope of this paper, we present a unique turbulent moist-air wind tunnel, called the Turbulent Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS-T) which has been developed at TROPOS in order to study cloud physical processes in general and interactions between turbulence and cloud microphysical processes in particular. The …


Constraining The Local Burst Rate Density Of Primordial Black Holes With Hawc, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, K. P. Arunbabu, D. Avila Rojas, H. A.Ayala Solares, V. Baghmanyan, E. Belmont-Moreno, S. Y. Benzvi, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, E. De La Fuente, C. De León, B. L. Dingus, M. A. Duvernois, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, R. W. Ellsworth, K. L. Engel, C. Espinoza, H. Fleischhack, N. Fraija, A. Galván-Gámez, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, B. Hona, D. Huang, Petra Huentemeyer Apr 2020

Constraining The Local Burst Rate Density Of Primordial Black Holes With Hawc, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, K. P. Arunbabu, D. Avila Rojas, H. A.Ayala Solares, V. Baghmanyan, E. Belmont-Moreno, S. Y. Benzvi, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, E. De La Fuente, C. De León, B. L. Dingus, M. A. Duvernois, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, R. W. Ellsworth, K. L. Engel, C. Espinoza, H. Fleischhack, N. Fraija, A. Galván-Gámez, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, B. Hona, D. Huang, Petra Huentemeyer

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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may have been created by density fluctuations in the early Universe and could be as massive as > 109 solar masses or as small as the Planck mass. It has been postulated that a black hole has a temperature inversely-proportional to its mass and will thermally emit all species of fundamental particles via Hawking Radiation. PBHs with initial masses of ∼ 5 × 1014 g (approximately one gigaton) should be expiring today with bursts of high-energy gamma radiation in the GeV-TeV energy range. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays with energies …


A 3-Year Sample Of Almost 1,600 Elves Recorded Above South America By The Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, I. F.M. Albuquerque, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, David Nitz, Et. Al. Apr 2020

A 3-Year Sample Of Almost 1,600 Elves Recorded Above South America By The Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory, A. Aab, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, I. F.M. Albuquerque, J. M. Albury, I. Allekotte, David Nitz, Et. Al.

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©2020. The Authors. Elves are a class of transient luminous events, with a radial extent typically greater than 250 km, that occur in the lower ionosphere above strong electrical storms. We report the observation of 1,598 elves, from 2014 to 2016, recorded with unprecedented time resolution (100 ns) using the fluorescence detector (FD) of the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory. The Auger Observatory is located in the Mendoza province of Argentina with a viewing footprint for elve observations of 3.106 km2, reaching areas above the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the Córdoba region, which is known for severe convective …


Data Supporting The Paper "High Supersaturation In The Wake Of Falling Hydrometeors: Implications For Cloud Invigoration And Ice Nucleation", Prasanth Prabhakaran, G. Kinney, Will Cantrell, Raymond Shaw, Eberhard Bodenschatz Apr 2020

Data Supporting The Paper "High Supersaturation In The Wake Of Falling Hydrometeors: Implications For Cloud Invigoration And Ice Nucleation", Prasanth Prabhakaran, G. Kinney, Will Cantrell, Raymond Shaw, Eberhard Bodenschatz

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The data in this file supports the following paper:

P. Prabhakaran, G. Kinney, W. Cantrell, R. A. Shaw and E. Bodenschatz. "High supersaturation in the wake of falling hydrometeors: Implications for cloud invigoration and ice nucleation" Geophysical Research Letters, in review.