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Turbulence as observed by concurrent measurements made at NSSL using weather radar, Doppler radar, Doppler lidar and aircraft
As air traffic increases and aircraft capability increases in range and operating altitude, the exposure to weather hazards increases. Turbulence and wind shears are two of the most important of these hazards that must be taken into account if safe flight operations are to be accomplished. Beginning in the early 1960's, Project Rough Rider began thunderstorm investigations. Past and present efforts at the National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL) to measure these flight safety hazards and to describe the use of Doppler radar to detect and qualify these hazards are summarized. In particular, the evolution of the Doppler-measured radial velocity spectrum width and its applicability to the problem of safe flight is presented
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes of February 1, 1955
The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate some of the features that are of particular interest in the forecasting of one of the most death-dealing series of convective storms of the 1950s that occurred during the afternoon and evening of February 1, 1955. This series of severe storms included tornadoes, destructive winds, hail, and heavy rain that first struck near Marianata, Arkansas, then roared through Commerce Landing, Mississippi and northern Mississippi. then moved on to near Huntsville, Alabama.
Includes features at the surface, at 850 mb, 700 mb, and 500 mb, and upper air conditions, along with details of the forecasting of the tornado development
The transition temperature of the dilute interacting Bose gas
We show that the critical temperature of a uniform dilute Bose gas must
increase linearly with the s-wave scattering length describing the repulsion
between the particles. Because of infrared divergences, the magnitude of the
shift cannot be obtained from perturbation theory, even in the weak coupling
regime; rather, it is proportional to the size of the critical region in
momentum space. By means of a self-consistent calculation of the quasiparticle
spectrum at low momenta at the transition, we find an estimate of the effect in
reasonable agreement with numerical simulations.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, to be published in Physical Review Letter
Decay of Correlations in a Topological Glass
In this paper we continue the study of a topological glassy system. The state
space of the model is given by all triangulations of a sphere with nodes,
half of which are red and half are blue. Red nodes want to have 5 neighbors
while blue ones want 7. Energies of nodes with other numbers of neighbors are
supposed to be positive. The dynamics is that of flipping the diagonal between
two adjacent triangles, with a temperature dependent probability. We consider
the system at very low temperatures.
We concentrate on several new aspects of this model: Starting from a detailed
description of the stationary state, we conclude that pairs of defects (nodes
with the "wrong" degree) move with very high mobility along 1-dimensional
paths. As they wander around, they encounter single defects, which they then
move "sideways" with a geometrically defined probability. This induces a
diffusive motion of the single defects. If they meet, they annihilate, lowering
the energy of the system. We both estimate the decay of energy to equilibrium,
as well as the correlations. In particular, we find a decay like
QCD Sum Rules, Scattering Length and the Vector Mesons in Nuclear Medium
Critical examination is made on the relation between the mass shift of vector
mesons in nuclear medium and the vector-meson nucleon scattering length. We
give detailed comparison between the QCD sum rule approach by two of the
present authors (Phys. Rev. {\bf C46} (1992) R34) and the scattering-length
approach by Koike (Phys. Rev. {\bf C51} (1995) 1488). It is shown that the
latter approach is mortally flawed both technically and conceptually.Comment: 16 pages, latex, 4 figures appended as uu-encoded fil
Anomalous electronic susceptibility in Bi2Sr2CuO6+d and comparison with other overdoped cuprates
We report magnetic susceptibility performed on overdoped Bi2Sr2CuO6+d powders
as a function of oxygen doping d and temperature T. The decrease of the spin
susceptibility with increasing T is confirmed. At sufficient high temperature,
the spin susceptibility Chi_s presents an unusual linear temperature dependence
Chi_s ~ Chi_s0 -Chi_1 T. Moreover, a linear correlation between Chi_1 and
Chi_s0 for increasing hole concentration is displayed. A temperature Tchi,
independent of hole doping characterizes this scaling. Comparison with other
cuprates of the literature(LSCO, Tl-2201 and Bi-2212), over the same overdoped
range, shows similarities with above results. These non conventional metal
features will be discussed in terms of a singular narrow-band structure.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Local and global modes of drug action in biochemical networks
It becomes increasingly accepted that a shift is needed from the traditional target-based approach of drug development to an integrated perspective of drug action in biochemical systems. We here present an integrative analysis of the interactions between drugs and metabolism based on the concept of drug scope. The drug scope represents the set of metabolic compounds and reactions that are potentially affected by a drug. We constructed and analyzed the scopes of all US approved drugs having metabolic targets. Our analysis shows that the distribution of drug scopes is highly uneven, and that drugs can be classified into several categories based on their scopes. Some of them have small scopes corresponding to localized action, while others have large scopes corresponding to potential large-scale systemic action. These groups are well conserved throughout different topologies of the underlying metabolic network. They can furthermore be associated to specific drug therapeutic properties
Genotyping by sequencing provides new insights into the diversity of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) and reveals variation in genome-wide LD patterns between collections
peer-reviewedNapier grass is an important tropical forage-grass and of growing potential as an energy crop. One-hundred-five Napier grass accessions, encompassing two independent collections, were subjected to genotyping by sequencing which generated a set of high-density genome-wide markers together with short sequence reads. The reads, averaging 54 nucleotides, were mapped to the pearl millet genome and the closest genes and annotation information were used to select candidate genes linked to key forage traits. 980 highly polymorphic SNP markers, distributed across the genome, were used to assess population structure and diversity with seven-subgroups identified. A few representative accessions were selected with the objective of distributing subsets of a manageable size for further evaluation. Genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) analyses revealed a fast LD-decay, on average 2.54 kbp, in the combined population with a slower LD-decay in the ILRI collection compared with the EMBRAPA collection, the significance of which is discussed. This initiative generated high-density markers with a good distribution across the genome. The diversity analysis revealed the existence of a substantial amount of variation in the ILRI collection and identified some unique materials from the EMBRAPA collection, demonstrating the potential of the overall population for further genetic and marker-trait-association studies
Freezing transition of the vortex liquid in anisotropic superconductors
We study the solid-liquid transition of a model of pancake vortices in
laminar superconductors using a density functional theory of freezing. The
physical properties of the system along the melting line are discussed in
detail. We show that there is a very good agreement with experimental data in
the shape and position of the first order transition in the phase diagram and
in the magnitude and temperature dependence of the magnetic induction jump at
the transition. We analyze the validity of the Lindemann melting criterion and
the Hansen-Verlet freezing criterion. Both criteria are shown to be good to
predict the phase diagram in the region where a first order phase transition is
experimentally observed.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
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