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Simultaneous Identification of the Diffusion Coefficient and the Potential for the Schr\"odinger Operator with only one Observation
This article is devoted to prove a stability result for two independent
coefficients for a Schr\"odinger operator in an unbounded strip. The result is
obtained with only one observation on an unbounded subset of the boundary and
the data of the solution at a fixed time on the whole domain
Steady-state signatures of radiation trapping by cold multilevel atoms
In this paper, we use steady-state measurements to obtain evidence of
radiation trapping in an optically thick a cloud of cold rubidium atoms. We
investigate the fluorescence properties of our sample, pumped on opened
transitions. The intensity of fluorescence exhibits a non trivial dependence on
the optical thickness of the media. A simplified model, based on rate equations
self-consistently coupled to a diffusive model of light transport, is used to
explain the experimental observations in terms of incoherent radiation trapping
on one spectral line. Measurements of atomic populations and fluorescence
spectrum qualitatively agree with this interpretation.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Impact of reanalysis boundary conditions on downscaled Atlantic hurricane activity
Climate models are capable of producing features similar to tropical cyclones, but
typically display strong biases for many of the storm physical characteristics due to
their relatively coarse resolution compared to the size of the storms themselves. One
strategy that has been adopted to circumvent this limitation is through the use of a
hybrid downscaling technique, wherein a large set of synthetic tracks are created by
seeding disturbances in the large-scale environment. Here, we evaluate the ability of
this technique at reproducing many of the characteristics of the recent North Atlantic
hurricane activity as well as its sensitivity to the choice of the reanalysis dataset used
as boundary conditions. In particular, we show that the geographical and intensity
distributions are well reproduced, but that the technique has difficulty capturing the
large difference in activity observed between the most recent active and quiescent
phase. Although the signal is somewhat reduced compared to observation, the
technique also detects a significant decrease in the intensification rate of hurricanes
near the coastal U.S. during the active phase compared to the quiescent phase.
Finally, the influence of the El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation on hurricane activity is
generally well captured as well, but the technique fails to reproduce the increase in
activity over the western part of the basin during Modoki El Niños.Ministerio de Economa y Competitividad (MINECO; Project
GL2014-55764-R
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Cross-validating precipitation datasets in the Indus River basin
Abstract. Large uncertainty remains about the amount of precipitation falling in the Indus River basin, particularly in the more mountainous northern part. While rain gauge measurements are often considered as a reference, they provide information for specific, often sparse, locations (point observations) and are subject to underestimation, particularly in mountain areas. Satellite observations and reanalysis data can improve our knowledge but validating their results is often difficult. In this study, we offer a cross-validation of 20 gridded datasets based on rain gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data, including the most recent and less studied APHRODITE-2, MERRA2, and ERA5. This original approach to cross-validation alternatively uses each dataset as a reference and interprets the result according to their dependency on the reference. Most interestingly, we found that reanalyses represent the daily variability of precipitation as well as any observational datasets, particularly in winter. Therefore, we suggest that reanalyses offer better estimates than non-corrected rain-gauge-based datasets where underestimation is problematic. Specifically, ERA5 is the reanalysis that offers estimates of precipitation closest to observations, in terms of amounts, seasonality, and variability, from daily to multi-annual scale. By contrast, satellite observations bring limited improvement at the basin scale. For the rain-gauge-based datasets, APHRODITE has the finest temporal representation of the precipitation variability, yet it importantly underestimates the actual amount. GPCC products are the only datasets that include a correction factor of the rain gauge measurements, but this factor likely remains too small. These findings highlight the need for a systematic characterisation of the underestimation of rain gauge measurements.
European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 648609
The Bright Side of Coulomb Blockade
We explore the photonic (bright) side of dynamical Coulomb blockade (DCB) by
measuring the radiation emitted by a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction
embedded in a microwave resonator. In this regime Cooper pair tunneling is
inelastic and associated to the transfer of an energy 2eV into the resonator
modes. We have measured simultaneously the Cooper pair current and the photon
emission rate at the resonance frequency of the resonator. Our results show two
regimes, in which each tunneling Cooper pair emits either one or two photons
into the resonator. The spectral properties of the emitted radiation are
accounted for by an extension to DCB theory.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures + 3 pages, 1 figure supplementary materia
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