On the dynamic and thermodynamic structures of marine stratocumulus

Latent heating effects on stratocumulus circulations were studied successfully with a nine-coefficient spectral model of two-dimensional shallow Boussinesq convection (Laufersweiler and Shirer, 1989). Further, more realistic investigations are being performed currently with a larger, 18-coefficient spectral model, in which the effects of cloud top radiational cooling and in-cloud radiational heating are also being represented. Because assuming a rigid lid at the inversion base may have affected previous results significantly, the domain top was raised to include the lower portion of the capping inversion. As in the previous model, a uniform cloud base is assumed and latent heating effects are included implicitly such that the motions in the sub- and above-cloud regions are dry adiabatic and the motions in the cloud region are moist adiabatic. The effects of forcing by radiational heating profiles that are tied to the cloud layer, such as the one used by Nicholls will be investigated, as will profiles measured during the FIRE experiment. One concern of using truncated spectral models is that the phenomena are so poorly represented that they can change dramatically as the number of spectral coefficients is increased. The efficacy of the nine-coefficient model results is checked by examining the steady state solutions of the 18-coefficient model for parameter values used by Laufersweiler and Shirer (1989), which corresponds to the case of a moderately deep cloud and no capping inversion. The horizontally asymmetric circulation patterns that have narrow downdraft areas and broad updraft areas are virtually the same as those found in the smaller spectral model. Also captured in the case of weaker heating is an elevated circulation centered at cloud base. Thus, the results of the smaller model are substantiated. Since one of the goals of studying the new model is to represent a more realistic domain, the second test of the model is to investigate whether the steady solutions are suppressed in the case of an inversion with no cloud

Data workshops in support of researchers at the University of Oklahoma

OU Libraries is in their third semester of offering research data workshops that focus on the skills and tools needed by students, staff, and faculty who are involved in research. We developed curriculum based on The Carpentries lessons in order to offer shorter, 1 – 2.5-hour workshops more frequently than the typical two-day Carpentries workshops. We organized the workshops into three categories to reflect researcher needs: Survival Skills to teach research data basics (such as backups, data formatting, and file organization); Better Practices to teach data practices that many researchers will use but may not be applicable to all individuals (such as version control and data management plans); and Workflow Tools to teach specific beginner and intermediate tools (such as graphing in R and Python and formatting documents in LaTeX). Slides, instructor notes, and workshop materials are available to the community at OU and beyond through Open Science Framework with a CC-BY license to facilitate curriculum sharing. This poster will outline the various workshops we offer, campus participation thus far, and some feedback from learners

Shortcuts and Hints for Shell (Intermediate Bash)

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Group I

This is for work performed for the project known as Group One as a part of "laufers testing"

Managing Research Projects with OSF

One hour. Also used in DAVIS workshop Best Practices collection

Formatting research data videos and exercise

Designed for first years (BIOL1134

Unix Shell (Bash) for Beginners

Learn how and why to use the command shell - automate tasks and access remote resources. Based on Software Carpentries' shell curriculum

OSU CADRE

Oklahoma State University's Coalition for Advancing Digital Research & Education (CADRE) is a collaborative, campus-wide initiative jointly led by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the OSU Libraries that provides researchers with assistance in all aspects of computational and data-intensive research

A survey of the state of research data services in 35 U.S. academic libraries, or "Wow, what a sweeping question"

This report shares the results of a Spring 2018 survey of 35 academic libraries in the United States in regard to the research data services (RDS) they offer. An executive summary presents key findings while the results section provides detailed information on the answers to specific survey questions related to data repositories, metadata, workshops, and polices