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Suggested hurricane operational scenario for GOES I-M
Improvements in tropical cyclone forecasts require optimum use of remote sensing capabilities, because conventional data sources cannot provide the necessary spatial and temporal data density over tropical and subtropical oceanic regions. In 1989, the first of a series of geostationary weather satellites, GOES 1-M, will be launched with the capability for simultaneous imaging and sounding. Careful scheduling of the GOES 1-M will enable measurements of both the wind and mass fields over the entire tropical cyclone activity area. The document briefly describes the GOES 1-M imager and sounder, surveys the data needs for hurricane forecasting, discusses how geostationary satellite observations help to meet them, and proposes a GOES 1-M schedule of observations and hurricane relevant derived products
Bargaining in the Shadow of Eminent Domain: Valuing and Apportioning Condemnation Awards Between Landlord and Tenant
Who has a constitutionally protected property interest when the government condemns land subject to a lease? Is it the landlord? The tenant? Or do both parties have property rights that entitle them to compensation? Further, how should the size of the total condemnation award be determined? Should we value the property rights of the landlord and the tenant separately and sum? Or should we value the entire parcel as if it were an undivided fee simple and apportion the award between the landlord and the tenant? If the condemnation award is based on the value of a fee simple and apportioned, who should make this division? Is this an issue of constitutional law as to which the courts have the final say? Or do the principles of constitutional law enunciated by the courts merely provide default rules, i.e., rules that apply only if the parties fail to address the issue of compensation in the lease?
In this article, we offer a normative framework for answering these questions. Our approach evolved by working backwards. We started with the question of how to apportion condemnation awards between landlord and tenant. Why, we asked, should courts do the division? Why not let the parties do it themselves? Insofar as commercial leases are concerned, all the prerequisites for efficient bargaining would seem to be present here: a small number of parties (two), an established vehicle for conducting the negotiations (the lease), and both parties typically represented by counsel. Furthermore, provided the issue is addressed in the lease â before condemnation takes place â there should be no problem of ex post strategic behavior
Construction of Parseval wavelets from redundant filter systems
We consider wavelets in L^2(R^d) which have generalized multiresolutions.
This means that the initial resolution subspace V_0 in L^2(R^d) is not singly
generated. As a result, the representation of the integer lattice Z^d
restricted to V_0 has a nontrivial multiplicity function. We show how the
corresponding analysis and synthesis for these wavelets can be understood in
terms of unitary-matrix-valued functions on a torus acting on a certain vector
bundle. Specifically, we show how the wavelet functions on R^d can be
constructed directly from the generalized wavelet filters.Comment: 34 pages, AMS-LaTeX ("amsproc" document class) v2 changes minor typos
in Sections 1 and 4, v3 adds a number of references on GMRA theory and
wavelet multiplicity analysis; v4 adds material on pages 2, 3, 5 and 10, and
two more reference
Studying the Pulsation of Mira Variables in the Ultraviolet
We present results from an empirical study of the Mg II h & k emission lines
of selected Mira variable stars, using spectra from the International
Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE). The stars all exhibit similar Mg II behavior during
the course of their pulsation cycles. The Mg II flux always peaks after optical
maximum near pulsation phase 0.2-0.5, although the Mg II flux can vary greatly
from one cycle to the next. The lines are highly blueshifted, with the
magnitude of the blueshift decreasing with phase. The widths of the Mg II lines
are also phase-dependent, decreasing from about 70 km/s to 40 km/s between
phase 0.2 and 0.6. We also study other UV emission lines apparent in the IUE
spectra, most of them Fe II lines. These lines are much narrower and not nearly
as blueshifted as the Mg II lines. They exhibit the same phase-dependent flux
behavior as Mg II, but they do not show similar velocity or width variations.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures; AASTEX v5.0 plus EPSF extensions in mkfig.sty;
to appear in Ap
Asymmetric polarity reversals, bimodal field distribution, and coherence resonance in a spherically symmetric mean-field dynamo model
Using a mean-field dynamo model with a spherically symmetric helical
turbulence parameter alpha which is dynamically quenched and disturbed by
additional noise, the basic features of geomagnetic polarity reversals are
shown to be generic consequences of the dynamo action in the vicinity of
exceptional points of the spectrum. This simple paradigmatic model yields long
periods of constant polarity which are interrupted by self-accelerating field
decays leading to asymmetric polarity reversals. It shows the recently
discovered bimodal field distribution, and it gives a natural explanation of
the correlation between polarity persistence time and field strength. In
addition, we find typical features of coherence resonance in the dependence of
the persistence time on the noise.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Probing the Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis History of Galactic Matter
The heavy elements formed by neutron capture processes have an interesting
history from which we can extract useful clues to and constraints upon both the
characteristics of the processes themselves and the star formation and
nucleosynthesis history of Galactic matter. Of particular interest in this
regard are the heavy element compositions of extremely metal-deficient stars.
At metallicities [Fe/H] <= -2.5, the elements in the mass region past barium (A
>= 130-140 have been found (in non carbon-rich stars) to be pure r-process
products. The identification of an environment provided by massive stars and
associated Type II supernovae as an r-process site seems compelling. Increasing
levels of heavy s-process (e.g., barium) enrichment with increasing
metallicity, evident in the abundances of more metal-rich halo stars and disk
stars, reflect the delayed contributions from the low- and intermediate-mass (M
\~ 1-3 Msol) stars that provide the site for the main s-process nucleosynthesis
component during the AGB phase of their evolution. New abundance data in the
mass region 60 <~ A <~ 130 is providing insight into the identity of possible
alternative r-process sites. We review recent observational studies of heavy
element abundances both in low metallicity halo stars and in disk stars,
discuss the observed trends in light of nucleosynthesis theory, and explore
some implications of these results for Galactic chemical evolution,
nucleosynthesis, and nucleocosmochronology.Comment: 47 pages, 2 tables, 11 figures; To appear in PAS
Residence Time Analysis of Rare-Gas Atoms Trapped At A Solid Surface
Recently a model based on an attractive square well and
impulsive repulsive potential between a gas and a solid
surface has been employed to estimate the fraction of
gas atoms trapped in the potential well at the solid
surface. A gas atom was considered trapped if it
transferred enough energy to the solid (as judged by the
thermal accommodation coefficient) to fall into the
potential well, i.e., to have negative total energy where
the zero of energy is assumed to be the infinitely separated
gas atom and solid with the gas atom at rest. The
criterion for gas trapping when considering experimental
scattering data has been the assumption that the trapped
gas is emitted from the surface with a random (cosine)
distribution. To assess the possibility that rare-gas
atoms may fall into the interatomic well with the metal
surface (i.e., be trapped according to the definition of
Ref. 1) and still be re-emitted from the surface in a
nonrandom distribution, some estimates of surface
residence times for the gas should be made. If such a
phenomenon as suggested above were to occur, then the
calculated trapping probability of the square well
model would be expected to be larger than those found
experimentally, as has been observed to be the case for
krypton and xenon interactions with a tungsten (110)
surface. The idea that a gas particle may execute
several vibrations at a surface and still not reach
thermodynamic equilibrium is not a new one. In this
paper the pertinent theory describing this effect is
presented, and empirical calculations estimating the
magnitude of the effect are presented
The Continuing Slow Decline of AG Pegasi
We analyze optical and ultraviolet observations of the symbiotic binary AG
Pegasi acquired during 1992-97. The bolometric luminosity of the hot component
declined by a factor of 2-3 from 1980-1985 to 1997. Since 1992, the effective
temperature of the hot component may have declined by 10%-20%, but this decline
is comparable to the measurement errors. Optical observations of H-beta and He
I emission show a clear illumination effect, where high energy photons from the
hot component ionize the outer atmosphere of the red giant. Simple illumination
models generally account for the magnitude of the optical and ultraviolet
emission line fluxes. High ionization emission lines - [Ne V], [Mg V], and [Fe
VII] - suggest mechanical heating in the outer portions of the photoionized red
giant wind. This emission probably originates in a low density region
30-300 AU from the central binary.Comment: 17 pages, 7 pages, 5 tables; to be published in the Astronomical
Journal, July 200
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