31,684 research outputs found
An Initial Evaluation of a Proposed Statewide Education Sales Tax
This report provides a preliminary analysis of a proposal to replace education property taxes with a statewide sales tax
Financing Georgia's Future
This report explores how Georgia finances its expenditures through various revenue sources and compares Georgia's taxes across states and over time on multiple dimensions
Transportation Funding Alternatives:A Preliminary Analysis
This report explores issues associated with proposed alternative revenue sources for increasing transportation for funding. FRC Report 13
Transportation Funding Alternatives:A Preliminary Analysis - Brief
This report explores issues associated with proposed alternative revenue sources for increasing transportation for funding. FRC Brief 13
Are Recent Peculiar Velocity Surveys Consistent?
We compare the bulk flow of the SMAC sample to the predictions of popular
cosmological models and to other recent large-scale peculiar velocity surveys.
Both analyses account for aliasing of small-scale power due to the sparse and
non-uniform sampling of the surveys. We conclude that the SMAC bulk flow is in
marginal conflict with flat COBE-normalized Lambda-CDM models which fit the
cluster abundance constraint. However, power spectra which are steeper
shortward of the peak are consistent with all of the above constraints. When
recent large-scale peculiar velocity surveys are compared, we conclude that all
measured bulk flows (with the possible exception of that of Lauer & Postman)
are consistent with each other given the errors, provided the latter allow for
`cosmic covariance'. A rough estimate of the mean bulk flow of all surveys
(except Lauer & Postman) is ~400 km/s towards l=270, b=0.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Cosmic Flows
Workshop, Victoria, B. C., Canada, July 1999, eds. S. Courteau, M. Strauss,
and J. Willic
Synoptic/planetary-scale interactions and blocking over the North Atlantic Ocean
The central theme of this project has been the diagnosis of blocking anticyclogenesis and the corresponding interactions with synoptic-scale circulations. To that end an extensive investigation of the dynamics and energetics of a major blocking anticyclone and two upstream cyclones, all of which occurred over the North Atlantic Ocean and the United States in January 1979, was undertaken. Data for the study were provided by Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres (GLA) 4 LAT by 5 LON FGGE analyses. The methodology has primarily focused on the diagnosis of circulation forcing mechanisms using the modified forms (referred to as the extended forms) of the height tendency and Zwack-Okossi equations developed by our research group. Calculations use routine second-order finite differencing with boundary layer fraction and sensible heating and latent heat release represented as parameterized quantities. Of particular interest are the latent heat release estimates, which combine convectional parameterized values with estimates derived from satellite IR data. The latter were obtained using an algorithm derived by Dr. Franklin R. Robertson of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Results are contained in project reports, theses and publications identified in previous review summaries and reports, and publications listed at the end of this summary. Significant accomplishments in the past year are presented
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