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Hydrologic verification: A call for action and collaboration
Traditionally, little attention has been focused on the systematic verification of operational hydrologic forecasts. This paper summarizes the results of forecasts verification from 15 river basins in the United States. The verification scores for these forecast locations do not show improvement over the periods of record despite a number of forecast process improvements. In considering a root cause for these results, the authors note that the current paradigm for designing hydrologic forecast process improvements is driven by expert opinion and not by objective verification measures. The authors suggest that this paradigm should be modified and objective verification metrics should become the primary driver for hydrologic forecast process improvements. ©2007 American Meteorological Society
The double-Reissner-Nordstrom solution and the interaction force between two spherically symmetric charged particles
The physical representation of the general double-Reissner-Nordstrom solution
is obtained by rewriting the N=2 Breton-Manko-Aguilar electrostatic solution in
the Varzugin-Chistyakov parametrization (M_i, Q_i, R). A concise analytical
formula is derived for the interaction force between two arbitrary
Reissner-Nordstrom constituents, and an example of the equilibrium
configuration involving two oppositely charged particles which confirms earlier
Bonnor's prediction of the existence of such configurations is given.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure; submitted to Physical Review
How ripples turn into dots: modeling ion-beam erosion under oblique incidence
Pattern formation on semiconductor surfaces induced by low energetic ion-beam
erosion under normal and oblique incidence is theoretically investigated using
a continuum model in form of a stochastic, nonlocal, anisotropic
Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Depending on the size of the parameters this
model exhibits hexagonally ordered dot, ripple, less regular and even rather
smooth patterns. We investigate the transitional behavior between such states
and suggest how transitions can be experimentally detected.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publication, revised versio
Renormalisation of gravitational self interaction for wiggly strings
It is shown that for any elastic string model with energy density and
tension , the divergent contribution from gravitational self interaction can
be allowed for by an action renormalisation proportional to . This
formula is applied to the important special case of a bare model of the
transonic type (characterised by a constant value of the product ) that
represents the macroscopically averaged effect of shortwavelength wiggles on an
underlying microscopic model of the Nambu-Goto type (characterised by ).Comment: 11 pages, Latex; original 8 page version extended to include
estimates of relevant orders of magnitude. To be published in Physical
Review,
Experimental study of ion heating and acceleration during magnetic reconnection
Ion heating and acceleration has been studied in the well-characterized reconnection layer of the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment [M. Yamada , Phys. Plasmas 4, 1936 (1997)]. Ion temperature in the layer rises substantially during null-helicity reconnection in which reconnecting field lines are anti-parallel. The plasma outflow is sub-Alfvenic due to a downstream back pressure. An ion energy balance calculation based on the data and including classical viscous heating indicates that ions are heated largely via nonclassical mechanisms. The T-i rise is much smaller during co-helicity reconnection in which field lines reconnect obliquely. This is consistent with a slower reconnection rate and a smaller resistivity enhancement over the Spitzer value. These observations show that nonclassical dissipation mechanisms can play an important role both in heating the ions and in facilitating the reconnection process
Carter-Payne homomorphisms and Jantzen filtrations
We prove a q-analogue of the Carter-Payne theorem in the case where the
differences between the parts of the partitions are sufficiently large. We
identify a layer of the Jantzen filtration which contains the image of these
Carter-Payne homomorphisms and we show how these homomorphisms compose.Comment: 30 page
Staticity Theorem for Higher Dimensional Generalized Einstein-Maxwell System
We derive formulas for variations of mass, angular momentum and canonical
energy in Einstein (n-2)-gauge form field theory by means of the ADM formalism.
Considering the initial data for the manifold with an interior boundary which
has the topology of (n-2)-sphere we obtained the generalized first law of black
hole thermodynamics. Supposing that a black hole evevt horizon comprisesw a
bifurcation Killing horizon with a bifurcate surface we find that the solution
is static in the exterior world, when the Killing timelike vector field is
normal to the horizon and has vanishing electric or magnetic fields on static
slices.Comment: 10 pages, REVTEX, to published in Phys.Rev. D1
Quantum Algorithm for the Collision Problem
In this note, we give a quantum algorithm that finds collisions in arbitrary
r-to-one functions after only O((N/r)^(1/3)) expected evaluations of the
function. Assuming the function is given by a black box, this is more efficient
than the best possible classical algorithm, even allowing probabilism. We also
give a similar algorithm for finding claws in pairs of functions. Furthermore,
we exhibit a space-time tradeoff for our technique. Our approach uses Grover's
quantum searching algorithm in a novel way.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX2
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