Abstract: Interactive three-dimensional visualization of urban models presents a powerful platform for communication and collaboration between project stakeholders in evaluating and exploring urban planning issues. One of the most ...

Abstract: In this note, we investigate some existing correlations between soil modulii and penetration resistance using a direct approach. We make use of settlement data from case histories for both shallow and deep foundations over ...

Abstract: An upgraded version of the Hadley Centre?s monthly historical mean sea level pressure (MSLP) dataset (HadSLP2) is presented. HadSLP2 covers the period from 1850 to date, and is based on numerous terrestrial and marine data ...

Abstract: This article explores the influence of personal values and ontological beliefs on people?s perceptions of possible abrupt changes in the Earth?s climate system and on their climate change mitigation preferences. The authors ...

Abstract: Large-eddy simulation, with recently developed dynamic subgrid-scale models, is used to study the effect of heterogeneous surface temperature distributions on regional-scale turbulent fluxes in the stable boundary layer ...

Abstract: Evacuations require people to leave their homes and seek temporary accommodations for varying lengths of time. However, although studies of evacuation and return-entry examine travel to and from short-term evacuation ...

Abstract: A four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) algorithm for retrieval of spatially and temporally resolved velocity and thermodynamic fields within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is described and applied ...

Abstract: A series of trials are performed to evaluate the sensitivity of a 4DVAR algorithm for retrieval of microscale wind and temperature fields from single-Doppler lidar data. These trials use actual Doppler lidar measurements ...