Abstract: Short-term (1?10 day) forecasts are made with climate models to assess the parameterizations of the physical processes. The time period for the integrations is that of the intensive observing period (IOP) of the Tropical ...

Abstract: Satellite measurements from January 1985 to December 1989 show that warmer tropical oceans as a whole are associated with less longwave greenhouse effect of clouds and less cloud reflection of solar radiation to the space. ...

Abstract: The twentieth-century simulations using by 17 coupled ocean?atmosphere general circulation models (CGCMs) submitted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) are evaluated for ...

Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the variational objective analysis (VOA) for producing realistic diagnoses of atmospheric field program data. Simulations from the Naval Research Laboratory's ...

Abstract: The flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of liquid nitrogen in three Utubes with different curvature ratios were investigated experimentally. The effects of inlet pressure, heat flux, and curvature ratio on heat ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design, analysis, and control of a novel micromanipulation system to facilitate the safe handling/probing of biological cells. The robotic manipulator has a modular design, where each module provides ...

Abstract: Motivated by the need to obtain accurate objective analysis of field experimental data to force physical parameterizations in numerical models, this paper first reviews the existing objective analysis methods and interpolation ...

Abstract: n this study, several metrics and diagnostics are proposed and implemented to systematically explore and diagnose climate model biases in short-range hindcasts and quantify how fast hindcast biases approach to climate ...

Abstract: Prior to the 1976?77 climate shift (1950?76), sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropical Indian Ocean consisted of a basinwide warming during boreal fall of the developing phase of most El Niños, whereas after ...

Abstract: Using a coupled general circulation model, the responses of the climate mean state, the annual cycle, and the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon to orbital changes are studied. The authors analyze a 1650-yr-long ...