Abstract: As the basic chemical components of asphalt binders, the fractions of saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes (SARA) have crucial effects on the rheological properties of such binders. Thus, two kinds of neat asphalt ...

Abstract: An automated method for segmenting digital images of orographic cumulus and a simple metric for characterizing the transition from shallow to deep convection are presented. The analysis is motivated by the hypothesis that ...