Abstract: his study provides evidence of the robust response of the East Asian monsoon rainband to the 11-yr solar cycle and first identify the exact time period within the summer half-year (1958?2012) with the strongest correlation ...

Abstract: Deployable structures are extensively used in engineering. A bistable panel structure, inspired by multistable origami, is proposed, capable of deployment and folding powered by air pressure. Prototypes were manufactured ...

Abstract: nshore and offshore currents and the associated volume transport across three isobaths (50, 100, and 200 m) over the continental shelf of the East China Sea were examined using daily reanalysis data in 1993?2012. After ...

Abstract: In samplingbased reliabilitybased design optimization (RBDO) of largescale engineering applications, the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is often used for the probability of failure calculation and probabilistic sensitivity ...

Abstract: The hydrodynamics of a two-vent turbulent forced plume propagating in a linear stratification has been studied by a series of laboratory experiments using the two-tank method and the particle image velocimetry (PIV) ...

Abstract: Gravity currents descending a slope in a linearly stratified environment can be frequently encountered in nature. However, few studies have quantitatively investigated the evolution process of lock-exchange gravity currents ...

Abstract: Studying the effect of cloud cover on the temporal upscaling of instantaneous evapotranspiration (ET) is significant in the effort toward a more accurate and widely applied upscaling method to obtain the exact ET on a daily ...