Abstract: This study investigates the physical mechanism of low cloud feedback in the Community Atmospheric Model, version 3 (CAM3) through idealized single-column model (SCM) experiments over the subtropical eastern oceans. Negative ...

Abstract: Many soil-structure interaction problems can be idealized as foundation beam problems. In the present work, the tensionless contact problem of an Euler-Bernoulli beam of finite length resting on an elastic-plastic foundation ...

Abstract: Based on the unit-cell concept, analytical solutions are presented to predict deformation behaviors of geotextile-encased stone columns at any depth below the top plane of the columns. Under vertical loads at the tops of ...

Abstract: Both the ECMWF and the NCEP?NCAR reanalyses show a strengthening of the atmospheric Hadley circulation in boreal winter over the last 50 years, but the intensification is much stronger in the ECMWF than in the NCEP?NCAR ...

Abstract: umulus (Cu) from shallow convection is one of the dominant cloud types over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in the summer according to CloudSat-CALIPSO observation. Its thermodynamic effects on the atmospheric environment and ...

Abstract: The evolution processes of small disturbances in an arbitrary basic flow can be expressed as a combination of spectral functions of the discrete spectra and continuous spectrum of a model that bear distinctly different ...

Abstract: The discrete-element method (DEM) was employed in this study to analyze the micromechanical behavior of an axially loaded geogrid-encased stone column (GESC) installed in a clay bed. A three-dimensional DEM model was ...

Abstract: The discrete element method–finite difference method (DEM--FDM) numerical simulation was conducted to investigate the failure process and the bearing mechanism of the single stone column in soft soil beneath rigid loading. ...