Abstract: This is the first of a two-part article that investigates the impact of land surface evaporation variability on the interannual variability of precipitation and compares it with the impact caused by sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: The closure behavior of rock joints is intimately related to joint roughness. Here we utilize a micromechanical approach that explicitly considers asperity interactions on joint surfaces to study the rock-joint closure and ...

Abstract: In this article two subsynoptic-scale cyclones that developed between 3 and 10 October 1996 over the western-central Mediterranean, causing floods, strong winds, and severe damage, are analyzed. Surface observations reveal ...

Abstract: Water drops of 2 mm diameter were supercooled on a glass slide, sprayed with AgI particles, and photographed at low magnification with a 16-mm movie camera at a speed of 64 frames per second to determine the nature of ...

Abstract: In this paper, a thermodynamic analysis of Bouc–Wen models endowed with both strength and stiffness degradation is provided. This analysis is based on the relationship between the flow rules of these models and those of ...

Abstract: The convergence-confinement method (CCM) applies to circular tunnels in in situ stress fields in which all three principal stresses are equal and the rock mass exhibits elastic-perfectly plastic shear failure. As radial ...

Abstract: In this article we illustrate how the property of differential flatness can be advantageously joined to the sliding mode controller design methodology for the active stabilization of nonlinear ...

Abstract: This is the second of a two-part article investigating the impact of variations of land surface evaporability on the interannual variability of precipitation. The first goal of this part is to analyze the relationship ...