US meteorology: NOAA faces rough passage

Noaa/etl Studies in Conditions Related to the Proposed Ross Island Meteorology Experiment (rime)

The Ross Island Meteorology Experiment (RIME) plans to study the synoptic and mesoscale phenomena along a high-latitude, steep and complex coastline (RIME Workshop Guideline, http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/). A key component of RIME is model validation and improvement of physical parameterizations. The Ross Island region is impacted by vigorous storms approaching from the northwest, air-sea...

Perceptual adaptation helps us identify faces

Adaptation is a fundamental property of perceptual processing. In low-level vision, it can calibrate perception to current inputs, increasing coding efficiency and enhancing discrimination around the adapted level. Adaptation also occurs in high-level vision, as illustrated by face aftereffects. However, the functional consequences of face adaptation remain uncertain. Here we investigated wheth...

NOAA Coastal Sites: An N-tiered Service-Oriented approach towards visualization of Meteorology and Water Levels Data

The VisPort application adopts a service-oriented architecture to encapsulate visualization functionality that supports remote access [1]. Data sets are typically large and multi-dimensional and made available locally to the web services that run visualization jobs. The visualization products – typically images or movies – are viewed in the user’s standard Web browser [1]. NOAA Coastal Sites is...

Meteorology and Agroforestry Meteorology and Agroforestry

The physical environment affects and interacts with agroforestry systems through tree and crop growth, animal performance, management operations and interactions between the tree/shrub and non-tree components (abbreviated to tree/crop interactions). Interactions take place mainly through the media of microclimate, soil moisture and soil. They may have beneficial or adverse effects, for tree and...

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