Mass loss from the West Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers has been linked to basal melt by ocean heat flux. The Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, which buttresses a marine-based ice sheet with a volume equivalent to at least 3.5 m of global sea-level rise, also experiences rapid basal melt, but the role of ocean forcing was not known because of a lack of observations near the ice shelf. Obs...

[1] Under increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat uptake moderates the rate of climate change, and thermal expansion makes a substantial contribution to sea level rise. In this paper we quantify the differences in projections among atmosphere-ocean general circulation models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project in terms of transient climate response, ocean heat uptake effic...

An essential element of modern ocean circulation and climate is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which includes deep-water formation in the subarctic North Atlantic. However, a comparable overturning circulation is absent in the Pacific, the world's largest ocean, where relatively fresh surface waters inhibit North Pacific deep convection. We present complementary measure...

The geothermal energy is considered as one of the most promising renewable techniques for district heating. deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger (BHE) an economic and efficient measure extracting from underground, which attracts numerous attentions recently. However, researches on influences operation modes periodical extraction performances BHE are rare. In this paper, unsteady numerical model...

Fungi are important to biotechnology including medicine, agriculture and industry fields. Over 100 fungi genome have been sequenced or are being sequenced between 2013/2015 including human and plant pathogens as well as fungi that serve as basic models for molecular and cellular biology. The fungal community working in genomic area is increasing dramatically recently. The obtained data is enabl...

We explore the role of sea ice freshwater and salt fluxes in modulating 21 century surface warming in the Southern Ocean via analysis of sensitivity experiments in the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3). In particular, we investigate whether a change in these fluxes can cause surface cooling in the Southern Ocean, expand sea ice, and increase deep oceanic storage of heat. Our resu...

The balance between metabolic heat production, heat removal by blood flow, and heat conductance defines local temperature distribution in a living tissue. Disproportional local increases in blood flow as compared with oxygen consumption during functional brain activity disturb this balance, leading to temperature changes. In this article we have developed a theoretical framework that allows ana...