[1] The focus of this paper is the retrieval of the oscillation angle of crystals around the horizontal plane, in low-level ice clouds, using the lidar depolarization ratio. An ice cloud located between 0.5 and 2.25 km of altitude has been studied. Measurements were taken near Montreal, on February 2nd, 2000, with a 1.06-mm lidar with scanning capability and dual polarization. The scanning obse...

We describe the design and implementation of DeepDive, a system for transparently identifying and managing performance interference between virtual machines (VMs) co-located on the same physical machine in Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud environments. DeepDive successfully addresses several important challenges, including the lack of performance information from applications, and the large ov...

because of the role of climate parameters in climate change and improve the efficiency of climate and rainfall prediction models, the study of these parameters are very important in the world. the study of clouds have special important, because the clouds make connection between the synoptic patters and surface climate conditions and any change in its properties, can start a chain reaction in o...

Nowdays, energy consumption as a critical issue in distributed computing systems with high performance has become so green computing tries to energy consumption, carbon footprint and CO2 emissions in high performance computing systems (HPCs) such as clusters, Grid and Cloud that a large number of parallel. Reducing energy consumption for high end computing can bring various benefits such as red...

Information security processes and systems are relevant for any organization and involve medium-to-high investment; however, the current economic downturn is causing a dramatic reduction in spending on Information Technology (IT). Cloud computing (i.e., externalization of one or more IT services) might be a solution for organizations keen to maintain a good level of security. In this paper we d...

Information security processes and systems are relevant for any organization and involve medium-to-high investment; however, the current economic downturn is causing a dramatic reduction in spending on Information Technology (IT). Cloud computing (i.e., externalization of one or more IT services) might be a solution for organizations keen to maintain a good level of security. In this paper we d...

LANDSAT-l and -2 multispectral scanner (MSS) data from six overpass dates (April 2, May 17, June 4, July 10, October 17. and December 10, 1975) showed that MSS digital data for bare soil. cloud tops. and cloud shadows followed a highly predictable linear relation (soil background line) for MSS bands 5 and 7 (r2 = 0.974). Increasing vegetation development. documented by leaf area index measureme...