Aims. We discuss whether the process of winding-up the magnetic field by differential rotation in a newborn quark-star can cause an energy emission rate high enough and lasting sufficiently long to explain long gamma ray bursts. Methods. Within the magneto-hydrodynamics, we study the torsional oscillations and the extraction of energy from a newborn , hot, differentially rotating quark-star. Re...

Nowadays, propagation of wind turbines make challenges to supply safe power to the grid. Because of wind speed changes, supervisors are concerned to wind turbines, be able to produce appropriate electric power during the wind speed changes. As a matter of fact, investors are mostly like to invest on offshore wind farms, because of their more stable and continuous wind speed rather than onshore ...

One of the most important, but difficult forecasting problems in northern Australia is to predict the occurrence of deep convection. On occasion, convective storms are triggered along convergence lines that originate as a result of organised mesoscale circulations such as sea-breezes. If one can forecast these lines, it might be possible also to forecast the storms that they initiate. The Gulf ...

This project is one component of comprehensive multidisciplinary studies performed at the University of Rhode Island 2008 to 2010, to develop a Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) for siting offshore wind farms in Rhode Island waters. A characterization of extreme wave climates is required when considering such ocean structures, e.g. for designing wind turbine support structures and foundations...

Interest in hurricane risk usually focuses on landfalling events of the highest intensity, which cause a disproportionate amount of hurricane-related damage. Yet assessing the long-term risk of the most intense landfalling events is problematic because there are comparatively few of them in the historical record. For this reason, return periods of the most intense storms are usually estimated b...

Mesoscale vortices are one of several types of wintertime lake-effect structures that are observed over the Great Lakes region as cold arctic air is rapidly modified from below by warm lake waters. These vortices are thought to occur less frequently than other lake-effect structures, such as wind-parallel snowbands (e.g., Kristovich 1993), which are responsible for greater than half of the year...

[1] This model study examines the impact of an intense early August cyclone on the 2012 record low Arctic sea ice extent. The cyclone passed when Arctic sea ice was thin and the simulated Arctic ice volume had already declined ~40% from the 2007–2011 mean. The thin sea ice pack and the presence of ocean heat in the near surface temperature maximum layer created conditions that made the ice part...

Collocations such as heavy rain or make [a] decision, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base. Collocations present difficulties even to advanced language learners, who usually struggle to find the right collocate to express a particular meaning, e.g., both heavy and strong express the...

Mountain gravity wave theories often neglect the observationnal evidence that the large scale winds can become very small near the earth surface. This common shortcoming is related to the fact that mountain waves have a critical level near the surface in this case, making the problem extremely involved. We briefly expose here how Lott (2016) circumvents this difficulty and derive a theory where...