In the original LARES mission the general relativistic Lense–Thirring effect would be detected by using as observable the sum of the residuals of the nodes of the existing passive geodetic laser-ranged LAGEOS satellite and of its proposed twin LARES. The proposed nominal orbital configuration of the latter one would reduce the systematic error due to the mismodelling in the even zonal harmonics...

In this note, equations for enstrophy and enstrophy advection are derived in terms of well-known quantities, assuming horizontal frictionless flow on a beta-plane. Specifically, enstrophy can be written in terms of the geopotential (or pressure), relative vorticity, zonal wind, and resultant deformation. Enstrophy advection is shown to be related to the time evolution of deformation and ageostr...

Three different potential predictors of forecast error – ensemble spread, mean errors of recent forecasts and the local gradient of the predicted field – were compared. The comparison was performed using the forecasts of 500 hPa geopotential and 2-m temperature of the ECMWF ensemble prediction system at lead times of 96, 168 and 240 h, over North America for each day in 2004. Ensemble spread wa...

The determination of a model of the earth’s gravitational potential from satellite observations is an illposed problem in the sense that a small change in the data may result in a large change in the solution. A stable solution is obtained by adding a priori information to the system of normal equations. One way to describe the quality of the solution is to assess how much the observations cont...

this paper applies a new multi attribute decision-making (madm) model to help companies for enterprise resource planning (erp) selection problem based on balanced score card method. this paper uses three-parameter interval grey numbers which is derived from grey theory (was proposed by j. deng). this numbers is used instead of linguistic variables. beside, a new weighting method that outcomes f...