Most CMIP5 models unrealistically form Antarctic Bottom Water by open ocean deep convection in the Weddell and Ross Seas. To identify the triggering mechanisms leading to Southern Ocean deep convection in models, we perform sensitivity experiments on the ocean model NEMO forced by prescribed atmospheric fluxes. We vary the ver-5 tical velocity scale of the Langmuir turbulence, the fraction of t...

Blue stragglers (BSs) are important objects in cluster populations because of their peculiar properties. The colours and magnitudes of these objects are critical parameters in population synthesis of the host cluster and may depend remarkably on BSs’ surface composition. Observations show that some BSs are short-orbital-period binaries, which may be accounted for by mass transfer in low-mass bi...

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed on n-alkinethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and their mixture on a gold surface so that the orientations of the binding of cobra cardiotoxin and E6 protein molecules can be selected using the mixing ratio of CH3-terminated SAMs with different chain lengths. The simulations suggest that a SAM surface with different mixing ratios may provide a po...

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of a massively parallel self-mixing imaging system based on an array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to measure surface profiles of displacement, distance, velocity, and liquid flow rate. The concept of the system is demonstrated using a prototype to measure the velocity at different radial points on a rotating disk, and the veloc...

The role of lateral ocean physics in the upper ocean thermal balance of a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM Abstract The sensitivity of the upper ocean thermal balance of an ocean-atmosphere coupled GCM to lateral ocean physics is assessed. Three 40-year simulations are performed using horizontal mixing, isopycnal mixing , and isopycnal mixing plus eddy induced advection. The thermal adjustment of t...

Abstract. The fate of (micro)plastic particles in the open ocean is controlled by biological and physical processes. Here, we model effects biofouling on subsurface vertical distribution spherical, virtual plastic with radii 0.01–1 mm. specifications include attachment, growth loss algae particles. four velocity terms: advection, wind-driven mixing, tidally induced mixing sinking biofouled part...