Sea surface height anomalies measured by the Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/Poseidon satellite altimeter indicate high values of skewness and kurtosis. Except in a few regions, including the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio Extension, and the Agulhas Retroflection, that display bimodal patterns of sea surface height variability, kurtosis is uniformly greater than 1.5 times the squared skewness mi...

Surprisingly little scientific research has been conducted on the effects of colour and lightness on the perception of spaciousness. Practitioners and architects typically suggest that a room's ceiling appears higher when it is painted lighter than the walls, while darker ceilings appear lower. Employing a virtual reality setting, we studied the effects of the lightness of different room surfac...

monitoring of water levels within the seas and oceans has been enhanced by application of satellite radar altimetry missions, compared to the traditional in-situ tide gauge measurements, due to their vast coverage and better spatial resolution. satellite radar altimetry, which is originally designed to measure global ocean surface height, has been applied to inland surface water hydrologic stud...

For high T, superconducting multilayer applications, smooth interfaces between the individual layers are required. However, in general, e.g., YBaCuO grows in a 3D screw-dislocation or island nucleation growth mode, introducing a surface roughness, in this contribution we stud) the surface layer roughness as a function of different deposition techniques as well as deposition parameters. Special ...

the objective of this research work is to evaluate the surface roughness of polyacrylonitrile (pan) nanowebs. for this purpose the nanowebs have been prepared in different concentrations of pan solution from 11 to 15% (by wt). surface roughness of nanowebs was evaluated by entropy algorithm (ent) as well as atomic force microscopy (afm) and then the results of two methods have been compared. to...