Atmospheric blocking events are known to locally explain a large part of climate variability. However, despite their relevance, many current climate models still struggle to represent the observed blocking statistics. In this study, simulations of the global climate model EC-Earth are analysed with respect to atmospheric blocking. Seventeen simulations map the uncertainty space defined by the t...

Evaluation of Art Curriculum in Elementary Schools through Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism A. Noori, Ph.D. S. Faarsi This study was conducted to evaluate the art curriculum in elementary schools through educational connoisseurship and criticism. Two elementary schools in Malaayer were selected, one with male and the other with female students, and their physical atmo...

Introduction: Educational environment is an important determinant ofstudents’ behavior and its elements are associated with academic achievement and course satisfaction. The aim of this study was to determine students’expectations of the ideal educational environment.Methods: This was a qualitative study with content analysis approach. Using a theoretical sampling method, we selected eight stud...

Satellite and airborne optical sensors are increasingly used by scientists, and OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2015, 7 1668 policy makers, and managers for studying and managing forests, agriculture crops, and urban areas. Their data acquired with given instrumental specifications (spectral resolution, viewing direction, sensor field-of-view, etc.) and for a specific experimental configuration (surfa...

In this paper, a complete and rigorous mathematical model for secondary surveillance radar systematic errors (biases) is developed. The model takes into account the physical effects systematically affecting the measurement processes. The azimuth biases are calculated from the physical error of the antenna calibration and the errors of the angle determination dispositive. Distance bias is calcul...

Ions surround nucleic acids in what is referred to as an ion atmosphere. As a result, the folding and dynamics of RNA and DNA and their complexes with proteins and with each other cannot be understood without a reasonably sophisticated appreciation of these ions' electrostatic interactions. However, the underlying behavior of the ion atmosphere follows physical rules that are distinct from the ...

Miskolczi (2007 and 2010) uses complex radiative transfer calculations on 228 measured atmospheric profiles of temperature and greenhouse gases to theorize ‘physical rules’ for the Earth’s energy balance. He deduces a ‘radiative exchange equilibrium law’, stating that on average the downward thermal infrared flux at the Earth’s surface (Ed) and the absorbed infrared radiation within the atmosph...

A coupled atmosphere-ocean-land model MSSG has been developed in the Earth Simulator Center, which is designed to model multi-scale interactions among the atmosphere, the ocean and the coupled system. In this project of this fiscal year, we focused on introducing computational optimization architecture to the MSSG to be run with maximizing the computational power of the Earth Simulator 2. As th...

This study investigates the elements of casino atmospherics from the perspective of slot machine players in a Las Vegas Strip casino. Guest responses to a survey instrument that was developed to measure the elements of casino atmosphere were collected and quantitatively analyzed. The results of this study suggest that the design elements of floor layout and theme may be most closely aligned wit...

The technique presently used at most millimeter telescopes is the "Chopper Wheel Method" introduced by Penzias and Burrus (ARAA, 1973, 11,51), in which the output de ection of an observed source is compared with the di erence between the sky brightness and that of an ambient temperature load. The physical temperature of the absorbing atmosphere is then taken to be the same as the ambient load o...