Recent studies have shown that the population dynamics of deep-sea organisms are affected by coupling between surface oceanic processes and energy, or trophic resources, reaching the sea floor. I analysed the correlation between the landings of a deep-sea shrimp (Aristeus antennatus) in Catalonia (NW Mediterranean) and the climatic indices of the annual North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and wint...

[1] The winter dO signal is extracted from 7 Greenland ice cores covering the past 700 years. To filter out noise and local variations in the 7 isotope records a principal component analysis is carried out on the ice core data. A comparison between the time series of the first principal component (PC1) with 67 years of winter (December to March) temperature measurements from 3 southern Greenlan...

Multiple flow regimes are reexamined in a global, three-level, quasigeostrophic (QG3) model with realistic topography in spherical geometry. This QG3 model, using a T21 triangular truncation in the horizontal, has a fairly realistic climatology for Northern Hemisphere winter and exhibits multiple regimes that resemble those found in atmospheric observations. Four regimes are robust to changes i...

The impacts of ENSO and North American climate modes on seasonal snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic region are investigated. Particular emphasis is placed on the convergent patterns of El Nino and negative NAO during Northern Hemisphere winter. This study is motivated by the highly anomalous events associated with the 2009-2010 winter season, as well as by a general interest in mid-latitude synoptic ...

This paper describes robotstadium: an online simulation contest based on the new RoboCup Nao Standard League. The simulation features two teams with four Nao robots each team, a ball and a soccer field corresponding the specifications of the real setup used for the new RoboCup Standard League using the Nao robot. Participation to the contest is free of charge and open to anyone. Competitors can...

The Xuorescent dye 10-N-nonyl acridine orange (NAO) is extensively used for location and quantitative assays of cardiolipin in living cells on the assumption of its high speciWcity for cardiolipin; however, the limits and the mechanism of this speciWcity are not clear. Moreover, whether factors such as the membrane potential in mitochondria may limit the consistency of the results obtained by t...

Two climatic signals are most significant in affecting oceanographic and estuarine processes in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Pacific North American (PNA). The NAO is closely related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and primarily affects temperature. The PNA has a well-described teleconnection with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is dominantly an...

We here present results and analysis from a study of affective tactile communication between human and humanoid robot (the NAO robot). In the present work, participants conveyed eight emotions to the NAO via touch. In this study, we sought to understand the potential for using a wearable affective (tactile) interface, or WAffI. The aims of our study were to address the following: (i) how emotio...