Observations of ocean color from space have been part of the U.S. JGOFS strategy for discerning temporal and spatial variations in upper-ocean productivity on the global scale since the first planning workshops for a U.S. global ocean flux program (National Academy of Sciences, 1984). From the start, remote measurements of near-surface chlorophyll a concentrations were envisaged as the major to...

We construct an interactive ensemble of two different climate models to improve simulation of key aspects of tropical Pacific climate. Our so-called supermodel is based on two atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) coupled to a single ocean GCM, which is driven by a weighted average of the air-sea fluxes. Optimal weights are determined using a machine learning algorithm to minimize sea ...

The purpose of this research is determining the Value Innovation in Social Computing platforms by an intelligent system. Here a Fuzzy Expert System has been designed with the consideration of four actions of Blue Ocean Strategy as input variables. The Value Innovation level is determined in this system as output. The rules of systems have been extracted from some entrepreneurship experts and th...

Prochlorococcus is the key phytoplanktonic organism of tropical gyres, large ocean regions that are depleted of the essential macronutrients needed for photosynthesis and cell growth. This cyanobacterium has adapted itself to oligotrophy by minimizing the resources necessary for life through a drastic reduction of cell and genome sizes. This rarely observed strategy in free-living organisms has...

The Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model (FOAM) is a climate system model intended for application to climate science questions that require long simulations. FOAM is a distributed-memory parallel climate model consisting of parallel general circulation models of the atmosphere and ocean with complete physics paramaterizations as well as sea-ice, land surface, and river transport models. FOAM’s coupling...

The ocean plays an essential role in determining aspects of the climate through its influence on coupled processes involving the atmosphere, cyrosphere and biogeochemistry, including budgets of heat and carbon dioxide and sea-level rise. Here, the key developments in ocean modelling over the past 20 years are reviewed and the prospects for the next 20 years are outlined, considering a hierarchy...

In this paper, we present the modeling and implementation of a grand-challenge problem in the jield oj scientific computation: the Primitive-Equation Numerical Ocean Circulation Model. We present the mathematical formulation of the model and propose a scheme for its parallel implementation. Optimization8 are made through collective communications and various partitioning schemes. In our experim...

Customer satisfaction has long been recognized as one of the critical success factor in today’s competitive business environment as it affects companies’ market share and customer retention (Ooi et al. 2011). O'Sullivan and Mc Callig (2012) also find that customer satisfaction positively and significantly moderates the earnings-firmvalue relationship as customer satisfaction is key operational ...

In this paper, we summarize the components and framework that make up the Blue Ocean and Judo Strategies, as identified and given these titles in recent strategic management literature. This is done by means of a case study analysis of a United States bank that has successfully implemented these strategies. From these analyses, a number of implications are drawn for how elements of these two ve...