• Hybrid Causality Analysis of ENSO’s Global Impacts on Climate Variables Based on Data-Driven Analytics and Climate Model Simulation 

  Song, Hua; Tian, Jing; Huang, Jingfeng; Guo, Pei; Zhang, Zhibo; Wang, Jianwu (Frontiers, 2019-09-18)

  Numerous studies have indicated that El Niño and the southern oscillation (ENSO) could have determinant impacts on remote weather and climate using the conventional correlation-based methods, which however, cannot identify ...

• Solar Radiation Pressure Effects on the Orbital Motion at SEL2 for the James Webb Space Telescope 

  Farres, Ariadna; Petersen, Jeremy (NASA Technical Reports Server, 2019-08-11)

  Due to James Webb Space Telescope’s large sunshield, which will always be facing the Sun to protect the observatory’s instruments, Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP) has an important effect on its orbital motion around SEL2. ...

• CAFE: a new, improved non-resonant laser-induced fluorescence instrument for airborne in situ measurement of formaldehyde 

  Clair, Jason M. St.; Swanson, Andrew K.; Bailey, Steven A.; Hanisco, Thomas F. (Copernicus Publications, 2019-08-30)

  NASA Compact Airborne Formaldehyde Experiment (CAFE) is a nonresonant laser-induced fluorescence instrument for airborne in situ measurement of formaldehyde (HCHO). The instrument is described here with highlighted improvements ...

• Artificial Intelligence Based Cloud Distributor (AI-CD): Probing Low Cloud Distribution with a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network 

  Yuan, Tianle (2019-05-21)

  Here we introduce the artificial intelligence-based cloud distributor (AI-CD) approach to generate two-dimensional (2D) marine low cloud reflectance fields. AI-CD uses a conditional generative adversarial net (cGAN) ...

• A Magnetic Pressure Front Upstream of the Heliopause and the Heliosheath Magnetic Fields and Plasma, Observed during 2017 

  Burlaga, L. F.; Ness, N. F.; Berdichevsky, D. B.; Jian, L. K.; Park, J.; Mostafavi, P.; Richardson, J. D. (IOP Publishing, 2019-05-21)

  Voyager 1 (V1), moving in the interstellar magnetic field, observed an increase in the daily averages of B beginning on day ≈346, 2016, rising to a local maximum on day ≈382, and declining nearly monotonically for the ...

• kCARTA : A fast pseudo line-by-line radiative transfer algorithm with analytic Jacobians, fluxes, Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium and scattering for the infrared 

  Machado, Sergio DeSouza; Strow, L. Larrabee; Motteler, Howard; Hannon, Scott (EGU, 2019-08-09)

  A fast pseudo-monochromatic radiative transfer package using a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) compressed atmospheric optical depth database has been developed, primarily for use with hyperspectral sounding instruments. ...

• Systemic coordination and the problem of seasonal harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie 

  Berardo, Ramiro; Turner, V. Kelly; Rice, Stian (2019)

  The management of natural resources may potentially be improved when governance structures in social-ecological systems enable coordination among multiple actors who may operate on the same or different geographic and/or ...

• Gamma-ray emission in radio galaxies under the VLBI scope 

  Angioni, R.; Ros, E.; Kadler, M.; Ojha, R.; Müller, C.; Edwards, P. G.; Burd, P. R.; Carpenter, B.; Dutka, M. S.; Gulyaev, S.; Hase, H.; Horiuchi, S.; Krauß, F.; Lovell, J. E. J.; Natusch, T.; Phillips, C.; Plötz, C.; Quick, J. F. H.; Rösch, F.; Schulz, R.; Stevens, J.; Tzioumis, A. K.; Weston, S.; Wilms, J; Zensus, J. A. (EDP Sciences, 2019-06-19)

  Aims. In the framework of the multi-wavelength and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) monitoring program TANAMI (Tracking Active Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry), we study the evolution of the ...

• Soft and hard X-ray dips in the light curves of γ Cassiopeiae 

  Smith, M. A.; Oliveira, R. Lopes de (Oxford University Press, 2019-07-26)

  The available six archival XMM–Newton observations of the anomalous X-ray emitter γ Cas (B0.5 IVe) have been surveyed for the presence of soft X-ray ‘dips’ in X-ray light curves. In addition to discovering such events ...

• Detection and reactivity of Titan tholins in liquid hydrocarbons containing polar compounds 

  Dzurilla, Katherine; Mvondo, Delphine Nna; Mège, Daniel; Chevrier, Vincent (EPSC, 2019-09)

  Tholins are complex organic materials produced via photolysis of methane and dinitrogen gases in Titan’s upper atmosphere. These long-chained hydrocarbons sediment to the moon surface and interact with liquid hydrocarbons ...

• HCN-C₆H₆ co-condensed ice cloud in Titan’s stratosphere: Laboratory study of the CIRS-observed HASP cloud 

  Mvondo, Delphine Nna; Anderson, Carrie M; Samuelson, Robert E (EPSC, 2019-09)

  For thirteen years, the Cassini mission to explore Saturn and its icy moons has provided a large repository of data on Titan’s atmosphere. Ice clouds have been repeatedly observed in Titan's stratosphere by the Cassini ...

• Development of a Cherenkov Telescope for the Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with EUSO-SPB2 and POEMMA 

  Otte, A. Nepomuk; Gazda, Eliza; Judd, Eleanor; Krizmanic, John F.; Kutzenzov, Evgeny; Matamala, Oscar Romero; Reardon, Patrick J.; Wiencke, Lawrence (2019-07-20)

  The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the potential to constrain source models of ultra-high energy cosmic rays provide the motivation to develop instruments for the observation of neutrinos above 107 ...

• Detection of Superluminal Motion in the X-Ray Jet of M87 

  Snios, Bradford; Nulsen, Paul. E. J.; Kraft, Ralph P.; Cheung, C. C.; Meyer, Eileen T.; Forman, William R.; Jones, Christine; Murray, Stephen S. (The American Astronomical Society, 2019-06-26)

  Chandra HRC observations are investigated for evidence of proper motion and brightness changes in the X-ray jet of the nearby radio galaxy M87. Using images spanning 5 yr, proper motion is measured in the X-ray knot ...

• X-Ray Binary Luminosity Function Scaling Relations for Local Galaxies Based on Subgalactic Modeling 

  Lehmer, Bret D.; Eufrasio, Rafael T.; Tzanavaris, Panayiotis; Basu-Zych, Antara; Fragos, Tassos; Prestwich, Andrea; Yukita, Mihoko; Zezas, Andreas; Hornschemeier, Ann E.; Ptak, Andrew (The American Astronomical Society, 2019-06-26)

  We present new Chandra constraints on the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations, as well as their scaling relations, for a sample of 38 nearby galaxies (D = 3.4–29 Mpc). Our galaxy sample ...

• A comparison of Lyse-It to other cellular sample preparation, bacterial lysing, and DNA fragmentation technologies 

  Santaus, Tonya M.; Li, Shan; Saha, Lahari; Chen, Wilbur H.; Bhagat, Siya; Stine, O. Colin; Geddes, Chris D. (PLOS, 2019-07-23)

  The ability for safe and rapid pathogenic sample transportation and subsequent detection is an increasing challenge throughout the world. Herein, we describe and use bead-beating, vortex, sonication, 903 protein saver ...

• Spectral and Timing Analysis of the Accretion-powered Pulsar 4U 1626–67 Observed with Suzaku and NuSTAR 

  Iwakiri, Wataru B.; Pottschmidt, Katja; Falkner, Sebastian; Hemphill, Paul B.; Fürst, Felix; Nishimura, Osamu; Schwarm, Fritz-Walter; Wolff, Michael T.; Marcu-Cheatham, Diana M.; Chakrabarty, Deepto; Tomsick, John A.; Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A.; Kühnel, Matthias Bissinger; Terada, Yukikatsu; Enoto, Teruaki; Wilms, Jörn (The American Astronomical Society, 2019-06-20)

  We present an analysis of the spectral shape and pulse profile of the accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1626−67 observed with Suzaku and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) during a spin-up state. The pulsar, which ...

• Going Beyond Standard Ocean Color Observations: Lidar and Polarimetry 

  Jamet, Cédric; Ibrahim, Amir; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Angelini, Federico; Babin, Marcel; Behrenfeld, Michael J.; Boss, Emmanuel; Cairns, Brian; Churnside, James; Chowdhary, Jacek; Davis, Anthony B.; Dionisi, Davide; Duforêt-Gaurier, Lucile; Franz, Bryan; Frouin, Robert; Gao, Meng; Gray, Deric; Hasekamp, Otto; He, Xianqiang; Hostetler, Chris; Kalashnikova, Olga V.; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Lacour, Léo; Loisel, Hubert; Martins, Vanderlei; Rehm, Eric; Remer, Lorraine; Sanhaj, Idriss; Stamnes, Knut; Stamnes, Snorre; Victori, Stéphane; Werdel, Jeremy; Zhai, Peng-Wang (2019-05-21)

  Passive ocean color images have provided a sustained synoptic view of the distribution of ocean optical properties and color and biogeochemical parameters for the past 20-plus years. These images have revolutionized our ...

• Impacts of Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Exoplanetary Science, Planetary Astronomy, and Astrophysics 

  Kao, Der-you; Gacesa, Marko; Wentzcovitch, Renata M.; Domagal-Goldman, Shawn; Kopparapu, Ravi K.; Klippenstein, Stephen J.; Charnley, Steven B.; Henning, Wade G.; Renaud, Joe; Romani, Paul; Lee, Yuni; Nixon, Conor A.; Jackson, Koblar A.; Cordiner, Martin A.; Lombardo, Nicholas A.; Wieman, Scott; Airapetian, Vladimir; Allen, Veronica; Pidhorodetska, Daria; Kohler, Erika; Moses, Julianne; Livengood, Timothy A.; Simkus, Danielle N.; Planavsky, Noah J.; Dong, Chuanfei; Yuen, David A.; Berg, Arie van den; Pavlov, Alexander A.; Fortney, Jonathan J. (American Astronomical Society, 2019-05)

  Quantum chemical simulations have matured enough to describe real systems with an accuracy that competes with experiments. Several existing quantum chemical studies supporting exoplanetary science are described, and the ...

• April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough. 

  Betley, Charles (The Conversation, 2019-04-15)

• Estimating the Costs to Mississippi Medicaid Attributable to Tobacco 

  The Hilltop Institue (The Hilltop Institute, 2018-12-07)

  This report presents to the Center for Mississippi Health Policy the results of a model for estimating tobacco-related costs for Mississippi Medicaid participants using administrative claims data for calendar years (CYs) ...

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