• Minimally invasive technique for measuring transdermal glucose with a fluorescent biosensor 

  Brown, Sheniqua; Zambrana, Paige N.; Ge, Xudong; Bagdure, Dayanand; Stinchcomb, Audra L.; Rao, Govind; Tolosa, Leah (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-08-17)

  There is a need for blood glucose monitoring techniques that eliminate the painful and invasive nature of current methods, while maintaining the reliability and accuracy of established medical technology. This research ...

• Thirty‐year trends in acid deposition and neutralization in two headwater catchments, northwestern Massachusetts, USA 

  Dethier, David P.; Wieman, Scott T.; Racela, Jason (Wiley, 2018-09-04)

  Long-term decreases in acidic precursors have changed the chemistry of precipitation and streamflow in two moderately to well-buffered, forested headwater catchments in the Taconic Range of western New England, USA. We ...

• Designing a Medicare Help at Home Benefit: Lessons from Maryland’s Community First Choice Program 

  Davis, Karen; Willink, Amber; Stockwell, Ian; Whiton, Kaitlyn; Burgdorf, Julia; Woodcock, Cynthia (2018-06)

  ISSUE: Medicare does not cover home- and community-based services (HCBS) that help beneficiaries function independently at home. The financial burden of uncovered personal care services puts beneficiaries with physical or ...

• Introduction to Distributed Computing with pbdR at the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility 

  Raim, Andrew M. (2013-06-26)

• Rapid response quality control service for the laser ranging tracking network 

  Otsubo, Toshimichi; Müller, Horst; Pavlis, Erricos C.; Torrence, Mark H.; Thaller, Daniela; Glotov, Vladimir D.; Wang, Xiaoya; Sośnica, Krzysztof; Meyer, Ulrich; Wilkinson, Matthew J. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-09-10)

  Quality control systems for satellite laser ranging (SLR) observations have been developed at a number of analysis institutes worldwide, using various software packages of precise orbit determination and data analysis. ...

• Shortwave direct radiative effects of above-cloud aerosols over global oceans derived from 8 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations 

  Zhang, Zhibo; Meyer, Kerry; Yu, Hongbin; Platnick, Steven; Colarco, Peter; Liu, Zhaoyan; Oreopoulos, Lazaros (Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2016-03-04)

  In this paper, we studied the frequency of occurrence and shortwave direct radiative effects (DREs) of above-cloud aerosols (ACAs) over global oceans using 8 years (2007–2014) of collocated CALIOP and MODIS observations. ...

• An Implementation of Binomial Method of Option Pricing using Parallel Computing 

  Popuri, Sai K.; Raim, Andrew M.; Neerchal, Nagaraj K.; Gobbert, Matthias K.

  The Binomial method of option pricing is based on iterating over discounted option payoffs in a recursive fashion to calculate the present value of an option. Implementing the Binomial method to exploit the resources of a ...

• Assessing Climate Impacts on Regional Water Resources in the Midwestern US 

  Emelike, Joseph U.; Harper, David; Mann, Charlotte Z.; Boaitey, Kwame Owusu; Popuri, Sai K.; Neerchal, Nagaraj K.; Mehta, Amita (2015)

  It is well documented that decadal climate variability (DCV) has a signi cant impact on water resources in the Missouri River Basin (MRB). This project aims to utilize multi-decadal simulations of Global Climate Models ...

• Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans 

  Cho, Hyoun Myoung; Zhang, Zhibo; Meyer, Kerry; Lebsock, Matthew; Platnick, Steven; Ackerman, Andrew S.; Girolamo, Larry Di; Labonnote, Laurent C.; Cornet, Céline; Riedi, Jerome; Holz, Robert E. (American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015-04-09)

  Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) retrieves cloud droplet effective radius (rₑ) and optical thickness (τ) by projecting observed cloud reflectances onto a precomputed look‐up table (LUT). When observations ...

• Analysis of subsurface storage and streamflow generation in urban watersheds 

  Bhaskar, Aditi S.; Welty, Claire (Wiley, 2015-01-21)

  Subsurface storage as a regulator of streamflow was investigated as an explanation for the large proportion of pre‐event water observed in urban streams during storm events. We used multiple lines of inquiry to explore the ...

• Untangling the effects of urban development on subsurface storage in Baltimore 

  Bhaskar, Aditi S.; Welty, Claire; Maxwell, Reed M.; Miller, Andrew J. (Wiley, 2015-01-12)

  The impact of urban development on surface flow has been studied extensively over the last half century, but effects on groundwater systems are still poorly understood. Previous studies of the influence of urban development ...

• Improving the Computational Effciency of Downscaling GCM data for Use in SWAT 

  Evans, Christopher; Gartrell, Abigail; Gomez, Lauren; Mouyebe, Moise; Oxley, Darius; Popuri, Sai Kumar; Neerchal, Nagaraj K.; Mehta, Amita (2014)

  This project creates software tools to streamline the computational procedures to generate high-resolution weather parameters from low resolution Global Climate Models (GCM) to be input into the Soil and Water Assessment ...

• Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating 3D Printing into Physical Therapy 

  Hurst, Amy

• Use of a Three-Dimensional Reactive Solute Transport Model for Evaluation of Bioreactor Placement in Stream Restoration 

  Cui, Zhengtao; Welty, Claire; Gold, Arthur J.; Groffman, Peter M.; Kaushal, Sujay S.; Miller, Andrew J. (Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies, 2016-03-21)

  A three-dimensional groundwater flow and multispecies reactive transport model was used to strategically design placement of bioreactors in the subsurface to achieve maximum removal of nitrate along restored stream reaches. ...

• Vertically Resolved Precipitation Intensity Retrieved through a Synergy between the Ground-Based NASA MPLNET Lidar Network Measurements, Surface Disdrometer Datasets and an Analytical Model Solution 

  Lolli, Simone; D’Adderio, Leo Pio; Campbell, James R.; Sicard, Michaël; Welton, Ellsworth J.; Binci, Andrea; Rea, Alessandro; Tokay, Ali; Comerón, Adolfo; Barragan, Ruben; Baldasano, Jose Maria; Gonzalez, Sergi; Bech, Joan; Afflitto, Nicola; Lewis, Jasper R.; Madonna, Fabio (Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2018-07-11)

  In this paper, we illustrate a new, simple and complementary ground-based methodology to retrieve the vertically resolved atmospheric precipitation intensity through a synergy between measurements from the National Aeronautics ...

• Creating a Single Radiance Climate Record from AIRS, IASI and CrIS 

  Hepplewhite, Chris; Motteler, Howard; Machado, Sergio De-Souza; Buzckowski, Steven; Strow, L. Larrabee (2018)

  We investigate three key aspects for creating a climate record from multiple hyperspectral infra-red sensors. The motivation is to produce a multi-decade continuous record of global radiance measured leaving the atmosphere. ...

• Dimensionality Reduction Using Sliced Inverse Regression in Modeling Large Climate Data 

  Allison, Ross Flieger; Miller, Lois; Sykes, Danielle; Valle, Pablo; Popuri, Sai K.; Wijekoon, Nadeesri; Neerchal, Nagaraj K.; Mehta, Amita (2016)

  Prediction of precipitation using simulations on various climate variables provided by Global Climate Models (GCM) as covariates is often required for regional hydrological assessment studies. We use a sufficient dimension ...

• Enhanced Data Exploration and Visualization Tool for Large Spatio-Temporal Climate Data 

  Kahmann, Sydney; Crasto, Ethan; Rodriguez, Paula; Smith, Benjamin; Popuri, Sai K.; Wijekoon, Nadeesri; Neerchal, Nagaraj K.; Mehta, Amita

  Predictions of climate variables like precipitation and maximum/minimum temperatures play crucial role in assessing the impact of decadal climate changes on regional water availability. This technical report describes a ...

• Using Historical Data for Retrospective Prediction of Rainfall In the Midwest 

  Alfa, Ephraim; Chen, Huiyi; Hansen, Kristen; Prindle, Mathew; Popuri, Sai; Wijekoon, Nadeesri; Adragni, Kofi; Mehta, Amita

  The Missouri River Basin (MRB) is an important food-producing region in the United States and Canada. Climate variability and water availability affect crops production in this region. Past climate data have been recorded ...

• A framework for quantifying the impacts of sub-pixel reflectance variance and covariance on cloud optical thickness and effective radius retrievals based on the bispectral method 

  Zhang, Z.; Werner, F.; Wind, G.; Platnick, S.; Ackerman, A. S.; Girolamo, L. Di; Marshak, A.; Meyer, Kerry; Cho, H. M. (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2017-02-22)

  The so-called bi-spectral method retrieves cloud optical thickness (τ) and cloud droplet effective radius (rₑ) simultaneously from a pair of cloud reflectance observations, one in a visible or near infrared (VIS/NIR) band ...

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