ScholarWorks@UMBC: Recent submissions

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    • AIRS version 6.6 and version 7 level-1C products 

      Manning, Evan M.; Strow, L. Larrabee; Aumann, Hartmut H. (SPIE, 2019-09-09)
      The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) introduces new Level-1C (L1C) products. AIRS Version 6.6 L1C processing addresses data quality and sampling issues as well as spectral drift, making a clean, easy to use product. ...

    • Assessing Water Budget Sensitivity to Precipitation Forcing Errors in Potomac River Basin Using the VIC Hydrologic Model CyberTraining: Big Data + High-Performance Computing + Atmospheric Sciences 

      Majumder, Reetam; Walid, Redwan; Zheng, Jianyu (2019)
      The Potomac River Basin is a watershed located on the East Coast of the USA across West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Inter-annual variations in precipitation makes it challenging ...

    • An Approach to Tuning Hyperparameters in Parallel: A Performance Study Using Climate Data CyberTraining: Big Data + High-Performance Computing + Atmospheric Sciences 

      Becker, Charlie; Mayfield, Will D.; Murphy, Sarah Y.; Wang, Bin (2019)
      The ability to predict violent storms and bad weather conditions with current models can be difficult due to the immense complexity associated with weather simulation. For example when predicting a tornado caution must be ...

    • Recombinant Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) Expressing Sigma C Protein of Avian Reovirus (ARV) Protects against Both ARV and NDV in Chickens 

      Saikia, Deep Prakash; Yadav, Kalpana; Pathak, Dinesh C.; Ramamurthy, Narayan; D’Silva, Ajai Lawrence; Marriappan, Asok Kumar; Ramakrishnan, Saravanan; Vakharia, Vikram N.; Chellappa, Madhan Mohan; Dey, Sohini (MDPI, 2019-09-10)
      Newcastle disease (ND) and avian reovirus (ARV) infections are a serious threat to the poultry industry, which causes heavy economic losses. The mesogenic NDV strain R2B is commonly used as a booster vaccine in many Asian ...

    • Structural analysis and testing of silicon x-ray mirror modules 

      Solly, Peter M.; Biskach, Michael; Bonafede, Joseph A.; Chan, Kai-Wing; Mazzarella, James; McClelland, Ryan S.; Saha, Dr. Timo T.; Zhang, Dr. William W. (SPIE, 2019-09-09)
      The fundamental developmental issue facing the next generation of X-ray astronomical telescopes is the manufacturability, assembly, and structural robustness of the grazing incidence optics. Combining the high angular ...

    • Recent advances in the alignment of silicon mirrors for high-resolution x-ray optics 

      Chan, Kai-Wing; Mazzarella, James R.; Saha, Timo T; Zhang, William W.; Biskach, Michael P.; Numata, Ai; Riveros, Dr. Raul E.; McClelland, Ryan S.; Solly, Peter M. (SPIE, 2019-09-09)
      Recent advances in the fabrication of segmented silicon mirrors make it possible to build large-area, lightweight, high-resolution x-ray telescopes with arc-second angular resolution. To build such a telescope, we fabricate ...

    • Fabrication of monocrystalline silicon x-ray mirrors 

      Riveros, Raul E.; Biskach, Michael P.; Allgood, Kim D.; Kearney, John D.; Hlinka, Michal; Numata, Ai; Zhang, Dr. William W. (SPIE, 2019-09-09)
      Progress within the field of x-ray astronomy depends on astronomical x-ray observations of ever-increasing quality and speed. Fast and high-resolution x-ray observations over a broad spectral range promise amazing new ...

    • Mass manufacturing of high resolution and lightweight monocrystalline silicon X-ray mirror modules 

      Biskach, Michael P.; Allgood, Kim D.; Chan, Kai-Wing; Hlinka, Michal; Kearney, John D.; Numata, Ai; Mazzarella, James R.; Riveros, Raul E.; Saha, Timo T.; Solly, Peter M.; Zhang, William W. (SPIE, 2019-09-09)
      Astronomical observations of distant and faint X-ray sources will expand our understanding of the evolving universe. These challenging science goals require X-ray optical elements that are manufactured, measured, coated, ...

    • An Overview of Low‐Level Jet Winds and Corresponding Mixed Layer Depths During PECAN 

      Carroll, Brian J.; Demoz, Belay B.; Delgado, Ruben (American Geophysical Union, 2019-08-09)
      Thirty southerly low‐level jet (LLJ) events were observed during the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign in the Great Plains region of the United States during summer 2015. Here we present Doppler ...

    • Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Ocean-Color Imagery During the PACE Era 

      Frouin, Robert J.; Franz, Bryan A.; Ibrahim, Amir; Knobelspiesse, Kirk D.; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Cairns, Brian; Chowdhary, Jacek; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Tan, Jing; Dubovik, Oleg; Huang, Xin; Davis, Anthony B.; Kalashnikova, Olga; Thompson, David R.; Remer, Lorraine Ann; Boss, Emmanuel; Coddington, Odele; Deschamps, Pierre-Yves; Gao, Bo-Cai; Gross, Lydwine; Hasekamp, Otto; Omar, Ali; Pelletier, Bruno; Ramon, Didier; Steinmetz, François; Zhai, Peng-wang (Frontiers, 2019-07-26)
      The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will carry into space the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), a spectrometer measuring at 5 nm spectral resolution in the ultraviolet (UV) to near infrared (NIR) with ...

    • Energy Transport Station Deployment in Electric Vehicles Energy Internet 

      Sui, Yu; Yi, Ping; Liu, Xin; Zhu, Ting (IEEE, 2019-07-02)
      Energy Internet allows energy to flow flexibly for transmission and it can transport energy to every energy user via electric vehicles (EVs). The energy that EVs use is produced from renewable energy sources like solar ...

    • Prototype Magnetic Calorimeter Arrays with Buried Wiring for the Lynx X-Ray Microcalorimeter 

      Devasia, Archana M.; Balvin, Manuel A.; Bandler, Simon R.; Bolkhovsky, Valdimir; Nagler, Peter C.; Ryu, Kevin; Smith, Stephen J.; Stevenson, Thomas R.; Yoon, Wonsik (NASA Technical Reports Server, 2019-07-22)
      Metallic magnetic calorimeter (MMC) technology is a leading contender for detectors for the Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter, which is an imaging spectrometer consisting of an array of greater than 100,000 pixels. The fabrication ...

    • Impact of the ARSET Program on Use of Remote-Sensing Data 

      Prados, Ana I.; Carleton-Hug, Annelise; Gupta, Pawan; Mehta, Amita; Blevins, Brock; Schmidt, Cynthia; Barbato, David G.; McCullum, Amber Jean; Hook, Elizabeth; Podest, Erika; Follette-Cook, Melanie; Hudson-Odoi, Selwyn; Kinsey, Tom (MDPI, 2019-06-04)
      We show that training activities conducted through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Applied Remote-Sensing Training (ARSET) program led to a significant increase in remote-sensing data use for ...

    • Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry 

      Remer, Lorraine A.; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Zhai, Pengwang; Xu, Feng; Kalashnikova, Olga V.; Chowdhary, Jacek; Hasekamp, Otto; Dubovik, Oleg; Wu, Lianghai; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Boss, Emmanuel; Cairns, Brian; Coddington, Odele; Davis, Anthony B.; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Diner, David J.; Franz, Bryan; Frouin, Robert; Gao, Bo-Cai; Ibrahim, Amir; Levy, Robert C.; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Omar, Ali H.; Torres, Omar (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-23)
      The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary multi-angle polarimeters for the space-based retrieval of global ...

    • Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 1: Ocean Color Instrument 

      Remer, Lorraine A.; Davis, Anthony B.; Mattoo, Shana; Levy, Robert C.; Kalashnikova, Olga V.; Coddington, Odele; Chowdhary, Jacek; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Xu, Xiaoguang; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Boss, Emmanuel; Cairns, Brian; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Diner, David J.; Franz, Bryan; Frouin, Robert; Gao, Bo-Cai; Ibrahim, Amir; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Omar, Ali H.; Torres, Omar; Xu, Feng; Zhai, Peng-Wang (Frontiers Media S.A, 2019-07-23)
      NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission is scheduled to launch in 2022, with the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) on board. For the first time reflected sunlight from the Earth across a broad ...

    • Spaceborne observations of sun glint and near-cloud aerosols 

      Várnai, Tamás; Marshak, Alexander; Wen, Guoyong; Yang, Weidong; Eck, Thomas; Levy, Robert; Kostinski, Alexander (2006-06-02)

    • Multi Authority Access Control in a Cloud EHR System with MA-ABE 

      Dixit, Sharad; Joshi, Karuna P.; Choi, Seung Geol (IEEE, 2019-07-08)
      With the rapid adoption of Cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, health providers are particularly concerned about managing data privacy on the cloud. Existing approaches have either a scalability bottleneck ...

    • Understanding the Role of α Particles in Oblique Heliospheric Shock Oscillations 

      Ofman, L.; Koval, A.; III, L. B. Wilson; Szabo, A. (American Geophysical Union, 2019-04-08)
      Recent observations by DSCOVR provide high temporal resolution (50 samples per second) magnetic vector field data that allows investigating the details of oblique heliospheric shock oscillations. It was found that some of ...

    • Legal Mobilization and Climate Change: The Role of Law in Wicked Problems 

      Marshall, Anna-Maria; Sterett, Susan M (Onatie International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 2019-07-24)
      Climate change is a wicked problem, a framework not often used in sociolegal studies. The problem is complex, not readily named, and not limited to one jurisdiction. Therefore, the places of law are multiple: human rights ...

    • The cone of Z-transformations on Lorentz cone 

      Nemeth, Sandor Zoltan; Gowda, Muddappa S. (University of Wyoming, 2019-09)
      In this paper, the structural properties of the cone of Z-transformations on the Lorentz cone are described in terms of the semidefinite cone and copositive/completely positive cones induced by the Lorentz cone and its ...