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The bright star survey telescope for the planetary transit survey in Antarctica
Transiting extrasolar planets (exoplanets), especially those orbiting bright stars, are desired for study of the diversity of planetary compositions, internal structures and atmospheres beyond our solar system...
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A high-sensitive detection method for carvone odor by implanted electrodes in rat olfactory bulb
Mammalian olfactory systems have extraordinary ability to sense and identify various trace odorants. Taking advantages of cell culture and micro-fabrication technologies, olfactory cell- or tissue-based biosen...
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Open AccessModeling the climate effects of different subregional uplifts within the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau on Asian summer monsoon evolution
Considering the different uplifting time of different subregions of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau (TP), a series of numerical simulations have been conducted with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM4) developed...
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Open AccessAdvances in research on the deep South China Sea circulation
Deep sea circulation is important for world climate and has been a substantial research area in ocean science, leading to various breakthroughs and discoveries. With the rapid advance in research on ocean scie...
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Open AccessThe altitude effect of δ 18O in precipitation and river water in the Southern Himalayas
The lapse rate of water isotopes is used in the study of the hydrologic cycle as well as in the estimation of uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. The greater elevation contrast in the Southern Himalayas allows for ...
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Open AccessTree-ring-based annual precipitation reconstruction in Kalaqin, Inner Mongolia for the last 238 years
A tree-ring-width chronology of Pinus tabulaeformis from Kalaqin, Inner Mongolia was developed using modern dendrochronological techniques. Based on the results of correlation function analysis, the total precipi...
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Open AccessA survey of next generation mobile communications research in China
With the rapid development of wireless communication networks, the fourth generation (4G) has emerged to move beyond the limitations of the third generation (3G), with increased bandwidth, enhanced quality of ...
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Open AccessFormation and causes of NO x pollution on the east side of the Taihang Mountains in China
Tropospheric column amounts of NO2 from OMI/Aura products were applied to investigate the seasonal variation of NO x on the east side of the Taihang Mountains (ESTM) in China. T...
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Application of artificial neural networks in global climate change and ecological research: An overview
Fields that employ artificial neural networks (ANNs) have developed and expanded continuously in recent years with the ongoing development of computer technology and artificial intelligence. ANN has been adopt...
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Mid-Late Quaternary loess-paleosol sequence in Lantian’s Yushan, China: An environmental magnetism approach and its paleoclimatic significance
The application of rock magnetism methods to investigating the variations of magnetic minerals in the sediments is an important approach to the reestablishment of paleoclimate evolution. Thus we performed fine...
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Recent area and ice volume change of Kangwure Glacier in the middle of Himalayas
This paper calculated and evaluated the area and ice volume changes of Kangwure Glacier in Mt. **xiabangma, middle of Himalayas in the past 3 decades, based on the field survey of glacier boundary position by ...
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CuInSe2 thin films obtained by pulse-plating electrodeposition technique with novel pulse wave
CuInSe2 films were electrodeposited onto indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate in constant current mode using bell-like wave modulated square wave in aqueous solution. The films obtained at different pulse frequencies...
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Astronomically modulated late Pliocene equatorial Pacific climate transition and Northern Hemisphere ice sheet expansion
The equatorial Pacific underwent a significant climate transition during the late Pliocene, which is characterized by cooling of global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and formation of a marked SST gradient be...
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Seasonal variations of dust record in the Muztagata ice cores
Based on the oxygen isotope ratio and microparticle record in ice cores recovered at Mt. Muztagata, Eastern Pamirs, the seasonal variations of atmospheric dust have been reconstructed for the past four decades...
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Meta-analysis and its application in global change research
Meta-analysis is a quantitative synthetic research method that statistically integrates results from individual studies to find common trends and differences. With increasing concern over global change, meta-a...
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A cooperative fast annealing coevolutionary algorithm for protein motif extraction
By integrating the cooperative approach with the fast annealing coevolutionary algorithm (FAEA), a so-called cooperative fast annealing coevolutionary algorithm (CFACA) is presented in this paper for the purpo...
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Observation of internal tides and near-inertial motions in the upper 450 m layer of the northern South China Sea
Mooring ADCP current observations from August to November are used to study the barotropic tides, baroclinic tides and near-inertial motions in the upper 450 m layer of the northern South China Sea. The barotr...
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Isotopic composition of atmospheric water vapor before and after the monsoon’s end in the Nagqu River Basin
Atmospheric water vapor samples were collected in the Nagqu River Basin in the middle of Tibetan Plateau between August and October in 2004. Results show that there exist some fluctuations of the δ18O of atmosphe...
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Westerly moisture transport to the middle of Himalayas revealed from the high deuterium excess
Previous studies found extremely high d-excess in both ice core and glacial melt water in Dasuopu glacier, **xiabangma, middle of Himalayas. These values are much higher than the global average and those measured...
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Static synthesis of high-quality MCM-22 zeolite with high SiO2/Al2O3 ratio
We demonstrate a synthesis method to broaden the range of SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (30–100) of high-silica MCM-22 zeolites by prolonging the aging time of the gel before the crystallization. The synthesis conditions such...