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The Heat-Flux Imbalance: The Role of Advection and Dispersive Fluxes on Heat Transport Over Thermally Heterogeneous Terrain
Data from the Idealized Planar-Array experiment for Quantifying Spatial heterogeneity are used to perform a control volume analysis (400
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Dispersive Fluxes Within and Over a Real Urban Canopy: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study
Large-eddy simulations (LES) are conducted to study the transport of momentum and passive scalar within and over a real urban canopy in the City of...
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Towards Energy-Balance Closure with a Model of Dispersive Heat Fluxes
In the last decades the energy-balance-closure problem has been thoroughly investigated from different angles, resulting in approaches to reduce but...
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How Does the Choice of the Lower Boundary Conditions in Large-Eddy Simulations Affect the Development of Dispersive Fluxes Near the Surface?
Large-eddy simulations (LES) are an important tool for investigating the longstanding energy-balance-closure problem, as they provide continuous,...
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Budgets of Second-Order Turbulence Moments over a Real Urban Canopy
This study analyses budgets of second-order turbulence moments over a real urban canopy using large-eddy simulation. The urban canopy is...
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Surface Thermal Heterogeneities and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: The Relevance of Dispersive Fluxes
While the increasing availability of computational power is enabling finer grid resolutions in numerical-weather-prediction models, representing...
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Toward Establishing a Low-cost UAV Coordinated Carbon Observation Network (LUCCN): First Integrated Campaign in China
In this study, we introduce our newly developed measurement-fed-perception self-adaption Low-cost UAV Coordinated Carbon Observation Network (LUCCN)...
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Crustal storage and ascent history of the Mt. Shasta primitive magnesian andesite: implications for arc magma crustal flux rates
Primitive arc magmas provide our closest glimpse of the original mantle-derived magmas that produce the more ubiquitous andesites and dacites found...
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The transition of alkaline flux of ancient Chinese faience beads (1046–476 BC): a case study on the samples from **dingshan, Henan province
Eleven faience objects unearthed from cemeteries (1046–476 BC) of the Zhou Dynasty in **dingshan, Henan province, China, were characterized by...
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High-resolution tsunami hazard assessment for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area based on a non-hydrostatic tsunami model
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is threatened by potential tsunami hazards from the Littoral Fault Zone (LFZ) and the Manila...
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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) in Forensic Geoscience
This chapter offers an overview of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Electron Microanalysis fundamentals using Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy...
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Preparation and modification of PVDF membrane via VIPS method for membrane distillation
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for treating high-salinity mine water. However, MD membranes are known to have low membrane flux...
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Stabilizing Effects of Black Rice Husk Ash Nano Particles on Foam Bubbles and Foam Evaluation
Because nanoparticles can increase foam stability, only a small amount of surfactant or polymer is required to control gas mobility in the reservoir....
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Drag Coefficient and Turbulence Mixing Length of Local Climate Zone-Based Urban Morphologies Derived Using Obstacle-Resolving Modelling
Large-eddy microscale simulations of eleven local climate zone-based (LCZ) urban morphologies with various building plane and frontal area density...
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Turbulence Characteristics Across a Range of Idealized Urban Canopy Geometries
Good representation of turbulence in urban canopy models is necessary for accurate prediction of momentum and scalar distribution in and above urban...
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The Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above the Marginal Ice Zone: Scaling, Surface Fluxes, and Secondary Circulations
The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes due to global warming, including the expansion of the marginal ice zone (MIZ), a zone of mixed ice and open...
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Sea-level rise impacts on groundwater: exploring some misconceptions with simple analytic solutions
Sea-level rise (SLR) causes groundwater salinisation and water-table rise. The impacts these processes can have on water security, agricultural...
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Scaling of Flows Over Realistic Urban Geometries: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study
A large-eddy simulation (LES) method is used to investigate the characteristics and scaling of flows over realistic urban geometries. The LES method...
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Effects of Wall Topology on Statistics of Cube-Roughened Wall Turbulence
In this work, we carried out roughness-resolved direct numerical simulations of cube-roughened turbulent channel flows to investigate the effects of...
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Freshwater and minerals recovery from synthetic produced water by membrane distillation/membrane crystallization processes
The purpose of this work is to study the influence of oil and surfactant present in produced water on the membrane distillation and membrane...
