The rapid weakening of snow layers that accumulate infiltrating liquid water is a well-known, but poorly quantified, mechanism for wet-snow slab avalanche formation. Therefore, quantifying this mechanical process is a crucial part of forecasting these snow avalanches accurately. Currently, studies do not agree on how snow strength should change as a function of volumetric liquid water content ( ) ...

The first course in organic chemistry is tough for many students, and motivation may be an additional serious problem if you are taking the course as a part of your study program but do not intend to become a chemist. The combination of long, speedy traditional lectures, complicated material and the use of an important new language (electron flow arrows) does not contribute to easing the cognitive ...

In this study, we pursue two objectives: first, we compare six different “constant false alarm rate” (CFAR) algorithms for iceberg detection in SAR images, and second, we investigate the effect of radar frequency by comparing the detection performance at C- and L-band. The SAR images were acquired over the Labrador Sea under melting conditions. In an overlapping optical Sentinel-2 image, 492 icebergs ...

Background - Monitoring and control of both growth media and microbial biomass is extremely important for the development of economical bioprocesses. Unfortunately, process monitoring is still dependent on a limited number of standard parameters (pH, temperature, gasses etc.), while the critical process parameters, such as biomass, product and substrate concentrations, are rarely assessable in-line. ...

Free-base corroles have long been known to be acidic, readily undergoing deprotonation by mild bases and in polar solvents. The conjugate base, however, has not been structurally characterized until now. Presented here is a first crystal structure of a freebase corrole anion, derived from tris(p-cyanophenyl)corrole, as the tetrabuylammonium salt. The low-temperature (100 K) structure reveals ...

Surging glaciers are glaciers that experience rapidly accelerated glacier flow over a comparatively short period of time. Though relatively rare worldwide, Alaska is home to the largest number of surge-type glaciers globally. However, their impact on the broader socioecological system in the state is both poorly understood and underresearched, which poses a challenge in developing appropriate ...

This paper presents the state-of-the-art and latest advances in implementing multi-use practices on BESS applications to the power system grid. Representative papers on modeling and optimization methods were selected, most of them working with realistic use cases, but none reporting on real-world implementations. Some major findings from reviewing key representative papers are that current optimization ...

Atmospheric gravity waves and traveling ionospheric disturbances can be observed in the neutral atmosphere and the ionosphere at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Especially at medium scales, these oscillations are often not resolved in general circulation models and are parameterized. We show that ionospheric disturbances forced by upward-propagating atmospheric gravity waves can be ...

We propose a machine-learning interatomic potential for multi-component magnetic materials. In this potential we consider magnetic moments as degrees of freedom (features) along with atomic positions, atomic types, and lattice vectors. We create a training set with constrained DFT (cDFT) that allows us to calculate energies of confgurations with non-equilibrium (excited) magnetic moments and, ...