Northwest Indian Ocean’s Spring Cooling

Interpretation of tropical thermocline cooling in the Indian and Pacific oceans during recent decades

[1] A warming trend has been detected in the world’s oceans in recent decades. The basin-averaged warming, however, shows a complex vertical structure in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Warming in the upper ocean-with maxima near the surfaceaccompanies a strong cooling in the upper thermocline. Analysis of observed data and model solutions from this study reveals that the complex structure is co...

Aerosol direct radiative effects over the northwest Atlantic, northwest Pacific, and North Indian Oceans: estimates based on in-situ chemical and optical measurements and chemical transport modeling

The largest uncertainty in the radiative forcing of climate change over the industrial era is that due to aerosols, a substantial fraction of which is the uncertainty associated with scattering and absorption of shortwave (solar) radiation by anthropogenic aerosols in cloud-free conditions (IPCC, 2001). Quantifying and reducing the uncertainty in aerosol influences on climate is critical to und...

Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art

Air-Sea Interaction Studies of the Indian and Pacific Oceans

The long term goal of this project is to employ satellite SAR imagery to the quantitative analysis of monsoons, internal waves, ocean surface features, and surface currents. To achieve this, a variety of satellite SAR sensors with different frequencies, multi-polarizations and different imaging modes are used to determine which combination of the above capabilities could provide the best solution.

Models 10 - 708 , Spring 2016 Lecture 19 : Indian Buffet Process

In the end, we have the number of people sitting at each table. This corresponds to a distribution over clusterings, where custermer = index, and table = cluster. Although CRP gives potentially infinite number of clusters, the expected number of clusters given n customers is O(α log(n)). The number of clusters also indicates the rich-get-richer effect on clusters. Also as α goes to 0, the numbe...