Lubricant-infused surfaces (LIS) are highly efficient in repelling water and constitute a very promising family of materials for condensation processes occurring broad range energy applications. However, the performance LIS such is limited by inherent thermal resistance imposed thickness lubricant supporting surface structure, as well gradual depletion over time. Here, we present an ultrathin (...

The atmospheric moisture and temperature profiles from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit on the NASA Aqua mission, in combination with the precipitation from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), are employed to study the vertical moist thermodynamic structure and spatial–temporal evolution of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO). The AIRS data in...

The Pliocene warm interval has been difficult to explain. We reconstructed the latitudinal distribution of sea surface temperature around 4 million years ago, during the early Pliocene. Our reconstruction shows that the meridional temperature gradient between the equator and subtropics was greatly reduced, implying a vast poleward expansion of the ocean tropical warm pool. Corroborating evidenc...

Numerical solutions presented in a companion paper show that two-dimensional mesoscale terrain becomes a much stronger barrier to a continuously stratified flow when the flow contains warm advection. Here it is shown that this baroclinic enhancement is a strictly nonlinear phenomenon. The linear analysis indicates a weakening of the upstream response in warm advection. However, a weakly nonline...

Several authors have now suggested that some interstellar clouds above the plane of the Galaxy are interacting with the Reynolds’ layer, the warm ionized gas extending well above (H ∼= 910 pc) the Galactic plane (Reynolds 1993). Characterizing the interaction between these clouds and their surroundings should be useful in understanding one source of interstellar turbulence: vertical shear flows...

Abstract Here we elaborate on the deficiencies associated with theoretical arguments and model simulations in a paper by Grabowski Morrison (2020, hereafter GM20) that argued convective invigoration aerosols does not exist. We show can be supported both accurate analysis explicit physics modeling prognostic supersaturation aerosols. Negligible via drop freezing GM20 was explained complete compe...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the 11+ and HarmoKnee warm-up programs on performance measures in professional soccer players. Thirty-six male professional soccer players (age: 18.9 ± 1.4 years) were divided into 3 groups, the 11+, HarmoKnee and control group (n = 12 per group). The experimental groups performed the programs 3 times per week for 2 months (24 sessions), w...

Beneath its ice cover the Arctic Ocean is a low energy environment. The weak turbulent activity allows other, more esoteric mixing mechanisms to become important in transforming the water masses. One such process is double-diffusive convection, which is triggered by the different molecular diffusion rates of heat and salt and utilises the potential energy stored in the unstably stratified compo...