By using wind vector fields observed by the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) and significant wave heights observed by the TOPEX/POSEIDON and European Remote Sensing Satellite-2 (ERS-2) altimeters, one-dimensional fetch growth of wind waves has been investigated under conditions of strong wind and high waves caused by the East Asian winter monsoon in the Sea of Japan. The evolution of fetch-limited wi...

Pistacia atlantica is the most important tree species for the economy of many rural areas in west of Iran, but no effort has been made for the genetic improvement of this species. The aim of this investigation was to study the genetic variation and inheritance of early growth traits in P. atlantica. For this purpose, three wild pistachio populations comprising 60 randomly selected adult trees f...

Title of dissertation: Physics of Breaking Bow Waves: A Parametric Investigation using a 2D+T Wave Maker Eric Maxeiner, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor James H. Duncan Department of Mechanical Engineering A mechanical 2-dimensional wave maker with a flexible surface was used to create waves similar to those formed at the bow of a moving ship. Utilizing the 2D+T ap...

Two other attributes of waves are the amplitude (the height of the wave crests with respect to the base line) and the phase, which measures the position of a crest with respect to some fixed point. The square of the amplitude gives the intensity of the wave: the energy transmitted per unit time). λ u ν -= A unique property of waves is their ability to combine constructively or destructively, de...

INTRODUCTION Human height is a highly heritable trait considered as an important factor for health. There has been limited success in identifying the genetic factors underlying height variation. We aim to identify sequence variants associated with adult height by a genome-wide association study of copy number variants (CNVs) in Chinese. METHODS Genome-wide CNV association analyses were conduc...

Photonic band-gap (PBG) crystals offer new dimensions of freedom in controlling propagation of electromagnetic waves. The existence of stop-bands in the transmission characteristic of these crystals makes them a suitable element for the realization of many useful microwave and optical subsystems. In this paper, we calculate the propagation constant of a one-dimensional (1-D) photonic crystal by...

Two other attributes of waves are the amplitude (the height of the wave crests with respect to the base line) and the phase, which measures the position of a crest with respect to some fixed point. The square of the amplitude gives the intensity of the wave: the energy transmitted per unit time). λ u ν -= A unique property of waves is their ability to combine constructively or destructively, de...

Ground waves and sky waves measured 209 km and 250 km south of six triggered lightning flashes containing 30 strokes that occurred in the half-hour before sunset on 27 August 2015 are presented and analyzed. We use a cross-correlation technique to find the ionospheric effective reflection height and compare our results to previous techniques that calculate effective height based on the time del...

[1] A decade-long satellite altimeter data set is used to analyze the annual variations in the sea surface height (SSH) field northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The annual harmonic amplitudes for the SSH and the along-island geostrophic flow are 2–4 cm and 2–4 cm s , respectively. Although these values are an order of magnitude smaller than the regional mesoscale eddy signals, the annual SSH si...