Application of the multifractal microcanonical formalism to the detection of fire plumes in NOAA–AVHRR data H. Yahia , A. Turiel , N. Chrysoulakis , J. Grazzini , P. Prastacos & I. Herlin To cite this article: H. Yahia , A. Turiel , N. Chrysoulakis , J. Grazzini , P. Prastacos & I. Herlin (2008) Application of the multifractal microcanonical formalism to the detection of fire plumes in NOAA–AVH...

Polar coronal plumes seen during solar eclipses can now be studied with space-borne telescopes and spectrometers. We briefly discuss such observations from space with a view to understanding their plasma characteristics. Using these observations, especially from SUMER/SOHO, but also from EUVI/STEREO, we deduce densities, temperatures, and abundance anomalies in plumes and inter-plume regions, a...

Recently, it has been reported that certain lots of heparin are associated with an acute, rapid onset of serious side effects indicative of allergic reaction, and (1)H NMR is one of the convenience but strong analytical methods to identify a contaminant in heparin. However, an NMR signal from the contaminant in some cases is overlapped with a satellite peak from heparin, leading a misunderstand...

Building energy analysis tools are available in many forms that provide the ability to address a broad spectrum of energy-related issues in various combinations. Often these tools operate in isolation from one another, making it difficult to evaluate the interactions between related phenomena and interacting systems, forcing oversimplified assumptions to be made about various phenomena that cou...

Experiments on the onset of buoyant instabilities leading to periodic formation of vortical structures in planar buoyant plumes of helium and helium/air mixtures injected into quiescent air are reported for a range of nozzle widths (w520– 70 mm), plume fluid densities ~pure helium to that approaching air!, and velocities at the nozzle exit. First, the plume parameters corresponding to the onset...

Statistical analysis of the global hotspot distribution is made and current state-of-the-art of the theory of mantle plumes is discussed. Both the fractal dimension analysis and the spherical harmonic correlation are performed to infer some constraints on possible hotspots and mantle plumes sources. Such a joint analysis suggests a compound model, in which the upper mantle exerts strong influen...

Animals using odor plumes to locate resources are activated to track these plumes by the presence of an attractive odor, and typically steer toward the source using directional cues from the flowing air or water bearing the odor. We challenged freely walking virgin male cockroaches, Periplaneta americana, to track plumes of airborne female pheromone and then video-recorded and analyzed their re...

Hydrothermal plumes are an important yet understudied component of deep-sea vent microbial ecosystems. The significance of plume microbial processes can be appreciated from three perspectives: (1) mediation of plume biogeochemistry, (2) dispersal of seafloor hydrothermal vent microbes between vents sites, (3) as natural laboratories for understanding the ecology, physiology, and function of mic...

Smoke plume rise is critically dependent on plume updraft structure. Smoke plumes from landscape burns (forest and agricultural burns) are typically structured into “sub-plumes” or multiple-core updrafts with the number of updraft cores depending on characteristics of the landscape, fire, fuels, and weather. The number of updraft cores determines the efficiency of vertical transport of heat and...

Integral methods are used to derive similarity solutions for several quantities of interest including the cross-stream velocity, Reynolds stress, the dominant turbulent kinetic energy production term, and eddy diffusivities of momentum and heat for axisymmetric and planar turbulent jets, plumes, and wakes. A universal constant is evaluated for axisymmetric and planar plumes. The cross-stream ve...