During May–November, 2004, 20 profiling floats were deployed in the recirculation gyre (RG) region south of the Kuroshio Extension (KE). With the KE and RG being in a stable state, most of these floats remained within the RG, resulting in a large number of satellite position fixes for estimating the velocities at the parking depth (1,500 db), and of T/S (Temperature/Salinity) profiles for estim...

Mn concentration depth profiles in Mn-doped GaAs thin films grown at substrate temperatures of 580 and 250 °C using various Mn cell temperatures have been investigated with dynamic secondary ion mass spectrometry and Auger electron spectroscopy. When the samples are grown at a low substrate temperature of 250 °C, the Mn distributes uniformly. For the samples grown at a high substrate temperatur...

Inferring depth from a single image is a difficult task in computer vision, which needs to utilize adequate monocular cues contained in the image. Inspired by Saxena et al’s work, this paper presents a closeform iterative algorithm to process multi-scale image segmentation and depth inferring alternately, which can significantly improve segmentation and depth estimate results. First, an EM-base...

[1] During May to November 2004, 20 profiling floats were deployed in the recirculation gyre (RG) region south of the Kuroshio Extension (KE). With the KE and RG being in a stable state, most of these floats remained within the RG, resulting in a large number of satellite position fixes for estimating the velocities at the parking depth (1500 db) and a large number of temperature/salinity profi...

We compute a series of finite-source parameter inversions of the fault rupture of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake based on 1 Hz GPS records only. We confirm that some of the co-seismic slip at shallow depth (<5 km) constrained by InSAR data processing results from early post-seismic deformation. We also show 1) that if located very close to the rupture, a GPS receiver can saturate while it remain...

It is well-established that depth discrimination is finer in the fovea than the periphery. Here, we study the decline in depth discrimination thresholds with distance from the fovea using an equivalent noise analysis to separate the contributions of internal noise and sampling efficiency. Observers discriminated the mean depth of patches of "dead leaves" composed of ellipses varying in size, or...

Ambient noise measured in the deep ocean is studied in the context of a search for signals from ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray neutrinos. The spectral shape of the noise at the relevant high frequencies is found to be very stable for an extensive data set collected over several months from 49 hydrophones mounted near the bottom of the ocean at 1600 m depth. The slopes of the ambient noise spectra ...