The CloudSat 94-GHz Cloud Profiling Radar was designed to provide global information on the vertical structure of clouds. It was launched in April 2006, joining the A-Train of earth science satellites. Although primarily focused on clouds and climate, the CloudSat radar also provides a unique view of the vertical structure of clouds in tropical cyclones. The authors use data from CloudSat and o...

One challenge in Earth science research is the accurate and efficient ad-hoc query and retrieval of Earth science satellite sensor data based on user-defined criteria to study and analyze atmospheric events such as tropical cyclones. The problem can be formulated as a spatiotemporal join query to identify the spatio-temporal location where moving sensor objects and dynamic atmospheric event obj...

By using a half soap bubble heated from below, we obtain large isolated single vortices whose properties as well as their intensity are measured under different conditions. By studying the effects of rotation of the bubble on the vortex properties, we found that rotation favors vortices near the pole. Rotation also inhibits long life time vortices. The velocity and vorticity profiles of the vor...

Based on the availability of hemispheric gridded data sets from observations, analysis and global climate models, objective cyclone identification methods were developed and applied to these data sets. Due to the large amount of investigation methods combined with the variety of different datasets, a multitude of results exist, not only for the recent climate period but also for the next centur...

Multiobjective optimization of a set of N identical reverse-flow cyclone separators in parallel was carried out by using the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA). Two objective functions were used: the maximization of the overall collection efficiency and the minimization of the pressure drop. Nondominated Pareto optimal solutions were obtained for an industrial problem in which 165 m3...

Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity from these events have fallen substantially in the past 50 years, partly because of improvements in disaster management. Thousands of cyclone shelters have been built and gov...

The winters of the 1980s were among the warmest on record over nonhem Siberia. Daily and monthly sea level pressures, 500 mb heights, and an index of Atlantic storm track extent (toward the northeast) and intensity, are used to examine atmospheric circulation variability during extremely warm and cold winter months in Siberia. In recent years, the comparatively warm months are associated with a...