The role of lateral ocean physics in the upper ocean thermal balance of a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM Abstract The sensitivity of the upper ocean thermal balance of an ocean-atmosphere coupled GCM to lateral ocean physics is assessed. Three 40-year simulations are performed using horizontal mixing, isopycnal mixing , and isopycnal mixing plus eddy induced advection. The thermal adjustment of t...

In the infrared spectrum, two contributions to shadows exist: one part are reflective shadows resulting from occlusion of instantly reflected infrared rays, and the other part are thermal shadows occurring through occlusion of irradiance in the past. The realization of thermal shadows requires a thermal balance calculation in 4D (3D geometry in 1D time) which is computational expensive, and the...

Thermal management is critical for clusters because of the increasing power consumption of modern processors, compact server architectures and growing server density in data centers. Thermal balancing mitigates hot spots in a cluster through dynamic load distribution among servers. This paper presents the Control-theoretical Thermal Balancing (CTB) algorithms that employ feedback control loops ...