[1] A 94-year time series of annual glacier melt at four high elevation sites in the European Alps is used to investigate the effect of global dimming and brightening of solar radiation on glacier mass balance. Snow and ice melt was stronger in the 1940s than in recent years, in spite of significantly higher air temperatures in the present decade. An inner Alpine radiation record shows that in ...

Fluorescen t power SUPPlY Dimmer I Electronic bal last I Lamp IAn electronic ballast for fluorescent lamp lighting using a new resonant inverter is proposed. The electronic ballast has high efficiency, light wcight and small sizc bccause the resonant inverter operates at high frequencies with low switching losses. The inverter output power can be continuously controlled by regulating the L-C re...

Geoengineering has been proposed to stabilize global temperature, but its impacts on crop production and stability are not fully understood. A few case studies suggest that certain crops are likely to benefit from solar dimming geoengineering, yet we show that geoengineering is projected to have detrimental effects for groundnut. Using an ensemble of crop-climate model simulations, we illustrat...

Axion-photon conversion induced by intergalactic magnetic fields has been proposed as an explanation for the dimming of distant supernovae of type Ia (SNe Ia) without cosmic acceleration. The effect depends on the intergalactic electron density ne as well as the B-field strength and domain size. We show that for ne < ∼ 10 cm the same mechanism would cause excessive spectral distortion of the co...

This paper describes a multiphase pulse width modulation (MPWM) technique used for controlling the luminance of a solid-state lamp (SSL). In conventional pulse width modulation (PWM) and pulse code modulation techniques, the average HBLED string current is controlled by simultaneously varying the “ON” time duration of each current regulator circuit, resulting in large current transients and pul...

We show that the combined dimming of Type Ia supernovae induced by both a cosmological constant and the conversion of photons into axions in extra-galactic magnetic fields can impersonate dark energy with an equation of state w < −1. An observer unaware of the presence of photon-axion conversion would interpret the additional dimming as cosmic acceleration faster than that induced by a cosmolog...

During recent years there is a strong trend towards radio frequency (RF) remote controls as it is delivering even more comfort to the users and increased usability with high robustness of the RF links. Lower power consumption with new features and security make RF remote control systems more competitive with widely used IR remote control systems. In this paper we propose, a RF module based real...

A combined GIS and remote sensing approach is applied to map and model the Glacier National Park wildfires of the summer 2003. Numerical simulations were performed using the Clarke Fire Automaton Model, and the fire extents were associated with the atmospheric plumes, observed using remote sensing data from the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer....