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A three-dimensional self-supporting low loss microwave lens with a negative...

A three-dimensional self-supporting low loss microwave lens with a negative refractive index Ehrenberg, Isaac Mayer; Sarma, Sanjay Emani; Wu, Bae-Ian Demonstrations of focusing with metamaterial lenses...

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Degree design of coupled infrastructures

Degree design of coupled infrastructures Hover, Franz S. A recent asymptotic model of cascading failure in two-domain, coupled infrastructures is used to pose and solve a specific degree-distribution...

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Feasibility of tropical cyclone intensity estimation using satellite-borne...

Feasibility of tropical cyclone intensity estimation using satellite-borne radiometer measurements: An observing system simulation experiment Sieron, Scott B.; Zhang, Fuqing; Emanuel, Kerry Andrew This...

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Pace of shifts in climate regions increases with global temperature

Pace of shifts in climate regions increases with global temperature Mahlstein, Irina; Daniel, John S.; Solomon, Susan Human-induced climate change causes significant changes in local climates, which in...

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Irreversible Does Not Mean Unavoidable

Irreversible Does Not Mean Unavoidable Matthews, H. D.; Solomon, Susan Understanding how decreases in CO[subscript 2] emissions would affect global temperatures has been hampered in recent years by...

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Barriers to Mobility: The Lockout Effect of U.S. Taxation of Worldwide...

Barriers to Mobility: The Lockout Effect of U.S. Taxation of Worldwide Corporate Profits Graham, John R.; Hanlon, Michelle; Shevlin, Terry Using data from a survey of tax executives, we examine the...

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Conic relaxations for transmission system planning

Conic relaxations for transmission system planning Taylor, Joshua A.; Hover, Franz S. We apply lift-and-project type relaxations for polynomial optimization problems to AC transmission system planning,...

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Convex Models of Distribution System Reconfiguration

Convex Models of Distribution System Reconfiguration Taylor, Joshua A.; Hover, Franz S. We derive new mixed-integer quadratic, quadratically constrained, and second-order cone programming models of...

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Sampling-Based Sweep Planning to Exploit Local Planarity in the Inspection of...

Sampling-Based Sweep Planning to Exploit Local Planarity in the Inspection of Complex 3d Structures Englot, Brendan; Hover, Franz S. We present a hybrid algorithm that plans feasible paths for 100%...

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Scaling laws for drop impingement on porous films and papers

Scaling laws for drop impingement on porous films and papers Buie, Cullen R.; Joung, Young soo This study investigates drop impingement on highly wetting porous films and papers. Experiments reveal...

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Search for lepton-number violating B[superscript +] → X[superscript...

Search for lepton-number violating B[superscript +] → X[superscript −]ℓ[superscript +]ℓ[superscript ′+] decays Cowan, Ray Franklin; Dujmic, Denis; Sciolla, Gabriella We report on a search for eleven...

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Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair

Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair Miller, J. T.; Audoly, B.; Lazarus, Arnaud; Reis, Pedro Miguel We investigate how natural curvature affects the configuration of a thin elastic rod suspended under its...

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Controlling active self-assembly through broken particle-shape symmetry

Controlling active self-assembly through broken particle-shape symmetry Wensink, H. H.; Goldstein, R. E.; Dunkel, Joern; Kantsler, Vasily Many structural properties of conventional passive materials...

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Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine...

Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing Straneo, Fiammetta; Heimbach, Patrick; Sergienko, Olga; Hamilton, Gordon;...

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Reconstructing the Ocean's Interior from Surface Data

Reconstructing the Ocean's Interior from Surface Data Wang, Jinbo; LaCasce, Joseph H.; McClean, Julie L.; Mahadevan, Amala; Flierl, Glenn Richard A new method is proposed for extrapolating subsurface...

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Two Decades of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Anatomy,...

Two Decades of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Anatomy, Variations, Extremes, Prediction, and Overcoming Its Limitations Wunsch, Carl; Heimbach, Patrick The zonally integrated...

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Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison

Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison Forest, Chris E.; Monier, Erwan; Schlosser, Adam; Sokolov, Andrei P. This paper summarizes the results of an...

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Characterization of uncertainties in atmospheric trace gas inversions using...

Characterization of uncertainties in atmospheric trace gas inversions using hierarchical Bayesian methods Rigby, M.; Zammit-Mangion, A.; Manning, A. J.; Fraser, P. J.; Harth, C. M.; Kim, K.-R.;...

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Intercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol microphysical properties...

Intercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol microphysical properties among AeroCom models of a range of complexity Ridley, David Andrew Many of the next generation of global climate models will...

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On the temperature dependence of organic reactivity, nitrogen oxides, ozone...

On the temperature dependence of organic reactivity, nitrogen oxides, ozone production, and the impact of emission controls in San Joaquin Valley, California Pusede, S. E.; Gentner, D. R.; Wooldridge,...

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