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New particle formation (NPF) substantially contributes to global cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and their climate impacts. Individual NPF events are also thought to increase local CCN, cloud droplet number (CDN), and cloud albedo. High resolution simulat ...

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First-Principles Thermodynamics of CsSnI3

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An analytical approximation of urban heat and dry islands and their impact on convection triggering

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It is well known that cities increase air and surface temperatures compared to their rural sur-roundings, the so-called urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, the associated changes in at-mospheric humidity (also known as urban dry island, UDI) and conve ...

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Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake

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Harmful blooms of the filamentous cyanobacteria Planktothrix rubescens have become common in many lakes as they have recovered from eutrophication over the last decades. These cyanobacteria, capable of regulating their vertical position, often flourish at ...

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There is an ongoing surge of interest in the use of formamidinium (FA) lead iodide perovskites in photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. However, thermodynamic instability of the desired cubic perovskite (α-FAPbI3) phase at ambie ...

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Invariant states in inclined layer convection. Part 2. Bifurcations and connections between branches of invariant states

Tobias Schneider, Florian Reetz

Convection in a layer inclined against gravity is a thermally driven non-equilibrium system, in which both buoyancy and shear forces drive spatio-temporally complex flows. As a function of the strength of thermal driving and the angle of inclination, a mul ...

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Energetics of Radiatively Heated Ice-Covered Lakes

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We derive the mechanical energy budget for shallow, ice-covered lakes energized by penetrative solar radiation. Radiation increases the available and background components of the potential energy at different rates. Available potential energy drives under- ...

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Convection‐Diffusion Competition Within Mixed Layers of Stratified Natural Waters

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner

In stratified natural waters, convective processes tend to form nearly homogeneous mixed layers. However, shear‐driven turbulence generated by large‐scale background flow often rapidly smooths them through mixing with the stratified surroundings. Here we s ...

2019

Implications of river intrusion and convective mixing on the spatial and temporal variability of under-ice CO2

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Absolute/convective secondary instabilities and the role of confinement in free shear layers

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The effect of secondary ice production parameterization on the simulation of a cold frontal rainband

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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Suppression of von Karman vortex streets past porous rectangular cylinders

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Although the stability properties of the wake past impervious bluff bodies have been widely examined in the literature, similar analyses regarding the flow around and through porous ones are still lacking. In this work, the effect of the porosity and perme ...

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A severe hail storm in complex topography in Switzerland-Observations and processes

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This paper studies a damaging hail storm that occurred on 6 June 2015 in the complex topography of Switzerland. The storm persisted for several hours and produced large hail resulting in significant damage. Storms of comparable severity occur on average on ...

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Flow control of weakly non-parallel flows: application to trailing vortices

François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

A general formulation is proposed to control the integral amplification factor of harmonic disturbances in weakly non-parallel amplifier flows. The sensitivity of the local spatial stability spectrum to a base-flow modification is first determined, general ...

Cambridge University Press2017