The vertical profile of Saharan dust in the atmosphere is generally characterized by a large aerosol concentration in the mid troposphere, differently from the climatological distribution of other types of particles, that show a peak at the surface and a rapid decrease with height. Saharan dust is also characterized by particles of relatively large size of irregular shape, and variable values of the single scattering albedo (the ratio between radiation scattering and extinction). The dust's peculiar vertical distribution is expected to produce an effect on the calculation of the direct aerosol radiative forcing at the surface and at the top of the atmosphere. This effect is investigated by comparing estimates of aerosol direct visible radiative forcing at the surface and at the top of the atmosphere for dust vertical profiles measured in the Mediterranean, and for the climatological profile. The radiative forcing is estimated by means of an accurate radiative transfer model, and for the ocean surface. The sensitivity of the results on the solar zenith angle, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption is also investigated. The aerosol radiative forcing at the surface shows a very small dependency on the aerosol vertical profile. At the top of the atmosphere, the radiative forcing is weakly dependent on the vertical profile (up to 10% variation on the daily average forcing) for low absorbing particles; conversely, it shows a strong dependency (the daily radiative forcing may vary up to 100%) for absorbing particles. The top of the atmosphere visible radiative forcing efficiency produced by dust having single scattering albedo <0.7 is higher by 4 W m−2 when the observed vertical profile instead of the standard profile is used in the calculations (i.e. it produces a lower cooling). For values of the single scattering albedo around 0.67, the sign of the forcing depends on the vertical profile. The influence of the vertical distribution on the radiative forcing is largest at small values of the solar zenith angle, and at short wavelengths. 相似文献
The detection of gravitational waves is a long-awaited event in modern physics and, to achieve this challenging goal, detectors
with high sensitivity are being used or are under development. In order to extract gravitational signals emitted by coalescing
binary systems of compact objects (neutron stars and/or black holes), from noisy data obtained by interferometric detectors,
the matched filter technique is generally used. Its computational kernel is a box-constrained global optimization problem
with many local solutions and a highly nonlinear and expensive objective function, whose derivatives are not available. To
tackle this problem, we designed a real-coded genetic algorithm that exploits characteristic features of the problem itself;
special attention was devoted to the choice of the initial population and of the recombination operator. Computational experiments
showed that our algorithm is able to compute a reasonably accurate solution of the optimization problem, requiring a much
smaller number of function evaluations than the grid search, which is generally used to solve this problem. Furthermore, the
genetic algorithm largely outperforms other global optimization algorithms on significant instances of the problem. 相似文献
The paper summarizes results achieved in the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in the field of investigation
and fabrication of novel fiber-optic structures for evanescent-wave chemical sensing. Several approaches for increasing the
evanescent-wave sensitivity of multimode silica optical fibers to gaseous and liquid chemicals are shown. These approaches
make use of the decrease of the core diameter in sectorial and capillary sectorial fibers, modification of trajectories of
optical rays in the cores of inverted-graded-index fibers, tailoring of the refractive index of porous layers applied on silica
cores, an output mode filter preventing the detection of rays propagating at low axial angles or fibers bent in single or
multiple turns.
Presented at the 1st Czech-Chinese Workshop “Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics”, Prague, Czech Republic, June 13–17,
1998.
This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (projects No. 102/96/0939 and No. 102/98/1358) and by joint
project No. 4104 of AS CR and CNRS, France. 相似文献
We develop the chemistry of boron difluoride hydrazone dyes (BODIHYs) bearing two aryl substituents and explore their properties. The low-energy absorption bands (λmax=427–464 nm) of these dyes depend on the nature of the N-aryl groups appended to the BODIHY framework. Electron-donating and extended π-conjugated groups cause a redshift, whereas electron-withdrawing groups result in a blueshift. The title compounds were weakly photoluminescent in solution and strongly photoluminescent as thin films (λPL=525–578 nm) with quantum yields of up to 18 % and lifetimes of 1.1–1.7 ns, consistent with the dominant radiative decay through fluorescence. Addition of water to THF solutions of the BODIHYs studied causes molecular aggregation which restricts intramolecular motion and thereby enhances photoluminescence. The observed photoluminescence of BODIHY thin films is likely facilitated by a similar molecular packing effect. Finally, cyclic voltammetry studies confirmed that BODIHY derivatives bearing para-substituted N-aryl groups could be reversibly oxidized (Eox1=0.62–1.02 V vs. Fc/Fc+) to their radical cation forms. Chemical oxidation studies confirmed that para-substituents at the N-aryl groups are required to circumvent radical decomposition pathways. Our findings provide new opportunities and guiding principles for the design of sought-after multifunctional boron difluoride complexes that are photoluminescent in the solid state. 相似文献
The main purpose of this work is to study the damping effect of memory terms associated with singular convolution kernels on the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of second order evolution equations in Hilbert spaces. For kernels that decay exponentially at infinity and possess strongly positive definite primitives, the exponential stability of weak solutions is obtained in the energy norm. It is also shown that this theory applies to several examples of kernels with possibly variable sign, and to a problem in nonlinear viscoelasticity. 相似文献
In this paper, we propose an area preserving bijective map from the regular octahedron to the unit sphere ${\mathbb{S}^2}$, both centered at the origin. The construction scheme consists of two steps. First, each face Fi of the octahedron is mapped to a curved planar triangle ${\mathcal{T}_i}$ of the same area. Afterwards, each ${\mathcal{T}_i}$ is mapped onto the sphere using the inverse Lambert azimuthal equal area projection with respect to a certain point of ${\mathbb{S}^2}$. The proposed map is then used to construct uniform and refinable grids on a sphere, starting from any triangular uniform and refinable grid on the triangular faces of the octahedron. 相似文献
A red-emitting fluorescent Riboflavin (RF)/Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-coated silver nanoparticles system, λem?=?527 nm, Φ?=?0.242, with a diameter of the metallic core of 27.33 nm and a zeta potential of ? 25.05 mV was prepared and investigated regarding its biological activity. We found that PVP has a key role in RF adsorption around the SNPs surface leading to an enhancement of antioxidant properties (~70%), low cytotoxicity (> 90% cell viability, at 50 µL/mL, after 48 h of incubation) as well as to an efficient process of its cellular uptake (~ 60%, after 24 h of incubation) in L929 cells. The results are relevant concerning the involvement of RF and its coenzymes forms in SNPs - based systems, in cellular respiration as well as for future studies as antioxidant marker system on tumoral cells for viewing and monitoring them, by cellular imaging.
Classical invariants of General Relativity can be used to approximate the entropy of the gravitational field. In this work, we study two proposed estimators based on scalars constructed out from the Weyl tensor, in Kerr spacetime. In order to evaluate Clifton, Ellis and Tavakol’s proposal, we calculate the gravitational energy density, gravitational temperature, and gravitational entropy of the Kerr spacetime. We find that in the frame we consider, Clifton et al.’s estimator does not reproduce the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of a Kerr black hole. The results are compared with previous estimates obtained by the authors using the Rudjord–Gr\(\varnothing \)n–Hervik approach. We conclude that the latter represents better the expected behaviour of the gravitational entropy of black holes. 相似文献