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- Creator:
- Chatterjee, Tanmay, Knappik, Achim, Sandford, Erin, Tewari, Muneesh, Choi, Sung Won, Strong, William B., Thrush, Evan P., Oh, Kenneth J., Liu, Ning, Walter, Nils G., and Johnson-Buck, Alexander
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- The sensitive measurement of specific protein biomarkers is important for medical diagnostics and research. However, existing methods for quantifying proteins use antibody probes that cannot distinguish between specific and nonspecific binding, limiting their sensitivity and specificity. This work establishes a method for distinguishing between specific binding to the target protein and nonspecific binding to assay surfaces using single-molecule kinetic measurements with dynamically binding probes. This is significant because it permits extremely sensitive protein measurements without requiring a high-affinity detection antibody or any washing steps, enabling streamlined and sensitive quantification of proteins even when no pair of high-quality, tightly binding antibodies is available.
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- biomarker detection, single molecule fluorescence, kinetic fingerprinting, total internal reflection microscopy, and super resolution microscopy
- Citation to related publication:
- Chatterjee, T., et al. Direct kinetic fingerprinting and digital counting of single protein molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, In Press.
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- Science
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- Light, Charles X, Arbic, Brian K, Martin, Paige E, Brodeau, Laurent, Farrar, J Thomas, Griffies, Stephen M, Kirtman, Ben P, Laurindo, Lucas, Menemenlis, Dimitris, Molod, Andrea, Nelson, Arin D, Nyadjro, Ebenezer, O'Rourke, Amanda K, Shriver, Jay, Siqueira, Leo, Small, R Justin, and Strobach, Udi
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- The precipitation data itself is the output of the models/datasets that we analyze in our paper. Most of it is in .nc or .nc4 format, although we provide code to extract the data into time series .mat files. We used MATLAB to perform our analysis.
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- precipitation and power spectra
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- Light, C.X., Arbic, B.K., Martin, P.E., Brodeau, L., Farrar, J.T., Griffies, S.M., Kirtman, B.P., Laurindo, L.C., Menemenlis, D., Molod, A., Nelson, A.D., Nyadjro, E., O'Rourke, A.K., Shriver, J.F., Siqueira, L., Small, R.J., Strobach, E. (2022). Effects of grid spacing on high-frequency precipitation variance in coupled high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere models. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06257-6
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- Science
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Geotechnical observations of weathered rock across a tectonic and climatic gradient in Central Nepal
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- Medwedeff, William, G (University of Michigan Earth & Environmental Science), Clark, Marin, K (University of Michigan Earth & Environmental Science), Zekkos, Dimitrios (University of California, Berkeley), West, A., Joshua (University of Southern California), and Chamlagain, Deepak (Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal)
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- These datasets support the findings of Medwedeff et al. (2021) in JGR: Earth Surface. In this article, we present seismic and geotechnical characterizations of the shallow subsurface across a 200 km by 50 km swath of the central Himalayan Range, in Nepal. By pairing widely-distributed 1D shear wave velocity surveys and engineering outcrop descriptions per the Geological Strength Index classification system, we evaluate landscape-scale patterns in near-surface mechanical characteristics and their relation to environmental factors known to affect rock strength. We find that near-surface strength is more dependent on the degree of weathering, rather than the mineral and textural differences between the metamorphic lithologies found in the central Himalaya. Furthermore, weathering varies systematically with topography. Bedrock ridge top sites are highly weathered and have S-wave seismic velocities and shear strength characteristics that are more typical of engineering soils, whereas sites near the bedrock channel bottom tend to be less weathered and characterized by high S-wave velocities and shear strength estimates typical of hard rock. Weathering of bedrock on hillslopes is significantly more variable, resulting in S-wave velocities that range between the ridge and channel endmembers. We hypothesize variability in the hillslope environment may be partly explained by the stochastic nature of mass wasting, which clears away weathered material where landslide scars are recent. These results underscore the mechanical heterogeneity in the shallow subsurface and highlight the need to account for bedrock weathering when estimating strength parameters for regional landslide hazard analysis.
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- rock strength, critical zone, shallow seismic, and chemical weathering
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Kort, Eric A., Conley, Stephen A., and Smith, Mackenzie L.
- Description:
- This data-set contains data used in the publication "Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico" by Gorchov Negron et al. (2020). There are 46,032 rows and 45 columns in the data. and The aircraft sampled offshore facilities with two unique sampling strategies: facility-level samples and regional box samples. Gorchov Negron et al. used facility-level samples to calculate facility-level fluxes and regional box samples, in conjunction with vertical profiles, to calculate regional-level fluxes. Meteorological parameters in the data were evaluated to discern when assumptions for each method were met. The facility-level fluxes were used to generate a facility-level aerial measurement-based inventory that was scaled up for comparison with regional-level fluxes.
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- Methane Emissions, Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms, Airborne Measurements, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Gulf of Mexico
- Citation to related publication:
- Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Eric A. Kort, Stephen A. Conley, Mackenzie L. Smith. "Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico". Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00179
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Yiwen, Mei
- Description:
- The datasets of this archive are produced for a research project on the development of an advanced hydrologic modeling system for the St. Lawrence river basin. The outputted datasets from model simulations are in Netcdf 4 format. The author recommend using the netCDF Operators (NCO) program for data processing. For visualization and plotting, the author recommend using software like MATLAB, Python or R.
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- Hydrologic modeling, reanalysis product, St. Lawrence river, water balance, WRF-Hydro
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- Science
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- Creator:
- McCuen, Brett A.
- Description:
- These data are TLA events identified in MACCS magnetometer data throughout 2015. These events are short-timescale (< 60 s), large -amplitude (> 6 nT/s) magnetic disturbances measured at Earth's surface that are analyzed for space weather research purposes. and The events were identified in a year's worth of magnetic field data using an algorithm developed in the MATLAB platform. The algorithm dBdt_main.m can be run using the associated scripts (clean_maccs.m, simple_dbdt.m, extremes1.m, newdbdt.m) to return the events in the 2015_AllEvents.csv file. The substorm onset delays of each event are determined with the onset_delays.m script and the substorm event list 20191127-15-56-substorms.csv (both included).
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- space weather impacts, geomagnetically induced currents, GIC, transient induced currents, transient large amplitude, dB/dt search algorithm, and TLA
- Citation to related publication:
- Engebretson, M. J., Pilipenko, V. A., Ahmed, L. Y., Posch, J. L., Steinmetz, E. S., Moldwin, M. B., … Vorobev, A. V. (2019). Nighttime Magnetic Perturbation Events Observed in Arctic Canada: 1. Survey and Statistical Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(9), 7442–7458. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026794
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Li, Jieming, Zhang, Leyou, Johnson-Buck, Alexander, and Walter, Nils G.
- Description:
- Traces from single-molecule fluorescence microscopy (SMFM) experiments exhibit photophysical artifacts that typically necessitate human expert screening, which is time-consuming and introduces potential for user-dependent expectation bias. Here, we have used deep learning to develop a rapid, automatic SMFM trace selector, termed AutoSiM, that improves the sensitivity and specificity of an assay for a DNA point mutation based on single-molecule recognition through equilibrium Poisson sampling (SiMREPS). The improved performance of AutoSiM is based on accepting both more true positives and fewer false positives than the conventional approach of hidden Markov modeling (HMM) followed by thresholding. As a second application, the selector was used for automated screening of single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) data to identify high-quality traces for further analysis, and achieves ~90% concordance with manual selection while requiring less processing time. AutoSiM can be adapted readily to novel datasets, requiring only modest Transfer Learning.
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- deep learning, single-molecule fluorescence, total internal reflection microscopy, SiMREPS, smFRET, and Forster resonance energy transfer
- Citation to related publication:
- Li, J., Zhang, L., Johnson-Buck, A., & Walter, N. G. (2020). Automatic classification and segmentation of single-molecule fluorescence time traces with deep learning. Nature Communications, 11(1), 5833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19673-1 and Hayward, S., Lund, P., Kang, Q., Johnson-Buck, A., Tewari, M., Walter, N. (2018). Single-molecule microscopy image data and analysis files for "Ultra-specific and Amplification-free Quantification of Mutant DNA by Single-molecule Kinetic Fingerprinting" [Data set]. University of Michigan - Deep Blue. https://doi.org/10.7302/Z2CZ35DF
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right proximal metatarsal 1 of the Cantius trigonodus (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81822), as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Primates, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and CTEES
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Yuan, Ye, Currie, William S., Sharp, Sean J. , Martina, Jason P. , and Elgersma, Kenneth J.
- Description:
- This archived dataset includes all of the input files that were used to run the model for all the runs in this set, including files containing model parameters and drivers. This dataset also includes all of the model output files from model runs in this set.
- Keyword:
- wetland, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, climate change, and ecosystem model
- Citation to related publication:
- Yuan, Y., S. J. Sharp, J. P. Martina, K. J. Elgersma, and W. S. Currie. Sustained-flux global warming potential driven by nitrogen inflow and hydroperiod in a model of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. JGR Biogeosciences in review.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
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- Reconstructed CT slices for a left dentary of Carpodaptes stonleyi (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 85286) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Carpolestidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Paleocene, CTEES, and ed7da511-d04c-fd32-09ef-0ea552966545
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- Science
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- Yue, Min, Kim, Jae Hyun, Evans, Charles R. , Kachman, Maureen, Erb-Downward, John R., D’Souza, Jennifer , Foxman, Betsy, Adar, Sara D. , Curtis, Jeffrey L. , and Stringer, Kathleen A.
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- This was a small descriptive study to determine whether short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are detectable in water. It is part of a larger study that assessed the utility of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) as a biofluid for microbiome assays.
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- microbiome, short chain fatty acids, pulmonary, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, exhaled breath condensate, and water
- Citation to related publication:
- Yue, M., Kim, J. H., Evans, C. R., Kachman, M., Erb-Downward, J. R., D’Souza, J., Foxman, B., Adar, S. D., Curtis, J. L., & Stringer, K. A. (2020). Measurement of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Respiratory Samples: Keep Your Assay above the Water Line. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 202(4), 610–612. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201909-1840LE
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
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- Reconstructed CT slices for a first lumbar vertebra of Sifrhippus grangeri (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 115547) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin. In some publications this species is referred to as Hyracotherium grangeri.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Equidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and ef48281d-2984-86f2-2bee-052b26cf8da9
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome
- Description:
- Precipitation impacts on ice cover and water temperature in the Laurentian Great Lakes were examined using state-of-art coupled ice-hydrodynamic models. Numerical experiments were conducted for the recent anomalously cold (2014-2015) and warm (2015-2016) winters that were accompanied by high and low ice coverage over the lakes, respectively. The results of numerical experiments showed that, snow cover on the ice, which is the manifestation of winter precipitation, reduced the total ice volume (or mean ice thickness) in all of the Great Lakes, shortened the ice duration, and allowed earlier warming of water surface. The reduced ice volume was due to the thermal insulation of snow cover. The surface albedo was also increased by snow cover, but its impact on the delay the melting of ice was overcome by the thermal insulation effect. During major snowstorms, snowfall over the open lake caused notable cooling of the water surface due to latent heat absorption. Overall, the sensible heat flux from rain in spring and summer was found to have negligible impacts on the water surface temperature. Although uncertainties remain in over-lake precipitation estimates and model’s representation of snow on the ice, this study demonstrated that winter precipitation, particularly snowfall on the ice and water surfaces, is an important contributing factor in Great Lakes ice production and thermal conditions from late fall to spring.
- Keyword:
- Great Lakes, lake ice, numerical modeling, and precipitation
- Citation to related publication:
- Fujisaki-Manome, A., Anderson, E. J., Kessler, J. A., Chu, P. Y., Wang, J., & Gronewold, A. D. (2020). Simulating Impacts of Precipitation on Ice Cover and Surface Water Temperature Across Large Lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5), e2019JC015950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015950
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Liemohn, Michael W, Azari, Abigail R, Ganushkina, Natalia Yu, and Rastätter, Lutz
- Description:
- Scientists often try to reproduce observations with a model, helping them explain the observations by adjusting known and controllable features within the model. They then use a large variety of metrics for assessing the ability of a model to reproduce the observations. One such metric is called the relative operating characteristic (ROC) curve, a tool that assesses a model’s ability to predict events within the data. The ROC curve is made by sliding the event-definition threshold in the model output, calculating certain metrics and making a graph of the results. Here, a new model assessment tool is introduced, called the sliding threshold of observation for numeric evaluation (STONE) curve. The STONE curve is created by sliding the event definition threshold not only for the model output but also simultaneously for the data values. This is applicable when the model output is trying to reproduce the exact values of a particular data set. While the ROC curve is still a highly valuable tool for optimizing the prediction of known and pre-classified events, it is argued here that the STONE curve is better for assessing model prediction of a continuous-valued data set. and Data and code were created using IDL, but can also be accessed with the open-source Gnu Data Language (GDL; see https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl)
- Keyword:
- ROC curve, STONE curve, data-model comparison, model validation, forecasting, and statistical methods
- Citation to related publication:
- Liemohn, M. W., Azari, A. R., Ganushkina, N. Yu., & Rastätter, L. (2020). The STONE curve: A ROC-derived model performance assessment tool. Earth and Space Science, 7, e2020EA001106. https://doi.org/10.2019/2020EA001106
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Bougher, S. W. (CLaSP Department, U. of Michigan), Roeten, K. J. (CLaSP Department, U. of Michigan), and Sharrar, R. (Astronomy Department, U. of Michigan)
- Description:
- The NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around Mars, has been taking daily (systematic) measurements of the densities and temperatures in the upper atmosphere of Mars between about 140 to 240 km above the surface. Wind measurement campaigns are also conducted once per month for 5-10 orbits. These densities, temperatures and winds change with time (e.g. season, local time) and location, and sometimes fluctuate quickly. Global dust storm events are also known to significantly impact these density, temperature and wind fields in the Mars thermosphere. Such global dust storm period measurements can be compared to simulations from a computer model of the Mars atmosphere called M-GITM (Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model), developed at U. of Michigan. This is the first detailed comparison between direct global dust storm period measurements in the upper atmosphere of Mars and simulated MGITM fields and is important because it can help to inform us what physical processes are acting on the upper atmosphere during such large dust events. Since the global circulation plays a role in the structure, variability, and evolution of the atmosphere, understanding the processes that drive the winds in the upper atmosphere of Mars also provides key context for understanding how the atmosphere behaves as a whole system. A basic version of the M-GITM code can be found on Github as follows: https:/github.com/dpawlows/MGITM and About 4 months of Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) measurements of densities and winds have been made by the MAVEN team during the summer of 2018 (Elrod et al., 2019). Nine reference measurement intervals during this global dust storm (1-June through 30-August 2018) are selected for detailed study (Elrod et al. 2019). The Mars conditions for these nine intervals have been used to launch corresponding M-GITM code simulations, yielding 3-D neutral density, temperature and wind fields for comparison to these NGIMS measurements. The M-GITM datacubes used to extract the density, temperature and neutral winds, along the trajectory of each orbit path between 140 and 240 km, are provided in this Deep Blue Data archive. README files are provided for each datacube, detailing the contents of each file. A general README file is also provided that summarizes the inputs and outputs of the M-GITM code simulations for this study.
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- Mars, MAVEN Spacecraft, Mars Thermosphere, and Mars Global Dust Storm of 2018
- Citation to related publication:
- Elrod, M. K., S. W. Bougher, K. Roeten, R. Sharrar, J. Murphy, Structural and Compositional Changes in the Upper Atmosphere related to the PEDE-2018 Dust Event on Mars as Observed by MAVEN NGIMS, Geophys. Res. Lett., (2019). doi: 10.1029/2019GL084378. and Jain, S. K., Bougher, S. W., Deighan, J., Schneider, N. M., Gonzalez‐Galindo, F., Stewart, A. I. F., et al. ( 2020). Martian thermospheric warming associated with the Planet Encircling Dust Event of 2018. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085302
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- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Tye, Alexander R, Niemi, Nathan A, Safarov, Rafig T, Kadirov, Fakhraddin A, Babayev, Gulam R
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- The dataset contains U-Pb radiometric ages of zircon grains from sedimentary rocks and modern river sands from the Caucasus region of western Asia. The data were collected as part of a research project investigating the effects of continental collision in the Caucasus region on regional erosion and sedimentary systems. The data are presented using the standard quantities reported for zircon U-Pb age analyses at the University of Arizona Laserchron Center.
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- detrital zircon, provenance, and U-Pb
- Citation to related publication:
- Tye, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Safarov, R. T., Kadirov, F. A., & Babayev, G. R. (2021). Sedimentary response to a collision orogeny recorded in detrital zircon provenance of Greater Caucasus foreland basin sediments. Basin Research, 33(2), 933–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12499
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right calcaneum of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81821), as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Primates, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and CTEES
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Auteri, Giorgia G., Knowles, L. Lacey, Marchán-Rivadeneira, Raquel M., and Olson, Deanna H.
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- This data was collected as part of a study to study population dynamics of coastal giant salamanders in Oregon. The study uses genetics to answer questions related to conservation concerns including population connectivity, sensitivity to habitat disturbances (such as logging and fires), and genetic diversity of populations.
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- salamander, Dicamptodon tenebrosus, conservation genetics, microsatellite , landscape genetics, population connectivity, and bottleneck
- Citation to related publication:
- Auteri, Giorgia G., M. Raquel Marchán-Rivadeneira, Deanna H. Olson, L. Lacey Knowles. Connectivity in coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) shows no association with land-use, fire frequency, or river drainage but does not offset negative consequences of locally unstable population sizes. PLoS ONE. In review.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Hegedus, Alexander M
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- This is the README for the LunarSynchrotronArray package, maintained by Dr. Alex Hegedus alexhege@umich.edu This code repository corresponds to the Hegedus et al. 2020 (accepted) Radio Science paper, "Measuring the Earth's Synchrotron Emission from Radiation Belts with a Lunar Near Side Radio Array". The arxiv link for the paper is https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04482. The DOI link is https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RS006891 , The Earth's Ionosphere is home to a large population of energetic electrons that live in the balance of many factors including input from the Solar wind, and the influence of the Earth's magnetic field. These energetic electrons emit radio waves as they traverse Earth's magnetosphere, leading to short‐lived, strong radio emissions from local regions, as well as persistent weaker emissions that act as a global signature of the population breakdown of all the energetic electrons. Characterizing this weaker emission (Synchrotron Emission) would lead to a greater understanding of the energetic electron populations on a day to day level. A radio array on the near side of the Moon would always be facing the Earth, and would well suited for measuring its low frequency radio emissions. In this work we simulate such a radio array on the lunar near side, to image this weaker synchrotron emission. The specific geometry and location of the test array were made using the most recent lunar maps made by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This array would give us unprecedented day to day knowledge of the electron environment around our planet, providing reports of Earth's strong and weak radio emissions, giving both local and global information. , This set of codes should guide you through making the figures in the paper, as well as hopefully being accessible enough for changing the code for your own array. I would encourage you to please reach out to collaborate if that is the case! Requirements: , and CASA 4.7.1 (or greater?) built on python 2.7 Example link for Red Hat 7 https://casa.nrao.edu/download/distro/casa/release/el7/casa-release-4.7.1-el7.tar.gz Users may follow this guide to download and install the correct version of CASA for their system https://casa.nrao.edu/casadocs/casa-5.5.0/introduction/obtaining-and-installing CASA executables should be fairly straightforward to extract from the untarred files. gcc 4.8.5 or above (or below?) GCC installation instructions can be found here: https://gcc.gnu.org/install/ SPICE (I use cspice here) https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit_C.html As seen in lunar_furnsh.txt which loads the SPICE kernels, you also must download KERNELS_TO_LOAD = ( '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/moon_pa_de421_1900-2050.bpc' '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/moon_080317.tf' '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/moon_assoc_me.tf' '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/pck00010.tpc' '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/naif0008.tls' '/home/alexhege/SPICE/LunarEph/de430.bsp' ) All of which can be found at https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/ SLDEM2015_128_60S_60N_000_360_FLOAT.IMG for the lunar surface data by LRO LOLA found at http://imbrium.mit.edu/DATA/SLDEM2015/GLOBAL/FLOAT_IMG/
- Citation to related publication:
- Hegedus, A., Nenon, Q., Brunet, A., Kasper, J., Sicard, A., Cecconi, B., MacDowall, R., & Baker, D. (2019). Measuring the Earth's Synchrotron Emission from Radiation Belts with a Lunar Near Side Radio Array. https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04482 and Hegedus, A., Nenon, Q., Brunet, A., Kasper, J., Sicard, A., Cecconi, B., MacDowall, R., & Baker, D. (2020). Radio Science. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RS006891
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- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Sergio E. Vidal-Luengo and Mark B. Moldwin
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- Multi-satellite tracking of solar wind dynamic pressure pulse observations through the Earth's magnetosphere enables us to distinguish local changes with propagation signatures.
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- Heliophysics, Magnetosphere, Dynamic pressure pulse, Magnetosphere, THEMIS, MMS, Cluster, SuperMag, and Heliophysics System Observatory
- Citation to related publication:
- Vidal-Luengo, S. E., & Moldwin, M. B. (2021). Global magnetosphere response to solar wind dynamic pressure pulses during northward IMF using the heliophysics system observatory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028587. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028587
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Brandt, Daniel, A. and Ridley, Aaron, J.
- Description:
- The research that produced this data focused on conducting a statistical comparison between horizontal winds modeled with GITM and those derived from the accelerometer aboard the GOCE satellite. The winds from GITM and GOCE were compared by constructing their respective probability densities under different levels of geomagnetic activity, and by distributing them as a function of geomagnetic activity, magnetic latitude, magnetic local time, day-of-the-year, and solar radio flux.
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- Thermosphere, GITM, GOCE, Neutral winds, and Thermospheric modeling
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Smith, Joeseph P., Gronewold, Andrew D., Read, Laura, Crooks, James L., School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, University of Michigan
- Description:
- Using the statistical programming package R ( https://cran.r-project.org/), and JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler, http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/), we processed multiple estimates of the Laurentian Great Lakes water balance components -- over-lake precipitation, evaporation, lateral tributary runoff, connecting channel flows, and diversions -- feeding them into prior distributions (using data from 1950 through 1979), and likelihood functions. The Bayesian Network is coded in the BUGS language. Water balance computations assume that monthly change in storage for a given lake is the difference between beginning of month water levels surrounding each month. For example, the change in storage for June 2015 is the difference between the beginning of month water level for July 2015 and that for June 2015., More details on the model can be found in the following summary report for the International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission, where the model was used to generate a new water balance historical record from 1950 through 2015: https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf. Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM): https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and This data set has a shorter timespan to accommodate a prior which uses data not used in the likelihood functions.
- Keyword:
- Water, Balance, Great Lakes, Laurentian, Machine Learning, Machine, Learning, Lakes, Bayesian, and Network
- Citation to related publication:
- Smith, J., Gronewald, A. et al. Summary Report: Development of the Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model for Constructing a New Historical Record of the Great Lakes Water Balance. Submitted to: The International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission. Accessible at https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf, Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and Gronewold, A.D., Smith, J.P., Read, L. and Crooks, J.L., 2020. Reconciling the water balance of large lake systems. Advances in Water Resources, p.103505.
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Agnit Mukhopadhyay
- Description:
- Conducting quantitative metrics-based performance analysis of first-principles-based global magnetosphere models is an essential step in understanding their capabilities and limitations, and providing scope for improvements in order to enhance their space weather prediction capabilities for a range of solar conditions. In this study, a detailed comparison of the performance of three global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models in predicting the Earth’s magnetopause location and ionospheric cross polar cap potential (CPCP) has been presented. Using the Community Coordinated Modeling Center’s Run-on-Request system and extensive database on results from various magnetospheric scenarios simulated for a variety of solar wind conditions, the aforementioned model predictions have been compared for magnetopause standoff distance estimations obtained from six empirical models, and with cross polar cap potential estimations obtained from the Assimmilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) Model and the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) observations. We have considered a range of events spanning different space weather activity to analyze the performance of these models. Using a fit performance metric analysis for each event, we have quantified the models’ reproducibility of magnetopause standoff distances and CPCP against empirically-predicted observations, and identified salient features that govern the performance characteristics of the modeled magnetospheric and ionospheric quantities.
- Citation to related publication:
- Mukhopadhyay, A., Jia, X., Welling, D. T., & Liemohn, M. W. (2021). Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations: Performance Quantification of Magnetopause Distances and Convection Potential Predictions. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2021.637197
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Mark Flanner
- Description:
- This dataset includes spectrally-resolved optical properties for volcanic ash particles from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruptions. These properties were used in the climate simulations described by Flanner et al. (2014, doi:10.1002/2014JD021977) to quantify ash radiative forcing from the eruptions.
- Keyword:
- ash, volcano, aerosols, Eyjafjallajökull, climate, and radiative transfer
- Citation to related publication:
- Flanner, M.G., Gardner, A.S., Eckhardt, S., Stohl, A., & Perket, J. (2014). Aerosol radiative forcing from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021977
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Lin, Xin, Keppel-Aleks, Gretchen, Rogers, Brendan M., and Birch, Leah
- Description:
- The data contain the daily-averaged atmospheric concentrations of CO2 tracers in the Northern Hemisphere simulated from a tagged tracer transport model GEOS-Chem v12.0.0. Thirteen land flux regions are defined and tagged in the model to separate their imprints on the long-term atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplification in Northern Hemisphere. A file describing the delineation of these land flux regions is also provided. See the README file for more details on the dataset and model configurations.
- Keyword:
- carbon dioxide, seasonal cycle, amplification, Arctic-boreal, global change, and GEOS-Chem
- Citation to related publication:
- Lin, X., Rogers, B. M., Sweeney, C., Chevallier, F., Arshinov, M., Dlugokencky, E., Machida, T., Sasakawa, M., Tans, P., & Keppel-Aleks, G. (2020). Siberian and temperate ecosystems shape Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(35), 21079–21087.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- This repository contains both the data and python3 code that reads this data and reproduces the relevant figures. The code depends on NumPy >1.17 and matplotlib >3.1 and was tested on python 3.8
- Keyword:
- locomotion, slipping, low Reynolds number, walking, and slithering
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Zhang, Yan, Gao, Chuanyu, Zhang, Shaoqing, Yang, Ping, Meyers, Philip A, and Wang, Guoping
- Description:
- The study focuses on reconstructing the histories of peat deposition using n-alkane biomarkers in peat cores and associated modern plant communities from four sites around a shallow maar lake in the Changbai Mountains of northeastern China. Peat development patterns in the four sites are not concordant although the sites experienced the same paleoclimate histories. Evidently, lava flows and tephra deposits produced an uneven topography of the volcanogenic lake basin that controls the water depths at the four lake edge locations, thereby leading to differences in peat-forming plant communities and peat deposition among the four sites.
- Keyword:
- peat deposition, n-alkanes, volcanic eruptions, and Changbai Lake
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhang, Y., Gao, C., Zhang, S., Yang, P., Meyers, P. A., & Wang, G. (2020). N-Alkane-based reconstructions of peat accumulations and depositional conditions at four locations around a shallow maar lake in the Changbai Mountains, northeastern China (world) [Preprint]. Earth and Space Science Open Archive; Earth and Space Science Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505381.1
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Holmes, Iris A, Monagan Jr., Ivan V, Westphal, Michael F, and Davis Rabosky, Alison R
- Description:
- We generated these data from desert night lizards, Xantusia vigilis, from populations in central California. We performed phylogeographic analyses based on these data.
- Keyword:
- ddRADseq, phylogeography, Xantusia vigilis, lizard, and genome-scale sequencing
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Xiantong Wang
- Description:
- We perform a geomagnetic event simulation using a newly developed magnetohydrodynamic with adaptively embedded particle-in-cell (MHD-AEPIC) model. We have developed effective criteria to identify reconnection sites in the magnetotail and cover them with the PIC model. The MHD-AEPIC simulation results are compared with Hall MHD and ideal MHD simulations to study the impacts of kinetic reconnection at multiple physical scales. At the global scale, the three models produce very similar SYM-H and SuperMag Electrojet (SME) indexes, which indicates that the global magnetic field configurations from the three models are very close to each other. At the mesoscale we compare the simulations with in situ Geotail observations in the tail. All three models produce reasonable agreement with the Geotail observations. The MHD-AEPIC and Hall MHD models produce tailward and earthward propagating fluxropes, while the ideal MHD simulation does not generate flux ropes in the near-earth current sheet. At the kinetic scales, the MHD-AEPIC simulation can produce a crescent shape distribution of the electron velocity space at the electron diffusion region which agrees very well with MMS observations near a tail reconnection site. These electron scale kinetic features are not available in either the Hall MHD or ideal MHD models. Overall, the MHD-AEPIC model compares well with observations at all scales, it works robustly, and the computational cost is acceptable due to the adaptive adjustment of the PIC domain.
- Keyword:
- MHD, PIC, and Magnetosphere
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Thomaz, Andréa T. (UMICH), Carvalho, Tiago P. (UFRGS), Malabarba, Luiz R. (UFRGS), and Knowles, L. Lacey (UMICH)
- Description:
- Estimated phylogenetic relationships based on more than 18,000 loci in 93 individuals (full data) or 21 individuals (subset data) representing 19 described species and two putative undescribed species. Nine files are part of this dataset, including all input files to infer the phylogenetic reconstructions and the outputs obtained, in addition to a pruned tree used to infer the ancestral state reconstructions.
- Keyword:
- dusky millions poeciliids, sexual selection, South America, and ddRADseq
- Citation to related publication:
- Andréa T. Thomaz, Tiago P. Carvalho, Luiz R. Malabarba, L. Lacey Knowles, Geographic distributions, phenotypes, and phylogenetic relationships of Phalloceros (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): insights about diversification among sympatric species pools, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2018, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.008
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Ramasubramani, Vyas
- Description:
- The goal of the work is to elucidate the stability of a complex experimentally observed structure of proteins. We found that supercharged GFP molecules spontaneously assemble into a complex 16-mer structure that we term a protomer, and that under the right conditions an even larger assembly is observed. The protomer structure is very well defined, and we performed simulations to try and understand the mechanics underlying its behavior. In particular, we focused on understanding the role of electrostatics in this system and how varying salt concentrations would alter the stability of the structure, with the ultimate goal of predicting the effects of various mutations on the stability of the structure. There are two separate projects included in this repository, but the two are closely linked. One, the candidate_structures folder, contains the atomistic outputs used to generate coarse-grained configurations. The actual coarse-grained simulations are in the rigid_protein folder, which pulls the atomistic coordinates from the other folder. All data is managed by signac and lives in the workspace directories, which contain various folders corresponding to different parameter combinations. The parameters associated with a given folder are stored in the signac_statepoint.json files within each subdirectory. The atomistic data uses experimentally determined protein structures as a starting point; all of these are stored in the ConfigFiles folder. The primary output is the topology files generated from the PDBs by GROMACS; these topologies are then used to parametrize the Monte Carlo simulations. In some cases, atomistic simulations were actually run as well, and the outputs are stored alongside the topology files. In the rigid_protein folder, the ConfigFiles folder contains MSMS, the software used to generate polyhedral representations of proteins from the PDBs in the candidate_structures folder. All of the actual polyhedral structures are also stored in the ConfigFiles folder. The actual simulation trajectories are stored as general simulation data (GSD) files within each subdirectory of the workspace, along with a single .pos file that contains the shape definition of the (nonconvex) polyhedron used to represent a protein. The logged quantities, such as energies and MC move sizes, are stored in .log files. The logic for the simulations in the candidate_structures project is in the Python scripts project.py, operations.py, and scripts/init.py. The rigid_protein folder also includes the notebooks directory, which contains Jupyter notebooks used to perform analyses, as well as the Python scripts used to actually perform the simulations and manage the data space. In particular, the project.py, operations.py and scripts/init.py scripts contain most of the logic associated with the simulations.
- Keyword:
- Protein assembly, Cryo TEM, Hierarchical Assembly, Monte Carlo simulation, and Coarse-grained simulation
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- R Paul Drake
- Description:
- The specific focus of the project was radiative shocks, which develop when shock waves become so fast and hot that the radiation from the shocked matter dominates the energy transport. This in turn leads to changes in the shock structure. Radiative shocks are challenging to simulate, as they include phenomena on a range of spatial and temporal scales and involve two types of nonlinear physics Ð- hydrodynamics and radiation transport. Even so, the range of physics involved is narrow enough that one can hope to model all of it with sufficient fidelity to reproduce the data. CRASH was focused on developing predictions for a sequence of experiments performed in Project Year 5, in which those experiments represented an extrapolation from all previously available data. The previous data involved driving radiative shocks within cylindrical structures, and mainly straight tubes. The Year 5 experiments drove a radiative shock down an elliptical tube. Our long-stated goal for these predictions was that the distribution of predicted values would overlap significantly with the observed distribution. We achieved this goal. Achieving our goal required the conversion of an established space-weather code to model radiative shocks at high energy density. To obtain reasonable fidelity with respect to the experimental data required implementing a laser absorption package, in addition to a hydrodynamic solver, electron physics and heat conduction, and multigroup diffusive radiation transport. The dedicated experiments provided evidence of experimental variability, validation of the calculation of initial shock wave behavior, and validation data at many observation times using cylindrical shock tubes. Following this were preparatory experiments for and finally the execution of the Year 5 experiments. The predictive science research included a wide range of sensitivity studies to determine which variables were important and a sequence of predictive studies focused on specific issues and sets of data. This led ultimately to predictions of shock location for the Year 5 experiments. A conclusion from this project is that the serious quantification of uncertainty in simulations is a dauntingly difficult and expensive prospect. Pre-existing codes are unlikely to have been built with attention to what will be needed to quantify their uncertainty. Pre-existing experimental results are even more unlikely to include a sufficiently detailed analysis of the experimental uncertainties. And this will also be true of most experiments that might be used to validate components of the simulation. The analysis of uncertainty in any one of the physical processes (and related physical constants) is a major effort. And addressing model form uncertainty is an even bigger challenge, that may in principle require development of complete, alternative simulation models. We made a start at all of this, and completed almost none of it. But by the end of a project, we finally had all the pieces in place and working that would have enabled a range of important studies and advances in relatively near-term years. But the sponsor terminated the program after only five years. For most of the participants this was a relatively minor development, although for a few of them it proved to be enormously disruptive. We believe that the cost to the nation, in work that was ready be done but now will not be, was much much larger. The sketch of the target was produced using a drawing program based on the experimental dimensions. The annotated photograph of the target was obtained using a visible-light camera. The colorized radiographs were obtained via backilit-pinhole radiography of a radiative shock propagating down an elliptical tube, at 26 ns after the lasers driving the shock tube fired. The graph showing lines and circles was produced by running many computer models, analyzing their statistical distribution, and measuring actual shock positions in the experiment.
- Keyword:
- Radiative shock
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Liemohn, Michael W, McCollough, James P, Engel, Miles A, Jordanova, Vania K, and Morley, Steven K
- Description:
- There is a directory tree inside this zipped file. The main directory has the Adobe Illustrator plots of the figures in the paper, Space Weather journal manuscript # 2018SW002067, "Model evaluation guidelines for geomagnetic index predictions" by M. W. Liemohn and coauthors. The three subdirectories have the files for the individual models, the data to which they are compared, and the IDL code used to create the figure plots and metrics calculations. and Date coverage is specific to each model. The RAMSCB model covers January 2005, the WINDMI model all of 2014, and the UPOS model 1.5 solar cycles, from 1 October 2001 through 29 July 2013.
- Keyword:
- space weather, model assessment, time series metrics, and geomagnetic indices
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Kort, EA, Gvakharia, A, Smith, ML, and Conley, S
- Description:
- Data is collected from research flights based in West Memphis, Arkansas, covering the Mississippi River Valley. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day.
- Keyword:
- Greenhouse gas
- Citation to related publication:
- Gvakharia, A., Kort, E.A., Smith, M.L., Conley, S., 2018. Testing and evaluation of a new airborne system for continuous N2O, CO2, CO, and H2O measurements: the Frequent Calibration High-performance Airborne Observation System (FCHAOS). Atmospheric Measurement Techniques; Katlenburg-Lindau 11, 6059. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6059-2018
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Thomaz, Andréa T. (UMICH) and Knowles, L. Lacey (UMICH)
- Description:
- The eastern coastal basins of Brazil are a series of small and isolated rivers that drain directly into the Atlantic Ocean. During the Pleistocene, sea-level retreat caused by glaciations exposed the continental shelf, resulting in enlarged paleodrainages that connected rivers that are isolated today. Using Geographic Information System (GIS), we infer the distribution of these paleodrainages, and their properties for the east Brazilian coast. Here, we publicly make available the shapefiles that demonstrate the paleodrainage structure along the Brazilian coast during the largest sea-level retreats in the Pleistocene, the riverine vectors during the same period and the coastal line for a drop of -125m in the sea.
- Keyword:
- Paleodrainages, Glaciations, Pleistocene, Brazil, Neotropical, and Sea-level retreat
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Alsip, Peter
- Description:
- Percent Weight Change Data: The model was run continuously on a daily time step for seasonal intervals (Spring: March thru May; Summer: June thru August; Fall: September thru November) as well as contiguously from Spring to Fall to assess total growth over the likely growing season (March thru November). CSV files represent the simulated weight change (%) of Bighead and Silver Carp for the respective time periods associated with the file name. Initial fish mass for each seasonal interval and growing season was 4350 g for Silver Carp and 5480 g for Bighead Carp. Maximum and mean total weight change (%) was determined for three depth ranges (near surface depths [NS]: 0 – 10 m; deep chlorophyll layer depths [DCL]: 10 - 50 m; and whole water column [WC]). Coordinates are in decimal degrees. File naming convention: speciesSeasonWtChange (e.g. bigheadFallWtChange = % weight change of Bighead Carp from September through November) , Monthly Habitat Quality Data: Rdata files contain matrices of Bighead or Silver carp growth rate potential as represented as a mass-proportional growth rate (gram of carp/gram of carp/day [g/g/d]) for the 15th day of each month. Habitats with growth rate potential >= 0 g/g/d were deemed suitable. Matrix attributes: Rows: Row numbers refer to the spatial node with 20 equally-spaced vertical layers. Columns: Columns 1-20 refer to the growth rate potential value for each vertical layer of each node. Vertical layers are evenly spaced based on the total depth of the water column for each node. Depth for each node can be found in the grid attributes data file. Columns 21 ("meanG") and 22 ("Gmax") represent the average and maximum growth rate potential, respectively, of the fish across the whole water column for the corresponding node. File naming convention: species_MonthNumber (e.g. silver_06 = Silver carp growth rate potential in June) Spatial coordinates for each node can be found in the grid attributes data files., Grid attributes data: This Rdata file provides the spatial reference data and other grid attributes. Coordinates are provided in UTM (x & y) and latitude and longitude (decimal degrees). Depth (meters) for each node is listed in this file. , GRP Model code: Details bioenergetics equations, foraging equation, functions for running the model on a monthly time-step and daily time step, and functions for basic analyses. Model is coded in R., and The simulated input data (prey and temperature) used to run our model is not included in this data set. Instead we provide the model code, grid attributes, and outputs of the model. The readRDS() function (R Base Package v.3.5.1) is required to read in .Rdata files in R.
- Keyword:
- Asian Carp, Laurentian Great Lakes, Habitat Suitability, Invasive Species, Lake Michigan, and Ecological Modeling
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Adam Schneider and Mark Flanner
- Description:
- This dataset contains all data used to generate the figures in The Cryosphere manuscript “Measuring Snow Specific Surface Area with 1.30 and 1.55 micro-meter Bidirectional Reflectance Factors,” by Adam Schneider, Mark Flanner, and Roger De Roo. These data support the theory, calibration, and application of the Near-Infrared Emitting and Reflectance Monitoring Dome (NERD), an instrument engineered to rapidly retrieve surface snow specific surface area in the field. Note that this deposit includes a microCT scan database for natural snowfall samples collected in New Hampshire during 2015-2017, comprised of raw tiff files as well as reconstructions, binarized reconstructions, and some 3D model reconstructions. and Running python scripts generally require that the following packages are installed: NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, and ipdb (for debugging).
- Keyword:
- Snow specific surface area, Monte Carlo, X-ray micro-computed tomography, SNICAR, Near-Infrared Emitting and Reflectance-Monitoring Dome, Bidirectional reflectance factor, Cryosphere, and 3D
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Mirshams Shahshahani, Payam
- Description:
- Investigating minimum human reaction times is often confounded by the motivation, training, and state of arousal of the subjects. We used the reaction times of athletes competing in the shorter sprint events in the Athletics competitions in recent Olympics (2004-2016) to determine minimum human reaction times because there's little question as to their motivation, training, or state of arousal. The reaction times of sprinters however are only available on the IAAF web page for each individual heat, in each event, at each Olympic. Therefore we compiled all these data into two separate excel sheets which can be used for further analyses.
- Keyword:
- minimum reaction time, sprinter, Olympics, Athletics, sex difference, starting block, and false start
- Citation to related publication:
- Mirshams Shahshahani P, Lipps DB, Galecki AT, Ashton-Miller JA (2018) On the apparent decrease in Olympic sprinter reaction times. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198633. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198633
- Discipline:
- Engineering, Health Sciences, Science, Other, and General Information Sources
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- Creator:
- Bemmels, Jordan B. and Dick, Christopher W.
- Description:
- Raw SNP genotypes are provided in STRUCTURE format, with a maximum of one SNP reported per ddRAD locus. The files "caryco_SNP.str" and "caryov_SNP.str" are genotypes for Carya cordiformis and Carya ovata, respectively. The first column of each file is the individual name, the second column is the population (see original publication for information on population locations), and the remaining columns are genotypes of individual SNPs. Rows represent individuals, with the diploid genotypes contained on two lines per individual. Missing data are entered as "0" (zero). The first row is a header with a unique identifier for each SNP. and Occurrence records for each species are provided in the file "occs_carya.csv" and contain the latitude and longitude of each record.
- Keyword:
- eastern North America, glacial refugia, phylogeography, temperate trees, and single nucleotide polymorphisms
- Citation to related publication:
- Bemmels, J.B., and C.W. Dick. 2018. Genomic evidence of a widespread southern distribution during the Last Glacial Maximum for two North American hickory species. Journal of Biogeography, 45: 1739– 1750. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13358
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Ward, Jamie L ., Flanner, Mark G., Bergin, Mike, Dibb, Jack E., Polashenski, Chris M., Soja, Amber J., and Thomas, Jennie L.
- Description:
- Biomass burning produces smoke aerosols that are emitted into the atmosphere. Some smoke constituents, notably black carbon (BC), are highly effective light-absorbing aerosols (LAA). Emitted LAA can be transported to high albedo regions like the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and affect local snowmelt. In the summer, the effects of LAA in Greenland are uncertain. To explore how LAA affect GrIS snowmelt and surface energy flux in the summer, we conduct idealized global climate model simulations with perturbed aerosol amounts and properties in the GrIS snow and overlying atmosphere. The in-snow and atmospheric aerosol burdens we select range from background values measured on the GrIS to unrealistically high values. This helps us explore the linearity of snowmelt response and to achieve high signal-to-noise ratios. With LAA operating only in the atmosphere, we find no significant change in snowmelt due to the competing effects of surface dimming and tropospheric warming. Regardless of atmospheric LAA presence, in-snow BC-equivalent mixing ratios greater than ~60 ng/g produce statistically significant snowmelt increases over much of the GrIS. We find that net surface energy flux changes correspond well to snowmelt changes for all cases. The dominant component of surface energy flux change is solar energy flux, but sensible and longwave energy fluxes respond to temperature changes. Atmospheric LAA dampen the magnitude of solar radiation absorbed by in-snow LAA when both varieties are simulated. In general, the significant melt and surface energy flux changes we simulate occur with LAA quantities that have never been recorded in Greenland.
- Keyword:
- climate, Greenland Ice Sheet, black carbon, biomass burning, snowmelt, and surface energy balance
- Citation to related publication:
- Ward, J.L., et al. (2018). Modeled Response of Greenland Snowmelt to the Presence of Biomass Burning-Based Absorbing Aerosols in the Atmosphere and Snow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 123, 6122– 6141. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD027878
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Gliske, Stephen V and Stacey, William C
- Description:
- This data is part of a large program to translate detection and interpretation of HFOs into clinical use. A zip file is included which contains hfo detections, metadata, and Matlab scripts. The matlab scripts analyze this input data and produce figures as in the referenced paper (note: the blind source separation method is stochastic, and so the figures may not be exactly the same). A file "README.txt" provides more detail about each individual file within the zip file.
- Keyword:
- hfo, high frequency oscillation, ripple, fast ripple, blind source separation, non-negative matrix factorization, and temporal variability
- Discipline:
- Science, Engineering, and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Cole, Shannon L
- Description:
- The nucleus accumbens (NAc) contains multiple subpopulations of medium spiny neurons (MSNs): one subpopulation expresses D1-type dopamine receptors, another expresses D2-type receptors, and a third expresses both. The relative roles in NAc of D1 neurons versus D2 neurons in appetitive motivation were assessed here. Specifically, we asked whether D1-Cre mice or D2-Cre mice would instrumentally seek optogenetic self-stimulation of those respective subpopulations in NAc, or instead avoid NAc laser stimulation. and Some statistical forms have been exported from SPSS for the purposes of accessibility to viewers. Please see the "readme" text for descriptions of each individual excel file.
- Keyword:
- Motivation Striatum Optogenetics
- Citation to related publication:
- Cole, S. L., Robinson, M. J. F., & Berridge, K. C. (2018). Optogenetic self-stimulation in the nucleus accumbens: D1 reward versus D2 ambivalence. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0207694. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207694
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Mason, Lacey A., Riseng, Catherine M., Layman, Andrew J., and Jensen, Robert
- Description:
- Wind exposure is a key physical driver of coastal systems in aquatic environments influencing circulation and wave dynamics. A measure of wind exposure is fetch, the distance over which wind can travel across open water. In large lake systems, such as the Laurentian Great Lakes, estimating fetch has proved to be difficult due to their vast size and complex topobathymetry. Here we describe the development of two spatially discrete indicators of exposure to provide a more accurate indicator of influence of wind exposure in the nearshore of the Laurentian Great Lakes. We summarized wind data from offshore buoys and leveraged existing tools to calculate effective fetch and relative exposure index (effective fetch scaled by mean wind speed) at a 30 m grid cell resolution. We validated these models by comparing our exposure maps to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wave Information Studies models and found general agreement. These exposure maps are available for public download for the years 2004-2014.
- Keyword:
- GLAHF, Great Lakes, waves, fetch, REI, wind exposure, and geospatial
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Azari, A. R.
- Description:
- ABSTRACT: We present a statistical study of interchange injections in Saturn's inner and middle magnetosphere focusing on the dependence of occurrence rate and properties on radial distance, partial pressure, and local time distribution. Events are evaluated from over the entirety of the Cassini mission’s equatorial orbits between 2005 and 2016. We identified interchange events from CHarge Energy Mass Spectrometer (CHEMS) H+ data using a trained and tested automated algorithm, which has been compared with manual event identification for optimization. We provide estimates of interchange based on intensity, which we use to investigate current inconsistencies in local time occurrence rates. This represents the first automated detection method of interchange, estimation of injection event intensity, and comparison between interchange injection survey results. We find the peak rates of interchange occur between 7 - 9 Saturn radii and that this range coincides with the most intense events as defined by H+ partial particle pressure. We determine that nightside occurrence dominates as compared to the dayside injection rate, supporting the hypothesis of an inversely dependent instability growth rate on local Pedersen ionospheric conductivity. Additionally, we observe a slight preference for intense events on the dawn side, supporting a triggering mechanism related to large-scale injections from downtail reconnection. Our observed local time dependence paints a dynamic picture of interchange triggering due to both the large-scale injection driven process and ionospheric conductivity. Within this repository we provide a readme file (description of data file and usage) and the event list provided as a .txt file. The event list includes start and stop times, comparison to previous surveys, and the average location of events identified. Additional formats are available on request. , Further details on this method can be found in "Interchange Injections at Saturn: Statistical Survey of Energetic H+ Sudden Flux Intensifications" by Azari et al., 2018 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025391. , and Curation notes: The files 'events_CORRECTED.txt' and 'readme_UPDATED.rtf' were added to this record July 31 and August 7, 2018 and supersede the previous data file 'events.txt' and readme file 'readme.rtf'. The file 'events.txt' uploaded May 9, 2018 should not be used, as this file contains a duplication error where the last column, InAllSurveys, is incorrectly presented as a duplicate of the column InAnySurvey. 'readme_UPDATED.rtf' contains additional context and updated references to the new data file.
- Keyword:
- Planetary Science, Automated Event Detection, Space Physics, Magnetospheric Physics, Interchange Injections, and Saturn
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Tye, Alexander R, Wolf, Aaron S, and Niemi, Nathan A
- Description:
- Detrital zircon age distributions provide robust insights into past sedimentary systems, but these age distributions are often complex and multi-peaked, with sample sizes too small to confidently resolve population distributions. This limited sampling hinders existing quantitative methods for comparing detrital zircon age distributions, which show systematic dependence on the sizes of compared samples. The proliferation of detrital zircon studies motivates the development of more robust quantitative methods. We present the first attempt, to our knowledge, to infer probability model ensembles (PMEs) for samples of detrital zircon ages using a Bayesian method. Our method infers the parent population age distribution from which a sample is drawn, using a Monte Carlo approach to aggregate a representative set of probability models that is consistent with the constraints that the sample data provide. Using the PMEs inferred from sample data, we develop a new estimate of correspondence between detrital zircon populations called Bayesian Population Correlation (BPC). Tests of BPC on synthetic and real detrital zircon age data show that it is nearly independent from sample size bias, unlike existing correspondence metrics. Robust BPC uncertainties can be readily estimated, enhancing interpretive value. When comparing two partially overlapping zircon age populations where the shared proportion of each population is independently varied, BPC results conform almost perfectly to expected values derived analytically from probability theory. This conformity of experimental and analytical results permits direct inference of the shared proportions of two detrital zircon age populations from BPC. We provide MATLAB scripts to facilitate the procedures we describe.
- Keyword:
- provenance, statistics, zircon, Bayesian, detrital, and density estimation
- Citation to related publication:
- A.R. Tye, A.S. Wolf, N.A. Niemi, Bayesian population correlation: A probabilistic approach to inferring and comparing population distributions for detrital zircon ages, Chemical Geology, Volume 518, 2019, Pages 67-78, ISSN 0009-2541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.039
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Ozturk, Dogacan
- Description:
- The global magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (M-I-T) system is intrinsically coupled and susceptible to external drivers such as solar wind dynamic pressure enhancements. In order to understand the large-scale dynamic processes in the M-I-T system due to the compression from the solar wind, the 17 March 2015 sudden commencement was studied in detail using global numerical models. This data set is comprised of the simulation data generated from these models. and NOTE: The following changes were made to this dataset on March 28, 2018. First, two mp4 files were added. Second, the symbol representing "degree" was not rendering properly in the README file. The symbols were removed and replaced with the word "degree". Third, the metadata in the "methodology" and "description" fields were revised for content and clarity. On April 16, 2018 a citation to the corresponding article was added to the metadata record.
- Keyword:
- MHD model, BATS'R'US, and GITM
- Citation to related publication:
- Ozturk, D. S., Zou, S., Ridley, A. J., & Slavin, J. A. (2018). Modeling study of the geospace system response to the solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement on 17 March 2015. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 2974–2989. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA025099
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Johnson, Jena E.
- Description:
- Note: The "Readme_Metadata" file was updated on March 15, 2018 to include a citation to the related article making use of this data and was reformatted to be presented as a pdf file rather than as a docx file. and This data set is comprised of synchrotron-based X-ray transmission and absorption spectroscopy data as well as X-ray diffraction patterns that were performed to characterize the best-preserved examples of nanoscale iron silicate mineral inclusions from 2.5 billion-year-old Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) and ferruginous cherts.
- Keyword:
- Precambrian banded iron formations and nanoparticle inclusions of iron silicates in chert
- Citation to related publication:
- Johnson, J. E., Muhling, J. R., Cosmidis, J., Rasmussen, B. & Templeton, A. S. (2018). Low-Fe(III) Greenalite Was a Primary Mineral from Neoarchean Oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076311
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Flanner, Mark
- Description:
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) additions to Earth’s atmosphere initially reduce global outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), thereby warming the planet. In select environments with temperature inversions, however, increased GHG concentrations can actually increase local OLR. Negative top-of-atmosphere and effective radiative forcing (ERF) from this situation give the impression that local surface temperatures could cool in response to GHG increases. Here we consider an extreme scenario in which GHG concentrations are increased only within the warmest layers of winter near-surface inversions of the Arctic and Antarctic. We find, using a fully coupled Earth system model, that the underlying surface warms despite the GHG addition exerting negative ERF and cooling the troposphere in the vicinity of the GHG increase. This unique radiative forcing and thermal response is facilitated by the high stability of the polar winter atmosphere, which inhibits thermal mixing and amplifies the impact of surface radiative forcing on surface temperature. These findings also suggest that strategies to exploit negative ERF via injections of short-lived GHGs into inversion layers would likely be unsuccessful in cooling the planetary surface. and Note: A revised data description file was added to this work on April 11, 2018 containing additional information about the data set than was provided in the original description. Additional keywords and a full citation to the related article were added as well.
- Keyword:
- climate, greenhouse gas, polar inversion layers, radiative forcing (and/or effective radiative forcing), and MODTRAN simulation
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Forrest, Stephen R., Panda, Anurag, Qu, Yue, Che, Xiaozhou, Coburn, Caleb, and Burlingame, Quinn
- Description:
- Mathematica Diffusion Simulation: Programmed by Coburn, Caleb. Simulation of diffusion in organic heterostructures, including least square fits and statistical goodness of fit analysis. Used to calculate fits to transient data in Fig 1, 3 and Extended Data Fig.2. Example data file included for download Matlab Montecarlo simulation: Programmed by Coburn, Caleb. Montecarlo simulation of charge diffusion on a cubic lattice to determine lateral diffusion length as a function of barrier height, assuming thermionic emission over the barrier. Matlab 2D Diffusion Simulation:Programmed by Coburn, Caleb. Modified from BYU Physics 430 Course Manual. Simulates diffusion around a film discontinuity, such a cut. Used to generate fits to Extended Data Fig. 1
- Keyword:
- Organic semiconductors and Charge diffusion
- Citation to related publication:
- Burlingame, Q., Coburn, C., Che, X., Panda, A., Qu, Y., & Forrest, S. R. (2018). Centimetre-scale electron diffusion in photoactive organic heterostructures. Nature, 554(7690), 77-80. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25148
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Blesh, Jennifer and King, Alison E.
- Description:
- This dataset contains three data files used in: King, A.E. and J. Blesh, 2017. Crop rotations for increased soil carbon: perenniality as a guiding principle. Ecological Applications. There are also three corresponding metadata files. The file “CRMA 2017 Main.csv” contains data for the control and treatment rotations used to construct pairwise comparisons for meta-analysis, response ratios calculated for soil organic carbon concentration, and change in carbon input. The dataset also includes management, soil, and other environmental characteristics for each site. The file “CRMA 2017 Diversity x Nitrogen.csv” contains data used to test whether N fertilizer inputs mediated the effect of functional diversity on SOC concentrations. The file “CRMA Annual grain.csv” contains data used to test for effects of crop rotation species diversity (one vs. two species, or two vs. three species) on SOC concentrations and C input (i.e., for the “grain-only” rotations). The dataset also includes management, soil, and other environmental characteristics for each site. The corresponding metadata files: “CRMA 2017 Main_metadata.csv”, “CRMA 2017 Diversity x Nitrogen_metadata.csv”, and “CRMA Annual grain _metadata.csv” provide a detailed description of all variables in each dataset. Note: On Jan 12, 2018 the following information was added to the three metadata files: the name of the data file the metadata refers to, an explanation as to the meaning of blank cells in the data file, a full citation to the paper where the author describes her findings and contact information for the author.
- Keyword:
- soil carbon, functional diversity, meta-analysis, cropping system, and student-friendly
- Discipline:
- Science