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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:
- Larson, Joanna G and Weiner, Abraham
- Description:
- This dataset consists of 11 linear external morphological measurements from 2,593 adult frog individuals from 757 species. We use these data to investigate patterns and rates of frog size and shape evolution. The measured traits are predictive of adult microhabitat use, diel activity patterns, locomotion, mating habitat, and diet.
- Keyword:
- functional traits, morphology, anura, amphibian
- Citation to related publication:
- Larson, JG, A Weiner, and DL Rabosky. Are rates of speciation and morphological evolution coupled across extant frogs? In prep
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Marchman, Timothy, Dominique, Daniel, Zhang, Huayile, Daneshvar, Fariborz, and Murphy Kevin
- Description:
- We created various files, including GIS files and data files for both the UM Hydrologic Modeling Team and for our own Escherichia coli sampling project. The UM Hydrologic Team used the files we created to make their models more accurate. For example, we edited Clinton River subwatershed files to better reflect below and above-ground infrastructure, and provided them to the modeling team. For our own E. coli subproject we created time series, GIS files, and R code to better understand the influence of precipitation and streamflow on E. coli dynamics. Our time-series data is based on baseline and storm sampling we conducted in the summer of 2021. We used GIS files to explore the subwatersheds of our E. coli sampling locations. Finally, we created R code to help us visualize and analyze the data.
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- 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
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Nunley, Hayden, Nagashima, Mikiko, Martin, Kamirah, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Alcides, Suzuki, Sachihiro C., Norton, Declan A., Wong, Rachel O. L., Raymond, Pamela A., and Lubensky, David K.
- Description:
- This dataset contains images of UV cone nuclei near the retinal margin in live zebrafish. These UV cone nuclei are labelled by transgenic expression of a fluorescent reporter (that is photoconvertible). The most important data are: 1. The zoomed-in (4X magnification) images of UV cone nuclei immediately after photoconversion 2. The zoomed-in (4X magnification) images of UV cone nuclei 2-4 days after photoconversion Also included is code for segmenting UV cone nuclei (both in image from immediately after photoconversion and in image from days later) and for shifting and rotating the two images to maximally align corresponding UV cone nuclei. After aligning corresponding UV cones, we compute triangulations over UV cone nuclei positions (for both images) and identify bonds that are common to both images. We use these common bonds to calculate the lattice vectors for the UV cone lattice.
- Keyword:
- zebrafish cone mosaic, tissue patterning, lattice vectors, and photoconversion
- Citation to related publication:
- Nunley, H., Nagashima, M., Martin, K., Gonzalez, A. L., Suzuki, S. C., Norton, D. A., Wong, R. O. L., Raymond, P. A., & Lubensky, D. K. (2020). Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437 and Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Declan Norton, Rachel O. L. Wong, Pamela A. Raymond, David K. Lubensky. Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest mechanism of cone mosaic formation. bioRxiv 806679; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/806679
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Nelson, Arin D.
- Description:
- These MATLAB data files contain all the observations and model output used in the article Improved Internal Gravity Wave Spectral Continuum in a Regional Ocean Model by Nelson et al., recently submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
- Keyword:
- Ocean, Ocean Mooring, Ocean Modeling, and Internal Waves
- Citation to related publication:
- Nelson, A. D., Arbic, B. K., Menemenlis, D., Peltier, W. R., Alford, M. H., Grisouard, N., & Klymak, J. M. (2020). Improved Internal Wave Spectral Continuum in a Regional Ocean Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5), e2019JC015974. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015974
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Nunley, Hayden, Nagashima, Mikiko, Martin, Kamirah, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Alcides, Suzuki, Sachihiro C., Norton, Declan A., Wong, Rachel O. L., Raymond, Pamela A., and Lubensky, David K.
- Description:
- This dataset contains images of UV cone nuclei (labelled by transgenic expression of a photoconvertible fluorescent protein) near the retinal margin in live fish. The most important images in the dataset are the following: 1. Images (at 4X magnification) of UV cones immediately after photoconversion of a patch near the retinal margin 2. Images (at 4X magnification) of UV cones 2-4 days after photoconversion of a patch near the retinal margin Also, included is code for calculating triangulations (which connect UV cone nuclei which are nearest neighbors). This code allows us to check for motion of UV cones relative to each other between the time of photoconversion and subsequent imaging.
- Keyword:
- zebrafish cone mosaic, topological defects, tissue patterning, grain boundaries, photoconversion, and defect motion
- Citation to related publication:
- Nunley, H., Nagashima, M., Martin, K., Gonzalez, A. L., Suzuki, S. C., Norton, D. A., Wong, R. O. L., Raymond, P. A., & Lubensky, D. K. (2020). Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437 and Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Declan Norton, Rachel O. L. Wong, Pamela A. Raymond, David K. Lubensky. Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest mechanism of cone mosaic formation. bioRxiv 806679; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/806679
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Surajit Chatterjee, Adrien Chauvier, Shiba S. Dandpat, Irina Artsimovitch, and Nils G. Walter
- Description:
- These data were generated to study the dynamics of RNAP-ribosome interactions on a nascent mRNA with a preQ1-sensing translational riboswitch in its 5’ untranslated region (UTR). Using single-molecule fluorescence co-localization, we monitored direct transient binding of 30S ribosomal subunit to the individual nascent mRNA molecules in surface-immobilized paused elongation complexes (PECs). Also, using a novel protein-induced fluorescence enhancement assay we monitored the real-time transcription rate of RNA polymerase (RNAP) under different experimental conditions. The DNA template including the preQ1 riboswitch from B. anthracis under the control of the T7A1 promoter was cloned into pUC19 plasmid. Transcription templates for in vitro transcription were generated by PCR.
- Citation to related publication:
- Chatterjee, S., Chauvier, A., Dandpat, S.S., Artsimovitch, I., & Walter, N.G. (2021). A translational riboswitch coordinates nascent transcription-translation coupling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118 (16), e2023426118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023426118
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- 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:
- Yang, Emily G, Kort, Eric A, Wu, Dien, Lin, John C, Oda, Tomohiro, Ye, Xinxin, and Lauvaux, Thomas
- Description:
- This data set supports a study that seeks to evaluate global fossil fuel CO2 emissions inventory representations of CO2 emissions of five cities in the Middle East, and assess the ability of satellite observations to inform this evaluation. Improved observational understanding of urban CO2 emissions, a large and dynamic global source of fossil CO2, can provide essential insights for both carbon cycle science and mitigation decision making. In this study we compare three distinct global CO2 emissions inventory representations of urban CO2 emissions for five Middle Eastern cities (Riyadh, Mecca, Tabuk, Jeddah, and Baghdad) and use independent satellite observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to evaluate the inventory representations of afternoon emissions. We use the column version of the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (X-STILT) model to account for atmospheric transport and link emissions to observations. We compare XCO2 simulations with observations to determine optimum inventory scaling factors. Applying these factors, we find that the average summed emissions for all five cities are 100 MtC/y (50-151, 90% CI), which is 2.0 (1.0, 3.0) times the average prior inventory magnitudes. The total adjustment of the emissions of these cities comes out to ~7% (0%, 14%) of total Middle Eastern emissions (~700 MtC/y). We find our results to be insensitive to the prior spatial distributions in inventories of the cities’ emissions, facilitating robust quantitative assessments of urban emission magnitudes without accurate high-resolution gridded inventories. and There are three files included in this data set, and all data are in tab-delimited form. The first file, xco2_lat.zip, contains 26 separate text files, each named by the city and date of the corresponding OCO-2 overpass. Each of these 26 files includes overpass-specific data, with modeled and observed XCO2 values binned by 0.1 degree of latitude. The file overpass_scaling_factors.txt provides the scaling factors for each overpass used in this study. The file city_estimates.txt provides the scaled emissions estimates for each city (or sum of cities) as well as the lower and upper bounds of the 90% confidence intervals, for each inventory.
- Keyword:
- greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, urban, cities, satellite, remote sensing, Lagrangian modeling, emissions inventories, carbon cycle, and climate
- Citation to related publication:
- Yang, E. G., Kort, E. A., Wu, D., Lin, J. C., Oda, T., Ye, X., & Lauvaux, T. (2020). Using space‐based observations and Lagrangian modeling to evaluate urban carbon dioxide emissions in the Middle East. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD031922. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031922
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Roeten, K. J. and Bougher, S. W.
- Description:
- In order to better understand the large-scale impacts of smaller-scale gravity waves in the upper atmosphere of Mars, a modern whole atmosphere, nonlinear, non-orographic, spectral gravity wave parameterization scheme (Yigit et al., 2008) has been added to the ground-to-exosphere 3-D general circulation model, M-GITM (Bougher et al., 2015), which previously did not account for the effects of this physical process. New atmospheric simulations have been run for cases which did and did not utilize this gravity wave parameterization as well as for cases designed to test the sensitivity of certain adjustable parameters within the scheme. After including the gravity wave parameterization scheme into M-GITM, large impacts are found on the simulated mean thermospheric horizontal velocities and temperature structure, especially within the altitude range of 90-170 km (Roeten et al., 2022). The most notable of these impacts include a reduction in speed of the thermospheric easterlies in the summer hemisphere as well as overall cooling, on average, at altitudes above 120 km., Simulations were run for two different seasons at Mars, a solstice (Ls=270) and an equinox (Ls=180). The output from these simulations have been averaged over all local times over a 15-day time period, starting on the day of the solstice or equinox. The output has also been zonally averaged over all longitudes. Files containing these zonally and temporally averaged files are named starting with “MGITM_ZonalAvg”. Both solstice and equinox cases have been simulated once without including the gravity wave parameterization (“nogw”) and once with the gravity wave parameterization included (“withgw”). Additional simulations of the Ls=270 solstice have been done individually adjusting the horizontal wavelength and maximum source flux parameters within the gravity wave scheme. , and Other M-GITM simulations have also been provided in a different format. These M-GITM simulations are ‘flythroughs’ of model output, extracted along the same trajectory path of the MAVEN spacecraft, which allows for better data-model comparisons with in-situ MAVEN/NGIMS (Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer) observations. These simulations have been done for three different NGIMS observational campaigns, both for cases that include and do not include the effects of gravity waves. Output from these simulations has NOT been averaged; instead, output from each simulated MAVEN orbit is included within the file. These files are named starting with “MGITM_TempExtraction” or “MGITM_WindExtraction” based on whether the MGITM flythrough was designed to be compared to MAVEN/NGIMS temperature or wind profiles, respectively.
- Keyword:
- Mars, M-GITM, MAVEN, and Mars upper atmosphere
- Citation to related publication:
- Roeten, K. J., Bougher, S. W., Yigit, E., Medvedev, A. S., Benna, M., Elrod, M. K. (2022). Impacts of gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere: The Mars Global Ionosphere- Thermosphere Model coupled with a whole atmosphere gravity wave scheme. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. In preparation.
- Discipline:
- Science
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Video data of predation and parasitism by arthropods on small vertebrates in lowland Peruvian Amazon
- Creator:
- Grundler, Michael C, Grundler, Maggie G, and Herrera, V.
- Description:
- Nighttime and diurnal surveys in the lowland Peruvian Amazon of Los Amigos Biological Station were conducted in order to describe herpetological diversity at this site. As a result of these surveys, the predation event between a Pamphobeteus sp. and Marmosops sp. and the myiasis of Ranitomeye uakarii were observed. The video footage was recorded in order to document these interesting interactions between arthropod predators and parasites and vertebrate prey and hosts, and are included for publication in the short communication "Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest" in the journal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation.
- Keyword:
- Amazonia, predator-prey, spiders, opposums, frogs, and myiasis
- Citation to related publication:
- von May R, Biggi E, Cárdenas H, Diaz MI, Alarcón C, Herrera V, Santa-Cruz R, Tomasinelli F, Westeen E, Sánchez-Paredes CM, Larson JG, Title PO, Grundler MR, Grundler MC, Davis Rabosky AR, Rabosky DL (2019) Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 13(1): 65–77. http://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/pdfs/Volume/Vol_13_no_1/ARC_13_1_[General_Section]_65-77_e169_high_res.pdf
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- 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
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Liang, Jun and Wang, Zihan
- Description:
- The aim of the research to study the temporal evolution of the Sub-Auroral Polarizations Streams (SAPS) with multiple instruments. Aurora images are important to identify the electrodynamics in the high latitude ionosphere. Data used in this research were collected and provided by Dr. Jun Liang at University of Calgary, and analyzed by Zihan Wang for the article accompanying this deposit. The data was collected from all sky imagers (ASI) located in Saskatoon, Canada. and saskrainbow01.sav contains the rgb channels from ASI. It can be opened using IDL. saskasiskymap.gm5 contains the sky map of the ASI. It shows the geographic location of the figure pixels. aurora_diff.pro is the procedure to recover the data from saskrainbow01.sav and make plots. draw_colorbar.pro is the procedure to add a colorbar to the plot. mlon_smp_towang.pro and rebinsmpkeo_towang.pro can together make keogram plots. Run mlon_smp_towang.pro first and then rebinsmpkeo_towang.pro.
- Keyword:
- All Sky Imager
- Citation to related publication:
- Wang, Z., Zou, S., Shepherd, S. G., Liang, J., Gjerloev, J. W., Ruohoniemi, J. M., et al. ( 2019). Multi‐instrument observations of mesoscale enhancement of subauroral polarization stream associated with an injection.Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 1770– 1784. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026535
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Singer, Kanakadurga
- Description:
- Supplementary Figure 1. Tissue weights in response to HFD feeding and CL treatment. (A) GWAT weight as % of body weight (B) IWAT weight as % of body weight (C) BAT weight as % of body weight (D) Liver weight as % of body weight. N=7-12 /group; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005, ****p<0.0001; error bars are SEM. Comparisons of M ND PBS vs F ND PBS are shown as #p<0.05, ##p<0.01, ###p<0.005 and M HFD PBS vs F HFD PBS are shown as &p<0.05, &&p<0.01, &&&p<0.005, &&&&p<0.0001., Supplementary Figure 2. Free glycerol estimation in lean and obese male and female WAT and BAT depot explants with ADRB3 stimulated lipolysis. Free glycerol estimation in lean and obese (A) GWAT (B) IWAT (C) BAT explant tissues. Free glycerol released calculated as fold change over basal conditions in lean and obese (D) GWAT (E) IWAT (F) BAT explant tissues. N=8 /group; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005, ****p<0.0001; error bars are SEM. Comparisons of M ND PBS vs F ND PBS are shown as #p<0.05, ##p<0.01, ###p<0.005 and M HFD PBS vs F HFD PBS are shown as &p<0.05, &&p<0.01, &&&p<0.005, &&&&p<0.0001., Supplementary Figure 3. Gene expression (A) Akt1 and (B) Glut4 gene expression in obese male and female GWAT with and without ADRB3 stimulation. A.U., arbitrary units, N=5-8; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005, ****p<0.0001., Supplementary Figure 4. Flow cytometry assessment of ATMs in lean and obese IWAT SVF. Quantitation of (A) IWAT percent ATMs (B) IWAT CD11c+ ATMs (C) IWAT CD11c-ATMs (D) IWAT dendritic cells (DC) numbers, N=7-12/group; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005, ****p<0.0001. , Supplementary Figure 5. Lipidomic assessment of lipid mediators in obese male and female GWAT. (A) Relative hydroxy fatty acids (FAHFA) (B) Phosphatidylserine (PS) (C) Phosphatidylcholine (PC) (D) Lyso-PC (E) Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) (F) Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) (G) Phosphatidylinositol (PI) content in obese male and female GWAT with and without CL treatment. N=6/group; *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.005, ****p<0.0001., and Curation note: Title of deposit changed from "Supplementary Materials Lipolysis Paper" Dec. 20, 2018 to more closely reflect association with the paper these materials support.
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- Science
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- 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