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- Creator:
- Walsh, Lisa L
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- Stable isotope values of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) from Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) guard hairs were analyzed to evaluate the ecology and winter adaptations in opossums by Dr. Lisa L. Walsh as part of her Ph.D. thesis in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. The collection of stable isotope data took place from 2017 to 2019. Guard hair was processed at the University of Michigan and analyzed by the University of New Mexico Center for Stable Isotopes (UNM-CSI, USA). Captive and wild opossums were evaluated for evidence of biannual or incomplete biannual molting, a mammalian adaptation to harsh winters. Results suggest opossums do not exhibit either winter molting strategy and that guard hairs capture the opossum’s lifetime diet (Walsh and Tucker 2021). The stable isotope values were used to test the hypothesis that a Type A generalist’s niche is positively correlated with habitat heterogeneity and to evaluate which climate variables best explained isotope values. There was a positive correlation between isotopic niche size and habitat-diversity indexes (Walsh and Tucker 2020). The δ13C values from opossums in the Midwest and Northeast to test whether opossums rely on anthropogenic trash to survive extreme winters. There was no significant relationship between δ13C and winter variables, but there was a significant increase in variance of Midwest opossums’ δ13C after the 1970 corn agricultural boom (Walsh and Tucker 2023).
- Keyword:
- stable isotope, Virginia opossum, mesopredator, ecology, and mammal
- Citation to related publication:
- Walsh, L.L. and P.K. Tucker. 2020. Habitat heterogeneity is correlated with isotopic niche breadth across the range of a mammalian generalist mesopredator. Ecosphere, 11(12): e03314. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3314, Walsh, L.L. and P.K. Tucker. 2021. Stable isotope values suggest opossums (Didelphis virginiana) at their northern edge do not seasonally molt. Northeastern Naturalist, 28(1): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.028.0101, and Walsh, L.L., and P.K. Tucker. 2023. Evaluating anthropogenic influence on a mesopredator: Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) isotope values influenced by corn agriculture more than urbanization. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 101: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0172.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- Raw Sr isotope and aDNA data are archived as .xlsx files. The Sr data are reported as ratios of 87Sr to 86Sr. and Chapter linked to: Twenty
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- This work consists of an .xlsx database file. and Chapter linked to: Nineteen
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- Record contains a database of chipped stones, stored as an Excel file. and Chapter linked to: Nine
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- This Work includes a .csv database file and .jpg photos of artifacts. Artifact photos are preceded by photos of artifact tags, labeled with descriptive information. Also included are portable x-ray florescence (PXRF) spectroscopic data and photomicrographs. and Descriptions/data and photos of grinding stones are in Small Finds record, https://doi.org/10.7302/5j43-mc03. Chapter linked to: Sixteen
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- This record includes photos (JPGs) and drawings (PDF of scans of originals) of small finds, e.g., glass; coins, spindle whorls, loom weights, metal artifacts; bullets; nails; etc., as well as a list of the drawings with descriptions (PDF file) and a small finds database (.CSV). The database includes all small finds collected and analyzed by PASH, although not all small finds were drawn and photographed. Grinding stones and chipped stone are located in separate records. and Chapter linked to: Seventeen
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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- Creator:
- Bellile, Emily L, Taylor, Jeremy MG, and Wolf, Gregory T
- Description:
- The University of Michigan’s Head and Neck Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) included an epidemiology project that approached every previously untreated adult head and neck squamous carcinoma (HNSCC) patient evaluated in the multidisciplinary Head and Neck Oncology Program of the University of Michigan (UM; Ann Arbor, MI) Comprehensive Cancer Center for participation in our longitudinal epidemiology study. This analytic dataset includes the most commonly requested covariates and outcome variables for survival analysis of this cohort of HNSCC patients. Data cleaning and creation of this analysis dataset was performed with SAS software v 9.3 (Carey,NC) by a biostatistician supporting multiple projects in the University of Michigan’s Head and Neck Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) and is available in RedCap for UM investigators to join with discipline specific data collected on the same cohort through a de-identified ID link.
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- Head and Neck Cancer, HNSCC, Squamous Cell Cancer, Epidemiology, Head and Neck Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE). , Cancer, Prognosis, and Survival Analysis
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- Cigarette use, comorbidities, and prognosis in a prospective head and neck squamous cell carcinoma population. Peterson LA, Bellile EL, Wolf GT, Virani S, Shuman AG, Taylor JM, Rozek LS; University of Michigan Head and Neck Specialized Program of Research Excellence Program. Head Neck. 2016 Dec;38(12):1810-1820. doi: 10.1002/hed.24515. Epub 2016 Jul 19. PMID: 27432208. , Development and Assessment of a Model for Predicting Individualized Outcomes in Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer. Beesley LJ, Shuman AG, Mierzwa ML, Bellile EL, Rosen BS, Casper KA, Ibrahim M, Dermody SM, Wolf GT, Chinn SB, Spector ME, Baatenburg de Jong RJ, Dronkers EAC, Taylor JMG. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2120055. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20055. PMID: 34369988., Amlani, L; Bellile, E; Spector, M; Smith, J; Brenner, C; Rozek, L; Nguyen, A; Zarins, K; Thomas, D; McHugh, J; Taylor, J; Wolf, GT. Expression of p53 and prognosis in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); Int J Cancer Clin Res 2019, 6:122. DOI: 10.23937/2378-3419/1410122., and Spector ME, Bellile E, Amlani L, Zarins K, Smith J, Brenner JC, Rozek L, Nguyen A, Thomas D, McHugh JB, Taylor JMG, Wolf GT; University of Michigan Head and Neck SPORE Program. Prognostic Value of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Nov 1;145(11):1012-1019. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2019.2427. PMID: 31486841; PMCID: PMC6735419.
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- Science and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- This work includes a .csv database, PDF scans of artifact drawings and .jpg photos. Artifact photos are accompanied by photos of artifact bags, labeled with descriptive information about the artifact, as well as photomicrographs. Work also includes raw analytical data--laser ablation – inductively-coupled plasma – mass spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS) and petrographic data. and Chapters linked to: Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- This work contains data generated by the survey of all mounds in the study region. and Chapter linked to: Eight
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- These data relate to PASH’s excavations at tumuli 052. This record contains documents (excavation forms, notes accompanied by a typed transcription, drawings), 144 photos and a photolog, seven 3D digital elevation model (DEM) images (.jpgs only), and files needed to project GPR data from T052 and Chapter linked to: Eight
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- These data relate to PASH’s excavations at tumuli 085. This record contains scanned documents (excavation forms, drawings, and notes--though these last are difficult to read), 34 .jpg excavation photos (no photolog), and time slice images of GPR data as a .pdf (raw geophysical data for this survey are not available). and Chapter linked to: Eight
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- These data relate to PASH’s excavations at tumuli 088. This record contains scanned documents (excavation forms, a notebook and drawings), 152 .jpg photos in 17 folders (labeled by date) and a photolog. and Chapter linked to: Eight
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- These data relate to PASH’s excavations at tumuli 099. This record contains scanned documents (excavation forms, log book, notebook, drawings), 211 .jpg images in 19 folders (labeled by date, one with candids), as well as a photolog and C14 AMS radiocarbon date data. and Chapter linked to: Eight
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Science
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Data for Macroscopic Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers with Uniformly High Optical Quality
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- Li, Qiuyang, Alfrey, Adam, Hu, Jiaqi, Lydick, Nathanial, Paik, Eunice, Liu, Bin, Sun, Haiping, Lu, Yang, Wang, Ruoyu, Forrest, Stephen, and Deng, Hui
- Description:
- This dataset contains raw and source data for all figures generated in the manuscript "Macroscopic Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers with Uniformly High Optical Quality" The raw data files include '.spe' data, which are spectral data collected by LightField Sofware, and '.dset' and '.vms' files, which are X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data and require CasaXPS to access. The source data files include the processed data that can be directly used for generating the corresponding figures in the manuscript.
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- 2D materials, Exciton-polaritons, and Photonics
- Discipline:
- Science
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Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)
User Collection- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- The data presented here were collected in the course of archaeological survey and excavation in the region of Shkodër in northern Albania, carried out between 2010 and 2014, with a follow-up visit in 2016. The Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH) was co-directed by Michael L. Galaty (University of Michigan) and Lorenc Bejko (University of Tirana) and was sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF BCS1220016), The University of Tirana, Millsaps College, Mississippi State University, and the University of Michigan. The data presented here accompany a two-volume research report, published by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Press (Galaty and Bejko 2023) - Volume 1 ( https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12201317) and Volume 2 ( https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12208577)., The county (Alb. qarqe) of Shkodër is located in northern Albania. It is bordered to the south by the Adriatic Sea and to the northwest by the country of Montenegro. The counties of Lezhë and Kukës are situated to the south and east, respectively. Shkodër Lake is situated along the border with Montenegro. It is the largest freshwater lake in the Balkans. The city of Shkodër is the fifth largest in Albania. It was founded in the Bronze Age and became a Roman colony in 168 BC, following the Illyrian Wars. Several major rivers intersect at Shkodër, including the Buna, which exits Shkodër Lake, the Drin, and the Kir. The latter two rivers flow from the Bjeshkët e Nemuna, the Albanian Alps, and provide access across the mountains, to the Balkan interior, including metal-rich Kosovo. Several very important ancient sites are located to the south of Shkodër, close to the Adriatic coast: Lezhë (ancient Lissus), Apollonia, and Durrës (ancient Epidamnus, Dyrrachium under the Romans). The latter two cities were Greek colonies, founded during the Archaic period. All three became Roman colonies., and PASH was designed to investigate shifts, through time, in Shkodër towards increased social stratification and hierarchy. These shifts commenced during prehistory and are marked by two dramatic changes in the regional landscape: new settlement in defensible “hillforts” and burial in rock and earth mounds. We wondered what factors – environment, settlement, status, conflict, subsistence, trade, migration – might have allowed or encouraged these changes.
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Bueno-Junior, Lezio S., Ruckstuhl, Maxwell S., Lim, Miranda M., and Watson, Brendon O.
- Description:
- Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) is believed to have a binary temporal structure with “phasic” and “tonic" microstates, characterized by motoric activity versus quiescence, respectively. However, we observed in mice that the frequency of theta activity (a marker of rodent REM) fluctuates in a non-binary fashion, with the extremes of that fluctuation correlating with phasic-type and tonic-type facial motricity. Thus, phasic and tonic REM may instead represent ends of a continuum. These cycles of brain physiology and facial movement occurred at 0.01-0.06 Hz, or infraslow frequencies, and affected cross-frequency coupling and neuronal activity in the neocortex, suggesting network functional impact. We then analyzed human data and observed that humans also demonstrate non-binary phasic/tonic microstates, with continuous 0.01-0.04 Hz respiratory rate cycles matching the incidence of eye movements. These fundamental properties of REM can yield new insights into our understanding of sleep health.
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- REM sleep, Infraslow fluctuations, Facial movements, Theta oscillations, and Respiration rate
- Citation to related publication:
- L. S. Bueno-Junior, M. S. Ruckstuhl, M. M. Lim, B. O. Watson, The temporal structure of REM sleep shows minute-scale fluctuations across brain and body in mice and humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. In press (2023).
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Fordice, Graham, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Schwietzke, Stefan, Smith, Mackenzie, and Zavala-Araiza, Daniel
- Description:
- As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, the aircraft measurement platform sampled downwind of flares in the Permian and Eagle Ford regions of Texas (2020) and the Bakken in North Dakota (2021). Estimates of methane destruction removal efficiency are calculated for each airborne intercept of a flare combustion plume based on the observed enhancements of carbon dioxide and methane, along with assumptions about the flare gas composition. Locations provided are the GPS coordinates for the aircraft sampling, not of the upwind flare infrastructure on the ground. Attempts to link the airborne sampling locations to ground infrastructure using the provided wind information (measured at the aircraft), should take care to account for complexities of transport in the atmosphere.
- Keyword:
- Natural Gas Flaring, Methane, and Oil & Gas
- Citation to related publication:
- Plant, G., Kort, E. A., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Fordice, G., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Smith, M., & Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane. Science, 377(6614), 1566–1571. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq0385, Kort, E. A., Plant, G., Smith, M. L., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Aircraft Data (2020) for Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL), University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/1xjm-3v49, and Kort, E. A., Plant, G., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Smith, M. L., Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Aircraft Data (2021) for Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL), University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/6tgq-e116
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Engebretson, Mark J.
- Description:
- Large geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs, also denoted as MPEs - magnetic perturbation events) have sufficient amplitude to cause geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) that can damage technical infrastructure. In this study we present occurrence statistics for GMD / MPE events with derivatives ≥ 6 nT/s and ≥ 20 nT/s from five stations in the MACCS and AUTUMNX magnetometer arrays in Arctic Canada at magnetic latitudes ranging from 65° to 75°. Earlier studies using data from these arrays (Engebretson et al., 2019a,b, 2021a,b) covered only two years (2015 and 2017) and focused on latitude- and local time-dependent occurrence patterns and short-term dependencies on solar wind/IMF parameters and magnetospheric activity indices. This study presents all available data from these stations from 2011 through 2022 to analyze variations of GMD activity over a full solar cycle. Intense GMD activity did not closely follow the sunspot cycle, but instead was lowest during its rising phase and maximum (2011-2014), was highest during the early declining phase (2015-2017), and reached a subsequent minimum early in the following sunspot cycle (2020). GMDs with amplitude >20 nT/s followed the same yearly pattern but peaked even more strongly during 2015-2017. Most of these GMDs were associated with high-speed solar wind streams (Vsw > 600 km/s), but not with strongly negative values of the SYM/H index. The majority of these GMDs, irrespective of the Vsw value, were accompanied within 10 min (and most often less) by other events with amplitude ≥ 6 nT/s and showed a mostly poleward progression. These results show that large amplitude but spatially localized nighttime GMDs are primarily associated with high-speed stream geomagnetic drivers during the declining phase of the solar cycle. This indicates that large GIC hazard conditions can occur for a variety of solar wind drivers and geomagnetic conditions and not only for fast-coronal mass ejection driven storms.
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- geomagnetic disturbance events, geomagnetically induced currents
- Citation to related publication:
- Engebretson, M. J., Steinmetz, Yang, L., Pilipenko, V. A., Moldwin, M. B., McCuen, B. A., Connors, M. G., Weygand, J. M., Waters, C. L., Lyons, L. R., Nishimura, Y., Russell, C. T. (2023) Solar Cycle Dependence of Very Large Nighttime Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) Observed in Eastern Arctic Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics
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- Science
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F3UEL: Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses
User Collection- Creator:
- Kort, Eric and Plant, Genevieve
- Description:
- Fossil energy production, processing, flaring, and transmission all can harm climate and air quality by emitting greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Studies now show that onshore oil and gas production emit much more methane than what is inventoried, and that local air quality impacts can be significant, however, natural gas flaring and offshore systems have been largely overlooked. The F3UEL (Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses) project aims to address these gaps by improving our understanding of offshore emissions, characterizing how flares behave in the real world, identifying what portion of the offshore system is responsible for emissions, and determining how such systems can be monitored. Spanning three years (2020-2022), the project employed an aircraft platform to measure including both greenhouse gas and air quality measurements. To sample the largest regions of current and potential future offshore production and flaring, airborne measurements targeted the Gulf of Mexico, offshore California and Alaska, the Bakken Formation (North Dakota) and the Permian and Eagle Ford Basins (Texas). Data provided here includes the airborne measurements collected using Scientific Aviation’s Mooney aircraft platform, equipped with spectroscopic instrumentation to measure methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen oxide, in addition to meteorological variables such as wind speed and direction. Data products from our analysis of these airborne measurements are also provided, including estimated flare destruction removal efficiency for the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Permian basins. Each data file is in .csv format and is accompanied by a readme file with further information and descriptors of the variables included. All users should cite the papers and datasets provided in the readme files for each individual dataset. Website: https://graham.umich.edu/f3uel This project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with additional support from the Environmental Defense Fund, Scientific Aviation, and University of Michigan (College of Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering; Graham Sustainability Institute).
- Keyword:
- offshore oil & gas, flaring, methane, Nitrogen oxides, natural gas flaring, and oil & gas
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- McCuen, Brett A.
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of high-frequency transient-large-amplitude (TLA) magnetic perturbation events that occurred at 12 high-latitude ground magnetometer stations throughout solar cycle 24 from 2009 to 2019. TLA signatures are defined as one or more second-timescale dB/dt interval with magnitude ≥ 6 nT/s within an hour event window. This study characterizes high-frequency TLA events based on their spatial and temporal behavior as well as relation to auroral substorms, geomagnetic storm phases and nighttime geomagnetic disturbance events events (GMD). We show that TLA events occur primarily at nighttime and solely in the high-latitude region above 60 degrees geomagnetic latitude. The largest TLA events occurred more often in the declining phase of the solar cycle when solar wind velocity was higher and ring current activity was lower, suggesting association to high-speed flows caused by coronal holes and subsequent corotating interaction regions reaching Earth. TLA perturbations often occurred preceding or within the most extreme nighttime geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) events with 5-10 minute timescales, but the TLA intervals were often even more localized than the ~300 km effective radius of GMDs: occurring at only some of the stations at which GMDs occurred. We show that TLA-related GMD events can result from dipolarization fronts in the magnetotail and fast flows toward Earth and are closely temporally associated to poleward boundary intensifications (PBI) and auroral streamers. The highly localized behavior and connection to the most extreme GMD events suggests that TLA intervals are a ground manifestation of the features within rapid and complex ionospheric structures that can drive GICs.
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- geomagnetic field, high frequency, space weather, transient-large-amplitude, TLA, high frequency dB/dt, dB/dt search algorithm
- Citation to related publication:
- McCuen, B. A., Moldwin, M. B., Engebretson, M. J., Weygand, J. G., Nishimura, Y. (2023). A Statistical Analysis of High-frequency Transient-Large-Amplitude Geomagnetic Disturbance. [To be submitted to] Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
- Discipline:
- Science