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We report the first uniform and systematic study of dust and molecular gas in nearby molecular clouds. We use surveys of dust extinction and emission to determine the opacity and map the distribution of the dust within a dozen local clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 John Arban Lewis , Charles J. Lada , Thomas Dame

In this paper, the complexities in the relationship between rainfall and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies during the winter monsoon (November-January) over India were evaluated statistically using scatter plot matrices and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-28 Goutami Chattopadhyay , Surajit Chattopadhyay , Rajni Jain

Soil moisture-precipitation coupling (SMPC) plays a critical role in Earth's water and energy cycles but remains difficult to quantify due to synoptic-scale variability and the complex interplay of land-atmosphere processes. Here, we apply…

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A region under rainfall is a contiguous spatial area receiving positive precipitation at a particular time. The probabilistic behavior of such a region is an issue of interest in meteorological studies. A region under rainfall can be viewed…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-05 Kaushik Jana , Debasis Sengupta , Subrata Kundu , Arindam Chakraborty , Purnima Shaw

Context. WASP-107 b has been observed comprehensively by JWST in the near- and mid-IR bands, making it an ideal planet to probe the composition and internal dynamics. Recent analysis reveals a 8-10 um silicate feature, but it still remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Helong Huang , Michiel Min , Chris W. Ormel , Achrène Dyrek , Nicolas Crouzet

This paper describes 3D simulations of the formation of collapsing cold clumps via thermal instability inside a larger cloud complex. The initial condition was a diffuse atomic, stationary, thermally unstable, 200pc diameter spherical cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 C. J. Wareing , S. A. E. G. Falle , J. M. Pittard

We present the results of a series of calculations studying the collapse of molecular cloud cores performed using a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydr odynamics code with radiative transfer in the flux-limited diffusion approximation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthew R. Bate

Understanding of cloud microphysics and the evolution of cloud structures in sub-stellar atmospheres remains a key challenge in the JWST era. The abundance of new JWST data necessitates models that are suitable for coupling with large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Elspeth K. H. Lee , Kazumasa Ohno

[abridged] We determine the relationship between turbulence energy and gas density variance for 15 molecular clouds in the Solar neighbourhood. We use the linewidths of the CO molecule as the probe of the turbulence energy (sonic Mach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Jouni Kainulainen , Christoph Federrath

{It has recently been proposed that giant molecular complexes form at the sites where streams of diffuse warm atomic gas collide at transonic velocities.} {We study the global statistics of molecular clouds formed by large scale colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Banerjee , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , R. Klessen , E. Audit

The presence of clouds between an airshower and a space-based detector can dramatically alter the measured signal characteristics due to absorption and scattering of the photonic signals. Furthermore, knowledge of the cloud cover in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Krizmanic , Pierre Sokolsky , Robert Streitmatter

Condensation in cumulus clouds plays a key role in structuring the mean, non-precipitating trade-wind boundary layer. Here, we summarise how this role also explains the spontaneous growth of mesoscale ($>O(10)$ km) fluctuations in clouds…

The effect of smooth cloud boundaries on the interaction of steady planar shock waves with interstellar clouds is studied using a high-resolution local AMR technique with a second-order accurate axisymmetric Godunov hydrodynamic scheme. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

Because the opacity of clouds in substellar mass object (SMO) atmospheres depends on the composition and distribution of particle sizes within the cloud, a credible cloud model is essential for accurately modeling SMO spectra and colors. We…

Advancements in remote sensing have led to development of several satellite-derived precipitation products; however, their accuracy must be evaluated before use in scientific and operational studies. This study comprehensively assesses six…

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Additive manufacturing creates surfaces with random roughness, impacting heat transfer and pressure loss differently than traditional sand-grain roughness. We conducted high-fidelity heat transfer simulations over three-dimensional additive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-11 Himani Garg , Guillaume Sahut , Erika Tuneskog , Karl-Johan Nogenmyr , Christer Fureby

Stars form in cold dense cores showing subsonic velocity dispersions. The parental molecular clouds display higher temperatures and supersonic velocity dispersions. The transition from core to cloud has been observed in velocity dispersion,…

Aerosols exhibit periodic or cyclic variations depending on natural and anthropogenic sources over a region, which can get modulated by synoptic meteorological parameters such as winds, rainfall and relative humidity, and long-range…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 S. Ramachandran , Sayantan Ghosh , Amit Verma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The seasonal prediction of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) and Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations (MISO), as well as the Madden Julian Oscillations (MJO) that strongly modulate MISO, is important to the country for water and crop…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Ushnanshu Dutta , Moumita Bhowmik , Anupam Hazra , Chein-Jung Shiu , Jen-Ping Chen

In the Galactic fountain scenario, supernovae and/or stellar winds propel material into the Galactic halo. As the material cools, it condenses into clouds. By using FLASH three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we model and study…

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