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SIMULATION OF CLOUD'S VISIBLE REFLECTION USING MODIS CLOUD PRODUCTS

  • Ham, Seung-Hee;Sohn, Byung-Ju
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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    • pp.668-671
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    • 2006
  • Radiative transfer modeling of ice clouds is developed. Ice clouds located near tropopause reflect most of sunlight, thus atmospheric and surface effects can be minimized. Cloud properties such as cloud optical thickness (COT) and effective radius are important parameters to determine the magnitude of reflectance, while atmospheric and surface parameters rarely affect reflectance value. For selected homogeneous cloud pixels of MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observation, reflectances are calculated using MODIS cloud products as inputs of radiative transfer model (RTM). For three types of phase function (Henyey-Greenstein, Garcia-Siewert, Baum) calculated reflectances are compared with observations for validation. All cases show linear relationship between simulated values and measured values, however each represent different bias and slope. The result shows that phase function determine angular distribution of reflectance.

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Hue-assisted automatic registration of color point clouds

  • Men, Hao;Pochiraju, Kishore
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • 제1권4호
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    • pp.223-232
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    • 2014
  • This paper describes a variant of the extended Gaussian image based registration algorithm for point clouds with surface color information. The method correlates the distributions of surface normals for rotational alignment and grid occupancy for translational alignment with hue filters applied during the construction of surface normal histograms and occupancy grids. In this method, the size of the point cloud is reduced with a hue-based down sampling that is independent of the point sample density or local geometry. Experimental results show that use of the hue filters increases the registration speed and improves the registration accuracy. Coarse rigid transformations determined in this step enable fine alignment with dense, unfiltered point clouds or using Iterative Common Point (ICP) alignment techniques.

A GGQS-based hybrid algorithm for inter-cloud time-critical event dissemination

  • Bae, Ihn-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • 제23권6호
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    • pp.1259-1269
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    • 2012
  • Cloud computing has rapidly become a new infrastructure for organizations to reduce their capital cost in IT investment and to develop planetary-scale distributed applications. One of the fundamental challenges in geographically distributed clouds is to provide efficient algorithms for supporting inter-cloud data management and dissemination. In this paper, we propose a geographic group quorum system (GGQS)-based hybrid algorithm for improving the interoperability of inter-cloud in time-critical event dissemination service, such as computing policy updating, message sharing, event notification and so forth. The proposed algorithm first organizes these distributed clouds into a geographic group quorum overlay to support a constant event dissemination latency. Then it uses a hybrid protocol that combines geographic group-based broad-cast with quorum-based multicast. Our numerical results show that the GGQS-based hybrid algorithm improves the efficiency as compared with Chord-based, Plume an GQS-based algorithms.

A Simple Simulation of Parabola-Shaped Clouds in the Lee of a Low Bell-Shaped Mountain Using the ARPS

  • Lee, Seung-Jae;Lee, Hwa-Woon;Kang, Sung-Dae
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.541-548
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    • 2007
  • A three-dimensional linear model and the Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) were used to simulate parabola-shaped disturbances and clouds in the lee of a bell-shaped mountain. The ARPS model was compared in the x-y plane against the linear model's analytic solution. Under similar conditions with the linear theory, the ARPS produced well-developed parabola-shaped mountain disturbances and confirmed the features are accounted for in the linear regime. A parabola-shaped cloud in the lee of an isolated bell-shaped mountain was successfully simulated in the ARPS after 6 hours of integration time with the prescribed initial and boundary conditions, as well as a microphysical scheme.

WATER VAPOR MASERS: A SIGNPOST FOR LOW MASS STAR FORMATION

  • Migenes, V.;Trinidad, M.A.;Valdettaro, R.;Brand, J.;Palla, F.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제40권4호
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    • pp.127-129
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    • 2007
  • It is well known that water vapor maser emission at 22.2 GHz is associated with the earliest stages of both low- and high-mass star formation and it can be considered a reliable diagnostic of their evolutionary state. Bright Rimmed Clouds (BRCs) are clouds that have been compressed by an external ionization-shock front which focuses the neutral gas into compact globules. The boundary layer between the neutral gas and the gas ionized by the incident photons is often called "bright rim" but the clumps are sometimes classified also as speck globules or cometary globules depending on their appearance. Small globules with bright rims have been considered to be potential sites of star formation and have been studied in several individual regions. We present results from high resolution VLA observations searching for new candidates of recent star formation in bright-rimmed clouds/globules associated with IRAS point sources.

Adaptive Resource Management and Provisioning in the Cloud Computing: A Survey of Definitions, Standards and Research Roadmaps

  • Keshavarzi, Amin;Haghighat, Abolfazl Toroghi;Bohlouli, Mahdi
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제11권9호
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    • pp.4280-4300
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    • 2017
  • The fact that cloud computing services have been proposed in recent years, organizations and individuals face with various challenges and problems such as how to migrate applications and software platforms into cloud or how to ensure security of migrated applications. This study reviews the current challenges and open issues in cloud computing, with the focus on autonomic resource management especially in federated clouds. In addition, this study provides recommendations and research roadmaps for scientific activities, as well as potential improvements in federated cloud computing. This survey study covers results achieved through 190 literatures including books, journal and conference papers, industrial reports, forums, and project reports. A solution is proposed for autonomic resource management in the federated clouds, using machine learning and statistical analysis in order to provide better and efficient resource management.

Origin of the Cometary Structure of the HVCs: 3D-MHD Numerical Simulations

  • SANTILLAN ALFREDO;FRANCO JOSE;KIM JONGSOO
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제34권4호
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    • pp.341-343
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    • 2001
  • Here were continue the MHD study started by Santillan et al (1999) for the interaction of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) with the magnetized thick gaseous disk of our Galaxy. We use the MHD code ZEUS-3D and perform 3D-numerical simulations of this interaction, and study the formation of head-tail structures in HVCs. Our results show that clouds located above 2 kpc from mindplane present velocity and column density gradients with a cometary structure that is similar to those observed in 21 cm emission

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PDF properties of ISM turbulence

  • 조현진;강혜성;류동수;김종수;조정연
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제36권2호
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    • pp.107.1-107.1
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    • 2011
  • Density Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) are a classic statistical way to study properties of Interstellar Medium (ISM) turbulence. In our three-dimensional MHD simulations, density PDFs of the position-position velocity (PPV) spaces are close to a log-normal distribution. the PDF widths depend on the plasma parameters such as magnetic strength and sonic Mach number. Futhermore, we compare these simulations results to Galactic molecular clouds observed by Jackson et. al (2006). By fitting of the velocity dispersion in the spectral line observation, volume density PDFs of the defined molecular clouds indicate that the sound speeds of the turbulences seem to have a few times larger than the simulation results. In order to understand the inconsistency with general characteristics of turbulence, we consider other simulations inducing the turbulent flow randomly at small driving scales. We find that the density PDF width decreases at more smaller driving scale. Finally, the simulations suggest that sources of ISM turbulence in Galactic molecular clouds can be important on small scales.

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Effect of Dark Matter on the Collision of High Velocity Clouds with the Galactic Disk

  • 곽규진;김종수
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제38권1호
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    • pp.46.1-46.1
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    • 2013
  • High velocity clouds (HVCs) are H I clouds that move with large speed (${\mid}V_{LSR}{\mid}$ >100 km/s) in the halo of the Milky Way. It is now evident that at least some populations of HVCs originated from extragalactic sources, either primordial gas left over from the galaxy formation or gaseous material stripped off from other galaxies closely passing by the Milky Way. HVCs with extragalactic origin play an important role in the star formation of the Milky Way when they eventually collide with the disk of the Milky Way. Although it is still observationally controversial whether HVCs are surrounded by dark matter or not, it is theoretically interesting to investigate the effect of dark matter on the collision of HVCs with the disk of the Milky Way. We model this scenario by using hydrodynamic simulations and search for proper parameters that explain the currently available observations such as the Smith Cloud that is thought to have collided with the Galactic disk already.

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STRUCTURE OF $^{13}CO$ EMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF IR IN THE DARK CLOUD L1535

  • LEE YONG BOK;MINN Y. K.
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.79-81
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    • 1999
  • We have made an extensive mapping of the $^{13}CO$ J=1-0 transition line in the dark cloud L1535. We also constructed the $100{\mu}m$ IRAS map in the region. We found a semi-detached cloud component of $^{13}CO$ in the northeast direction of the $^{13}CO$ main cloud which forms a dumbbell-like structure. This additional component with an angular size of $20'\times16'$ has not been observed before in any molecular surveys of the cloud. The IRAS map shows a similar structure with two intensity peaks whose positions coincide with those of the $^{13}CO$ clouds.

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