Long-term development of short-period gravity waves in middle Europe

The aim of this paper is to share our experience in managing a patient with Klebsiella pneumoniae mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm who was also infected with COVID-19. A 69-year-old male was transferred to our hospital for the management of an infra-renal mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm. During his hospital course, the patient contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). He was intubated due to respiratory distress. Over a short period, his mycotic aneurysm increased in size from 2.5 cm to 3.9 cm. An emergency repair of his expanding aneurysm was achieved using our previously described protocol of coating endovascular stents with rifampin. The patient was managed with a rifampin-coated endovascular stent graft without any major complications. Postoperatively, the patient did not demonstrate any neurological deficits nor any vascular compromise. He remained afebrile during his postoperative course and was extubated sometime thereafter. He was then transferred to the ward for additional monitoring prior to his discharge to a rehab hospital while being on long-term antibiotics. During his hospital stay, he was monitored with serial ultrasounds to ensure the absence of abscess formation, aortic aneurysm growth or graft endoleak. At 6 weeks after stent graft placement, he underwent a CT scan, which showed a patent stent graft, with a residual sac size of 2.5 cm without any evidence of abscess or endoleak. Over a follow-up period of 180 days, the patient remained asymptomatic while remaining on long-term antibiotics. Thus, in patients whose surgical risk is prohibitive, endovascular stent grafts can be used as a bridge to definitive surgical management.

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Diurnal and seasonal variability of short-period gravity waves at ∼40° N using meteor radar wind observations

Advances in Space Research ◽

10.1016/j.asr.2021.03.028 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Caixia Tian ◽

Xiong Hu ◽

Alan Z. Liu ◽

Zhaoai Yan ◽

Qingchen Xu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gravity Waves ◽

Seasonal Variability ◽

Meteor Radar ◽

Short Period

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An unusually low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes around the old star TOI-561

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ◽

10.1093/mnras/staa3728 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

G Lacedelli ◽

L Malavolta ◽

L Borsato ◽

G Piotto ◽

D Nardiello ◽

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Keyword(s):

Transit Time ◽

Time Variation ◽

Planetary System ◽

Radial Velocities ◽

Low Density ◽

Outer Planets ◽

Short Period ◽

The Stability

Abstract Based on HARPS-N radial velocities (RVs) and TESS photometry, we present a full characterisation of the planetary system orbiting the late G dwarf After the identification of three transiting candidates by TESS, we discovered two additional external planets from RV analysis. RVs cannot confirm the outer TESS transiting candidate, which would also make the system dynamically unstable. We demonstrate that the two transits initially associated with this candidate are instead due to single transits of the two planets discovered using RVs. The four planets orbiting TOI-561 include an ultra-short period (USP) super-Earth (TOI-561 b) with period Pb = 0.45 d, mass Mb = 1.59 ± 0.36 M⊕ and radius Rb = 1.42 ± 0.07 R⊕, and three mini-Neptunes: TOI-561 c, with Pc = 10.78 d, Mc = 5.40 ± 0.98 M⊕, Rc = 2.88 ± 0.09 R⊕; TOI-561 d, with Pd = 25.6 d, Md = 11.9 ± 1.3 M⊕, Rd = 2.53 ± 0.13 R⊕; and TOI-561 e, with Pe = 77.2 d, Me = 16.0 ± 2.3 M⊕, Re = 2.67 ± 0.11 R⊕. Having a density of 3.0 ± 0.8 g cm−3, TOI-561 b is the lowest density USP planet known to date. Our N-body simulations confirm the stability of the system and predict a strong, anti-correlated, long-term transit time variation signal between planets d and e. The unusual density of the inner super-Earth and the dynamical interactions between the outer planets make TOI-561 an interesting follow-up target.

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Heatwaves in Kenya 1987–2016: Facts from CHIRTS High Resolution Satellite Remotely Sensed and Station Blended Temperature Dataset

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos12010037 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Martial Amou ◽

Amatus Gyilbag ◽

Tsedale Demelash ◽

Yinlong Xu

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Reference Period ◽

The West ◽

Tana River ◽

Short Period ◽

The World ◽

Northern Side ◽

Data Source

As global temperatures continue to rise unabated, episodes of heat-related catastrophes across the world have intensified. In Kenya, heatwave phenomena and their associated impacts are ignored and neglected due to several reasons, including unreliable and inconsistent weather datasets and heatwave detection metrics. Based on CHIRTS satellite infrared estimates and station blended temperature, this study investigated the spatiotemporal distribution of the heatwave events over Kenya during 1987–2016 using the Heatwave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId). The results showed that contrary to the absence of heatwave records in official national and international disaster database about Kenya, the country experienced heatwaves ranging from less severe (normal) to deadly (super-extreme) between 1987 and 2016. The most affected areas were located in the eastern parts of the country, especially in Garissa and Tana River, and in the west-northern side around the upper side of Turkana county. It was also found that the recent years’ heatwaves were more severe in magnitude, duration, and spatial extent. The highest magnitude of the heatwaves was recorded in 2015 (HWMId = 22.64) while the average over the reference period is around 6. CHIRTS and HWMId were able to reveal and capture most critical heatwave events over the study period. Therefore, they could be used respectively as data source and detection metrics, for heatwaves disaster emergency warning over short period as well as for long-term projection to provide insight for adaptation strategies.

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Long-term efficacy of a short period of taping followed by an exercise program in a cohort of patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome

Clinical Rheumatology ◽

10.1007/s10067-011-1883-2 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 535-539 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Marco Paoloni ◽

Giancarlo Fratocchi ◽

Massimiliano Mangone ◽

Massimiliano Murgia ◽

Valter Santilli ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Exercise Program ◽

Pain Syndrome ◽

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome ◽

Patellofemoral Pain ◽

Term Efficacy ◽

Short Period

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Atmospheric general circulation and waves simulated by a Venus AORI GCM with topographical and radiative forcings

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3657 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Masaru Yamamoto ◽

Takumi Hirose ◽

Kohei Ikeda ◽

Masaaki Takahashi

Keyword(s):

Gravity Waves ◽

General Circulation ◽

Circulation Model ◽

Stationary Wave ◽

Static Stability ◽

Small Scale ◽

Mean Flow ◽

Short Period ◽

Low Latitudes ◽

Thermal Tides

<p>General circulation and waves are investigated using a T63 Venus general circulation model (GCM) with solar and thermal radiative transfer in the presence of high-resolution surface topography. This model has been developed by Ikeda (2011) at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), the University of Tokyo, and was used in Yamamoto et al. (2019, 2021). In the wind and static stability structures similar to the observed ones, the waves are investigated. Around the cloud-heating maximum (~65 km), the simulated thermal tides accelerate an equatorial superrotational flow with a speed of ~90 m/s<sup></sup>with rates of 0.2&#8211;0.5 m/s/(Earth day) via both horizontal and vertical momentum fluxes at low latitudes. Over the high mountains at low latitudes, the vertical wind variance at the cloud top is produced by topographically-fixed, short-period eddies, indicating penetrative plumes and gravity waves. In the solar-fixed coordinate system, the variances (i.e., the activity of waves other than thermal tides) of flow are relatively higher on the night-side than on the dayside at the cloud top. The local-time variation of the vertical eddy momentum flux is produced by both thermal tides and solar-related, small-scale gravity waves. Around the cloud bottom, the 9-day super-rotation of the zonal mean flow has a weak equatorial maximum and the 7.5-day Kelvin-like wave has an equatorial jet-like wind of 60-70 m/s. Because we discussed the thermal tide and topographically stationary wave in Yamamoto et al. (2021), we focus on the short-period eddies in the presentation.</p>

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Radiation of internal waves from groups of surface gravity waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2017.536 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 829 ◽

pp. 280-303 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

S. Haney ◽

W. R. Young

Keyword(s):

Internal Waves ◽

Energy Flux ◽

Gravity Waves ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Stokes Drift ◽

Surface Gravity ◽

Fourth Power ◽

Buoyancy Frequency ◽

Surface Gravity Waves ◽

Short Period

Groups of surface gravity waves induce horizontally varying Stokes drift that drives convergence of water ahead of the group and divergence behind. The mass flux divergence associated with spatially variable Stokes drift pumps water downwards in front of the group and upwards in the rear. This ‘Stokes pumping’ creates a deep Eulerian return flow that sets the isopycnals below the wave group in motion and generates a trailing wake of internal gravity waves. We compute the energy flux from surface to internal waves by finding solutions of the wave-averaged Boussinesq equations in two and three dimensions forced by Stokes pumping at the surface. The two-dimensional (2-D) case is distinct from the 3-D case in that the stratification must be very strong, or the surface waves very slow for any internal wave (IW) radiation at all. On the other hand, in three dimensions, IW radiation always occurs, but with a larger energy flux as the stratification and surface wave (SW) amplitude increase or as the SW period is shorter. Specifically, the energy flux from SWs to IWs varies as the fourth power of the SW amplitude and of the buoyancy frequency, and is inversely proportional to the fifth power of the SW period. Using parameters typical of short period swell (e.g. 8 s SW period with 1 m amplitude) we find that the energy flux is small compared to both the total energy in a typical SW group and compared to the total IW energy. Therefore this coupling between SWs and IWs is not a significant sink of energy for the SWs nor a source for IWs. In an extreme case (e.g. 4 m amplitude 20 s period SWs) this coupling is a significant source of energy for IWs with frequency close to the buoyancy frequency.

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Observation of Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities and gravity waves in the summer mesopause above Andenes in Northern Norway

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ◽

10.5194/acp-18-6721-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 6721-6732 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Gunter Stober ◽

Svenja Sommer ◽

Carsten Schult ◽

Ralph Latteck ◽

Jorge L. Chau

Keyword(s):

Gravity Waves ◽

Middle Atmosphere ◽

Phase Speed ◽

Velocity Measurements ◽

Wind Variability ◽

Short Period ◽

Strong Shear ◽

Summer Echoes ◽

Period Wave ◽

Horizontal Wavelength

Abstract. We present observations obtained with the Middle Atmosphere Alomar Radar System (MAARSY) to investigate short-period wave-like features using polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSEs) as a tracer for the neutral dynamics. We conducted a multibeam experiment including 67 different beam directions during a 9-day campaign in June 2013. We identified two Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI) events from the signal morphology of PMSE. The MAARSY observations are complemented by collocated meteor radar wind data to determine the mesoscale gravity wave activity and the vertical structure of the wind field above the PMSE. The KHIs occurred in a strong shear flow with Richardson numbers Ri < 0.25. In addition, we observed 15 wave-like events in our MAARSY multibeam observations applying a sophisticated decomposition of the radial velocity measurements using volume velocity processing. We retrieved the horizontal wavelength, intrinsic frequency, propagation direction, and phase speed from the horizontally resolved wind variability for 15 events. These events showed horizontal wavelengths between 20 and 40 km, vertical wavelengths between 5 and 10 km, and rather high intrinsic phase speeds between 45 and 85 m s−1 with intrinsic periods of 5–10 min.

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TRENDS IN DATA WAREHOUSING TECHNIQUES

10.31219/osf.io/6cyq4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Naveen Kunnathuvalappil Hariharan

Keyword(s):

Relational Databases ◽

Financial Data ◽

Relational Model ◽

Time Data ◽

Short Period ◽

The Subject ◽

Processing And Storage ◽

And Storage ◽

Long Term Trend

Financial data volumes are increasing, and this appears to be a long-term trend, implying that data managementdevelopment will be crucial over the next few decades. Because financial data is sometimes real-time data, itis constantly generated, resulting in a massive amount of financial data produced in a short period of time.The volume, diversity, and velocity of Big Financial Data are highlighting the significant limitations oftraditional Data Warehouses (DWs). Their rigid relational model, high scalability costs, and sometimesinefficient performance pave the way for new methods and technologies. The majority of the technologiesused in background processing and storage research were previously the subject of research in their earlystages. The Apache Foundation and Google are the two most important initiatives. For dealing with largefinancial data, three techniques outperform relational databases and traditional ETL processing: NoSQL andNewSQL storage, and MapReduce processing.

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