'Shear velocity' presentation slideshows

Snow Hydrology

Snow Hydrology. Don Cline Presented at Hydromet 00-1 Monday, 25 October 1999 National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center Office of Hydrology, National Weather Service, NOAA. Why is Snow Important?. Why is Snow Important?. Snowmelt Flooding. Snowmelt floods are a severe problem:

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Snow Hydrology

Snow Hydrology. modified from Don Cline for COMET. Why is Snow Important?. Snowmelt Flooding. Snowmelt floods are a severe problem: Red River of the North, April 1997 $4 Billion in Damages Northeast Floods, January 1996 Delaware R., Hudson R., Ohio R., Susquehanna R., Potomac R.

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Evolution of a Cooling Planet

Evolution of a Cooling Planet. Magma ocean Thick buoyant crust Melting at base Heat pipes Eclogite at base Delamination Plate instability. *prior to all this is accretional zone refining & differentiation. The Earth started out HOT!.

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Assembling So. Nevada Geophysical Data to Model Seismic Response in Las Vegas Valley

Assembling So. Nevada Geophysical Data to Model Seismic Response in Las Vegas Valley. John N. Louie & John G. Anderson Seismological Lab, UNR May 2002 - May 2005. LVVSR Components @UNR. Model Assembler Enables LLNL to use existing knowledge Adding new data; interoperation and archiving

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Text-book image of the earth

Seismic Tomography (Part III, Key results). Text-book image of the earth. Plate Tectonics. ocean crust. ocean ridge. Arc volcano. trench. continent. oceanic lithosphere. Sub-continental lithosphere. SUBDUCTING SLAB. Mantle Subdivisions. 660 km. mesosphere. Common Data Types:.

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Global seismic tomography and its CIDER applications

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Assembling Geophysical Data to Model Seismic Response in Las Vegas Valley

Assembling Geophysical Data to Model Seismic Response in Las Vegas Valley. John G. Anderson & John N. Louie Seismological Lab, UNR May 2003 - May 2005. LVVSR Components @UNR. Shallow shear-velocity transects Extensive reconnaissance data Model Assembler

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16. Physics of Sediment Transport William Wilcock (based in part on lectures by Jeff Parsons)

OCEAN/ESS 410. 16. Physics of Sediment Transport William Wilcock (based in part on lectures by Jeff Parsons). Lecture/Lab Learning Goals. Know how sediments are characterized (size and shape) Know the definitions of kinematic and dynamic viscosity, eddy viscosity, and specific gravity

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3D S velocity models

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15. Physics of Sediment Transport William Wilcock (based in part on lectures by Jeff Parsons)

OCEAN/ESS 410. 15. Physics of Sediment Transport William Wilcock (based in part on lectures by Jeff Parsons). Lecture/Lab Learning Goals. Know how sediments are characterized (size and shape) Know the definitions of kinematic and dynamic viscosity, eddy viscosity, and specific gravity

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Global Tomography -150 km depth

Global Tomography -150 km depth. Continental cratons - cold, rigid material Spreading centers & mountains - warm mantle. P , S, and Q Tomography - Tonga Arc. Velocity tomography shows anomalies relative to average model [ Conder and Wiens , 2005];

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Aeolian Processes I

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Workshop on Quark-gluon Thermalization Vienna, August 10-12, 2005

Workshop on Quark-gluon Thermalization Vienna, August 10-12, 2005. Thermalization and Globally Polarized QGP in Non-central Heavy-ion Collisions. Instability and Cerenkov Radiation. Xin-Nian Wang/LBNL. In collaboration with Zuo-tang Liang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005)102301.

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ReMi Applied Geophysics Spring Break 2010

ReMi Applied Geophysics Spring Break 2010. Fariha Islam Gretchen Schmauder. Question. Can the ReMi method be used to locate faults in the Reno Basin?. Area Geology. NE trending faults Lacustrine, fluvial, and alluvial fan deposits Tertiary volcanic basement Active hot springs.

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Micro Scale Flow

Micro Scale Flow. Measure at the Right Magnitude!. Boundary Flow. When water flows over a solid (?) surface (boundary) frictional drag slows the velocity

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