Search Results - "Freitas, R S"

A scale and aerosol aware stochastic convective parameterization for weather and air quality modeling by Grell, G. A, Freitas, S. R

“…A convective parameterization is described and evaluated that may be used in high resolution non-hydrostatic mesoscale models as well as in modeling system…”
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Artificial 'spin ice' in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands by Schiffer, P, Wang, R. F, Nisoli, C, Freitas, R. S, Li, J, McConville, W, Cooley, B. J, Lund, M. S, Samarth, N, Leighton, C, Crespi, V. H

“…Frustration, defined as a competition between interactions such that not all of them can be satisfied, is important in systems ranging from neural networks to…”
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Can chronic stretching change the muscle‐tendon mechanical properties? A review by Freitas, S. R., Mendes, B., Le Sant, G., Andrade, R. J., Nordez, A., Milanovic, Z.

“…It is recognized that stretching is an effective method to chronically increase the joint range of motion. However, the effects of stretching training on the…”
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Inclusion of biomass burning in WRF-Chem: impact of wildfires on weather forecasts by Grell, G., Freitas, S. R., Stuefer, M., Fast, J.

“…A plume rise algorithm for wildfires was included in WRF-Chem, and applied to look at the impact of intense wildfires during the 2004 Alaska wildfire season on…”
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Effects of hip and head position on ankle range of motion, ankle passive torque, and passive gastrocnemius tension by Andrade, R. J., Lacourpaille, L., Freitas, S. R., McNair, P. J., Nordez, A.

“…Ankle joint range of motion (ROM) is notably influenced by the position of the hip joint. However, this result remains unexplained. Thus, the aim of this study…”
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Leprosy in Brazil and its association with characteristics of municipalities: ecological study, 2009–2011 by FREITAS, Lúcia R. S, DUARTE, Elisabeth C, GARCIA, Leila P

“…Objective To analyse the ecological association between the demographic and socio‐economic characteristics of the Brazilian municipalities and average leprosy…”
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Modeling the South American regional smoke plume: aerosol optical depth variability and surface shortwave flux perturbation by Rosário, N. E, Longo, K. M, Freitas, S. R, Yamasoe, M. A, Fonseca, R. M

“…Intra-seasonal variability of smoke aerosol optical depth (AOD) and downwelling solar irradiance at the surface during the 2002 biomass burning season in South…”
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PREP-CHEM-SRC – 1.0: a preprocessor of trace gas and aerosol emission fields for regional and global atmospheric chemistry models by Freitas, SR, Longo, K M, Alonso, M F, Pirre, M, Marecal, V, Grell, G, Stockler, R, Mello, R F, Gacita, MS

“…The preprocessor PREP-CHEM-SRC presented in the paper is a comprehensive tool aiming at preparing emission fields of trace gases and aerosols for use in…”
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OMI and MODIS observations of the anomalous 2008–2009 Southern Hemisphere biomass burning seasons by Torres, O., Chen, Z., Jethva, H., Ahn, C., Freitas, S. R., Bhartia, P. K.

“…Significant inter-annual variability of biomass burning was observed in South America over the 2007–2009 period. The 2007 number of fires detected from space…”
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Properties of Gd2O3 nanoparticles studied by hyperfine interactions and magnetization measurements by Correa, E. L., Bosch-Santos, B., Cavalcante, F. H. M., Correa, B. S., Freitas, R. S., Carbonari, A. W., Potiens, M. P. A.

“…The magnetic behavior of Gd2O3 nanoparticles, produced by thermal decomposition method and subsequently annealed at different temperatures, was investigated by…”
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Impact of including the plume rise of vegetation fires in numerical simulations of associated atmospheric pollutants by Freitas, S. R., Longo, K. M., Andreae, M. O.

“…We investigate the importance of including in low‐resolution atmospheric models the plume rise associated with the strong buoyancy of hot gases from vegetation…”
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Characterising Brazilian biomass burning emissions using WRF-Chem with MOSAIC sectional aerosol by Archer-Nicholls, S, Lowe, D, Darbyshire, E, Morgan, W. T, Bela, M. M, Pereira, G, Trembath, J, Kaiser, J. W, Longo, K. M, Freitas, S. R, Coe, H, McFiggans, G

“…The South American Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA) field campaign took detailed in situ flight measurements of aerosol during the 2012 dry season to…”
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Ozone production and transport over the Amazon Basin during the dry-to-wet and wet-to-dry transition seasons by Bela, M. M, Longo, K. M, Freitas, S. R, Moreira, D. S, Beck, V, Wofsy, S. C, Gerbig, C, Wiedemann, K, Andreae, M. O, Artaxo, P

“…The Regional Carbon Balance in Amazonia (BARCA) campaign provided the first Amazon Basin-wide aircraft measurements of ozone (O3) during both the dry-to-wet…”
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Genetic diversity based on multivariate techniques in elephant grass genotypes for bioenergy by Vidal, A K F, Daher, R F, Freitas, R S, Santana, J G S, Stida, W F, Ambrósio, M, Silva, V B, Souza, A G, Nascimento, M R, Santos, R M, Leite, C L, Farias, J E C

“…The use of biomass for energy production constitutes a promising strategy that warrants the search for new sources of biomass. Elephant grass has been gaining…”
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Prevalence of Candida spp., xerostomia, and hyposalivation in oral lichen planus - A controlled study by Artico, G, Freitas, RS, Santos Filho, AM, Benard, G, Romiti, R, Migliari, DA

“…Objective To determine the frequency of Candida spp., xerostomia, and salivary flow rate (SFR) in three different groups: patients with OLP (OLP group),…”
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Habitat or matrix: which is more relevant to predict road-kill of vertebrates? by Bueno, C, Sousa, C O M, Freitas, S R

“…We believe that in tropics we need a community approach to evaluate road impacts on wildlife, and thus, suggest mitigation measures for groups of species…”
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The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS) – Part 2: Model sensitivity to the biomass burning inventories by Longo, K. M., Freitas, S. R., Andreae, M. O., Setzer, A., Prins, E., Artaxo, P.

“…We describe an estimation technique for biomass burning emissions in South America based on a combination of remote-sensing fire products and field…”
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WRF-Chem simulations in the Amazon region during wet and dry season transitions: evaluation of methane models and wetland inundation maps by Beck, V, Gerbig, C, Koch, T, Bela, M. M, Longo, K. M, Freitas, S. R, Kaplan, J. O, Prigent, C, Bergamaschi, P, Heimann, M

“…The Amazon region, being a large source of methane (CH4), contributes significantly to the global annual CH4 budget. For the first time, a forward and inverse…”
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Zero-point entropy in stuffed spin-ice by Freitas, R. S, Schiffer, P, Ueland, B. G, Lau, G. C, Cava, R. J, Muegge, B. D, Duncan, E. L

“…The third law of thermodynamics dictates that the entropy of a system in thermal equilibrium goes to zero as its temperature approaches absolute zero. In ice,…”
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The Chemistry CATT-BRAMS model (CCATT-BRAMS 4.5): a regional atmospheric model system for integrated air quality and weather forecasting and research by Longo, K. M, Freitas, S. R, Pirre, M, Marécal, V, Rodrigues, L. F, Panetta, J, Alonso, M. F, Rosário, N. E, Moreira, D. S, Gácita, M. S, Arteta, J, Fonseca, R, Stockler, R, Katsurayama, D. M, Fazenda, A, Bela, M

“…Coupled Chemistry Aerosol-Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CCATT-BRAMS, version 4.5) is an…”
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