Search Results - "Kostinski, Alex"

Universal Rank-Order Transform to Extract Signals from Noisy Data by Ierley, Glenn, Kostinski, Alex

“…We introduce an ordinate method for noisy data analysis, based solely on rank information and thus insensitive to outliers. The method is nonparametric and…”
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Scaling of Drizzle Virga Depth With Cloud Thickness for Marine Stratocumulus Clouds by Yang, Fan, Luke, Edward P., Kollias, Pavlos, Kostinski, Alex B., Vogelmann, Andrew M.

“…Drizzle is frequently observed in marine stratocumulus clouds and plays a crucial role in cloud lifetime and the radiation budget. Most drizzling stratocumulus…”
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Minimum principles in electromagnetic scattering by small aspherical particles by Kostinski, Alex B., Mongkolsittisilp, Ajaree

“…We consider the question of optimal shapes, e.g., those causing minimal extinction among all shapes of equal volume. Guided by the isoperimetric property of a…”
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Global association of aerosol with flash density of intense lightning by Altaratz, Orit, Kucienska, Beata, Kostinski, Alex, Raga, Graciela B, Koren, Ilan

“…A global scale study of the association between aerosol loading and lightning production was conducted, using a full year's data for 2012 (as well as seasonal…”
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Comprehensive tool for calculation of radiative fluxes: illustration of shortwave aerosol radiative effect sensitivities to the details in aerosol and underlying surface characteristics by Derimian, Yevgeny, Dubovik, Oleg, Huang, Xin, Lapyonok, Tatyana, Litvinov, Pavel, Kostinski, Alex B, Dubuisson, Philippe, Ducos, Fabrice

“…The evaluation of aerosol radiative effect on broadband hemispherical solar flux is often performed using simplified spectral and directional scattering…”
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Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds by Koren, Ilan, Kostinski, Alex, Wollner, Uri, Dubrovin, Daria

“…Glory is a beautiful optical phenomenon observed in an atmosphere as concentric colored rings reflected by clouds or fog around an antisolar point. Here we…”
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Detection of small drizzle droplets in a large cloud chamber using ultrahigh-resolution radar by Zhu, Zeen, Yang, Fan, Kollias, Pavlos, Shaw, Raymond A, Kostinski, Alex B, Krueger, Steve, Lamer, Katia, Allwayin, Nithin, Oue, Mariko

“…A large convection–cloud chamber has the potential to produce drizzle-sized droplets, thus offering a new opportunity to investigate aerosol–cloud–drizzle…”
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A single-photon lidar observes atmospheric clouds at decimeter scales: resolving droplet activation within cloud base by Yang, Fan, Kostinski, Alex B., Zhu, Zeen, Lamer, Katia, Luke, Edward, Kollias, Pavlos, Sua, Yong Meng, Hou, Pei, Shaw, Raymond A., Vogelmann, Andrew M.

“…Clouds, crucial for understanding climate, begin with droplet formation from aerosols, but observations of this fleeting activation step are lacking in the…”
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Observational bounds on atmospheric heating by aerosol absorption: Radiative signature of transatlantic dust by Davidi, Amit, Kostinski, Alex B., Koren, Ilan, Lehahn, Yoav

“…Aerosols absorb solar radiation thus changing the atmospheric temperature profile but the overall magnitude of this effect is not known. To that end, Saharan…”
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Surfactant properties of atmospheric and model humic-like substances (HULIS) by Taraniuk, Ilya, Graber, Ellen R., Kostinski, Alex, Rudich, Yinon

“…Surface‐active organics such as humic‐like substances (HULIS) are abundant in aerosol particles and can lower the surface tension of cloud droplets forming on…”
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Enrichment of surface-active compounds in coalescing cloud drops by Taraniuk, Ilya, Kostinski, Alex B., Rudich, Yinon

“…Surfactants often found in tropospheric aerosols, can affect the onset and development of clouds. Due to high dilution during droplet growth, the effects of…”
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A fast algorithm for computing a matrix transform used to detect trends in noisy data by Kestner, Dan, Ierley, Glenn, Kostinski, Alex

“…A recently discovered universal rank-based matrix method to extract trends from noisy time series is described in Ierley and Kostinski (2019) but the formula…”
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Temperature variability and early clustering of record-breaking events by Anderson, Amalia, Kostinski, Alex

“…As the number of climatological studies using record-breaking statistics is growing rapidly, understanding the sensitivity of the chosen time period becomes…”
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Spatial scales of pollution from variable resolution satellite imaging by Chudnovsky, Alexandra A., Kostinski, Alex, Lyapustin, Alexei, Koutrakis, Petros

“…The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides daily global coverage, but the 10 km resolution of its aerosol optical depth (AOD) product…”
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Deep Space Observations of Sun Glints from Marine Ice Clouds by Varnai, Tamas, Kostinski, Alexander B., Marshak, Alexander

“…The Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft takes images of the sunlit face of the earth from a…”
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Organization and Oscillations in Simulated Shallow Convective Clouds by Dagan, Guy, Koren, Ilan, Kostinski, Alex, Altaratz, Orit

“…Physical insights into processes governing temporal organization and evolution of cloud fields are of great importance for climate research. Here using large…”
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Spatial and temporal variability in desert dust and anthropogenic pollution in Iraq, 1997-2010 by Chudnovsky, A. Alexandra, Koutrakis, Petros, Kostinski, Alex, Proctor, Susan P., Garshick, Eric

“…Satellite imaging has emerged as a method for monitoring regional air pollution and detecting areas of high dust concentrations. Unlike ground observations,…”
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Record setting during dispersive transport in porous media by Edery, Yaniv, Kostinski, Alex, Berkowitz, Brian

“…How often does a contaminant ‘particle’ migrating in a porous medium set a distance record, i.e., advance farther from the origin than at all previous time…”
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Prediction of daily fine particulate matter concentrations using aerosol optical depth retrievals from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) by Chudnovsky, Alexandra A., Lee, Hyung Joo, Kostinski, Alex, Kotlov, Tanya, Koutrakis, Petros

“…Although ground-level PM 2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter <2.5 μm) monitoring sites provide accurate measurements, their spatial coverage…”
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Record setting during dispersive transport in porous media: RECORD SETTING DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT by Edery, Yaniv, Kostinski, Alex, Berkowitz, Brian

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