U.S. National Science Foundation

The dual effect of urban areas on supercell storms

Abstract. The effect of urban land use on convective storms with deep and persistent rotating updrafts (supercell storms) is systematically investigated using ensembles of idealized numerical simulations. A supercell is simulated over a flat domain containing a circular city surr...

Minimal organism JCVI-syn3.0, an engineered derivative of Mycoplasma mycoides , encodes an assortment of unrecognized membrane transporters and immunity factors

ABSTRACT In 2016, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute produced JCVI-Syn3.0, a derivative of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri Large Colony strain GM12 with a re-engineered, minimized genome. The minimal synthetic genome of 532 kbp encodes 473 genes, selected from ∼910 par...

Layer‐Dependent Diurnal Moist Static Energy Biases in the Unified Forecast System During the MJO Preconditioning Stage: A DYNAMO Case Study

Abstract Accurate simulation of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) requires realistic diurnal evolution and vertical distribution of moist static energy (MSE). While prior studies documented MSE bias in simulations, vertically dependent physical processes responsible for these b...