scholarly journals Intermediate time scale response of atmospheric CO2following prescribed fire in a longleaf pine forest

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (10) ◽  
pp. 2745-2760 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Viner ◽  
M. Parker ◽  
G. Maze ◽  
P. Varnedoe ◽  
M. Leclerc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Scale Response ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Intermediate Time Scale

scholarly journals Incompressible impulsive sloshing

2012 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 279-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peder A. Tyvand ◽  
Touvia Miloh
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Hydrodynamic Force ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Surface Velocity ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Time Expansion ◽  
Horizontal Cylinders ◽  
Intermediate Time Scale

AbstractThe incompressible impulsive time scale for inviscid liquid sloshing in open rigid containers suddenly put into motion is defined as the intermediate time scale in between the acoustic time scale and the gravitational time scale. Surge and sway boundary-value problems for incompressible impulsive sloshing in some realistic container shapes are solved analytically to the leading order in a small-time expansion. A solution is provided for two types of horizontal cylinders: a triangular cylindrical wedge and a half-filled circular cylinder. The surface velocity and the hydrodynamic force with its corresponding virtual fluid mass are calculated. The cases of constant impulsive velocity and constant impulsive acceleration are linked by transformation equations. Flows with waterline singularities are discussed, being leading-order outer flows in terms of matched asymptotic expansions.

scholarly journals Bath-induced decoherence in finite-size Majorana wires at non-zero temperature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Breckwoldt ◽  
Thore Posske ◽  
Michael Thorwart
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Topological Superconductors ◽  
Topological Quantum ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Topological Errors ◽  
The One ◽  
Intermediate Time Scale

Abstract Braiding Majorana zero-modes around each other is a promising route towards topological quantum computing. Yet, two competing maxims emerge when implementing Majorana braiding in real systems: On the one hand, perfect braiding should be conducted adiabatically slowly to avoid non-topological errors. On the other hand, braiding must be conducted fast such that decoherence effects introduced by the environment are negligible, which are generally unavoidable in finite-size systems. This competition results in an intermediate time scale for Majorana braiding that is optimal, but generally not error-free. Here, we calculate this intermediate time scale for a T-junction of short one-dimensional topological superconductors coupled to a bosonic bath that generates fluctuations in the local electric potential, which stem from, e.g., environmental photons or phonons of the substrate. We thereby obtain boundaries for the speed of Majorana braiding with a predetermined gate fidelity. Our results emphasize the general susceptibility of Majorana-based information storage in finite-size systems and can serve as a guide for determining the optimal braiding times in future experiments.

scholarly journals Controlling dynamical entanglement in a Josephson tunneling junction

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (32) ◽  
pp. 1750255
Author(s):  
K. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Entangled State ◽  
Tunneling Junction ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Josephson Tunneling ◽  
Body Interaction ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Intermediate Time Scale ◽  
Number Of Particles

We analyze the evolution of an entangled many-body state in a Josephson tunneling junction and its dependence on the number of bosons and interaction strength. A N00N state, which is a superposition of two complementary Fock states, appears in the evolution with sufficient probability only for a moderate many-body interaction on an intermediate time scale. This time scale is inversely proportional to the tunneling rate. Many-body interaction strongly supports entanglement: The probability for creating an entangled state decays exponentially with the number of particles without many-body interaction, whereas it decays only like the inverse square root of the number of particles in the presence of many-body interaction.

Bimodality of evolutionary rates

Paleobiology ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev R. Ginzburg
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Evolutionary Rates ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Intermediate Time ◽  
Intermediate Time Scale

A simple theoretical argument shows that the evolutionary process will look gradual if it is considered on too fine or too coarse a time scale. There exists an intermediate time scale in which the distribution of evolutionary rates will appear as bimodal.

scholarly journals Characterizing Growing Season Length of Subtropical Coniferous Forests with a Phenological Model

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Yuan Gong ◽  
Christina L. Staudhammer ◽  
Susanne Wiesner ◽  
Gregory Starr ◽  
Yinlong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Soil Water Availability ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Phenological Model

Understanding plant phenological change is of great concern in the context of global climate change. Phenological models can aid in understanding and predicting growing season changes and can be parameterized with gross primary production (GPP) estimated using the eddy covariance (EC) technique. This study used nine years of EC-derived GPP data from three mature subtropical longleaf pine forests in the southeastern United States with differing soil water holding capacity in combination with site-specific micrometeorological data to parameterize a photosynthesis-based phenological model. We evaluated how weather conditions and prescribed fire led to variation in the ecosystem phenological processes. The results suggest that soil water availability had an effect on phenology, and greater soil water availability was associated with a longer growing season (LOS). We also observed that prescribed fire, a common forest management activity in the region, had a limited impact on phenological processes. Dormant season fire had no significant effect on phenological processes by site, but we observed differences in the start of the growing season (SOS) between fire and non-fire years. Fire delayed SOS by 10 d ± 5 d (SE), and this effect was greater with higher soil water availability, extending SOS by 18 d on average. Fire was also associated with increased sensitivity of spring phenology to radiation and air temperature. We found that interannual climate change and periodic weather anomalies (flood, short-term drought, and long-term drought), controlled annual ecosystem phenological processes more than prescribed fire. When water availability increased following short-term summer drought, the growing season was extended. With future climate change, subtropical areas of the Southeastern US are expected to experience more frequent short-term droughts, which could shorten the region’s growing season and lead to a reduction in the longleaf pine ecosystem’s carbon sequestration capacity.

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