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Two-class classification tasks: a novel way to assess the performance of one-class classifiers using unlabeled data

Speaker: Marco Cococcioni [Announcement (PDF)]
Speaker Affiliation: Assistant Professor
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
Date: Friday Aug 22 at 11 am in 5-314

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Some recent advances on optimal sampling and adaptive sampling of ocean fields using fleets of underwater gliders

Speaker: Marco Cococcioni
Speaker Affiliation: Assistant Professor
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
Date: Tuesday Aug 19 at 9:30 am in 5-314

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State Data Assimilation in Forest Ecology: Estimating Leaf-Phenology

Speaker: Toni Viskari [Announcement (PDF)]
Speaker Affiliation: Post Doctoral Associate
Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Date: Friday Aug 1 at 11 am in 5-314

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On the Crossover of Boundary Currents in an Idealized Model of the Red Sea

Speaker: Ping Zhai
[Announcement (PDF)]
Speaker Affiliation: PhD, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Date: Friday July 18 at 11 a.m in 5-314

Crossover of boundary currents in the Red Sea is seen in mean circulation schemes from several models. This work studies buoyancy-forced circulation in an idealized Red Sea. The mechanism that controls the crossover of boundary currents is explored by using an eddy-resolving numerical model and an analytical estimate on a β-plane. The observational support is also reviewed. The surface buoyancy loss increases northward in the idealized model. The resolved mean circulation consists of an anticyclonic gyre in the south and a cyclonic gyre in the north. In mid-basin, the northward surface flow crosses from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. Numerical experiments with different parameters indicate that the crossover latitude of the boundary currents changes with f0, β and the meridional gradient of surface buoyancy forcing. An ad hoc analytical model is developed based on PV dynamics and successfully predicts the crossover latitude of boundary currents. In the analytical estimate, the sign of PV advection determines the location of the northward boundary currents. It is the competition between the advection of planetary PV and the buoyancy-loss related term that determines the crossover latitude.
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