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- Buntgen, U., et al.
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Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nature Communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2041-1723. ; 9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Though tree-ring chronologies are annually resolved, their dating has never been independently validated at the global scale. Moreover, it is unknown if atmospheric radiocarbon enrichment events of cosmogenic origin leave spatiotemporally consistent fingerprints. Here we measure the 14C content in 484 individual tree rings formed in the periods 770–780 and 990–1000 CE. Distinct 14C excursions starting in the boreal summer of 774 and the boreal spring of 993 ensure the precise dating of 44 tree-ring records from five continents. We also identify a meridional decline of 11-year mean atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations across both hemispheres. Corroborated by historical eye-witness accounts of red auroras, our results suggest a global exposure to strong solar proton radiation. To improve understanding of the return frequency and intensity of past cosmic events, which is particularly important for assessing the potential threat of space weather on our society, further annually resolved 14C measurements are needed.
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- Hudson, Thomas J., et al.
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International network of cancer genome projects
- 2010
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 464:7291, s. 993-998
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) was launched to coordinate large-scale cancer genome studies in tumours from 50 different cancer types and/or subtypes that are of clinical and societal importance across the globe. Systematic studies of more than 25,000 cancer genomes at the genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic levels will reveal the repertoire of oncogenic mutations, uncover traces of the mutagenic influences, define clinically relevant subtypes for prognosis and therapeutic management, and enable the development of new cancer therapies.
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- Luyssaert, S., et al.
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CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database
- 2007
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Ingår i: Global Change Biology. - : Wiley. - 1354-1013 .- 1365-2486. ; 13:12, s. 2509-2537
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Terrestrial ecosystems sequester 2.1 Pg of atmospheric carbon annually. A large amount of the terrestrial sink is realized by forests. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties are being collected at many sites around the world, but syntheses of these data are still sparse. To facilitate future synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age), as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate, and soil characteristics. This publicly available database can be used to quantify global, regional or biome-specific carbon budgets; to re-examine established relationships; to test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning [e.g. a constant net ecosystem production (NEP) to gross primary production (GPP) ratio]; and as benchmarks for model evaluations. In this paper, we present the first analysis of this database. We discuss the climatic influences on GPP, net primary production (NPP) and NEP and present the CO2 balances for boreal, temperate, and tropical forest biomes based on micrometeorological, ecophysiological, and biometric flux and inventory estimates. Globally, GPP of forests benefited from higher temperatures and precipitation whereas NPP saturated above either a threshold of 1500 mm precipitation or a mean annual temperature of 10 degrees C. The global pattern in NEP was insensitive to climate and is hypothesized to be mainly determined by nonclimatic conditions such as successional stage, management, site history, and site disturbance. In all biomes, closing the CO2 balance required the introduction of substantial biome-specific closure terms. Nonclosure was taken as an indication that respiratory processes, advection, and non-CO2 carbon fluxes are not presently being adequately accounted for.
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- Kostov, Konstantin Stoychev, et al.
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The Input Impedance of Common-Mode and Differential-Mode Noise Separators
- 2015
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Ingår i: IEEE transactions on industry applications. - 0093-9994 .- 1939-9367. ; 51:3, s. 2352-2360
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the.-networks and other circuits designed to separate the conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) into its common mode (CM) and differential mode (DM) components. The input impedances of CM/DM separators must be 50 Omega resistive in the measurement frequency range, and they must be independent of the values of the noise signals and noise source impedances. The conditions for achieving such input impedances are derived. It is shown that many of the proposed separators, including the.-network suggested in the International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) 16-1-2 standard, do not fulfill the input impedance requirement. This leads to unreliable CM and DM measurements and, consequently, to the oversizing of EMI filters and design by trial and error.
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- Menzi, David, et al.
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Comparative Evaluation of Harmonic Injection Techniques for a Phase-Modular Three-Phase Six-Switch Buck-Boost Y-Inverter
- 2022
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Ingår i: IEEE transactions on power electronics. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0885-8993 .- 1941-0107. ; 37:3, s. 2519-2524
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Phase-modular buck-boost dc/ac inverters extend the voltage conversion range of conventional buck-type inverter topologies, and accordingly offer significant advantages for variablespeed motor drives powered from dc sources with wide-voltageranges like fuel cells or batteries. In this letter, two new modulation schemes are applied to the six-switch buck-boost Y-inverter (6YI) topology, with an analysis of the efficiency improvement for the proposed third harmonic injection pulsewidth modulation (TPWM) and discontinuous PWM (DPWM) schemes relative to conventional sinusoidal PWM (SPWM). Third harmonic injection PWM (TPWM) substantially reduces conduction losses and discontinuous PWM (DPWM) extends this gain by eliminating high-frequency switching for one-third of the fundamental period. These gains are validated on a 1 kW hardware demonstrator across a dc input voltage from 80 to 240 V, with DPWM reducing total converter losses by 31% over SPWM for a peak efficiency at nominal load of 95.6% with a power density of 62.3 W/in(3).
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- Muesing, Andreas, et al.
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Efficient calculation of non-orthogonal partial elements for the PEEC method
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 13th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- For various electrical interconnect and EMC problems, the Partial Element Equivalent Circuit (PEEC) method has proven to be a valid and fast solution method of the electrical field integral equation in the time as well as the frequency domain. Therefore, PEEC has become a multi-purpose full-wave method, especially suited for the solution of combined circuit and EM problems, as found, for instance, on printed circuit board layouts, power electronics devices or EMC filters. Recent research introduced various extensions to the basic PEEC approach, for example a nonorthogonal cell geometry formulation. This work presents a fast, flexible and accurate computational method for determining the matrix entries of partial inductances and the coefficients of potential for general non-orthogonal PEEC cell geometries. The presented computation method utilizes analytical filament formulas to reduce the integration order and therefore to reduce computation time. The validity, accuracy and speed of the proposed method is compared with a standard integration routine on example cell geometries where the numeric results of the new method show improved accuracy, coming along with reduced computation time.
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