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Title: The Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA V2) - 1983 to 2016
Creator: Analui, Bita
Hsu, Kuo-Lin
Kawzenuk, Brian K
Nguyen, Phu
Sellars, Scott L
Shearer, Eric J
Sorooshian, Soroosh
Date Created and/or Issued: 2018 to 2020
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection: The Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA V2) - 1983 to 2016
Rights Information: Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" or any license applied to this work requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
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Rights Holder and Contact: UC Regents
Description: This collection contains the lifecycles of global atmospheric river (AR) objects. This data was produced by isolating regions of enhanced IVT transport events by applying the Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm. AR-CONNECT is a four-dimensional (4D) object-oriented algorithm, adapted from the CONNECT algorithm developed by a team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine [Sellars et al., 2013, 2015, 2017]. The algorithm uses a seeded region growing segmentation technique to segment AR lifecycles according to their high-intensity cores. AR-CONNECT determines the lifecycles of an AR by using a flood-filling algorithm to group discrete AR timeslices where they are contiguous over time and space. Each object has a unique ID and a set of selected characteristics.
This research was partially supported by Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) program (#NA14NES4320003), National Science Foundation (#1331915), Department of Energy (#DE-IA0000018), California Energy Commission (#300-15-005), Ridge to Reef NSF Research Traineeship (#DGE-1735040), and University of California (#4600010378 TO#15 Am 22).
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Shearer, Eric J.; Nguyen, Phu; Sellars, Scott L.; Analui, Bita; Kawzenuk, Brian; Hsu, Kuo-Lin; Sorooshian, Soroosh (2020). The Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA V2) - 1983 to 2016. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0D21W00
Type: dataset
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb47834383
Language: English
Subject: Integrated water vapor
Atmospheric river
NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA V2)
Object-oriented programming
Atmospheric River-CONNected objECT (AR-CONNECT) algorithm
Hydrologic cycle
Global
Place: Global

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