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Fig. 4 Changes in the monthly pattern of two selected catchments in the Ebro basin (a) the Jalon River showing moderate impact after dam operation, and (b) the Piedra River in which natural flow distribution has completely changed after dam closure (lines indicate the running means model of the respective data sets), (c) summary of analysed rivers (see [11] for more examples)...

Fig. 4 Left the mean 1961-1990 monthly temperature for the Ebro catchment. Part (a) shows the annual cycle, each line representing a different RCM simulation and the bold line representing the CRU observed series. The shading represents the 95% confidence interval for the estimate of the observed 30-year sample mean. Part (b) represents the individual monthly model means as an anomaly from the CRU mean with 95% confidence interval superimposed. Part (c) represents the mean absolute annual error for each of the RCMs. Right-, as for left column but for mean precipitation (d) for the Gallego catchment. Model anomalies in parts (e) and (f) are expressed as a percentage relative to the CRU monthly mean. Model numbers correspond to experiments shown in Table 1. Figure from [35]...

Fig. 5 Projected RCM change in (a) mean temperature and (b) mean precipitation for the Ebro catchment. Change is for 2071-2100 from the 1961-1990 control period and for precipitation is expressed as a percentage of the control mean. Model numbers correspond to experiments shown in Table 1. Figure taken from [35]...

Why do top athletes earn such inflated salaries Because they bring big bucks into their cities and franchises. But what sort of service do they provide to society Do they save lives No. Do they improve the standard of living or promote positive social change No. Do they help keep our streets safe or educate our kids No. True, many of the top athletes are good role models for our children. But seven-figure salaries don t always mean model behavior. Take N.B.A. star Latrell Sprewell, for example, who choked and threatened to kill his coach. 

By classical, we mean models that do not take into account the quantum behavior of small particles, notably the electron. These models generally assume that electrons and ions behave as point charges which attract and repel according to the laws of electro-... 

Water Is a strongly three-dlmenslonally structured fluid (sec. 1.5.3c) with structure-originating Interactions reaching several molecular diameters. Considering this, simple models and/or simulations with a limited number of molecules are not really helpful. By "simple" we mean models in which water molecules are represented as point dipoles, point quadrupoles, or as molecules with Lennard-Jones Interactions plus an additional dipole, etc., and by "limited" less than, say 10 molecules, i.e. 10 molecules in each direction of a cubic box. Admittedly, for a number of simpler problems more embryonic models may suffice. For example, electrochemists often get away with a dipole Interpretation when focusing their attention solely on the Stern layer polarization. Helmholtz s equations for the jf-potential 3.9.9] is an illustration. 

Applied Surface Thermodynamics, A.W. Neumann, J.K. Spelt, Eds., Marcel Dekker, 1996). (Contains various chapters dealing with the exploitation of the geometric mean models of sec. 2.11b.)... 

Figure 12. (a) Distances d between atoms situated on a fivefold axis, belonging to layers n and n - 1 (n = 0 refers to central atom), calculated for seven relaxed MIC models with complete layers. The quantity varies inversely as the mean model diameter, (b) Distances d, between nearest-neighbor atoms situated in the neighborhood of the center of the faces belonging to successive layers n. 

FIGURE 19.14 Model dumping plumes (g/cm ) of suspended particulate matter (SPM) settled at the sea bottom (left) and suspended in water column (right) after 15 days of moderate wind forcing. The scale is logarithmic, arrows indicate mean model currents (left), and daily mean winds (right). 

Intuitively, bubble coalescence is related to bubble collisions. The collisions are caused by the existence of spatial velocity difference among the particles themselves. However, not all collisions necessarily lead to coalescence. Thus modeling bubble coalescence on these scales means modeling of bubble collision and coalescence probability (efficiency) mechanisms. The pioneering work on coalescence of particles to form successively larger particles was carried out by Smoluchowski [109, 110]. 

Experiment Mixing Time (min) Voltage (kV) Enzyme Concentration (mg/mL) Mean Experimental Response (% Conversion) ( = 3) Mean Model Predicted Response (% Conversion) ( = 3)... 

For our improved statistical analysis we included the mean local wind-speed, as derived from interpolated values of the DWD model. As a first step we calculated the distribution of the detected oil spills with wind speed. As shown in the upper left panel of Figure 6 most oil spills were detected at mean (modelled) wind speeds between 3 m s"1 and 4 ms 1. The upper right panel of Figure 6 shows the wind speed distribution of the DWD model with a maximum between 5 m s"1 and 6 ms"1. The lower panel of Figure 6 shows the normalised oil spill visibility (NOSV) calculated as the (normalised) ratio of the two above. 

Usually, variability increases as a systematic function of the mean response f(0 x) in which case a common choice of residual variance model is the power of the mean model... 

Selecting a mixed effects model means identifying a structural or mean model, the components of variance, and the covariance matrix for the residuals. The basic rationale for model selection will be parsimony in parameters, i.e., to obtain the most efficient estimation of fixed effects, one selects the covariance model that has the most parsimonious structure that fits the data (Wol-finger, 1996). Estimation of the fixed effects is dependent on the covariance matrix and statistical significance may change if a different covariance structure is used. The general strategy to be used follows the ideas presented in... 

On the other hand, there may be cases where a random effect is included in the model but not in the mean model. One case would be in a designed experiment where subjects were first randomized into blocks to control variability before assignments to treatments. The blocks the subjects were assigned to are not necessarily of interest—they are nuisance variables. In this case, blocks could be treated as a random effect and not be included in the mean model. When the subject level covariates are categorical (class) variables, such as race, treating random effects beyond random intercepts, which allows each subject to have their own unique baseline, is not usually done. 

The linear mixed effect model assumes that the random effects are normally distributed and that the residuals are normally distributed. Butler and Louis (1992) showed that estimation of the fixed effects and covariance parameters, as well as residual variance terms, were very robust to deviations from normality. However, the standard errors of the estimates can be affected by deviations from normality, as much as five times too large or three times too small (Verbeke and Lesaffre, 1997). In contrast to the estimation of the mean model, the estimation of the random effects (and hence, variance components) are very sensitive to the normality assumption. Verbeke and Lesaffre (1996) studied the effects of deviation from normality on the empirical Bayes estimates of the random effects. Using computer simulation they simulated 1000 subjects with five measurements per subject, where each subject had a random intercept coming from a 50 50 mixture of normal distributions, which may arise if two subpopulations were examined each having equal variability and size. By assuming a unimodal normal distribution of the random effects, a histogram of the empirical Bayes estimates revealed a unimodal distribution, not a bimodal distribution as would be expected. They showed that the correct distributional shape of the random effects may not be observed if the error variability is large compared to the between-subject variability. 

Ko, M. K. W., K. K. Tung, D. K. Weisenstein, and N. D. Sze (1985). A Zonal-mean model of stratospheric trace transport in isentropic coordinators numerical simulation for nitrous oxide and nitric acid. J. Geophys. Res. 90, 2313-2329. 

Figure 7 Bottom water simulated by the model (color-shaded field) and from data (colored dots). The mean model-data difference in areas not affected by bomb- C is only + 1.3%o, and the root-mean-square difference amounts to only 5.2%o. From Schlitzer R (2006) Assimilation of radiocarbon and chlorofluorocarbon data to constrain deep and bottom water transports in the world ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography 37 259-276.

Different mixing models such as the lEM (interexchange with the mean) model [67], the droplet erosion and diffusion model [68], the engulfment deformation diffusion model and the engulfment model [69, 70], and the incorporation model [71] have been proposed. 

This is called the geometric mean model, and it is especially amenable to computational use. - ... 

This equation holds strictly only for the geometric mean model, the physical basis of which is dubious for However, the... 

If one assumes a random distribution of components, the film permeability can be estimated using the weighted geometric mean of the polymer permeabilities via a model known as the Geometric Mean Model ... 

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