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Report for Dedicated JPSS VIIRS Ocean Color Calibration/Validation Cruise

September 10, 2015
Author(s)
Bettye C. Johnson, Michael Ondrusek, Eric Stengel, Veronica P. Lance, Menghua Wang, Kenneth Voss, Giuseppe Zibordi, Marco Talone, Zhongping Lee, Jianwei Wei, Junfang Lin, Chuanmin Hu, David English, Charles Kovach, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Alex Gilerson, Sam Ahmed, Amir Ibrahim, Ahmed El-Habashi, Robert Foster, Robert Arnone, Ryan Vandermeulen, Sherwin Ladner, Wesley Goode, Joaquim I. Goes, Helga de Rosario Gomes, Kali McKee, Scott Freeman, Aimee Neeley
The purpose of this cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster was to collect in situ optical and ancillary data for validation of JPSS VIIRS satellite ocean color radiometry and derived products [Wang et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2014]. The project interval

CORRELATIONS AMONG ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF THE BOLTZMANN CONSTANT

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
Michael R. Moldover, Roberto M. Gavioso, David B. Newell
We review correlated uncertainties among the accurate determinations of the Boltzmann constant kB that used the techniques of primary acoustic gas thermometry (AGT). We consider uncertainty contributions from four sources: (1) resonator-dependent

Dictionary-based Face and Person Recognition from Unconstrained Video

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Yi-Chen Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa
The main challenge in recognizing people in uncon- strained video is exploiting the identity information in multiple frames and the accompanying dynamic signature. These identity cues include face, body, and motion. Our approach is based on video

Direct Immersion Annealing of Thin Block Copolymer Films

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim, Arvind Arvind Modi1, Sarang Bhaway, Bryan D. Vogt, Abdullah Al-Enizi, Ahmed Elzatahry, Ashutosh Sharma
We demonstrate that direct immersion annealing (DIA) greatly enhances the rate at which block copolymer (BCP) films order into stable morphologies when the BCP films are immersed in carefully selected mixtures of good and marginal solvents that can impart

Optomechanical Raman-Ratio Thermometry

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
Katarina Cicak, Thomas P. Purdy, Pen Li Yu, Nir Kampel, Bob Peterson, Raymond Simmonds, Cindy Regal
The temperature dependence of the asymmetry between Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering can be exploited for self-calibrating, optically-based thermometry. In the context of cavity optomechanics, we observe the cavity-enhanced scattering of light

Quantitative tool characterization of a 193 nm scatterfield microscope

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
Martin Y. Sohn, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver
Optical microscope tool characterization has been investigated for the quantitative measurements of deep sub-wavelength features using a Fourier plane normalization method. The NIST 193 nm scatterfield microscope operating with an ArF Excimer laser, which

A detailed comparison of two continuous GPS carrier-phase time transfer techniques

September 8, 2015
Author(s)
Jian Yao, Judah Levine, Skakun Ivan, Zhiheng Jiang
The wide application of GPS carrier-phase (CP) time transfer is limited by the problem of boundary discontinuity (BD). The discontinuity has two categories. One is "day boundary discontinuity," which has been studied extensively and can be solved by a few

Calibration procedure for UV-365 integrated irradiance measurements

September 8, 2015
Author(s)
George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas C. Larason, Robert E. Vest, Uwe Arp, Howard W. Yoon
Since the CIE standardized rectangular-shape spectral response function for the 320 nm to 400 nm wavelength range can be realized only with large spectral mismatch, the realized UV-A meters have different response functions resulting in large errors in

Optomechanical reference accelerometer

September 8, 2015
Author(s)
Oliver Gerberding, Felipe Guzman, John T. Melcher, Jon R. Pratt, Jacob Taylor
We present an opto-mechanical accelerometer device with high dynamic range, high bandwidth and readout noise levels exceeding 10 μg/√Hz . The straightforward assembly and small cost of our device make it a prime candidate to perform on-site calibrations

Prospects for atomic clocks based on large ion crystals.

September 8, 2015
Author(s)
John J. Bollinger, Kyle Arnold, Elnur Haciyev, Chern Hui Lee, Eduardo Paez, M. D. Barrett
We investigate the feasibility of precision frequency metrology with large ion crystals. For clock candidates with a negative differential static polarisability, we show that micromotion effects should not impede the performance of the clock. Using Lu+ as

Standardization of UV LED measurements

September 8, 2015
Author(s)
George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas C. Larason, Howard W. Yoon
Traditionally used source spectral-distribution or detector spectral-response based standards cannot be applied for accurate UV LED measurements. Since the CIE standardized rectangular-shape spectral response function for UV measurements cannot be realized

Advances in Materials Science for Environmental and Energy Technologies IV (Preface)

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Josef Matyas, Tatsuki Ohji, Kanakala Raghunath, Gary Pickrell
The Materials Science and Technology 2014 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T’14) was held October 12-16, 2014 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of the major themes of the conference was Environmental and Energy Issues

Broadband phase spectroscopy over turbulent air paths

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Greg B. Rieker, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Jonathan Kofler, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Broadband atmospheric phase spectra are measured at sub-milliradian uncertainty corresponding to a 10-13 refractive index change, despite strong decoherence from atmospheric turbulence. A phase-sensitive dual-comb spectrometer acquires spectra over 233 cm

CONTAM User Guide and Program Documentation Version 3.2

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
William S. Dols, Brian J. Polidoro
This manual describes the computer program CONTAM version 3.2 developed by NIST. CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program designed to help you determine: airflow rates and pressures – infiltration, exfiltration, and room-to

Elasticity of Mass Artifacts in Sinusoidal Force Calibration

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Akobuije D. Chijioke, John C. Bankert
Dynamic calibration of force transducers using sinusoidal acceleration of load mass objects requires the accurate determination of the displacement field in such masses, in order to relate accelerations measured at one or a few locations on the load mass

Primary Sinusoidal Calibration of Force Transducers up to 2 Kilohertz

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Akobuije D. Chijioke, Nicholas A. Vlajic
We report the implementation of a swept-sine dynamic force calibration system at NIST. This system is designed to perform primary calibration of force transducers at frequencies up to 2 kHz and forces up to 2 kN. We show an example calibration of a strain

Comparing the Linewidths from Single-Pass SPDC and Singly-Resonant Cavity SPDC

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Paulina S. Kuo, Xiao Tang
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a common method to generate entangled photon pairs for use in quantum communications. The generated single photon linewidth is a critical issue for photon-atom interactions in quantum memory applications. We

Fluorous 'Ponytails' Lead to Strong Gelators Showing Thermally Induced Structure Evolution

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Harshita Kumari, Sarah E. Armitage, Steven R. Kline, Krishna K. Damodaran, Stuart R. Kennedy, Jerry L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed
Appending perfluoroalkyl substituents to bis(urea) gelators results in significantly decreased interchain interactions with markedly thinner fibres and hence more cross-linked and more transparent gels with potential applications in the crystallisation of
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