@Michael thats one thing I like about GRL. 2 weeks from submission to rejection. oh wait, thats one thing I dislike about GRL :/ No major revision, just reject w/ encouraged re-submission.
my paper in AMOJ was originally written for GRL, but a hard-nosed reviewer made it his mission to keep it out and they sent the re-submissions to same reviewers. A fun first experience submitting to a journal.
@casey I don't think that REE patterns in epidote minerals is in the scope of GRL ;)
but I don't know what happened, last time they rejected an article of me in one month. Maybe the fact that they didn't reject it just yet is a good thing.
@casey My first one (also about undergrad research) was also rejected from the first journal, eventually got accepted to the second. It only took about 2 years :P
@Michael wasn't suggesting it was, just contrasting the timeframes involved. GRL has a pretty wide scope though, if its current, breaking research in anything that touches geophysics and you can write it up in 4 pages (final formatted form) they'll look at it I think :)
> Geophysical Research Letters publishes high-impact, innovative, and timely research on major scientific advances in all the major geoscience disciplines. Papers are communications-length articles and should have broad and immediate implications in their discipline or across the geosciences. GRL maintains the fastest turn-around of all high-impact publications in the geosciences and works closely with authors to ensure broad visibility of top papers.
@Michael a little over 3000 hrs logged. 300 or so as an instructor, mostly in light twins (piper seminoles) with most of the rest in the EMB-145 in part 121 scheduled airline service. Spent 4 years flying that jet with 1 year and ~500 hours as captain.
specifically, I flew for that airline in one of the 274 copies of that jet we had
Most of our questions could probably find homes on various other sites, but this is the one place where they can all exist. It helps questioners and answerers to put them all in one place.
The recession in 2008 hit airlines hard, we downsized, I lost my seat (back to being a first officer). Company sympathizers (yay Houston, TX crews!) overwhelmingly voted in pay concessions "to help" the company and all told I took a mere 45% paycut. That and aviation being distinctly not family friendly led me to taking an interest in weather (teaching instrument flying, and directly observing the atmosphere all day) and becoming a meteorologist
I have had my share of jerk reviewers.... one even tracked down where my and my coauthors were and demanded that my coauthor (my then supervisor) be fired and me to fail my Masters ...all over 1 little paragraph that he did not like
@casey thats why its common for nature rejects to be published in GRL. Personally, I hate reading both nature and GRL papers... waaaay to much in too little space. But you know, academia, the things we do to get in.
@SabreTooth we are on the quarter system, and 3 quarters = 2 semesters (don't ask why its called quarter system, seeing as there are actually 5 quarters in a calendar year)
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apologies for my exuberance before - I received word the paper was published only a couple of hours ago (it was rejected 3 times from other journals). @casey, the research was/is about using smartphones to measure UV AOD.
particularly because he published it in a journal he edits and it is clear there is bias in how his response letters are published vs others peoples letters
in any case, he claims an east-west oriented wall a few hundred meters tall put up somewhere near TX/OK will stop tornados in tornado alley
the paper (looking for it now) says his wall wont do anything, but they go further and put a 2500 m tall wall into a sim and sure, it stops tornadoes, but turns OK into a desert :)
> Dahl and Markowski are wrong and misleading to claim that the major tornadoes in USA Tornado Alley are not related to the collisions between northbound warm air flow and southbound cold air flow. In addition, they use incompressible and inviscid fluid model for atmosphere in their simulations about the interaction between air wind and the wall. Such approach ignores the basic physics and thus cannot reach any meaningful results.
well, you could argue that is what he really wants, as he is essentially building an artificial hill under the premise that hills stop tornadoes (flawed)
and he states as much, iirc
e.g. there are hills where tornado alley isnt, therefore hills stop tornadoes, so we need a hill to stop tornado alley, so lets build a wall, because it'll work as long as it is as tall as the hills.
and the Coffer paper is basically, "we stuck your wall in WRF and it made more tornadoes. So, under the premise you are right but didn't just think big enough, we build a wall with more concrete than the hoover dam. It made N TX a desert and yes, there are now no tornadoes there, but you just moved them to the east."
> The tornado-preventing walls, as proposed (300 m), have no meaningful impact on the simulation.
> Increasing the walls’ height to 2500 m causes substantial displacement, not elimination, of the convective storms and tornado threat. The local climate impacts could be substantial as well, even in these 63 h simulations. These impacts could include desertification of much of Texas, increased precipitation on the windward side of the walls, and circulations induced by the edges of the walls that could cause an increase in non-supercellular tornadoes.
@casey: As a followup to the semi-odd upvoting patterns, I now have "access to moderator tools" which "collectively allow me to help the elected community moderators in monitoring the site and helping to clean up messes." Unless I'm missing something, most of the "tools" appear to just be reports, but figured I ask if someone familiar with these features and the moderators needs is aware of any gaps that need to be filled or how best to use these tools based on experience.
@blunders those are the "10k tools", normally available at 10k rep but only 2k for beta. They aren't as useful as they used to be -- NAA and VLQ flags used to go there, not not anymore. Its mostly reports and probably not interesting things on a site this small.
Feel free to poke around and ask any questions you have.
Here is a piece of C++ code that seems very peculiar. For some strange reason, sorting the data miraculously makes the code almost six times faster:
#include <algorithm>
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#include <iostream>
int main()
{
// Generate data
const unsigned arraySize = 32768;
int data[arr...
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