 | Joan Alexander |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 206 | e-mail: alexand (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences.
Atmospheric dynamics, waves, convection, global circulation modeling, mesoscale modeling, satellite, aircraft, balloon-borne observations, and middle atmosphere studies |
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 | Ed Andreas |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - New Hampshire | 603-448-3555 | e-mail: eandreas (at) nwra.com
Boundary-layer meteorology: In particular, air-sea interaction in high
winds and the effects of spray; air-sea-ice interaction; scintillation and
electro-optical propagation in the atmospheric surface layer; fundamental
turbulence issues such as Monin-Obukhov similarity theory, time series
analysis, and measurement physics; technical writing. |
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 | Mark Baldwin |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 323 | e-mail: mark (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences.
The Arctic Oscillation, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, and propagation of planetary-scale waves in the troposphere and stratosphere. |
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 | Graham Barnes |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 234 | e-mail: graham (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics.
Magnetohydrodynamics, numerical modeling of space plasmas.
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 | Dave Berliner |
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 310 | e-mail: daveb (at) nwra.com
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 | Aaron Birch |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 236 | e-mail: aaronb (at) cora.nwra.com
Solar physics, local helioseismology, solar interior. |
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 | Douglas Braun |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 226 | e-mail: dbraun (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics - solar and astrophysics.
Local helioseismology, solar interior. |
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| Jeremiah Brown |
Post Doctoral Research Associate
CoRA Division - Fishers, Indiana | e-mail: brownJL76 (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Max Coon |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 332 | e-mail: max (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences - polar sciences
Ice mechanics, stress analysis, modeling. |
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| Ashley Crouch |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 240 | e-mail: ash (at) cora.nwra.com
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| Holly Crow |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: holly (at) nwra.com
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 | Bergen Delisi |
Data Aid
Seattle Division
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 | Donald Delisi |
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: don (at) nwra.com
Acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of laboratory and field
measurements of vortex evolution, internal waves, and turbulent flows;
comparisons of field data with laboratory measurements and numerical
simulations; experimental fluid mechanics; analysis and interpretation
of atmospheric and oceanic flows. See also: Laboratory Services web page. |
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| Moncef Derouich |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | e-mail: derouich (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Daniel Dombroski |
Post Doctoral Research Associate
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 249 | e-mail: dombroski (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Phil Dunkerton |
Lab Assistant/Data Aide
Seattle Division | e-mail: pdunkerton (at) nwra.com
Website/Computer Admin., Argus GCP work, Java code. |
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 | Tim Dunkerton |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 326 | e-mail: tim (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences
Dynamic meteorology, atmospheric general circulation. |
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| Naomi Edelberg |
Data Aid
CoRA Division | e-mail: naomiej (at) cora.nwra.com
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| Wayne Evans |
Seattle Division | e-mail: wayne (at) nwra.com
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 | Jonathan Fentzke |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | e-mail: fentzke (at) cora.nwra.com
Research focus on Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) studies including modeling, simulation, and data fusion using Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) and Lidar. Interests include collisional plasma processes in the E-Region of the Ionosphere as well as meteoric smoke measurements and their relation to the Micrometeoric Input Function (MIF). |
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 | Patricia Franke |
Affiliate Scientist
CoRA Division - Illinois
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 | Edward Fremouw |
Founder, Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division - Ashland, OR
Near-Earth Space Science: ionospheric physics (satellite experiments & radiowave tomographic imaging) and radio propagation (scintillation observations & modeling). |
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 | Sergey Fridman |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | (831) 582-4902 | e-mail: sergey (at) nwra.com
Electromagnetic propagation in randomly structured ionization; Robust methods for solution of inverse problems and ill-posed problems; Ionospheric modeling for Over-the-Horizon radar coordinate registration; VHF/UHF ionospheric propagation and scintillations; Advanced signal processing for radar. |
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 | David Fritts |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 205 | e-mail: dave (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics.
Wave and instability processes, turbulence, boundary layers, atmospheric circulation.
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 | Peter Furey |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 230 | e-mail: furey (at) cora.nwra.com
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| Andrew Geiss |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: andrew (at) nwra.com
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 | Dan Goldstein |
Support Scientist
CoRA Division - Missouri | e-mail: dan (at) cora.nwra.com
Turbulence, Geophysical fluid dynamics, Numerical modeling, Wavelets, Temporally and spatially adaptive simulation methods, Adaptive large eddy simulation. |
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 | Alison Grimsdell |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 211 | e-mail: grimsdell (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Mark Hausman |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | (831) 582-4903 | e-mail: markhausman (at) nwra.com
Research focus is on computer programs that model complex physical systems, specifically simulations and studies of ionospheric and space physics, and their effects on radar and communications systems. Fields of expertise include data translation (e.g., raw radar data from ROTHR and BMEWS) and data visualization. |
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| Elizabeth Holland |
Research Engineer
Seattle Division - New Hampshire | e-mail: liz (at) nwra.com
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 | Linea Hulse |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: linea (at) nwra.com
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| Hiroyuki Iimura |
Post Doctoral Research Associate
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 201 | e-mail: iimurah (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Joshua Jacobs |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: joshua (at) nwra.com
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 | Diego Janches |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 228 | e-mail: diego (at) cora.nwra.com
Radar and Lidar Studies of the Micrometeor Mass Input and its
effects into the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere (MLT). Orbital dust
distribution and populations in the solar system, Ionospheric and
Gravity Wave in the MLT studies using Incoherent Scatter Radars. |
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 | Kristina Katsaros |
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: katsaros (at) whidbey.net
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 | Dennis Knepp |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | (831) 582-4906 | e-mail: dennis.knepp (at) nwra.com
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| Alice Lai |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: alai (at) nwra.com
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 | David Lai |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 313 | e-mail: dlai (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics.
Turbulence, vortices, remote sensing. |
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| Philip Lai |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: plai (at) nwra.com
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 | Brian Laughman |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | e-mail: laughman (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | KD Leka |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 219 | e-mail: leka (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics.
Solar physics, solar magnetic fields, sunspots and solar active regions, solar flares, polarimetry and instrumentation. |
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 | Pascale Lelong |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 336 | e-mail: pascale (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences.
Geophysical fluid dynamics; perturbation and asymptotic methods; numerical modeling.
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 | Gad Levy |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 324 | e-mail: gad (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean and Earth Sciences |
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 | Ruth Lieberman |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 212
Ocean and Earth sciences.
Satellite data analysis, dynamics of large-scale motions. Analysis of tides, mean winds and planetary-scale waves, studies of tide and planetary wave-mean flow interaction, numerical modeling of tides and zonal mean circulations, GCM validation. |
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 | Beate Liepert |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 306 | e-mail: liepert (at) nwra.com
Climate variability from inter-annual to centennial time scales, water and energy cycle in a changing climate. Global dimming and brightening and its implications for climate including the water and carbon cycles. In-situ measurements of air pollution and radiative properties in urban and suburban environments on board hot-air balloons. |
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 | Charles Lindsey |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 238 | e-mail: lindsey (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Fiona Lo |
Support Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 315 | e-mail: fiona (at) nwra.com
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 | Thomas Lund |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 209 | e-mail: lund (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Larry Mahrt |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Corvallis, OR | (541) 754-7501 | e-mail: mahrt (at) nwra.com
Boundary layers and turbulence, evapotranspiration, air-sea interaction,
bouyancy-driven slope flows, micrometeorology. |
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 | Ralph Milliff |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 216 | e-mail: milliff (at) cora.nwra.com
Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Funded research activities involve: global and regional surface vector wind data applications; Bayesian hierarchical modelling; general circulation modelling; atmosphere-ocean interactions. |
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 | Philip Mote |
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: mote (at) nwra.com
Studies of clouds, water vapor, and radiation in the
tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. |
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 | LJ Nickisch |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | (831) 582-4905 | e-mail: lj (at) nwra.com
Theoretical physics; computational physics and numerical simulation; electromagnetic propagation in randomly structured ionization; HF communication and signal specification in nuclear environments; over-the-horizon radar; VHF/UHF radar ionization-induced propagation effects; stochastic electrodynamics and ZPF-related physics. |
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 | Joan Oltman-Shay |
President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: joan (at) nwra.com
Nearshore Processes. Since graduating from Scripps in 1986, she has spent much of her technical career performing field and model studies of nearshore (shoreline to nominally 10m depth) wave and current dynamics and the interplay with sediment- and morpho-dynamics. |
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 | David Ortland |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 309 | e-mail: ortland (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences.
Atmospheric and mathematical science.
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 | Lee Piper |
Support Engineer
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 308
Fluid dynamics laboratory simulation and test engineering, oceanographic instrumentation.
See also: Laboratory Services web page. |
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 | Matthew Pruis |
Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 311 | e-mail: matt (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth sciences; Polar sciences; Deep-water oceanography.
Boundary layer processes and turbulent flow; Ice modeling, mechanics and forecasting; Hydrogeology, hydrothermal mass and energy fluxes; Geophysical forward and inverse modeling and non-stationary time-series analysis. |
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 | Dennis Riggin |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 208 | e-mail: riggin (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences.
Atmospheric radar studies, Gravity waves and planetary scale waves. |
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 | Robert Robins |
Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 305 | e-mail: bob (at) nwra.com
Computer modeling of hydrodynamic phenomena, including vortex evolution, internal wave propagation, and turbulent dissipation; validation of computer models by comparison of computer results with observational data; processing and visualization of scientific data; diversified computing experience: various micro, mini, main-frame, and super computer systems. |
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 | David Schecter |
Research Scientist
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 330 | e-mail: schecter (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Research |
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 | Richard Scott |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: scott (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics.
Atmospheric Dynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Numerical Modeling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. |
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 | James Secan |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: jim (at) nwra.com
Space physics.
Ionospheric physics (modeling, observations, data analysis), space weather (effects of the space environment on satellite, communications, and navigation systems), and operational software design and implementation.
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 | Dana Shay |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: dana (at) nwra.com
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 | David Shay |
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: davids (at) nwra.com
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 | Francis Smith |
Affiliate Engineer
Seattle Division | (425) 556-9055 ext. 327
Data acquisition systems, data analysis (time and frequency domain), industrial process control (stability analysis and hardware selection), analog/digital circuit design, electro-optical systems, microprocessor system design, heat-exchanger design. |
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 | Jonathan Sparks |
Student Intern
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 248 | e-mail: sparksj (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Chad Spooner |
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | (831) 582-4904 | e-mail: cmspooner (at) nwra.com
Instruments and Software, Statistical Signal Processing, Higher-Order Statistics,
Cyclostationary Signals, and Automatic Signal Classification
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 | Gavin St. John |
Student Intern
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office | e-mail: gavin (at) nwra.com
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 | Peter Stamus |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 224 | e-mail: stamus (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Robert Stockwell |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 220 | e-mail: stockwell (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences.
Signal / Image processing, Time-frequency analysis, Wavelets. |
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 | Sharon Vadas-Arendt |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 202 | e-mail: vasha (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric physics, gravity wave dissipation in the thermosphere, ray tracing gravity waves in the lower atmosphere and thermosphere, gravity wave source specification from convection, secondary gravity wave source specification, and modelling horizontal and vertical body forcing. Both analytical and numerical techniques are employed.
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 | Harry van Loon |
Emeritus
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 237 | e-mail: vanloon (at) cora.nwra.com
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| Eric Wagner |
Support Engineer
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 221 | e-mail: wagneric (at) cora.nwra.com
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 | Kam Wan |
Support Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 235 | e-mail: kwan (at) cora.nwra.com
Fluid Mechanics. Computer simulation; Measurement automation. |
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 | Ling Wang |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 213 | e-mail: lwang (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric dynamics, waves, general circulation, turbulence dynamics. |
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 | Joseph Werne |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 207 | e-mail: werne (at) cora.nwra.com
High-performance computing, including algorithm development, implementation and optimization on massively parallel processor (MPP) computer platforms; Detailed experience with Cray YMP, C90, T3D, T3E and SGI Origin 2000 machines at various U.S. supercomputer centers. Emphasis is on turbulence in both convection and stable-layer simulation and theory. |
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 | Bifford Williams |
Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 243 | e-mail: biff (at) cora.nwra.com
Instrumentation and data analysis for the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere/ionosphere. Deployment and operation of sodium lidars and
all-sky imagers. Atmospheric gravity waves, tides, instabilities, and momentum flux. Layered mesopause phenomena. Meteor science: meteor trail
imaging and the effect of meteor mass flux on sodium density. |
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 | Martin Woodard |
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division | (303) 415-9701 ext. 203
Space physics. Helioseismology, the solar interior, astrophysics. |
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