Datasets in the spotlight 

TU Delft

"Simulating synthetic tropical cyclone tracks for statistically reliable wind and pressure estimations”

This dataset comprises 10,000 years of synthetic tropical cyclone tracks, meticulously generated using the Tropical Cyclone Wind Statistical Estimation Tool (TCWiSE) algorithm! The dataset offers a detailed simulation of tropical cyclone activity, serving as a valuable resource for climate research and analysis in the context of current climate patterns.

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“Changing Sea Level, Changing Shorelines: Integration of Remote Sensing Observations at the Terschelling Barrier Island”

This research combines and compares different types of coastal remote sensing datasets in order to assess the potential of remote sensing techniques to detect a geometrical relationship between sea level rise and shoreline retreat for a case study at the Terschelling barrier island at the Northern Dutch coast. The code is written in python and organized in jupyter notebooks, relying on various open source python libraries.

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“Curved Surfaces Induce Metachronal Motion of Microscopic Magnetic Cilia”

In this paper, the authors present a novel elegant method that induces metachronal motion of arrays of identical microscopic magnetic artificial cilia by applying a simple rotating uniform magnetic field. The key idea of the method is to place arrays of cilia on surfaces with a specially designed curvature. This results in consecutive cilia experiencing different magnetic field directions at each point in time, inducing a phase lag in their motion, thereby causing collective wave-like motion. The data are experimentally obtained with methods described in the publication.

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“GreenLight - An open source model for greenhouses with supplemental lighting: Evaluation of heat requirements under LED and HPS lamps”

The dataset includes measurements collected during a greenhouse trial in Bleiswijk, the Netherlands, and results of simulations aimed at reproducing the greenhouse as a mathematical model. The experiment compared the growth of cocktail tomatoes in greenhouse compartments with 4 different installations of artificial lighting: full LED toplights, full HPS (high-pressure sodium) toplights, hybrid HPS toplights and LED interlights (lamps between the crop rows), hybrid LED toplights and LED inter-lights.

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