Monotonic triaxial compression and multi-stage relaxation tests were conducted on both pristine and thermally fractured granite core samples to investigate the effect of crack heterogeneity and stress relaxation on strain localization. Full-field strain distributions across the sample surfaces were mapped using Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing in combination with a compact fiber configuration. Experimental results indicate th...

Subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction of droughts and floods is one of the major challenges of weather and climate prediction. Recent studies suggest that the springtime land surface temperature/subsurface temperature (LST/SUBT) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) can be a new source of S2S predictability. The project “Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction (LS4P)” was in...