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The advancement of numerical weather prediction (NWP) has hastened the effort to understand how moist processes -- many of which are parameterized in NWP models -- influence cyclone structure and intensity. Despite this effort, there...
This study develops nudging methods of data assimilation that will expand the utility of the forthcoming GOES-R satellite series by including data from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). We...
Mesoscale precipitation bands were investigated in 38 winter storms that impacted the northeast US between 2004 and 2015 in the GridRad reflectivity mosaic dataset and compared to simulated bands in the 12 km North American Mesoscale...
Drivers of animal movement, including abiotic factors such as environmental conditions or climate and biotic factors such as species interactions and reproduction, are classic topics in ecology and relevant to both basic and applied...
Quantifying the Effects of Increased Storminess and Sea-Level Change on the Morphology of Sandy Barrier Islands along the Northwestern and Atlantic Coasts of Florida
The ability to accurately quantify shoreline variability along sandy beaches is essential in order to establish aggressive mitigation strategies, based on recent global climate change projections. This investigation employed a suite of...
Recent advances in computing and measurement technologies have led to an explosion in the amount of data that are being collected in many areas of application. Much of these data have network or graph structures, and they are common in...
The cold blob refers to an observationally unprecedented, gyre-scale, record-breaking cold of mean surface temperature over the subpolar North Atlantic. Its anomalous cold feature goes against the rising trend of global mean surface...
Physical processes that enhance heavy rainfall in association with warm season (April-September) fronts are investigated over western North Carolina. In this region of complex terrain encompassing the basins of the Upper Catawba River, ...
Organic geochemical proxies (OGPs: δ13C, δ15N and C/N) preserved in coastal lake sediments appear to be more sensitive indicators of past storm events than traditional proxies used in paleotempestology. However, the method has not been...
As low-lying areas, deltas are sensitive to changes associated with advance taking place on the land and in the ocean. The pattern of change in shoreline positions over time can be used as an indicator of changes in land and/or ocean...
Mexico and Central America (Mesoamerica) are situated in a complex and unique geographical position with the Caribbean Sea to the East and the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean to the West. The weather patterns of this region are driven by...
Parrotfishes are nominal herbivores whose grazing is considered an important top-down control on benthic coral reef communities, maintaining cropped reef substrates that are conducive to the settlement and recruitment of coral larvae. As...
Elasmobranch fishes are a highly vagile group that often cross state, regional or international boundaries. Delineating migratory patterns that cross jurisdictional boundaries is essential for effective management, especially when...
Interactions between clouds, water vapor, radiation, and circulation influence the organization of tropical convection, and the development of tropical cyclones (TCs). This includes the self-aggregation (SA) of convection in idealized...
The primary objective of this dissertation is to examine how attitudes towards immigration are affected by individuals beliefs about three actors: receiving-country governments, foreign aid donors, and immigration service contractors. I...
Quantifying Earth's carbon budget remains an imperative task in the carbon cycle science community. Among its challenges, assessing carbon fluxes over the Arctic Ocean remains an arduous task, due to its remoteness and difficulty to...
While a number of research groups offer quantitative diagnostic indices of aggregate annual Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone (TC) activity, the literature is comparatively thin concerning methods to similarly quantify seasonal U.S....
Paleotempestology is the study of long-term regional storm history from geological proxy evidence. This relatively recent field of geology offers a glimpse at tropical cyclone activity extending back into geologic time. Historic...
Stalagmites, or speleothems, are secondary cave deposits that record the isotope and trace element composition of the parent dripwaters within their crystal matrix. Changes in dripwater oxygen and carbon isotopes (δ18O and δ13C) and...
Particle-laden buoyant jets (PBJ) are free-convective flows that contain particles. Many studies have examined pure thermal plumes, discussing a symmetric self-similar structure that is common in the plume literature. Other studies have...
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