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The sporadic nature of lightning in tropical cyclones (TCs) is a topic of great interest to researchers and forecasters. This study explores relationships between lightning, cloud microphysics, and TC storm structure in rapidly...
The global climate has been experiencing significant warming at an unprecedented pace in the past century1, 2. This warming is spatially and temporally non-uniform, and one needs to understand its evolution in order to better evaluate...
This study presents a new algorithm to dealias folded Doppler velocities in S, C, and X-Band radars using a new boundary detection technique on the raw velocity field as a whole, rather than the traditional gate by gate methodology used...
Determining the Characteristics of Anvil and Thunderstorm Lightning for Use in the Lightning Launch Commit Criteria at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center
The 45th Weather Squadron (45WS) provides weather support to America's space program at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Kennedy Space Center (KSC), and Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB). Since CCAFS/KSC lies within...
The Cartersville area in Georgia lies at the junction between the Alabama Recess and the Tennessee Salient. The rocks here are the easternmost exposures in the foreland fold and thrust belt of the southern Appalachians. It is bounded to...
Trace metals are important compounds in aquatic environments. In low concentrations, they can be very beneficial to aquatic life. However, they can be toxic if present in moderate to high concentrations. A growing interest has occurred...
In the uppermost millimeters of shallow marine sands, photosynthesis by microalgae can cause oxygen supersaturation, leading to formation of oxygen bubbles and subsequent ebullition of the gas from the sediment. The role of ebullition...
Carbon isotopes were used as tracers in the Florida Everglades to investigate the sources and sinks of dissolved organic carbon in natural and constructed wetlands and provide a way to monitor ecosystem restoration efforts. Stable carbon...
The geostationary satellite television (TV) signals that are reflected off the ocean surfaces could enter the AMSR-E antenna, resulting in RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) contamination in AMSR-E 10.65 and 18.7 GHz channels. If not...
It has been suggested in older and recent literature that a broad deep eastern boundary flow is linking the equatorial Pacific Ocean to the Southern Ocean. The depth range of this flow corresponds to the Pacific Deep Water (2500m) where...
ABSTRACT This work presents turbulence data collected in the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to quantify the source or sources of turbulent dissipation along the continental shelf and any possible causes for its seasonal change. In addition...
Gravity measurements from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite measuring system show that Greenland is losing mass as water is lost to the ocean. Past work has suggested that the freshwater flux from Greenland, ...
Riverine inputs, groundwater efflux, and terrestrial runoff enrich coastal waters with silica. Diatoms, which require silicic acid (Si(OH)4) for frustule formation and cell growth, are therefore predominantly found in these waters. Less...
To evaluate the influence of dietary carbon on fish otoliths, juvenile red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) were raised for 6 and 9 months in tanks with flow-through ambient seawater and fed diets differing by 2.12‰ (p < 0.001) in carbon...
Accurate hurricane intensity prediction is at the forefront of atmospheric science today, and improvements to mesoscale modeling of these storms continue to be major components of refining the accuracy of intensity forecasting. The...
The need for a high-resolution precipitation database over Florida is evident by the ever-increasing impact of water resources on society. The Multisensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) software was developed by the National Weather...
The ice shelves in the Western Antarctic have seen an increase in melt over the past decade, mainly due to basal melting induced by underlying warm, salty Circumpolar Deep Water. Seal data in the Bellingshausen Sea provides extensive...
Tropical cyclogenesis in the eastern North Pacific (EPAC) basin is related to gap-wind-induced vorticity, the monsoon trough, and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). There are several gaps in the Central American Mountains, on the...
Low oxygen conditions in the water column or hypoxia occur in estuaries and impact more than just the obvious commercially important species. Copepods are an important link in the food web and the influence of hypoxia upon them is...
A fully coupled regional downscaling system for both the Regional Spectral Model (RSM) for atmosphere and the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) for the ocean was developed for the purpose of downscaling observed analysis or global...
A positive correlation between sea surface temperature (SST) and wind stress perturbation near strong SST gradients (ΔSST) has been observed in different parts of the world ocean, such as the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic and the...
Accurate forecasting of seasonal rainfall is important for many areas of commerce, including, but not limited to, agriculture, manufacturing, and power generation. There have been several studies addressing the predictability of rainfall...
This study evaluates the impacts of two different precipitation types on stage heights from a fully integrated and distributed, physically based hydrologic model - MIKE SHE. Simulations using a network of South Florida Water Management...
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...
The isotopic composition of species-specific atmospheric mercury (Hg) was investigated in the coastal environment of Grand Bay, Mississippi, USA. Hg0(g), HgII(g) and Hg(p) were concurrently separated and collected, and subsequently...
Cross-slope flow is critical for governing heat and material exchange, including pollutants and biota, between the coastal and deep ocean. This study focuses on characterizing the variability of cross-slope near-bottom flow in the DeSoto...
Calcareous nannofossils are used as biostratigraphic indicators integral for age control in both petroleum industry and academic settings. The Oligocene and Late Cretaceous are especially problematic for nannofossil biostratigraphers due...
This study focused on the combined use of radon and radium isotopes as tracers of near-shore geophysical processes including submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), water exchange rates, and atmospheric evasion. Methods were developed for...
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