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(2019-12-09)The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) Project collected a wealth of data on several lake-effect storms in the vicinity of Lake Ontario during the winter of 2013-14. Of all lake-effect band archetypes, long- ...
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(2009)This dissertation makes the following key contributions to science: (1) With the aid of the MODerate Resolution atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN) radiative transfer model, this dissertation provides the first explanation ...
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(2000)Changes in radiative fluxes and atmospheric heating rates were computed by using the UIUC 24-layer Stratosphere/Troposphere General Circulation Model (ST-GCM) and a reconstructed dataset of the Pinatubo aerosol optical ...
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(1997)Despite the time and space constraints placed on the results by the observed evolution of the updrafts, the calculations showed that the process of rain formation in warm convective clouds is simple and efficient, provided ...
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(2013-02-03)Extreme events, including precipitation extremes, can have severe impacts on human society and on ecosystems. In the late 20th century, heavy precipitation events tend to occur with increasing frequency or intensity ...
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(2004)The thermohaline circulation (THC) in the North Atlantic plays a vital role in explaining past abrupt climate changes and in maintaining the current climate. Its remarkable nonlinear dynamics, first demonstrated by Stommel, ...
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(2012-09-18)This work consists of the development and validation of a new radar product based on Bragg scattering retrievals from clear air S-band radar returns, a re-conceptualization of the tropical marine boundary layer based on ...
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(1991)The applicability of linear models in studying the observed stationary waves is considered. In particular, the time-mean effects of eddy fluxes on the response of the atmosphere to tropical thermal forcing are examined by ...
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(2017-11-27)Analysis of S-PolKa dual-polarization radar and 6-hourly ERA-interim reanalysis data shows the multiscale atmospheric conditions and changes in convective organization during a central Indian Ocean Madden-Julian Oscillation ...
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(2004)In the second phase of this research, numerical experiments were used to examine the open issues that emerged from the observational analysis. Simulations were conducted using an idealized cloud model with a horizontally ...
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(2001)A severe lake-effect snowstorm on 25--26 December 1993 was successfully modeled using the Penn State/NCAR MM5 model at 7 km grid resolution. Another simulation performed with Lake Michigan removed from the domain resulted ...
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(2007)This thesis presents the studies that I have conducted on a most fundamental step in satellite remote sensing---cloud detection, which has been known as the largest source of error in the retrievals of satellite geophysical ...
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(2017-07-20)Black carbon (BC) aerosol strongly absorbs visible light and therefore has a warming impact on climate. Quantifying this impact requires us to develop faithful model representations of its climate-relevant properties, such ...
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(2011-05-25)Accurate short-term wind speed forecasts for utility-scale wind farms will be crucial for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal of providing 20% of total power from wind by 2030. For typical pitch-controlled wind ...
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(2012-02-06)Changes in global climate and pollutant emissions are very likely to continue in the coming decades driven by the human-related activities and natural fluctuations in the Earth climate system. These potential changes would ...
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(2016-09-06)Although nocturnal convection is frequently observed, the mechanisms that allow nocturnal mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) to persist are still not well understood. On 9 August 2014 at approximately 2000 UTC, a regime ...
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(2018-07-20)PM2.5 is the set of airborne particulate matter (also known as aerosols) with diameter 2.5 m or smaller. Ambient concentrations of these aerosols have been shown to be highly correlated with premature mortality throughout ...
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(2000)More than 200 hours of Na density, wind and temperature observations in the mesopause region (80--105 km) were obtained at the Starfire Optical Range (35°N, 106.5°W), NM during 94--95 period and 98--99 period. The ...
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(2010-05-19)Regional climate impact assessments require high-resolution projections to resolve local factors that modify the impact of global-scale forcing. To generate these projections, global climate model simulations are commonly ...
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(1987)A planetary wave model which is symmetric about the equator has been developed using the linear balance set of equations. The model is formulated on a sphere and spectrally truncated to 4 zonal and 7 meridional modes. There ...
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