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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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(2013-05-24)The relationship between storm mergers and tornado formation can result in local conditions more favorable for rapid intensification of vertical vorticity at the surface than found in the surrounding environment. Following ...
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(2001)To understand and predict the strength of mesoscale lake-effect circulations a simple function, called the lake-effect intensity index, was developed using the dimensional analysis technique. The intensity index was found ...
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(2015-01-21)This dissertation presents analyses of the microphysical structure and processes producing precipitation in the comma-head region of cold-season continental cyclones, using data collected by the W-band Wyoming Cloud Radar ...
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(2018-04-25)Data from airborne W-band radar along with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model thermodynamic fields and air-parcel back trajectories from the HYSPLIT model are used to determine causes of finescale features of a ...
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(2011-08-25)Gravity waves (GWs) and tides are two strongest and most persistent waves in the middle atmosphere of the Earth. They are usually generated in the lower atmosphere and propagate upward to the middle and upper atmosphere, ...
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(2010-06-22)This study examines the effect that Lake Erie, and its corresponding marine boundary layer (MBL), have on pre-existing convective storms which propagate over the water surface. To do this, data collected from the 2001-2007 ...
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(2013-02-03)The continuing increase in demand for commercial aviation transport raises questions about the effects of resulting emissions on the environment. The upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), where most of aviation ...
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(2019-07-16)During the 2017 & 2018 Observations of Aerosols Above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES) field campaign, the NASA P3-Orion was equipped with a 2D-Stereo (2D-S) probe that contains 128 diodes that are 10 µm in size ...
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(2004)The key findings related to the narrow bands are: (1) The simulated embedded narrow bands were oriented vertically upright, their widths and evolution characteristics similar to radar observations; (2) Conditional symmetric ...
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(2014-01-16)The Tambora Project reconstructs on a global scale the most destructive episode of abrupt climate change in the modern historical record. The volcanic sulfate veil produced by the Tambora eruption in the period 1815-18 ...
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(2018-07-19)Entrainment, the process by which turbulent clouds introduce dry air from outside the cloud inward via overturning eddies at the cloud edge, can decrease the cloud buoyancy, and the water and/or ice mass it contains, ...
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