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Showing 1 to 20 of 315 for “"Atmospheric sciences"”.
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Advances in Algorithms for Atmospheric Sciences
… to two mathematical disciplines applied in the Atmospheric Sciences: computational fluid dynamics and data assimilation. First, we consider a filter stabilization technique with a deconvolution-based indicator function for the simulation of advection-dominated advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) …
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Women's Success in Science: The Role of Self -Efficacy and Resiliency in Building Social Capital
… of seven women pursuing undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences are examined through lenses constructed from social science theories of self-efficacy, resiliency and social capital. Each of the women successfully earned a Bachelor's degree in atmospheric sciences in spite of being the …
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Ozone and Particulate Matter: Model Improvement and Evaluation
… State University Theses Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
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On the use of multivariate statistics to validate global climate models
… technique introduced for the first time to the atmospheric sciences, orthogonal Procrustes Target Analysis (PTA) was applied. A four dimensional analysis of the low frequency variability of observed geopotential height at 700 and 200hPa for the Northern Hemisphere in the National Meteorological …
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Sonification of the invisible : large scale sound installments on building facades
… a region under active radar study by the Atmospheric Sciences Group at MIT's Haystack Observatory. The speaker arrangement on the Green Building's facade visually reminds the listener of an upwards-sloping graph. This is representative of the spectral frequency distribution of the sounds, …
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A zonally and annually averaged study of potential early Martian atmospheres
… model designed at NASA's Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences, which make it suitable for study of an atmosphere with varying carbon dioxide levels. Vertically and meridionally defined, the model includes heating and cooling by radiation, mean meridional circulation, large-scale …
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An educational museum for atmospheric phenomena
… public about the atmosphere, and document past atmospheric phenomena. Its two primary functions are: 1. Record and archive past atmospheric phenomena within the continental U.S. and facilitate those wishing to use this information. 2. Educate the public about atmospheric sciences and historical …
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Scalable predictive modeling for spatiotemporally evolving phenomena
… evolving phenomena occur in epidemiology, atmospheric sciences, agriculture, and traffic management, among others. Models can be used to understand and inform decision-making in these settings. There has been a growth in both mechanistic and physics-informed methods to model phenomena. A …
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Evaluation of Speech And Text-Based Indexing For Classroom Lecture Videos
… departments within the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics such as Computer Science, Biology and Biochemistry, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, etc. Since most videos are very long, it is difficult to directly access the required topic within a video. The ICS (indexed, captioned, and …
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SOME MIDDLE ULTRAVIOLET RADIATIVE EFFECTS OF PARTICULATE POLLUTION IN THE STRATOSPHERE
… and summer of 1980 from the roof of the Physics-Atmospheric Sciences building on the campus of The University of Arizona are presented and discussed. The stratospheric dust problem is considered in terms of stratospheric aerosol enhancement resulting from volcanic activity.
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Applied math in geophysical fluids : partially trapped wave problems and mining plumes
… of this work focuses on leaky modes in the atmospheric sciences. Leaky modes (related to quasi-modes, scattering resonances, and the singularity expansion method) are discrete, oscillatory and decaying modes that arise in conservative systems where waves are partially trapped. By replacing …
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Power plant carbon dioxide emission quantification with plume modeling
… a significant and multi-faceted problem for the atmospheric sciences as a part of the research regarding global warming and greenhouse gases. Emissions originating from point sources, referred to as plumes, can be simulated using mathematical and physical models, such as a convection-diffusion …
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An Ensemble Numerical Modeling Study of Alantic Basin Hurricane Intensification
… cyclones is an active area of research in the atmospheric sciences due to the difficulty of forecasting cyclone intensity and the unclear mechanism by which a hurricane my undergo explosive deepening. Ensemble numerical modeling studies of six tropical cyclones from 2009, 2010 and 2011 which …
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Multigrid Algorithms for Massively Parallel Machines
… in areas such as computational fluid dynamics, atmospheric sciences, electromagnetics etc. One of the most popular methods of solving <em>pde's</em> is the use of the multigrid algorithm. However, the implementation of the multigrid algorithm on massively parallel machines is not very efficient …
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THE VARIABILITY OF DROUGHT DYNAMICS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES AND AN ANALYSIS OF DROUGHT RISK IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
… University in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences under the tutelage of Dr. Toby Ault as a member of the Emergent Climate Risk Lab. Herein, I used a variety of tools to analyze the variability of hydroclimate teleconnections of the southwest United States (SWUS) to El Niño …
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Development of an accurate 3D Monte Carlo broadband atmospheric radiative transfer model
… model) to produce heating rates relevant to atmospheric dynamics, and (3) developing tools to interface between the model and databases of single scattering properties of the real atmosphere. Special attention has been paid to practical aspects of implementation for high performance computing …
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Arctic daily temperature and precipitation extremes: Observed and simulated physical behavior
… M. Glisan</p> <p>Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa</p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Simulations using a six-member ensemble of Pan-Arctic WRF (PAW) were produced on two Arctic domains with 50-km resolution to analyze precipitation and temperature …
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The Changing Annual Cycle of Sea Surface Temperature
In recent decades, many research efforts focused on global climate change, multidecadal, decadal, interannual variability, and the increasing extreme events of sea surface temperature. In contrast, the continuous evolution of the reference frame, the annual cycle of SST used to quantify the …
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