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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Moisture balance"”.
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Moisture balance in ventilation air at the WIPP facility
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Modification of the Field Moisture Balance Water Quality model (FMBWQ) to simulate subsurface drainage and preferential flow
The general objective of this study was to add the capability of simulating subsurface drainage and preferential flow to FMBWQ. The modified FMBWQ was calibrated and validated for an agricultural plot in the Iowa State University North East Research Center near Nashua, Iowa (hereafter referred to …
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Examining surface energy and moisture balance changes associated with land conversion from annual to perennial biofuel crops
… is expected to alter the surface energy balance via albedo changes and shifts in the partitioning of energy between sensible and latent heat fluxes. The degree to which albedo will shift is uncertain, as is the feedback this shift may have on regional climate. This thesis examines how …
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Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Aridification Across Southwest North America
… temperatures. Trends in the regional surface moisture balance (P−E) of SWNA vary between the arid southern subregion (mostly Northern Mexico) and the more temperate northern subregion (Southwest US), depending on the relative contributions of cold and warm season P and E. Interpreting the …
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A 1400 Year Multi-Proxy Record of Hydrologic Variability in the Gulf Of Mexico: Exploring Ocean-Continent Linkages During the Late Holocene
… America continent is directly dependent on the moisture balance (E/P) over the sub-tropical Gulf of Mexico (a major source of moisture to the North America continent). Warm, moist air masses from the south interact with cold/dry air masses from the north over the North American continent to …
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Putsens inverkan på fasadens fuktbalans
… deals with the effect of renderings on the moisture balance in facades. The main therne is the moisture mechanism in cnnnection with different moisture sources. Different opinions about moisture in facades and consequences of moisture are mentioned as a background. The work is then …
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Prediction of soil moisture from selected climatic data
… been developed for local use in predicting soil moisture in many parts of the United States. The objective of this study was to develop a method to estimate soil moisture in Virginia using data collected by the Agricultural Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, …
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The many forms of thirst : investigating forest constraints in the Cape Floristic Region
… it was hypothesised that seasonal drought and moisture balance were more likely to limit forest distribution than broader rainfall patterns. The biomes of the CFR were mapped using Mucina & Rutherford’s (2006) vegetation map. Environmental data was extracted from Schulze (2007) and analysed …
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Holocene variations in summer temperature and effective moisture: Understanding the causes of vegetational dynamics in Alaska
… to test the role of orbital forcing and moisture balance on interior Alaskan vegetation assemblages. The results presented here provide some of the first high-resolution, vegetation-independent climate records from Alaska that span the entire Holocene and highlight heterogeneous climatic …
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Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet response to climate change in the past and future
… very long timescales. The new regional energy-moisture balance model (REMBO) has been developed to model the climate and surface mass balance over Greenland and it represents an improvement compared to conventional approaches in modeling present-day conditions. Furthermore, the evolution of the …
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Archives of climate variability on Kiritimati: lacustrine, aeolian and remote sensing perspectives
… our ability to understand past atmospheric moisture balance over long timescales. A new lake sediment record from Kiritimati Island, in the northern Line Islands of the central tropical Pacific (CTP) Ocean (2°N, 157°W), improves our understanding of the spatial structure of the hydroclimate …
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Organosilicon compounds as potential wood protecting agents
… treatment fungal discolouration, mass loss and moisture content could be reduced, without the application of a biocide. Further adding a biocide enhanced the first two parameters. Concluding it can be said that organosilicons seem to have certain potential in improving wood characteristics like …
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Rendered rainscreen walls - cavity ventilation, ventilation drying and moisture-induced cladding deformation
Over the past five years, moisture damages in external walls of wood frame structure and rendering on insulation as a cladding has been a widely debated subject which has received a lot of attention. In the light of this, the interest in an alternative construction method where rendering is applied …
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Reconstructing Australia’s late Quaternary climate from the geochemistry of lake sediments and snail shells
… components: 1) A record of late Quaternary moisture balance, inferred from highly resolved x-ray fluorescence and organic carbon isotope measurements of a sedimentary sequence from Lake Surprise in south-eastern Australia (Chapter 3). The regional significance of this record is assessed …
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Ventilerad luftspalt i yttervägg : luftomsättningar och konvektiv fukttransport
Allvarliga fuktproblem i ytterväggar med regelstomme av trä och fasadskikt av puts på isolering har under senare delen av 2000-talet konstaterats i Sverige. Ett alternativ byggsätt för den putsade fasaden är att putsa mot ett skivunderlag som sitter monterat mot läkt så att en luftspalt bildas. Om …
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Life history and reproductive ecology of selected proteaceae in the mountain Fynbos Vegetation of the South-Western Cape
… model based on indexes of the daily soil moisture balance and temperature showed that a reduction of 10 or 20% in daily rainfall will have little impact on the germination of seeds released in late-summer or autumn in the western Cape, because of the long wet winter period. An increase in …