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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Rain Shadow"”.
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Dynamic and Thermodynamic Controls on the Amount and Distribution of Orographic Precipitation
… distribution of precipitation in mountainous terrain. In Chapter 2, linear theory and numerical simulations are used to investigate how the tropopause affects the vertical structure of mountain waves, and in turn orographic precipitation. In idealized numerical simulations, variations in the …
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Stable isotope paleohydrology of pedogenic carbonates in the Wayan Formation (Albian) from the wedge-top depozone in the North American Cretaceous Western Interior Basin
Determining the presence and effects of orogenic rain shadows on paleoclimate is challenging, but critical to understanding overall moisture and heat transport. This thesis presents new data and interpretation for the climate system of the Cretaceous greenhouse world, which is a major keystone in …
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Water use of Pinus radiata D. Don on bare ground at the Lincoln agroforestry experiment, Canterbury, New Zealand
This study evaluated the rainfall distribution and the soil water storage at different positions of Clone 3 and Seedling trees of Pinus radiata genotypes grown in bare ground during early summer (September 14 to 30 November) 1994. The predawn and mid-day plant water potential of two genotypes was …
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Paleoclimate Implications from Stable Isotope Analysis of Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Vertebrate Fossils from the Cedar Mountain Formation, UT, U.S.A.
… Yellow Cat members of the CMF likely caused by a rain-shadow (Suarez et al., 2014) on the eastern, leeward side of the uplifting Sevier Fold and Thrust belt (SFTB). The upper Mussentuchit Member becomes much more humid as the Western Interior foreland basin, continues to subside, eventually …
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Modification of Precipitation in Mid-Latitude Cyclones Passing over a Coastal Mountain Range
… and microphysical processes associated with terrain-induced precipitation processes. To the first order, the location of the mid-latitude cyclone relative to the mountain barrier determines the likely modes of precipitation enhancement or lack thereof. The prefrontal, warm, and postfrontal …
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Glacier dynamics across precipitation gradients in the Olympic Mountains of Washington state, USA: Modeled ice elevation feedbacks can overcome orographically forced drying
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Reconstruction of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate and landscape history in SE-Central Europe - A paleopedological and geochemical multi-proxy approach in loess-paleosol studies.
… intensity as given by element composition, grain size proxies for pedogenic clay formation and wind strength, as well as determination of sedimentation rates. As most suitable proxy for silicate weathering in calcareous sediments, the molar ratio Al2O3/(Na2O + Al2O3) × 100 is introduced as …
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CENOZOIC EXTENSION OF THE LAKE TANGANYIKA RIFT, EAST AFRICA: STRUCTURES, TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION
… or exploratory wells are required. Constraining the geometry of geological structures in extensional basins such as those within the EARS is important for studies of sedimentation, limnology, and hazards. Although previous studies have mapped geological structures of the Lake Tanganyika …