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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Southern Caribbean"”.
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Proxy records of paleohurricanes for the western and southern caribbean
… in Belize and Nicaragua, as well as periods of southern residency of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Latitudinal movements of a unified North Atlantic circulation system were probably the driver of these changes, with southern migration increasing both landfall frequency and aridity …
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A Modeling Study of the Principal Rainband in Hurricane Matthew (2016) and the Influence of Remote Terrain on Hurricane Structure During its Intensification in the Southern Caribbean
Hurricane Matthew (2016) was a category 5 hurricane that interacted with remote terrain over northern South America in the early stages of its life cycle. Because tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation and convection are known to be crucial factors in the understanding and forecasting of TC intensity, …
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Carbon cycling in the Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella: quantitative evidence for enzymatic control of skeletal density banding and coral-endosymbiont physiological plasticity during seasonal environmental change
… found on the leeward coast of Curacao in the Southern Caribbean Sea, manipulate cellular and protein expression of a versatile ectodermal cell, the chromatophore, specifically and plastically, to facilitate or inhibit light-capture by the coral’s photosynthetic endosymbiont, the unicellular …
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Near-Annual History of Subtropical North Atlantic Hurricane Activity Recorded in Blue Hole Successions
… during LIA, whereas the Gulf of Mexico and southern Caribbean were inactive. This suggests that despite globally cooler climate, regional ocean/climate conditions during the LIA remained favorable for cyclogenesis and intensification along specific hurricane pathways in the northern Bahamas …
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Chromatophore tissue density and skeletal density banding as a measure of the adaptive response of healthy corals to environmental change
… has been completed on the reef tract of the southern Caribbean island of Curaçao across a 1-20 m bathymetric transect of increasing water depth (WD) and decreasing photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). This has established the first qualitative and quantitative baseline for the extent to …
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(Un)Interrupted Histories, Continuous Feeling: Indigenous Identity Formation and Notions of Heritage in the Southeastern Caribbean
… of more than 500 years of colonialism in the Caribbean. The work asks: What is the relationship between heritage and Indigenous identity in the Southeastern Caribbean? The Caribbean region is a vibrant cultural patchwork whose complicated history has led to intricate identity formation …