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Showing 1 to 20 of 315 for “"Tropics"”.
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The general circulation of the tropics.
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1968.
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Scenic Design for Anna in the Tropics
… the scenic design for <italic>Anna in the Tropics</italic> by Nilo Cruz at the University of Maryland, Department of Theatre. This thesis contains the following documentation: research images which contribute to the intellectual design of the production and visually communicate to the …
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Study of viruses isolated in the tropics
This thesis is based on studies of the properties and epidemiology of viruses isolated in Africa. Investigations of the epidemiology of yellow fever and of new methods of vaccinating against it are described in the first series of papers. These yellow fever studies led incidentally to the recovery …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
… red algae that are found worldwide, from the tropics to the poles, in relatively shallow (0->250m) waters. They can live hundreds of years and continuously form a high-Mg calcite skeleton that presents periodical growth bands. Recent coralline red algae studies show that the variations of …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
… red algae that are found worldwide, from the tropics to the poles, in relatively shallow (0->250m) waters. They can live hundreds of years and continuously form a high-Mg calcite skeleton that presents periodical growth bands. Recent coralline red algae studies show that the variations of …
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Air Pollution and Fetal Loss in the Global Tropics
<p>Abstract: Recent work has shown that in-utero air pollution has negative effects on both contemporaneous birth outcomes and long-term human capital outcomes. However, only a few studies explore the effects of in-utero exposure to air pollution on fetal loss, and none of the studies has been done …
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Human perception of local air movement in the tropics
… Ventilation (PV) is applicable to the Tropics, and how the people in the Tropics perceive local air movement with short-term (15-minute) and long-term (90-minute) exposure. A subject-centred intervention approach was adopted for this study.This study has three independent parts. The …
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On the role of warm rain clouds in the tropics
A combined optimal estimation retrieval algorithm has been developed for warm rain clouds using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measurements. The algorithm uses TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) brightness temperatures that have been deconvolved to the 19-GHz field-of-view (FOV) to …
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Understanding precipitation, cold pools, and cloud arcs in the tropics
Before the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign that took place near Antigua and Barbuda from 2004-2005, it was thought that most trade wind cumulus clouds do not precipitate. The main goal of the RICO field campaign was to study rain in tropical marine cumuli and how this rain …
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Interaction between water vapor, radiation and convection in the tropics
The spatiotemporal variability of water vapor near the Equator remains poorly understood because convective organization simultaneously spans the cloud scale (~ 10km) and the planetary scale (~ 10, 000km). Spatiotemporal variability of tropical water vapor may result from internal instabilities of …
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Evaluating the Use of TROPICS Pathfinder Observations for Lunar Calibration
… Instead, CubeSat radiometers such as the TROPICS Pathfinder use noise diodes as smaller alternative hot calibration targets [18]. Noise diodes can experience calibration drifts that must be characterized and accounted for to maintain the reliability of radiance measurements. Given the …
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The influence of SST on air temperature in the tropics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1996.
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Longitudinal variation of large scale vertical motion in the tropics,
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1970.
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Monsoon and the general circulation of the tropics in June-August.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1971.
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The structure of annual and interannual wind variability in the tropics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1986.
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Cryptococcal Meningitis in The Tropics: Defining the Problem and Refining the Management
The basis of my thesis is the CryptoDex trial, a randomized controlled trial of adjunctive dexamethasone in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis, in 6 countries in Southeast Asia and Africa. This trial, which demonstrated harm from dexamethasone, is presented in detail in Chapter 6. To …
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Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics'
… Olive Senior’s <em>Gardening in the Tropics</em>, alongside Jamaica Kincaid’s gardening studies and Mona Lisa Saloy’s essay on environmental destruction. To conclude, I consider how the comic style might help mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis, if humanity — specifically …
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Reinforced concrete structural elevation, its application on sun control in the tropics
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1962.
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Biosphere-atmosphere interaction in a one-dimensional climate model of the tropics
… study, we develop a one-dimensional model of the tropics which includes two way interaction between the biosphere and the atmosphere. The model integrates a radiative-convective equilibrium model of the atmosphere, a land surface model including plant growth and competition and a monsoon …
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Some numerical aspects of developing an operational primitive-equation model for the tropics.
A barotropic primitive equation model on a global tropical grid using operational real data is used to test various boundary conditions and methods of initialization including numerical variational analysis. Comparisons of forecast accuracy are made between staggered and non-staggered grids. All …
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