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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"climate research"”.
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Transdisciplinary Climate Research to Support Decision Making
Climate research holds great promise for helping societies around the world adapt to what are likely to be dramatic changes in social-ecological systems in the 21st century. The climate research community has made enormous strides forward over the last 30 years in understanding how the climate …
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Promoting Greater Granularity in Climate Research: A Case Study Analyzing Perceptions of Anthropogenic Climate Change Among Students, Faculty, and Staff at The University of Southern Mississippi
<p>Anthropogenic climate change is a global concern that has the possibility to become the next world-altering event. While there is a substantial amount of scientific evidence proving its existence and harmful repercussions, there is still a lack of belief in its occurrence within the United …
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Evaluating campus climate according to resident status
… and increased likelihood for academic success, climate has become a buzzword in not only elementary and secondary education, but in higher education as well. Colleges and universities have followed the precedent of school climate research and have begun to explore and unveil characteristics that …
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The role of land-atmosphere and aerosol interactions on meso-scale convective weather systems across West Africa
… The SOM method is not yet commonly used by climate scientists for solving climate research problems. For the first time in this research - at least to the best of our knowledge - we used the SOM method to solve climate research problems over Africa. Our results show very strong seasonal …
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Organisational climate and its effect on job engagement: exploring the mediating effect of employees level of job satisfaction
This study examined two under-researched organisational climate facets, integration and family-focused supervisor support, as predictors of employees' job engagement. It further set out to explore the extent to which job satisfaction mediated these relationships. Results were based on self-reported …
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Assessing the community readiness of a Latina/o campus community to address lesbian, gay, and bisexual concerns
Research on the campus climate for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals evidences that heterosexism at institutions of higher education is still prevalent. Although campus climate research is increasing, studies have been primarily conducted with European American samples. Sexual …
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Organizacijos klimato UAB "Norfos Mažmena" vertinimas /
The Bachelor‘s thesis analyzes organizational climate in UAB „Norfos mazmena“. The research aimed to evaluate the organizational climate in UAB „Norfos mazmena“ Taurage departments, identify weak areas of organizational climate and to make recommendations to improve the organizational climate. 70 …
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If not us then who? How senior level black women administrators create supportive environments on predominantly white campuses
… the center of analysis when engaging in campus climate research, they play an important role in creating co-curricular environments that are inclusive of diverse students (Hurtado, 2012). Using the Applied Critical Leadership (Santamaría & Santamaría, 2012) framework to operationalize leadership …
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U.S. National Park Service Climate Change Interpretation: A National Study
Climate change has become an increasingly controversial topic in the United States. Because U.S. National Park Service (NPS) sites are both beloved and increasingly threatened by climate change, NPS interpretive programs are a unique context to study climate change communication. In this …
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Northern Reach: Architecture of a Thawing Arctic
As our climate continues to shift, it is fundamental to understanding these unprecedented changes through field research done in biomes most critically impacted. Due to the remoteness and extreme climatic nature of these research stations, they are typically either hastily built flat pack …
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A guiding model for decolonizing environmental science research and restoring relational accountability with Indigenous communities
… process and methodologies applied in scientific research by, on, and with Indigenous communities with an emphasis on diverse ways of knowing in environmental sciences, natural resources, and climate research. Effectively addressing complex social-ecological issues faced within our current and …
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A palaeolimnological study of the anthropogenic impact on dissolved organic carbon in South Swedish lakes
… in DOC content are a consequence of changes in climate, land use or land management practices. The work presented in this thesis concentrates on identifying the major forcing mechanisms behind observed increases in DOC concentration in the upland area of southern Sweden during recent decades, by …
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Assessing factors contributing to the changes in historical temperature extremes and investigating future changes in extreme events
… are among the most studied features in the climate research community using both the observed datasets and the simulated outputs from climate models. Such extremes often lead to irreversible societal, ecological, and economic consequences across the globe. Moreover, projected results from …
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Exploratory Factor Analysis: The Significance of Trust in a Revised Principal Academic Optimism Scale
… theoretical foundations in both educational research and educational psychology. Academic Optimism derives from research on school academic optimism and teacher academic optimism, which originated via Hoys, Tarters, and Woolfolk Hoys (2006a; 2006b) merger of school climate research with …
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Isolating the observed influence of vegetation variability of La Plata River basin on the climate of South America
… local and remote influences of vegetation on the climate of South America using observational records. We find that the dominant mode of vegetation variability over the La Plata River basin in austral Spring is linked with warmer temperature and enhanced precipitation over central and south La …
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An investigation on humpback whales' distribution in relation to Antarctic sea ice in the IDCR/SOWER dataset
… humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) as climate sentinels since their feeding ecology is inextricably linked to the oceanic features around Antarctica, and to the seasonal sea ice. The changing Antarctic cryosphere in response to climate change threatens not only their habitat but also …
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The Madden-Julian oscillation and nonlinear moisture modes
… meteorological impacts, continues to puzzle the climate research community on both theoretical and modeling fronts. Motivated by a recent interest in the role of humidity in tropical dynamics, this thesis hypothesizes that the MJO is a nonlinear moisture mode whose existence depends on …
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Regional planning and the energy efficiency purposes
The background concepts based on which this research is carried out could be divided into four categories; first, the climate change impacts are clearly visible in urban regions throughout Iran, including Tehran Region; second, despite the national regulations set to reduce the use of fossil …
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A Temporal Examination of the Connections between Convective Available Potential Energy and Convective System Development
<p>In 1983, the World Climate Research Programme launched its first project: the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP). While the ISCCP has succeeded in many of its cataloging and analytical goals, one of its flagship products, the Convection Tracking (CT) Database does not …
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Sensing Buildings: Environmental Impact of Sensor Technologies and Data Infrastructure in Buildings
… can be reconsidered. Through historic research, literature reviews, and experiments, this work shines some light on the environmental impact of data infrastructure to which our buildings are connected. The work presented in this thesis does not claim to be comprehensive nor to solve the …
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