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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"east coast"”.
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An East Coast Winter Storm Precipitation Climatology
East Coast Winter Storms (ECWS) can have tremendous impacts throughout the eastern regions of the United States. Forecasting influences from these storms, particularly long range and due to seasonal variations, is extremely challenging. Using a previously compiled climatology of ECWS events, an …
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Impacts of Space Launch Operations on Florida East Coast Airspace Users
… The currently implemented procedure for Florida east coast launches temporarily closes the airspace to keep all air traffic operations out of the launch trajectory and potential hazard areas to maintain the safety of air traffic and space vehicles. This results in the flight deviation from the …
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Neogene paleomagnetism and geodynamics of the Hikurangi margin, East Coast, New Zealand
… sampling along the Hikurangi margin, on the East Coast of the North Island, has provided new insights into the patterns, rates and timings of tectonic rotation, and also an improved understanding of the magnetic signature of New Zealand Cenozoic mudstones. Rigorous field tests reveal numerous …
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The development of Malaysian petrochemical complexes of the East-Coast industrial corridor
… out in Kerteh and Gebeng in the Malaysian East Coast region. Despite being isolated from nation’s mainstream economic activities as well as politically distinctive, the tiny townships managed to be host to global petroleum, gas and chemical giants, believed to have received the highest …
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Epidemiology of East Coast Fever in smallholder livestock systems of East Africa
… fever, anaemia, organ dysfunction and death. East Coast fever (ECF), caused by T. parva and transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, is among the deadliest of these infections and causes the development of lymphoproliferative syndrome and the significant reduction in milk …
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Structure of an east coast cyclone derived from airborne radar and model diagnostics
… determine causes of finescale features of a northeast U.S. cyclone and link them to synoptic and air mass structure. The storm intensified and propagated along the New England coastline on 2 February 2015. A stratiform echo was observed in the northeast half of the first of four flight legs with …
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Key Drivers of Coastal Relocation in Spatial Clusters Along the US East Coast
Coastal flooding has been increasing in frequency and severity across the US East Coast, adversely impacting the human population. Preferred adaptation strategies, such as protection and accommodation, may prove insufficient under current climate change scenarios and projected future sea level …
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Crustal structure of rifted and convergent margins : the U.S. East Coast and Aleutian margins
… the crustal structure across the U.S. East Coast rifted margin and the convergent margin of southwestern Alaska using modern, deep-penetrating marine seismic reflection/refraction data. We consider U.S. East Coast margin transects along the shelf offshore Georgia and across the …
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Kinship and modernisation : an analysis of a Cham community of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
… Pulau Keladi Village, a Cham settlement on the East Coast of peninsula Malaysia, and employed an ethnographic research approach combining traditional participant observation with simple survey techniques.The study is primarily concerned with how modernization has affected kinship relations among …
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Precipitation growth processes in the comma head region of an east coast winter storm
… deepening extratropical cyclone impacted the east coast of the United States, contributing 20-30 cm of snowfall in its comma head region. As part of the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign, precipitation within the …
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Numerical simulation of a mesoscale convective system over the east coast of South Africa
… stations across the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline recorded over 100 mm of rainfall over the 11112 February 2005, with Cape St. Lucia and Richards Bay measuring 111 mm and 96.8 mm, respectively. This heavy rainfall was associated with a mesoscale convective system (MCS) that initiated …
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Crustal structure of rifted and convergent margins : the U.S. east coast and Aleutian margins
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997.
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The influence of orography on an East Coast storm, as simulated by the NCAR GCM
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology.
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Temporal variation in the coral reefs of the east coast of the inner gulf of Thailand
… transects established on fourteen reefs on the eastern seaboard of the Gulf of Thailand were monitored through a three-year period (1995- 1998) using a video transect method. Hierarchical cluster analysis shows three distinctive reef community types dominated by 1) Porites, 2) Acropora and 3) …
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Structural settings inferred from gravity, magnetic and seismic data for Durban Basin, east coast offshore of South Africa
The South African east coast offshore consists of two sedimentary basins namely, the Durban Basin and the Zululand Basin. The rift Mesozoic Durban Basin covers an area of about 10 000 km² between Port Shepstone Arch and the Zululand Basin. Structurally, it is complex with multiple fault systems and …
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Age Validation and Reproductive Biology of Bluefish, <i>Pomatomus saltatrix,</i> Along the East Coast of United States
… and batch fecundity. When I evaluated my coast wide collections, I noted that gears caught different age ranges yet there were no significant differences in the von Bertalanffy growth parameters compared by sex, year, and between the South Atlantic and Middle Atlantic Bights using …
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Kete of continuance : managing values of the pastoral landscapes on the East Coast between Tatapouri and Tokomaru Bay
Landscape values associated with coastal dryland pastoral landscapes are critically reviewed, and placed in the context of the UNESCO classification of 'continuing cultural landscapes'. Using a case study of the Gisborne East Coast region, a range of landscape management strategies are drawn from …
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Comparative dietary analysis of four small pelagic fish species from presumed mixed shoals off South Africa's east coast
… sagax), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), west coast redeye (Etrameus whiteheadi) and east coast redeye (E. teres) were collected from presumed mixed shoals off South Africa's east coast. The stomach contents were analysed to 1) determine the diet composition of each species in terms of dietary …
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