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Showing 1 to 20 of 1922 for “"tropical"”.
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Tropical orographic rainfall regimes according to the tropical rainfall measuring mission
Observing precipitation in tropical regions of complex terrain is a challenging problem. While ground-based instrumentation including rain gauge networks and radar data offer some insights, the lack of spatially complete gauge networks and radar artifacts such as severe beam blockage lead to large …
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Complete Tropical Bezout's Theorem and Intersection Theory in the Tropical Projective Plane
In this dissertation we prove a version of the tropical Bezout's theorem which is applicable to all tropical projective plane curves. There is a version of tropical Bezout's theorem presented in other works which applies in special cases, but we provide a proof of the theorem for all tropical …
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Tropical observability and predictability
Many studies have investigated tropical data assimilation in the context of global models or specifically for tropical cyclones, but relatively few have focused on the mesoscale predictability and observability of the general tropical environment. This work constructs an ensemble data assimilation …
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Downdraft impacts on tropical convection
… under-shooting bottoms in heavily precipitating tropical systems.
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Panama vernacular: a tropical house
… construction of a single family dwelling in a tropical oceanside environment will be investigated. Tropical vernacular architecture will be studied. Concepts established will be integrated in a modern architectural language, preserving the time tested truths of the local architecture. The …
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Tracking climate signals in tropical trees
The tropical warm pool waters surrounding Indonesia are one of the equatorial heat and moisture sources that are considered as a driving force of the global climate system. The climate in Indonesia is dominated by the equatorial monsoon system, and has been linked to El Niño-Southern Oscillation …
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Solute dispersion in selected tropical soils
… calcium, and phosphate was investigated in three tropical soils represented by three Hawaiian soils through a specially designed flow apparatus. Observed differences in the dispersion of these solutes for the range of velocities tested were attributed to differences in ion adsorption capacity and …
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Rain Formation in Shallow Tropical Convection
Despite the time and space constraints placed on the results by the observed evolution of the updrafts, the calculations showed that the process of rain formation in warm convective clouds is simple and efficient, provided that giant and ultragiant CCN are present near cloud base. While more …
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Simple Models for Complex Tropical Dynamics
… and full general circulation models -- to study tropical phenomena including the Hadley Circulation, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), the South Asian monsoon, Pacific and ENSO seasonality, the Walker Circulation, and the modeling of the tropical energy budget. We begin with an …
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Disturbances in the tropical upper troposphere.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1970.
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Interannual variations of tropical precipitation patterns
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1980.
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Tropical cyclone momentum and energy fluxes
Many modeling studies of tropical cyclones use the bulk aerodynamic formulae to determine angular momentum and enthalpy fluxes at the sea surface. These results show that the intensification of a hurricane is very sensitive to the values of the coefficients defined in these formulae (Emanuel, …
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Diurnal cycle of deep tropical convection
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1992.
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The tropical peatland carbon sink: climatic drivers and modelling of peat accumulation at the pan-tropical scale
Tropical peatlands are carbon-dense ecosystems and act as a globally important carbon sink. However, uncertainties exist about the climatic and environmental drivers of carbon accumulation and about the future of the carbon sink with climate change. There are also relatively few modelling studies …
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