Browsing by Subject "Climate"
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(2013-04-09)The intent of this study was to investigate the efficient use of energy by developing an energy efficient grocery store combined with cogeneration. This study demonstrated the potential to reduce the energy use in buildings, ...
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(2013-08-30)Variations in the density banding and chemical composition of the skeletal material of long-lived corals in the Gulf of Mexico preserve records of past environmental conditions. To better interpret these records, the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)To investigate the tropical Atlantic response to the remote El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forcing, a Reduced Physics – Coupled Global Circulation Model (RP-CGCM) is developed, and four experiments are carried out. ...
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(2020-11-20)This dissertation develops optimal cloud ice particle optical property models used for remotely sensed data from multi-angular satellite sensors. The optimal degree of surface roughness is inferred from Multi-angle Imaging ...
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Stratocumulus clouds play an important role in the global energy balance. Thick layers of stratocumulus clouds over the subtropical oceans gradually thin and transition into shallow cumulus clouds as they traverse from ...
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(2017-07-20)Fires are responsible for the historical shape, structure, and composition of ecosystems in the South-Central United States. The biophysical settings in which fires readily occur are affected by global processes like climate ...
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(2015-09-19)Radiosonde data from weather balloons are critical because they are essential inputs for numerical weather prediction models and are used for climate research. However, radiosonde programs are costly to maintain, in ...
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(2017-06-27)The biogeographical history of the Afro-tropical Guineo-Congolian lowland forests during the Plio-Pleistocene is characterized by pervasive fragmentation-coalescence cycling due to global climatic oscillations. Vicariance ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)A field-deployable instrument has been developed that isolates from an ambient aerosol population only those particles that have critical supersaturations, Sc, within a narrow, user-specified, range. This Differential ...
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A Multi-Decadal Precipitation Evaluation for Namibia Using Satellite, Model, and Ground-Based Data (2019-06-18)Precipitation in southern Africa exhibits high variability with rain often falling in an intense deluge or not at all. Considerable research has gone into understanding what drives precipitation in southern Africa and how ...
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(2012-02-14)Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) comprise a substantial fraction of the total global aerosol budget. While laboratory studies involving smog chambers have advanced our understanding of the formation mechanisms responsible ...
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(2020-04-14)Peatlands have been important terrestrial carbon reservoirs throughout the Holocene, yet whether these ecosystems will become stronger carbon sinks in the future remains debated. While surface peat layers have a greater ...
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(2012-02-14)Theory and experiment show that the rate and geographic distribution of erosion control the rate and pattern of deformation in collisional mountain belts. Enhanced erosion reduces the mass of material that must be moved ...
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(2022-07-20)Sexual harassment continues to be a pervasive problem in American workplaces, universities, and the military. While sexual harassment has been widely studied across a variety of fields, sociologists have yet to investigate ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The energy, water, and CO(,2) balance of a greenhouse was analyzed with two simulation models: an existing one that simulated the flows of energy and mass in a greenhouse, based on a single leaf crop representation, and ...
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(2021-12-09)The annual cycle of surface temperature is altered over time because the annual mean surface temperature trend is not constant throughout the year, but instead exhibits distinct seasonality. Over the last century, the ...
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(2022-07-07)The overall cooling effects of Anthropogenic aerosol (AA), which mask a portion of global warming, have been the subject of many studies but still have large uncertainty. The difficulty in the quantitative understanding ...
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(2016-08-31)Climate plays an influential part in decision making by farmers by influencing the need and effectiveness of some inputs such as pesticides as well as expected yields. We look at the effect of climate variables and GMO ...
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(2012-02-14)Understanding the underlying causes of tropical cyclone formation is crucial to predicting tropical cyclone behavior in a warming environment, given the Earth's current warming trend. This study examines two sets of ...
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(2014-12-05)Air quality in urban areas is degraded by locally emitted aerosols and gaseous precursors as well as aerosols that have been transported from other areas. Increased amounts of particulate pollutants are associated with ...