Browsing by Subject "Climate"
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An Analysis of Energy Consumption in Grocery Stores in a Hot and Humid Climate
(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, ... -
Coral Isotope Record of Environmental Change in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico
(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 ... -
A coupled model study of the remote influence of enso on tropical Atlantic sst variability
(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. ... -
Evaluating Reanalysis of Vertical Cloud Structure Across a Stratocumulus to Shallow Cumulus Transition using CloudSat-CALIPSO Observations
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 ... -
Identifying the Environmental Controls on Wildland Fire in the South-Central United States
(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 ... -
Insights from Avian Diversification Patterns in the Guineo-Congolian Tropical Lowland Forests
(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 ... -
Isolation of ambient aerosols of known critical supersaturation: the differential critical supersaturation separator (DSCS)
(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 ... -
Observations of Secondary Organic Aerosol Production and Soot Aging under Atmospheric Conditions Using a Novel Environmental Aerosol Chamber
(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 ... -
The Role of Climate in the Deformation of a Fold and Thrust Belt
(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 ... -
The Impact of the Summit Station, Greenland Radiosonde Program on Weather and Climate Prediction
(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 ... -
Three Essays on the Economic Relationships Between Climate and Agriculture
(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 ... -
Tropical Cyclogenesis Factors in a Warming Climate
(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 ... -
Using In-Situ Aerosol Optical Properties to Develop a Novel Air Quality Monitoring and Diagnostic Tool
(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 ...