Browsing by Author "Schumacher, Courtney"
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Wang, Yuan (2013-07-30)The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols ...
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Anselmo, Evandro M.; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Schumacher, Courtney; Kiladis, George N. (Royal Meteorological Society, 2021-02-12)Convective system tracking was performed using 30‐min GOES‐13 infrared imagery over the Amazon region during 2014 and 2015. A total of 116,701 convective systems were identified and statistics on the probability of occurrence ...
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Funk, Aaron (2013-12-10)The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) 2A23 algorithm classifies rain echo as stratiform or convective while the 2A25 algorithm corrects vertical profiles of radar reflectivity for attenuation ...
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Frederick, Kaycee Loretta (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The Tropical Pacific Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) took place in Darwin, Australia in early 2006. C-band radar data from this experiment were used to characterize tropical anvil areal coverage, height, ...
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White, Keith (2015-08-19)Vertical profiles of heating (Q1) are a result of the interaction between radiative heating, eddy sensible heat transport, and latent heating from cloud and precipitation systems. The third component is the largest by an ...
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Casey, Sean P. (2010-07-14)binding of either tyrosine or 6MPH4 alone does not change the coordination. However, when both tyrosine and 6MPH4 are bound, the active site becomes 5-coordinate, creating an open site for reaction with O2. Investigation ...
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Spotts, Justin Relton (2023-01-04)Tropical cyclone tornadoes (TCTORs) pose a warning challenge and are prone to having a high number of false-alarm warnings. Previous studies have found weather-radar attributes (i.e., rotational velocity (Vrot) or azimuthal ...
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Martin, Elinor Ruth (2012-10-19)A census of 24 coupled (CMIP) and 13 uncoupled (AMIP) models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth assessment report (AR4) were compared with observations and reanalysis to show varied ability ...
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Mahajan, Salil (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Community Climate Model 3 (CCM3) is run on an idealized all land zonally symmetric planet (Terra Blanda) with no seasonality, no snow and fixed soil moisture to obtain a stationary time series effectively much longer ...
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Wodzicki, Kyle R (2021-03-31)The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and Hadley and Walker circulations are primary drivers of the hydrologic cycle in the tropics. The ITCZ controls some of the wettest regions of the globe, while the Hadley circulation ...
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Zapalac, Allison (2014-12-08)The studies in this thesis aim to improve the overall understanding of the characteristics of the marine stratocumulus to shallow cumulus transition over the southeast Pacific Ocean. This study uses observations from ...
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Huaman Chuquihuaccha, Lidia (2018-11-02)In the East Pacific intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) radar-based latent heating retrievals suggest a top-heavy structure; however, the TRMM precipitation radar (PR) ...
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Zimmerle, Heather (2014-07-17)Current velocities from 21 years (1992-2012) of near-continuous observations are used to investigate the Texas Coastal Current on the western Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Observations ...
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Li, Wei (2011-02-22)This dissertation uses multiple tools to investigate tropical anvil, i.e., thick, non-precipitating cloud associated with deep convection with the main objectives to provide a climatology of tropics-wide anvil properties ...
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Sun, Lu (2019-04-05)Cloud feedback remains one of the largest sources of uncertainty in model climate sensitivity estimates, partly because of the complicated interactions between convective processes, radiative effects, and the large-scale ...
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Pearce, Stuart (2012-02-14)The Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Study featured moorings that covered the shelf during 1992 to 1994, and captured the oceanic response on the shelf to category 4 Hurricane Andrew in August of 1992. ...
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Sink, Amanda Marie (2016-05-18)Dual-polarized radar data are used to develop forecast techniques for total lightning cessation for the Houston, Texas region. A total of 42 isolated thunderstorms observed in the summer months of June, July and August of ...
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Hopper, Jr., Larry John (2009-05-15)Divergence structures associated with the spectrum of precipitating systems in the subtropics and midlatitudes are not well documented. A mesoscale model (MM5) is employed to quantify the relative importance different ...
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Ye, Hao (2018-05-04)The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the physical processes controlling the spatial distribution of water vapor in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) and the impact of convective ice evaporation on TTL ...
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Etten-Bohm, Montana (2018-10-26)The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between lightning and six large-scale environmental variables: convective available potential energy (CAPE), normalized CAPE (nCAPE), column saturation fraction ...