Browsing by Department "Atmospheric Sciences"
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(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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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)The baroclinic and surface-frictional contributions to stratified wake formation are considered as a function of the non-dimensional height ( = Nho/U) and aspect-ratio ( = ho/L) of the barrier. Numerical simulations are ...
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(2015-09-18)Recent studies show that Saharan dust can exert substantial radiative and microphysical effects on the weather and regional climate. Moreover, the potential impacts of Saharan dust on the genesis and intensification of ...
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(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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(2009-08-12)This report characterizes the meteorological severity of the 2008‐09 Texas Drought as of August 1, 2009, putting the present drought into a historical perspective. The report draws upon multiple sources of information, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Global warming theories continue to overestimate their predictions of increased mean global temperatures (Hudson 1991). This would imply that some other influence is counteracting the global warming influences; i.e. a ...
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(2016-07-08)This study investigates the efficiency of the operational global ensemble forecast systems in capturing the spatiotemporal evolution of the forecast uncertainty. It has two novel aspects: first, it extends the results of ...
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Atmospheric Measurements of Submicron Aerosols at the California-Mexico Border and in Houston, Texas (2013-04-29)Using an innovative arrangement of instruments to obtain a comprehensive set of properties, we present a description of the submicron aerosol properties for two distinct regions. During the 2009 SHARP/SOOT campaign in ...
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(2020-11-09)Aerosol particles have important effects on our world. In the context of the biosphere, aerosols contribute to air pollution and also influence human health. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to viral ...
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(2023-03-03)Under humid atmospheric conditions, pollen grains can rupture creating pollen grain fragments referred to as subpollen particles (SPPs). This study evaluated environmental conditions needed to emit SPPs and measure the ...
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(2014-07-15)Uncertainty on cloud feedback is the primary contributor to the large spread of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) in climate models. In this study, we compare the short-term cloud feedback in climate models with ...
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(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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(American Meteorological Society, 2005-05-01)A case study from the Texas Air Quality Study 2000 field campaign illustrates the complex interaction of meteorological and chemical processes that produced a high-pollution event in the Houston area on 30 August 2000. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Beamfilling error is one of the main error sources for microwave oceanic rainfall retrieval. An accurate beamfilling correction can improve the rainfall retrieval accuracy significantly. Quantitative understanding of the ...
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(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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(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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(2016-12-08)Several species of oak were used in a series of chamber based experiments. The species of oaks chosen (Quercus alba, muehlenbergii, and virginiana) were selected because they are all emitters of the volatile organic compound ...