Browsing by Author "Klein, Andrew"
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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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Burns, Gabriel Ryan (2009-05-15)This study uses geographic information systems to determine if the aggregation of census block data are better than census block group data for analyzing social vulnerability. This was done by applying a social vulnerability ...
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Cooney, John William (2020-01-14)In this paper overshooting top (OT) refers to a convective updraft that extends above the primary lapse¬rate tropopause. OTs are a result of powerful updrafts that rapidly transport air from the lower troposphere to the ...
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Austin, Michael Andrew (2016-11-28)The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) serves as a means of legally identifying land in 30 out of 50 U.S. states. PLSS coordinates are frequently used to describe spatial data such as the locations of wildfires, but PLSS ...
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Bord, Arik J K (2019-03-27)In 1675, the English government passed a law that established six “trade towns” on Antigua. The law required that all imports, exports, and intra-island trade be conducted in these towns to be assessed for taxes. Of the ...
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Hoffpauir, Richard James (2011-02-22)Surface water availability models often use monthly simulation time steps for reasons of data availability, model parameter parsimony, and reduced computational time. Representing realistic streamflow variability, ...
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Glen, Andrew (2014-01-15)Mineral dusts and ice crystals directly influence the Earth's radiative budget through radiative scattering and absorption. The interaction of spherical particles on the radiative budget are well known, however mineral ...
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Kim, Minsung (2012-02-14)This research investigated whether completing an introductory GIS course affects college students' spatial literacy as defined by spatial habits of mind, spatial concepts and thinking skills, and critical spatial thinking. ...
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Mandal, Debayan (2020-12-01)Flash floods have been a very unpredictive natural disaster. Previous attempts at zonation of flash floods based on predictive severity have been very data-intensive and exhaustive on focusing on a certain area. There are, ...
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Ju, Yang (2017-05-10)Snow cover plays an important role in the Earth’s climate systems. Accurately estimating snow cover is beneficial for predicting the runoff from snowmelt. Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) mapping computes the fraction of snow ...
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Green, Carl A (2018-05-01)Poleward vegetation expansion has affected Alaska for decades and due to recently increased rates of warming, the expansion will accelerate. Glacier recession in the region has exposed land that was previously ice covered. ...
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Howard, Corey Storm (2018-07-25)The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is one of the most important features of the tropical atmosphere. Recent modeling and observational studies have shown changes in the width and precipitation intensity of this ...
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Kuo, Chia-Pang (2018-07-31)Since clouds are spread widely around the world and heavily influence the Earth’s energy budget, people extensively use general circulation models (GCMs) to investigate the effect of clouds on the future climate. Since in ...
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Huo, Da (2020-07-21)Recent studies have not achieved a general consensus on how debris-covered glaciers (DCGs) in the central Karakoram Himalaya respond to climate change. Many climate-glacier dynamics cannot be explained by existing models ...
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Zhang, Shuai (2017-05-30)Satellite remote sensing has offered a unique promise for monitoring reservoir storage variations at near real-time. Such information is essential for flood mitigation—especially for regions dominated by international river ...
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Ravikumar, Rahul (2009-05-15)Traditional remote sensing image classification has primarily relied on image spectral information and texture information was ignored or not fully utilized. Existing remote sensing software packages have very limited ...
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Labude, Brian (2012-08-15)The National Park Service (NPS) monitors off-road vehicle (ORV) use in National Seashores across the United States. The sediment disturbance that is caused by ORVs is believed to have a large impact on erosion (by wind ...
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Maloney, Bridget Marie (2009-05-15)Bermuda has one of the highest concentrations of cave systems of any country in the world, but as the resident human population and tourism expand, this unique habitat is becoming increasingly threatened by development and ...
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Kim, Young Jae (2014-12-03)Children’s active travel to school (ATS), considered a regular source of physical activity, is influenced heavily by their parents’ perceived barriers to ATS such as safety and thermal comfort concerns. This dissertation ...
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Li, Yiran (2018-04-30)The roughness of sea ice can affect its bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) thus influencing retrieval of its physical properties from satellite. We leverage WorldView-1 and Multi-angle Imaging ...