Browsing by Author "North, Gerald"
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Palacios Celin, Otoniel Cesar (2016-04-29)Interannual variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean is explored using a high resolution ocean model. The model domain covers the coast of South America to 96°W, including the Galapagos Islands, and from 15°S ...
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Analysis of Upwelling Changes in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific during El Niño Southern Oscillation Perugachi Salamea, Carlos (2012-02-14)The ocean reanalysis Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) 2.2.4 is used to explore the changes in upwelling from normal conditions to either El Nino or La Nina conditions. Physical and thermodynamic variables from the ...
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Hernandez, Manuel (2015-07-10)The North American Monsoon System (NAMS) has been projected to undergo a redistribution of precipitation due to enhanced spring convective barriers. Previous studies have utilized coarse-scaled global climate models (GCMs) ...
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Podowitz, Derek Ian (2013-08-05)The pseudo-spectral time domain (PSTD) and discrete dipole approximation (DDA) are two of the most popular methods to model the single-scattering properties of ice crystals and aerosols. Both methods solve for Maxwell’s ...
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Wan, Xiuquan (2010-01-14)The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) changes on tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere system via oceanic and atmospheric processes. A suite of numerical ...
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Xie, Yu (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The effect of the surface roughness of ice crystals is not routinely accounted for in current cloud retrieval algorithms that are based on pre-computed lookup libraries. In this study, we investigate the effect of ice ...
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Zielinski, Natalie Jane (2016-08-03)Air-sea-ice interaction observed within the Sabrina Basin, East Antarctica are likely widespread along the Antarctica margins, therefore this study is relevant to explaining and predicting current mass loss trends in other ...
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Howard, Matthew Kendall (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The baroclinic response due to forcing by a narrow current of a coastal ocean overlying a shelf with a submarine canyon was examined using a 1.5-layer enstrophy-conserving numerical model. Three canyon shapes were employed: ...
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Meyer, Kerry Glynne (2009-05-15)Ice clouds occur quite frequently, yet so much about these clouds is unknown. In recent years, numerous investigations and field campaigns have been focused on the study of ice clouds, all with the ultimate goal of gaining ...
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Collins, Kathleen Jo (2009-06-02)El Niño is typically viewed as an episode of destructive weather anomalies that can last from a few months to several years. The majority of research looks at the negative impacts of this event. However, not all impacts ...
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Myoung, Boksoon (2009-05-15)Since Texas normally receives most of its precipitation in the warm season, precipitation deficits in summertime may bring serious agricultural and hydrological disasters. While the underlying physical processes of summer ...
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Wang, Chenxi (2013-07-25)This dissertation focuses on the global investigation of optically thin cirrus cloud optical thickness (tau) and microphysical properties, such as, effective particle size (D_(eff)) and ice crystal habits (shapes), based ...
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Satterfield, Elizabeth A. (2011-10-21)The performance of an ensemble prediction system is inherently flow dependent. This dissertation investigates the flow dependence of the ensemble performance with the help of linear diagnostics applied to the ensemble ...
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Grounds, Stephanie Beth (2012-02-14)How the dust cycle works on Mars is a key atmospheric issue, as the dust cycle is arguably the dominant cycle in the current Martian climate. In addition, how much is known about the Martian planetary boundary layer is ...
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Chen, Guang (2009-05-15)The single scattering properties of atmospheric particles are fundamental to radiative simulations and remote sensing applications. In this study, an efficient technique, namely, the pseudo-spectral time-domain (PSTD) ...
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Stover, Christina Lee (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)A new high-resolution climatology and volumetric ø-S census (ÃÂø = 0.1ðC, ÃÂS = 0.01) is constructed for the Ross Sea. Property maps (potential temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen) along 40 depth levels ...
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Zhang, Li (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In the first part of this dissertation we use an Intermediate Coupled Model to develop a quantitative test to validate the null hypothesis that low-frequency varia- tion of ENSO predictability may be caused by stochastic ...
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Smalley, Kevin (2016-09-06)Climate models predict that tropical lower stratospheric humidity will increase as the climate warms, with important implications for the chemistry and climate of the atmosphere. We analyze this trend in 21st-century ...
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Wang, Xun (2020-08-13)We investigate the response of stratospheric water vapor (SWV) to forcing agents with different physical properties within the Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project (PDRMIP) framework. For each ...
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Kinney, Jacqueline Anne (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The research presented here retrieves the cloud optical thickness and particle effective size of cirrus clouds using surface radiation measurements obtained during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) field campaign. ...