Browsing by Subject "Pacific"
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A copula-based precipitation forecasting model: Investigating the interdecadal modulation of ENSO’s impacts on monthly precipitation
(American Geophysical Union, 2014-01)The influence of two large-scale circulation patterns (the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)), and the effect of the interdecadal modulation of ENSO on precipitation in the state ... -
Great Republic: a historical and archaeological analysis of a Pacific mail steamship
(2009-05-15)In 1986 the remains of a shipwreck were discovered on Sand Island in the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The following year, a team of archaeologists investigated the site in order to determine its ... -
How Well Do Era-Interim and Merra-2 Capture ITCZ Characteristics and Precipitation?
(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 ... -
Lead Isotopic Variations of the Pacific and Implications for Paleogene Water Mass Composition
(2013-11-13)To understand the effects changes in the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) played on past climate we need to determine where convection occurred. The late Cretaceous and early Paleogene interval (~75 to 35 Ma) was ... -
Paleotemperature Proxies: Validation and Applications in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
(2015-07-27)Paleotemperature proxies enable scientists to reconstruct past ocean temperatures from sediment recovered in deep-sea cores. This dissertation takes an in-depth look at two proxies, Mg/Ca ratios of planktonic foraminifera ...