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Transport of smoke from the Central American Fires of 1998
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
During the spring of 1998, smoke produced by biomass burning in Central America was transported northward, where it eventually affected the United States. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) aerosol index is used ...
Assessing the effect of stocking density on fugitive PM10 emissions from cattle feedyards
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
As environmental protection becomes increasingly important in the mind of the public and urban sprawl brings agriculture into close contact with an unhappy populace, the regulation of agricultural operations has created a ...
Power transaction issues in deregulated power systems
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
With the introduction of the deregulation in the power industry, it becomes possible to wheel power across the transmission network. Hence, some issues involving the network's physical capability to transfer power and the ...
Uniformity of wastewater dispersal using subsurface drip emitters
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
An on-site wastewater treatment project site with two separate drip fields produced data on emitter flow rates and uniformity after 6 years of operation. The site served a two-bedroom residence in Weslaco, Texas, with ...
Numerical simulation of the 16-19 October 1994 southeast Texas heavy rain event: precipitation results and diagnosis of the lifting mechanism
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
During the period 16-19 October 1994, a mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed within a weakly forced large-scale environment over relatively flat terrain. This resulted in extreme rainfall totals and subsequent ...
Landslide hazard zonation in Namasigue and El Triunfo, Southern Honduras
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
Hurricane Mitch was considered one of the strongest hurricanes of the century. While passing through Honduras and Nicaragua, it weakened and generated intense rain that triggered widespread landslides and flooding. The ...
Development of a methodology to discriminate incipient insulator faults from distribution system load
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
Insulator failure has long plagued transmission and distribution system power quality. The failure process begins when airborne contamination combines with moisture from atmospheric wetting to form a conductive pollution ...
The determination of thru-thickness residual bending stresses
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
In order to understand the fatigue behavior of dents in pressurized pipelines it is necessary to understand the residual stresses that result from cyclic plastic bending. Three approaches are taken here in studying a beam ...
Fatty acid composition and distribution in the blubber of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) blubber is heterogeneous, and divided into sub-epidermal, middle, and deep layers. This is consistent with other studies that have shown how odontocete blubber is variable in ...
Palynology and Paleoecology of the Lake Somerville spillway section, Late Eocene Manning Formation (Jackson Group), east-central Texas
(Texas A&M University, 2000)
Analysis of lignites, freshwater and marine siliciclastic sediments from the Lake Somerville spillway section (Late Eocene, Jackson Group, Manning Formation) yielded a diverse assemblage of terrestrial palynomorphs including ...