Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "Atmospheric Sciences"
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(2013-10-03)Previous work suggests precipitation is more likely to fall over dry soils than wet soils. The limited knowledge of the association between surface moisture content and convective activity raises many questions about whether ...
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(2018-04-26)A prominent area of current study is how tropical cyclone (TC) behavior will respond to future changes in global climate. One way to complement this research is by analyzing TC characteristics in simulations of past climates. ...
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(2014-09-17)Hurricanes in the Atlantic can have devastating impacts on United States coastal populations and infrastructure. Further researching hurricane movements and tendencies in synoptic climatic events, like the El Niño Southern ...
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(2014-09-17)The Southeast United States has experienced suppressed warming compared with the rest of the country since the early part of the 20th century. This region has also undergone drastic land use/land cover changes – from ...
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Stratocumulus clouds play an important role in the global energy balance. Thick layers of stratocumulus clouds over the subtropical oceans gradually thin and transition into shallow cumulus clouds as they traverse from ...
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Examination of Changes in Hygroscopicity and CCN Activation Efficiency During Particle Growth Events (2010-07-14)The growth and evolution of newly formed atmospheric particles were examined using an array of instruments located at a rural site northwest of Houston, TX. The focused study described here was designed to evaluate the ...
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(2013-02-06)Despite decades of study, we still do not fully understand aerosols and their interactions among gases or other aerosols in the atmosphere. Among their impacts, they influence radiative transfer in the atmosphere and ...
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Investigating the Impacts of Atmospheric Aerosols on Cloud Formation Relevant to Weather and Climate (2014-12-10)In recent years, human induced air pollution has significantly increased, with profound atmospheric implications from local, regional, to global scales [Stocker et al., 2013]. This impact has sparked active research on the ...
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(2012-07-11)Atmospheric opacity, otherwise known as optical depth, is the measurement of the amount of radiation reaching the surface through the atmosphere. The spatial and temporal patterns in optical depth tell us about the aerosol ...
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(2014-09-19)Recently, the National Climatic Data Center released the nClimDiv dataset, which is the most consistent for the contiguous United States to date. The data set includes monthly averages of precipitation, maximum temperature, ...
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(2014-09-19)Studying the response of trees in urban areas to environmental stresses, such as drought stress and high ozone exposure, may be an important proxy for the effects of future climate change on tree physiology and trace gas ...
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(2012-04-30)Pollen deposition has an immense effect on air quality and human health. There is new interest linking biogenic aerosols to possibly being cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). This field experiment focuses on pollen emission ...
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The Sensitivity of Rainfall Distributions to Time, Space, and the Environment over Kwajalein Atoll North of the equator, winds converge causing bands of heavy rain in a region called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Due to the small-scale processes that are not fully represented by weather models, modeled ...
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(2011-04-21)Ensemble weather forecast systems are used to account for the uncertainty in the initial conditions of the atmosphere and the chaotic dynamics of the models. It has been previously found that forecast performance of an ...
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(2014-09-26)Research of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of continuous investigation for reasons including the potential effects it may have on the living conditions for people, such as increased heat stress. Problems like this ...
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(2014-09-15)The Antarctic Dipole (ADP) is a dipole-like pattern seen in various atmospheric and oceanic variables between the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean, respectively. It has been used to infer teleconnections ...