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Spatial patterns and trends of summertime low cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996-2017

Creator:: Dye, Alex W., Rastogi, Bharat, Clemesha, Rachel E. S., Kim, John B., Samelson, Roger M., Still, Christopher J., and Williams, A. Park
Abstract:: Summertime low clouds are common in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), but spatiotemporal patterns have not been characterized. We show the first maps of low cloudiness for the western PNW and North Pacific Ocean using a 22‐year satellite‐derived record of monthly mean low cloudiness frequency for May through September and supplemented...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: sea breeze event. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 12(8), 1267–1283. https://doi. org/10.1175/1520-0450

Assessing earth system model predictions of C-4 grass cover in North America: From the glacial era to the end of this century

Creator:: Still, Christopher J., Cotton, Jennifer M., and Griffith, Daniel M.
Abstract:: Aim C-4 grasses are distinct from C-3 grasses, because C-4 grasses respond in a different manner to light, temperature, CO2 and nitrogen and often have higher resource-use efficiencies. C-3 and C-4 grasses are typically represented in earth system models (ESMs) by different plant functional types (PFTs). The ability of ESMs...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Climate, 19, 2290–2301. https:// doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3741.1 Bonan, G. B., Levis, S., Sitch, S

Satellite Monitoring of Earth’s Surface Temperature : Effects of Land Cover, Disturbance, and a Changing Climate

Creator:: Mildrexler, David J.
Abstract:: The Earth’s surface is experiencing unprecedented change. Humanity’s growing population, expanding land-use footprint, and increasing global emissions of atmospheric greenhouse gases affect a vast number of species on Earth and the functioning of virtually all ecosystems. Given the vital interactions and feedbacks between the Earth’s land surface and climate, measurements...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A quantitative wildfire risk assessment using a modular approach of geostatistical clustering and regionally distinct valuations of assets—A case study in Oregon

Creator:: Schmidt, Andres, Leavell, Daniel, Punches, John, Rocha Ibarra, Marco A., Kagan, James S., Creutzburg, Megan, McCune, Myrica, Salwasser, Janine, Walter, Cara, and Berger, Carrie
Abstract:: The intensity and scale of wildfires has increased throughout the Pacific Northwest in recent decades, especially within the last decade, destroying vast amounts of valuable resources and assets. This trend is predicted to remain or even magnify due climate change, growing population, increased housing density. Furthermore, the associated stress of...
Resource Type:: Article

Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

Creator:: Ryu, Youngryel, Baldocchi, Dennis D., Kobayashi, Hideki, van Ingen, Catharine, Li, Jie, Black, T. Andy, Beringer, Jason, van Gorsel, Eva, Knohl, Alexander, Law, Beverly E., and Roupsard, Olivier
Abstract:: We propose the Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS), an upscaling approach to quantify global gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration using MODIS with a spatial resolution of 1-5 km and a temporal resolution of 8 days. This effort is novel because it is the first system that harmonizes and utilizes MODIS...
Resource Type:: Article

Empirical assessment of uncertainties of meteorological parameters and turbulent fluxes in the AmeriFlux network

Creator:: Schmidt, Andres, Hanson, Chad, Chan, W. Stephen, and Law, Beverly E.
Abstract:: Terrestrial ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of carbon, water vapor, and energy has been measured for over a decade at many sites globally. To minimize measurement and analysis errors, quality assurance data have been collected over short periods along-side tower instruments at AmeriFlux research sites. Theoretical and empirical error and uncertainty values have...
Resource Type:: Article

Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach

Creator:: Miller, Gretchen R., Cable, Jessica M., McDonald, Alyson K., Bond, Barbara, Franz, Trenton E., Wang, Lixin, Gou, Si, Tyler, Anna P., Zou, Chris B., and Scott, Russell L.
Abstract:: Ecohydrological connectivity is a system level property that results from the linkages in the networks of water transport through ecosystems, by which feedbacks and other emergent system behaviours may be generated. We created a system dynamics model that represents primary ecohydrological networks to examine how connectivity between ecosystem components impacts...
Resource Type:: Article

Fish out of Water: Virgin Spinedace (Lepidomeda mollispinis) in the Santa Clara River, Utah

Creator:: Siefken, Sarah N.
Abstract:: River ecosystems throughout the arid southwestern U.S. are imperiled. Water management infrastructure, climate change, unsustainable water use, and political conflict harm the region's aquatic and riparian ecosystems. This case study surveys one such desert river, an endemic fish species, and conservation efforts in southwestern Utah. The analysis focuses on the...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Plants and their Environment: Assessing Canopy Microclimate and the Response of Trees to Environmental Stress in a Diversity of Forest Types

Creator:: Sibley, Adam M.
Abstract:: The topics in this dissertation are centered around the way that trees respond to environmental stress in the climates where they occur. Though forests across the planet are expected to experience change in local climate due to historic and ongoing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of climate change will...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Hawaiian Islands in a warming climate. J. Climate 23, 4881–4900. https://doi.org/10.1175

Vegetation Community Data to Inform Climate-Adaptation Management; Gardiner, New York

Creator:: Randazzo, Andrew
Abstract:: Climate change represents an increasing threat to northeastern temperate forests. Nearly all forest communities have been affected by climate change and require climate-adaptation management (Jandl et al. 2018). Climate-adaptation management (CAM) promotes the viability of forested systems and the ecosystem services they provide under current and future climatic conditions (Bolte...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

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Spatial patterns and trends of summertime low cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996-2017

Assessing earth system model predictions of C-4 grass cover in North America: From the glacial era to the end of this century

Satellite Monitoring of Earth’s Surface Temperature : Effects of Land Cover, Disturbance, and a Changing Climate

A quantitative wildfire risk assessment using a modular approach of geostatistical clustering and regionally distinct valuations of assets—A case study in Oregon

Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

Empirical assessment of uncertainties of meteorological parameters and turbulent fluxes in the AmeriFlux network

Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach

Fish out of Water: Virgin Spinedace (Lepidomeda mollispinis) in the Santa Clara River, Utah

Plants and their Environment: Assessing Canopy Microclimate and the Response of Trees to Environmental Stress in a Diversity of Forest Types

Vegetation Community Data to Inform Climate-Adaptation Management; Gardiner, New York

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