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Creator:: Araligidad, Nilesh
Abstract:: The importance of wind-driven latent heat fluxes for supporting tropical intraseasonal precipitation variability is analyzed. Tropical intraseasonal variability in the west pacific and Indian ocean is analyzed for northern and southern hemisphere summer during 1999-2005 using satellite and buoy observations. A composite analysis of QuikSCAT ocean vector winds and TRMM...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Indian Ocean Abstract approved: Eric Maloney The importance of wind-driven latent heat fluxes for

Creator:: Schuetz, Andrea M.
Abstract:: The operational processing of MODIS imagery to produce the MOD06 cloud product is based on the assumption that cloudy 1-km pixels are overcast. This assumption is examined using a partly cloudy pixel retrieval scheme, which allows for fractional cloud cover within the 1-km pixels. Cloud flags attached to 250-m MODIS...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: would not have been the same without them. I thank my committee members, Drs. Eric Maloney, Eric

Creator:: Rajaram, Vidya
Abstract:: Finding information can cost a significant amount of time, even when the information is already stored on the user’s local computer system. There is significant research aimed at reducing these time costs, but little research into exactly what these costs are or how they impact people’s use of tools and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Dr. Carlos Jensen and Dr. Eric Skyllingstad, for accepting to be on my committee. This work

Creator:: Frey, Melissa D. (Melissa Dawn)
Abstract:: Many meteorologists rely heavily on their experience of past weather events to supplement their forecasting tools, such as using past experience to help decide between conflicting numerical weather prediction models. Experiential knowledge is an important piece of forecasting, however it is highly subjective and variable from one forecaster to another....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: am very thankful. Thanks to Drs. Chris Daly, Eric Skyllingstad and Todd Palmer for serving on

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