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  • Buoy and satellite observation of wind induced surface heat exchange in the intraseasonal oscillation over West Pacific and Indian Ocean

    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Indian Ocean Abstract approved: Eric Maloney The importance of wind-driven latent heat fluxes for

  • Evolution of Turbulence, Heat Content, and Freshwater Lenses in the Diurnal Warm Layer

    Creator:
    Moulin, Aurélie J.
    Abstract:
    Thorough understanding of the mechanisms controlling the temperature structure in the surface mixed layer of the ocean and, in particular, accurate values of sea surface temperature are critical for properly parameterizing air-sea heat exchange and quantifying the amount of heat redistributed below the surface. It is however difficult to obtain...
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    Dissertation
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    Abstract approved: James N. Moum Emily L. Shroyer Thorough understanding of the mechanisms controlling

  • Comparison of radiative feedback variability over multiple time scales in climate model and reanalysis data

    Creator:
    Dalton, Meghan M.
    Abstract:
    In a steady state, the Earth's absorbed solar radiation (ASR) balances the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). In response to a radiative forcing, that is, an external perturbation to the top of the atmosphere energy balance, the Earth's climate system adjusts until reaching a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    twenty years of satellite data is not yet reliable (Harries and Belotti, 2010). As Hansen et al. (2005

  • Overestimation of cloud cover in the MODIS cloud product

    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    would not have been the same without them. I thank my committee members, Drs. Eric Maloney, Eric

  • Analysis of Surface Heat Flux Anomalies to Understand Recent Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave Events

    Creator:
    Yi-Wei, Chen
    Abstract:
    Several large-scale marine heatwave events occurred during the last 10 years in the North Pacific. A particular extreme marine heatwave in the North Pacific called the blob created an unprecedented high peak of sea surface temperature (SST) during 2013/14. MHW events had significant impacts on downstream weather and precipitation patterns...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Page Figure 1. Time series of area-averaged SST anomalies of the Gulf of Alaska (30-60°N, 120-180

  • Heat transfer during the piston-cylinder expansion of a gas

    Creator:
    Rodrigues, Matthew Jose
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    The expansion of a gas within a piston-cylinder arrangement is studied in order to obtain a better understanding of the heat transfer which occurs during this process. While the situation of heat transfer during the expansion of a gas has received considerable attention, the process is still not very well...
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    Masters Thesis
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    model written in terms of an unknown polytropic exponent, n. By examining the physical significance of

  • Response of marine stratus to successive polluting events by ships

    Creator:
    Sechrist, B.
    Abstract:
    Ship tracks have proven to be an ideal laboratory for studying the response of marine stratocumulus to an increase in aerosol pollution. Here the response of already polluted marine stratocumulus to further pollution was examined by studying the clouds where two ship tracks cross. 78 crossings of ship tracks were...
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    Masters Thesis
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    follow it. I would like to thank my committee members – Karen Shell, Eric Skyllingstad, and Mark

  • Hybrid computational voxelization using the graphics pipeline

    Creator:
    Rauwendaal, Randall
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents an efficient computational voxelization approach that utilizes the graphics pipeline. Our approach is hybrid in that it performs a precise gap-free computational voxelization, employs fixed-function components of the GPU, and utilizes the stages of the graphics pipeline to improve parallelism. This approach makes use of the latest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    component of the normal n of the original triangle determines the plane of maximal projection (XY, YZ, or

  • Diurnal and subdiurnal variability in the Mars Pathfinder Presidential meteorology sessions

    Creator:
    Bennett, Scott
    Abstract:
    The Mars Pathfinder (MPF) arrived on the Martian surface on 4 July 1997 to become only the third successful landed mission to Mars, recording surface meteorological data intermittently over a period of 83 Martian days ("sols"). The in situ observations made by the MPF meteorology (MET) experiment were recorded at...
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    Masters Thesis
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    advisor . Eric Skyllingstad, Atmospheric Sciences . Bill Bogley, Mathematics, as Graduate Council

  • Using provenance to aid document re-finding

    Creator:
    Lonsdale, Heather
    Abstract:
    In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the complete history and genealogy of a document. Provenance can be useful in identifying related resources, such as different versions of the same document or resources used in the creation of a new document. Though methods of provenance collection and applications...
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    Masters Thesis