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Observational studies of stable nocturnal boundary layers: intermittent turbulence, sensible heat budgets and observational errors

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Nakamura, Reina

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Atmospheric boundary layers become stably stratified at night over land when the surface becomes colder than the air layer above. In stable nocturnal boundary layers (SNBL), turbulence becomes weak and intermittent, terrain-induced phenomena such as drainage currents or gravity-waves emerge and the surface heterogeneity is enhanced. Because of their complexity...

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is investigated in terms of the sensible heat budget. As opposed to previous assumptions, the
Forest Fire Effects on Radiative and Turbulent Fluxes over Snow : Implications for Snow Hydrology

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Gleason, Kelly E.

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As a result of a warming climate, subsequent declining snowpack, and a century of fire suppression, forest fires are increasing across the western United States. However, we still do not fully understand how forest fire effects snowpack energy balance, nor the volume and availability of snow melt and associated water...

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micro-meteorological monitoring and eddy covariance measurements of turbulent heat fluxes. These data
Modeling and dating glacier fluctuations and their relation to Pacific Ocean climate

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Anslow, Faron S.

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This thesis presents the results of an investigation into the interactions between the present-day South Cascade Glacier and the former Mauna Kea ice cap at short (annual to centennial) and long (millennial and multimillennial) time scales. To quantify the response of South Cascade Glacier to atmospheric conditions, a surface energy...

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. Physically based glacier surface energy balance models (SEBM) account for the heat inputs and losses to a