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- Title
- Reanalysis of the Extended Multivariate ENSO Index
- Author
- Webb, Eric
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most robust, coupled ocean-atmospheric component of intraseasonal-interannual variability on the globe. Therefore, an index that effectively characterizes a large fraction of ENSO’s total variability ...
- Title
- Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC
- Author
- Yankech, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sedimentology
- Description
- MATTHEW ROBERT YANKECH. Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DIEMER). Near Lilesville, North Carolina, on the western margin of the Fall Zone, there occur up...
- Title
- Radar Characteristics of Observed Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
- Author
- McKeown, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- Few studies have ventured to understand how supercell thunderstorms behave while interacting with complex terrain, though it poses a significant short-term forecasting problem. The few that have investigated this relationship tended to use small s...
- Title
- Pre-restoration baseflow dissolved nutrient dynamics in an urban forested headwater system, Charlotte NC
- Author
- Wickliff, Ella
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
- Description
- Headwaters provide ecosystem services for humans such as clean water, recreational opportunities, nutrient removal, and biodiversity. Baseline stream nutrient and TSS concentrations and loadings are valuable water quality characteristics to quanti...
- Title
- Quantification of In-Stream and Riparian Denitrification Potential and Environmental Drivers of Denitrification Following Stream Restoration in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina
- Author
- Welsh, Molly
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Hydrology
- Description
- Agricultural streams are subject to considerable disturbance including channelization, erosion, and sedimentation. Fertilizer is often applied to agricultural fields in excess of crop demand, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) can be transported ...
- Title
- Petrography and Geochemistry of High-Silica East Pacific Rise Glasses: Implications for Melt Production and Transport from 8o37'N to 15o50'N
- Author
- Kotash, Alisa
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geology
- Description
- Highly evolved, silica-rich lavas have been recovered from several different locations along the global MOR system. Over the course of two decades, basalt (50-51 wt.% SiO2), basaltic andesite (52-55 wt.% SiO2), andesite (56-61 wt.% SiO2), and daci...
- Title
- Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon along an Urbanization Gradient in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- Kiker, Taylor
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Hydrology
- Description
- Streams and rivers are an integral component of the freshwater carbon cycle as they provide the lateral transport of carbon from terrestrial environments to the ocean. Urbanization is one of the fastest growing land uses and it has major impacts o...
- Title
- Diagnosing Thunderstorms Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
- Author
- Cucinotta, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution infrastructure. To better anticipate such outages, forecasters would benefit ...
- Title
- Constraining the Northern Hemisphere Mid-Latitude Jet Response to Climate Change Using the Difference Between Arctic and Subtropical Warming
- Author
- Robinson, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Atmospheric science, Climatic changes, Meteorology
- Description
- Greenhouse gases’ continuously increasing emissions have a variety of implications for the future of our climate patterns. This includes potential changes in the northern hemisphere jet strength and location, which are influenced by the warming in...
- Title
- Assessing the impact of the nocturnal transition on the lifetime and evolution of supercell thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
- Author
- Gropp, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- Predicting the evolution of supercell thunderstorms during and after the eveningtransition is a known challenge due to an incomplete understanding of how they evolve inresponse to associated environmental changes. As the low-level environment cool...
- Title
- A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
- Author
- Berberich, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geomorphology
- Description
- Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...
- Title
- ACOUSTIC EMISSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF TWO NATURAL GRANITE BOULDERS: SEMI-ARID VS. TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT
- Author
- Ching, Suzanne
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Geology
- Description
- The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influence of insolation on cracking – however, ongoing questions arise regarding the...
- Title
- A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
- Author
- Zurawski, Lance
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
- Description
- A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...
- Title
- Effects of the Urban Heat Island on Anurans in Remnant and Stormwater Control Ponds in the Charlotte Metropolitan Region
- Author
- Boucher, Adrienne
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Ecology
- Description
- The urban heat island (UHI) has been documented to increase urban air temperatures compared to rural areas, but little is known about the effects of UHI-induced meteorology on anuran breeding and diversity. My research objective is to understand h...
- Title
- Development of a Forecasting Technique for the Charlotte Urban Heat Island Intensity
- Author
- Stuck, Anna
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- The urban heat island (UHI) of Charlotte (North Carolina) - a rapidly expanding subtropical city - was studied through statistical analysis and short-term predictive modeling. Our study used hourly surface observations taken from 12 weather statio...
- Title
- Evaluating the Role of Rain Garden Soils in Nutrient Processing of Stormwater Runoff in Charlotte, NC
- Author
- Starnes, Cody
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences
- Description
- As urbanization increases, Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used to reduce pollutants otherwise released to streams. Rain gardens are a type of BMPs that are vegetated depressions with highly permeable soil to treat urban runoff. These structu...
- Title
- Extreme Dewpoint Trends Are Increasing Across Much of the United States
- Author
- Burroughs, James
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- As temperatures continue to increase all over the world, extreme weather events and the extreme observations associated with them are becoming more prevalent. This should imply that higher moisture content values are occurring across the globe, wh...
- Title
- Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
- Author
- Di Bari, Sofia
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
- Description
- The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...
- Title
- Environmental Evolution of Supercells Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
- Author
- Purpura, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on day-to-day weather, including severe convection. However, the impact of the Appalachians on supercell thunderstorms is not well understood, posing a significa...
- Title
- A PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF URBAN ABANDONMENT DURING EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
- Author
- Porson, Steven
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Archaeology, Paleoecology
- Description
- An archaeobotanical study of plant remains from the Near Eastern archaeological site of Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan ascertains a possible cause for the abandonment of towns during Early Bronze IV. This study assesses the hypothesis that the collapse...