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Title: ALPINE AND SUBALPINE LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: A COMPARISON OF NEW LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS
Author: Johnson, Bradley
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Paleoclimatology
Description: Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understanding of the dynamic interactions between climate, landscape evolution, and soil ...

Title: An observational analysis on the distance to supercell-boundary interaction in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low-le...

Title: Analyzing supercell intensity changes in a heterogeneous environment in the VORTEX2 supercell pair in southeastern Colorado on 11 June 2009
Author: Ledbetter, Cody
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Predicting supercell thunderstorm evolution in strongly-forced environments is relatively well-understood. However, this is not always the type of environment that spawns supercells. In fact, some supercell environments can be quite complex in nat...

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: 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: Energetic Theory and Hadley Cells at a Seasonal Scale: How Will ITCZ respond to a Warming Climate
Author: Bai, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Atmospheric science
Description: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of convective systems around the equator with showers and thunderstorms, is an important feature not only to the tropical societies whose water budget depends on it, but also to the atmospheric sci...

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: 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: INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES RELATED TO THE PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
Author: Sirico, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The precipitation structure of supercell thunderstorms (e.g., low-precipitation(LP), classic (CL), high-precipitation (HP)) has been associated with differing severeweather threats (wind, hail, or tornadoes) to the public, thus motivating work exa...

Title: Idealized Simulations of Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Riggin IV, Roger
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Geophysics, Geography
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on daily weather, including supercell thunderstorms. Forecasters currently lack a comprehensive conceptual model to assist with the decision-making process when ...

Title: Long-Term Changes in Seasonal Temperature Extremes Worldwide
Author: Van Ormer, Allison
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: The temperatures a country, state, or any particular area experience over many decadestend towards a bell curve probability distribution, such that the mean value is the center of the distribution, and the range of values experienced can be quanti...

Title: Optical Vortices and Coherence in Nano-optics
Author: Smith, Matt
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology
Description: In this dissertation, we use theory and computation to conduct three projects in the area of nano-optics. In the first project, we study optical coherence conversion using a plasmonic hole array. This work led to the discovery of the optical coher...

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: 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: Response of Foraminifera to a Reverse Osmosis Briny Discharge
Author: Small, Richard
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Planetary science, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: Reverse osmosis water treatment plants are becoming the preferred means of generating potable water for many eastern North Carolina communities. At these facilities, reject brine solutions—sometimes containing up to 10 times the initial concentrat...

Title: Robust Correlation between Northern Hemisphere Jet Response and Arctic-minus-Subtropical Warming Across CMIP5 Models
Author: Golden, Nicholas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science, Climatic changes
Description: The response of the atmospheric circulation to global warming is still not well known. A specific area of interest is the westerlies of the Northern Hemisphere, most notably the strengthening or weakening of the westerlies, which could change mid-...

Title: THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF TORNADIC AND NON-TORNADIC VORTEX2 NEAR-STORM ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Mansfield, Austin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: ABSTRACT AUSTIN DANIEL MANSFIELD. The Temporal Evolution of Tornadic and Non-Tornadic VORTEX2 Near-Storm Environments. (Under the direction of DR. CASEY DAVENPORT) The VORTEX2 field experiment provided a wealth of data on the near-storm environmen...

Title: Urban Form and Air Quality: A Fine-Scale Look at 22 Major U.S. Cities
Author: Blomquist, Evan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Remote sensing, City planning
Description: Common pollutants present in cities, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2), can cause a variety of adverse human health outcomes. Urban form (e.g., land cover and its spatial patterns) is a crucial factor contributing to air quality. There have been effo...