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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
- 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
- DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCMENT IN DIGITAL FRINGE PROJECTION AND LASER INTERFEROMETRY
- Author
- Babaie, Gelareh
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Engineering, Meteorology
- Description
- GELAREH BABAIE. Dynamic range enhancement in digital fringe projection and laser interferometry. (Under the direction of DR. FARAMARZ FARAHI)Optical metrology is the science and technology concerning measurements with light. Surface texture and 3D...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 TARGETED APPROACH TO PROVIDE WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE AND PERSONAL WEATHER MINIMUMS
- Author
- Dennstaedt, Scott
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...
- Title
- A Statistical Method of Fog Forecasting in North Carolina
- Author
- Pettee, Warren
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- The frequency and intensity at which fog occurs impacts the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States: Maritime shipping, aviation, railroads, and highways. The phenomenon is difficult to accurately capture in current numerical sim...
- Title
- A THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE STUDY OF AN EXTERNAL CAVITY FIBER FABRY- PEROT INTERFEROMETER FOR DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT
- Author
- Arumugam, Kumar
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Optics, Meteorology
- Description
- The objective of this research is to explore a mathematical model developed by Wilkinson and Pratt for the external cavity fiber-based Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) and to create a Michelson interferometer setup to validate a frequency modulat...
- Title
- Comparing the Tornado Environments Among East Coast and Gulf Coast Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
- Author
- Toadvine, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- Tornadoes spawned by the landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a non-trivial threat tolife and property. Previous research efforts have developed TC-tornado climatologies and have noted differences between East coast and Gulf coast landfalls, b...
- Title
- Characterization and In-Process Metrology of a Laser Powder Fusion Additive Manufacturing Machine
- Author
- Land, William
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Meteorology
- Description
- Laser powder bed fusion is one of the most commonly used processes by which metal parts are produced through an additive manufacturing approach, and it is currently the topic of extensive research. This paper describes the study of two aspects of ...
- 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
- 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
- Spatiotemporal Prediction Modeling of Dengue Fever in Colombia, South America Based on Temperature and Precipitation
- Author
- Sirbaugh, Megan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Meteorology, Epidemiology
- Description
- Dengue fever is a prominent mosquito-borne viral disease in the tropics that is estimated to infect as many as 400 million people per year. Dengue is endemic to Colombia, South America and it is crucial to be able to predict when outbreaks may occ...
- Title
- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Tornadic versus Non-Tornadic High-Shear, Low-CAPE Environments
- Author
- Hochstatter, Lindsay
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Meteorology
- Description
- High-shear low-CAPE (HSLC) severe weather events, defined as those in which surface-based CAPE is below 500 J/kg and most unstable CAPE is less than 1000 J/kg and have a 0-6 km bulk wind difference of at least 18 m/s, are uniquely challenging to f...
- 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...