Climate change is a pressing issue people in North Carolina are already facing, and recent decades in North Carolina have exhibited a warming trend at the higher end of p[...]

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 tropica[...]

Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moi[...]

Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution [...]

ABSTRACT AUSTIN DANIEL MANSFIELD. The Temporal Evolution of Tornadic and Non-Tornadic VORTEX2 Near-Storm Environments. (Under the direction of DR. CASEY DAVENPORT) [...]

The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most robust, coupled ocean-atmospheric component of intraseasonal-interannual variability on the globe. Therefore, an index[...]

The orbital angular momentum of light is a promising candidate as an information carrier in optical communication systems to enhance the capacity of data channels. Howeve[...]

Global warming and climate change keep causing a catastrophic impact on the natural, social, economic, and political environment in many parts of the world. The urgency f[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]