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Tropical cyclogenesis in the eastern North Pacific (EPAC) basin is related to gap-wind-induced vorticity, the monsoon trough, and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). There are several gaps in the Central American Mountains, on the...
Accurate hurricane intensity prediction is at the forefront of atmospheric science today, and improvements to mesoscale modeling of these storms continue to be major components of refining the accuracy of intensity forecasting. The...
Cross-slope flow is critical for governing heat and material exchange, including pollutants and biota, between the coastal and deep ocean. This study focuses on characterizing the variability of cross-slope near-bottom flow in the DeSoto...
High Resolution Microclimate Study of Hollow Ridge Cave: Relationships Between Cave Meteorology, Air Chemistry, and Hydrology and the Impact on Speleothem Deposition
Long term, near continuous, in situ monitoring of cave meteorology, cave aerochemistry, and surface meteorology allows quantitative assessment of cave ventilation and the effect on CO₂ outgassing from cave systems. Because advances in...
In this chapter we review several climatologically important variables with a history of observation from spaceborne platforms. These include sea surface temperature and wind vectors, altimetric estimates of sea surface height, energy...
Community Structure of Benthic Invertebrates on Necker Ridge in the North Pacific: Distribution, Diversity, and Preliminary Comparison to the Hawaiian Archipelago
In shallow water the Hawaiian Archipelago is one of the most isolated archipelagos in the world, but at depth it may be connected to the vastly understudied seamount-rich region of the central and western Pacific by Necker Ridge, an...
Despite the fact that latent heating in cloud systems drives many atmospheric circulations, including tropical cyclones, little is known of its magnitude and structure, largely because of inadequate observations. In this work, a...
Anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions impact atmospheric chemistry and many other natural processes that affect air quality and human health. Biomass burning emissions released in the boundary layer can be quickly lofted to the...
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the interannual flows along the western and southern Australian coasts and along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Along the western and southern Australian coasts, sea levels are...
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a major pathway for nutrient transport in coastal marine systems. There are indications that SGD may also release large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to the coastal ocean and thus...
Wildfires have a great impact throughout the atmosphere, particularly in the surface and boundary layers. The magnitude of heat flux and turbulence generated by the spread of these fires is relatively large and has scarcely been...
The Gulf of Mexico is among the most populated of coastlines threatened by tropical cyclones and has experienced some of the most destructive hurricanes in history. The importance of the warm ocean waters of the Gulf in providing optimal...
A hypothesis by Maul [1977], stating the rate of change of Loop Current (LC) volume is related to deep Yucatan Channel (YC) transport, is examined and validated with a continuous 54-year simulation of the regional 1/25˚ Gulf of Mexico ...
Indications of climatic warming are expected to be greatest over high latitudes and high altitudes, the regions where the cyrosphere is present. Mountain glaciers, in particular, can be an early detector for man-induced climate change, ...
While both computer model and official track forecasts of Atlantic Basin hurricanes have improved significantly over the past several decades, forecasts of intensity continue to prove difficult. Even specialized hurricane models struggle...
During the past two decades, the accuracy of rainfall retrieval based on passive microwave observations has been greatly improved, particularly over ocean. However, rainfall retrieval over land remains to be problematic. The objective of...
Initializing Coupled General Circulation Models (CGCMs) for routine seasonal ENSO prediction is currently an onerous task. This is one of the main reasons on why the CGCMs participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 ...
Inserting an externally defined (i.e., synthetic) tropical cyclone (TC) vortex into numerical weather prediction (NWP) model analyses requires that an existing TC vortex first be removed. Similarly, statistical-dynamical forecasting...
Located in West Central Florida, Plant City is an agriculturally dominated region, growing strawberries and citrus. Due to temperatures during winter months, when they often fall below freezing, farmers in the area must use freeze...
Though a large fraction of primary production and organic matter cycling in the oceans occurs on continental shelves dominated by sandy deposits, the microbial communities associated with permeable shelf sediments remain poorly...
We will describe the development of a high-resolution, gridded forecast guidance product for warm season cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning in Florida. Four warm seasons of analysis data from the 20-km Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) and lightning...
A local, regime-dependent cloud mask (CM) algorithm is developed for isolating cloud-free pixels from cloudy pixels for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imager radiance assimilation using mesoscale forecast models...
The ocean west of the main Hawaiian Islands is characterized by enhanced eddy kinetic energy arising from the abundance of locally generated mesoscale eddies, most frequently in the area west of the island of Hawaii. Two mechanisms of...
The Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) was developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research as the next generation mesoscale meteorology model. The inclusion of a chemistry module (WRF-Chem) allows transport...
Past binary logistic regression (BLR) and perfect prognosis schemes have shown skill for predicting the probability of one or more cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes for regions such as Florida. This study examines the ability of the...
The structure of a tropical cyclone (TC) is a spatial representation of its organizational pattern and distribution of energy acquisition and release. This fingerprint depicts a specific phase in the TC's meteorological lifecycle, ...
The Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) is an obligate aquatic mammal that inhabits shallow coastal waterways. Previous research has demonstrated that manatees vocalize using frequencies that range from < 0.5 kHz to 12 kHz ...
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