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Municipal wastewater has long been recognized as a major nutrient source to surrounding aquatic ecosystems. The use of microalgae to remediate wastewater nutrients has been proposed by scientists for decades, but has not achieved large...
Hybrid cyclones, such as subtropical storms and warm seclusions, are generally defined by the fact that they contain characteristics of the main types of cyclones: tropical and extratropical. This case study examines whether a cyclone...
This study presents a new high-resolution satellite-derived ocean surface flux product, XSeaFlux, which is evaluated for its potential use in hurricane studies. The XSeaFlux employs new satellite data sets using improved retrieval...
Statistical Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Using Dynamical and Thermodynamical Inner-Core Parameters Derived from Hwrf Analysis and Forecasts
A new multiple linear regression model for short range tropical cyclone intensity prediction is developed. Four new dynamical and thermodynamical predictors based on HWRF output are considered: (1) the horizontal advection of relative...
This study has evaluated an existing hybrid three-dimensional variational ensemble transform Kalman filter (3DVAR-ETKF) ensemble data assimilation system using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in realistic numerical...
Skillful and reliable precipitation data is essential for seasonal hydrologic forecasting, and generation of hydrological data. Though output from dynamic downscaling methods is used for hydrological application, the existence of...
I investigated the emergence of marine benthic harpacticoid and cyclopoid copepods from subtidal sediment into the bottom water. Previous field studies with traps found that copepods emerge from the sediment within 2 h of dusk. I...
Tropical cyclone track forecasts have improved greatly in recent years. However, intensity forecasts still pose a large problem in tropical meteorology. Several theories have been developed over the past fifty years which attempt to...
Extreme climate events may be defined as atmospheric or oceanic phenomena that occupy the tails of a dataset's probability density function (PDF), where the magnitude of the event is large, but the probability of occurrence is rare....
In this study, a modified multi-dimensional ensemble empirical mode decomposition (MEEMD) is devised and employed to understand the temporal-spatial evolution of the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) of interannual timescales. We...
Many productive coastal areas, such as estuaries, are important fisheries. However, increased respiration associated with the high productivity often occurring in coastal zones may result in low dissolved oxygen conditions (dysoxia). The...
Paleoclimatic data including orbital eccentricity, mollusk species counts and carbonate isotope data are combined in an event based, time synchronized, parameter mapped sonification that plays backwards through geologic time from ~3.2...
The ocean is coupled to the atmosphere via heat and freshwater fluxes. Ocean processes that play a role in the flux of heat in the ocean and atmosphere are of primary concern in this age of global climate change. These fluxes can act to...
Coral reefs have been increasingly reported as ecosystems in severe "crisis" and decline, with estimates of irreparably damaged reefs to be around 54%, and possible losses of 15-20% more over the next half-century. The urgency to...
This study addresses the decomposition of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in highly permeable coastal sand sediments. DOC fluxes from shelf sediments (~180 Tg C yr-1) are significant, roughly equal to the DOC flux from rivers (~200 Tg C...
The effects of two different future warming climate scenarios on Global and North Atlantic named tropical cyclone (NTC) activity is examined using the Florida State University/Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU/COAPS)...
This study analyzes projections of summer precipitation over the Southeastern United States under the A2 climate scenario using the Community Climate System Model Version3 (CCSM3), and the Regional Spectral Model (RSM) forced with CCSM3...
This study focused on the effective use of a numerical climate model for agriculture in Florida, especially in the citrus farming region of the Florida peninsula, because of the impact of agriculture to Florida's economy. For the...
Wave-driven transport, also known as Stokes drift, is the motion of a particle due to the orbital motion induced by a passing wave. This orbital motion does not form closed loops, leading to a net displacement over a single wave period....
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of cold air outbreaks (CAOs) on the sea surface temperature (SST) in the Florida Straits (FS) during different configurations (mature or immature) of the Loop Current (LC). A...
Prior studies of the long-term temperature record in the Southeastern United States (SE US) mostly discuss the long-term cooling trend, and the inter-annual variability produced by the region's strong ties to El Niño Southern Oscillation...
The variations in the sea breeze are examined both diurnally and interannually along the panhandle of Florida during the boreal summer season. A climatology of sea breeze cross sections is calculated eight times daily between the years...
TC structures consisting of eye, eyewall and rainband can be clearly resolved by Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) window channels. High brightness temperatures are found in cloud-free hurricane eye and cloud streaks, and low brightness...
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) was quantified by colorimetric light absorption for five blackwater intermittent streams draining into sinks (swallets) connected to the Floridan Aquifer underlying the Woodville Karst Plain, ...
The number of extreme temperature occurrences and their durations in the southeast United States varies during three periods: the Warm Regime subset (WRs), the Cold Regime subset (CRs), and the Modern Record (MR). Multidecadal variations...
Mariculture of fish is needed to support our ever growing global population. Copepods are a natural and beneficial source of first feed for many marine fish species, but it can be difficult to hatch enough when the fish are ready to feed...
Direct observation of velocities with drifting floats near 1500m depth in the North Atlantic Ocean north of about 45 N are combined to derive a new basin-wide mean circulation within the layer of Labrador Sea Water. Inverse methods are...
The Floridan Aquifer consists of a series of conduits within a limestone matrix. Pollutants from sinking streams can be carried into the contiguous matrix and remain there after a short stay in the conduits. This retention, called...
African Easterly Waves (AEWs) are mesoscale synoptic features that form in West Africa and propagate westward. The relationship of AEWs to rainfall in the region has been examined in previous studies but no scientific consensus has been...
Numerical ocean models have become powerful tools for providing a realistic view of the ocean state and for describing ocean processes that are difficult to observe. Recent improvements in model performance focus on simulating realistic...
Ocean vector winds measured by the SeaWinds scatterometer onboard the QuikSCAT satellite can be validated with in situ data. Ideally the comparison in situ data would be collocated in both time and space to the satellite overpass;...
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