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Floods, Hurricanes and Climate: Influences on the Potomac River Basin
(2008)
The suggestion from preliminary analysis of data derived from stream gauges in the Potomac River Basin is that tropical storm types generate many of the high magnitude flood events in the Potomac River Basin. The goals ...
Impacts of Intermediate Water Formation in the North Pacific on Indonesian Throughflow and Equatorial Thermocline Depth: A High Latitude Control for ENSO Variability?
(2008-05-19)
Long-term variability in the strength and frequency of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) may be attributable to changes in background climatology. During times of cold climate events in the high latitudes, El Niño ...
A carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of Pleistocene food webs in North America: implications for paleoecology and extinction
(2008-05-05)
Carbon and nitrogen isotopic reconstructions of North American Pleistocene trophic relationships were used to examine the extinction within terrestrial mammals ~10,000 years ago and distinguish between two potential causal ...
Age, composition, and origin of the lower continental crust, northern Tanzania
(2008)
Granulite xenoliths from the East African rift in Tanzania sample the lower continental crust beneath both the stable Tanzanian craton and the adjacent, polymetamorphic Mozambique belt. Protoliths of surface rocks in both ...