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On The Genesis and Predictability of Hurricane Julia (2010)
(2014)
Tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) continues to be one of the least understood processes in tropical meteorology today. While a robust theoretical frame- work for TCG within African Easterly Waves (AEWs) has recently been developed, ...
OCEAN VARIABILITY IN CMIP5 (COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT PHASE 5) HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS
(2014)
The oceans play a key role in the global climate variability. This dissertation examines climate variability in historical simulations from fourteen CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) coupled models on ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF CIRRUS CLOUD PROPERTIES USING AIRBORNE LIDAR
(2014)
The impact of cirrus clouds on the Earth's radiation budget remains a key uncertainty in assessing global radiative balance and climate change. Composed of ice, and located in the cold upper troposphere, cirrus clouds can ...
Ensemble Assimilation of Global Large-scale Precipitation
(2014)
Many attempts to assimilate precipitation observations in numerical models have been made, but they have resulted in little or no forecast improvement at the end of the precipitation assimilation. This is due to the ...
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: Surface and Subsurface Thermohaline Structure and Hydroclimate Impacts
(2014)
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a sea surface temperature mode of natural variability with dominant timescales of 30 -70 years and largest variations centered on the northern North Atlantic latitudes is one ...
Breeding Analysis of Growth and Decay in Nonlinear Waves and Data Assimilation and Predictability in the Martian Atmosphere
(2014)
The effectiveness of the breeding method in determining growth and decay characteristics of certain solutions to the Kortweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation is investigated. Bred vectors are ...
MINIMIZING REANALYSIS JUMPS DUE TO NEW OBSERVING SYSTEMS
(2014)
A major problem with reanalyses has been the presence of jumps in the climatology associated with changes in the observing system. Such changes are common in reanalysis products. These jumps became especially obvious when ...