Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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A Cartographic Depiction and Exploration of the Boy Scouts of America's Historical Membership Patterns
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the historical membership patterns of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) on a regional and council scale. Using Annual Report data, maps were created to show membership patterns within ... -
Microphysical precursor conditions leading to precipitation initiation in marine stratocumulus
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Although the classical model of how a population of cloud droplets grows to precipitation-sized drops through the condensation and coalescence processes is well accepted, it does not fully address the history of how nascent ... -
Post-IR IRSL Dating of the Nenana Dune Field in the Tanana Lowlands, central Alaska
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Sand dunes record paleoclimatic change within their stratigraphy as they respond to climatic shifts through sequences of activation and stabilization. Developing chronologies documenting periods of dune activity and ... -
Biophysical Indicators of Sustainability for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The creation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a great opportunity to look at sustainability from a different perspective. Identifying specific indicators, metrics, and spatial and temporal boundaries help ... -
Surface Rock Controls on the Development of Desert Varnish in the Mojave Desert
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Desert varnish is a commonly occurring feature on surface rocks of stable landforms in arid regions. The objectives of this study were to investigate how desert varnish is related to the properties of the rocks on which ... -
Pedostratigraphic influence of late-Quaternary sediments and paleosols on headwall and sidewall canyon morphology in the Arikaree Breaks, Central Great Plains
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Pedostratigraphy exerts considerable influence on landscape evolution and morphology in the Central Great Plains. Few locations are as well suited to undertake a soil-geomorphic study in this area as the Arikaree Breaks ... -
Land Change Regimes and the Evolution of the Maize-Cattle Complex in Neoliberal Mexico
(MDPI, 2015-08-21)How globalization impacts native land cover has become an important issue in studies addressing environmental change, which draw explicit attention to processes of cause and effect operating over significant distances. The ... -
Glaciological and marine geological controls on terminus dynamics of Hubbard Glacier, southeast Alaska
(American Geophysical Union, 2015-06-25)Hubbard Glacier, located in southeast Alaska, is the world's largest nonpolar tidewater glacier. It has been steadily advancing since it was first mapped in 1895; occasionally, the advance creates an ice or sediment dam ... -
Landscape heterogeneity drives contrasting concentration–discharge relationships in shale headwater catchments
(Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)., 2015-08-03)Solute concentrations in stream water vary with discharge in patterns that record complex feedbacks between hydrologic and biogeochemical processes. In a comparison of three shale-underlain headwater catchments located in ... -
Two methods for estimating limits to large-scale wind power generation
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015-06-25)Wind turbines remove kinetic energy from the atmospheric flow, which reduces wind speeds and limits generation rates of large wind farms. These interactions can be approximated using a vertical kinetic energy (VKE) flux ... -
Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An Arm Mobile Facility Deployment
(American Meteorological Society, 2015-04-28)The Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) deployment at Graciosa Island in the Azores generated a 21-month (April 2009–December 2010) comprehensive dataset documenting clouds, aerosols, ... -
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Snow Cover in the Tizinafu Watershed of the Western Kunlun Mountains
(MDPI, 2015-03-24)The Tizinafu watershed has a complex mountainous terrain in the western Kunlun Mountains; little study has been done on the spatial and temporal characteristics of snow cover in the region. Daily snow cover data of 10 ... -
Viability of karezes (ancient water supply systems in Afghanistan) in a changing world
(SpringerOpen, 2015-09-09)The Afghanistan population living far from rivers relies upon groundwater delivered from karezes (sub-horizontal tunnels). Karezes exploit unconfined groundwater in alluvial fans recharged largely by snowmelt from the Hindu ... -
Sheet, stream and shelf flow as progressice ice-bed uncoupling: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica and Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland
(European Geosciences Union, 2016-01-21)The first-order control of ice thickness and height above sea level is linked to the decreasing strength of ice-bed coupling along flowlines from an interior ice divide to the calving front of an ice shelf. Uncoupling ... -
Investigation of Urban Air Temperature and Humidity Patterns during Extreme Heat Conditions Using Satellite-Derived Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015-11)Extreme heat is a leading cause of weather-related human mortality. The urban heat island (UHI) can magnify heat exposure in metropolitan areas. This study investigates the ability of a new MODIS-retrieved near-surface air ... -
Two methods for estimating limits to large-scale wind power generation
(National Academy of Sciences, 2015-09-08)Wind turbines remove kinetic energy from the atmospheric flow, which reduces wind speeds and limits generation rates of large wind farms. These interactions can be approximated using a vertical kinetic energy (VKE) flux ... -
Bed topography of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, and Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-11)This paper presents the bed topography of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland, and Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, derived from sounding these glaciers with high-sensitivity radars. To understand the processes causing the speed-up and ... -
A Historical Geography of the Paper Industry in the Wisconsin River Valley
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The paper industry, which has played a vital social, economic, and cultural role throughout the Wisconsin River valley, has been under pressure in recent decades. Technology has lowered demand for paper and Asian producers ... -
Changing Climate, Static Society? A survey of equity, justice and vulnerability in U.S. Municipal Climate Plans
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This project presents survey of municipal climate plans in the United States to determine the existing relationship between climate adaptation planning and understandings of social justice, environmental justice, and ... -
Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The wildland fire environment in the U.S. is becoming increasingly complex due to a century of fire suppression policies, development in wildland-urban interface areas, and an expected increase in fire activity due to ...