Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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Advances in Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
(MDPI, 2021-06-22)This paper reviews recent advances in non-invasive blood pressure monitoring and highlights the added value of a novel algorithm-based blood pressure sensor which uses machine-learning techniques to extract blood pressure ... -
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene
(MIT Press, 2021-11-19)We live in a new normal of increasing, cross-cutting and shifting patterns of disasters fuelled by large scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the ... -
Environmental Geopolitics of Climate Engineering Proposals in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report
(Frontiers Media, 2021-09-16)Environmental geopolitics offers an analytical approach that considers how environmental themes are brought into the service of geopolitical agendas. Of particular concern are claims about environment-related security and ... -
Mentoring Our Own Native Scientists: 2021 MOONS Workshop Report
(University of Kansas, The Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology, 2021-08-25)The goal of the MOONS workshop was to inform the Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Network of scholars, and other Native scientists, currently working on these issues with innovative ideas ... -
Midlatitude Oceanic Cloud and Precipitation Properties as Sampled by the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Observatory
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-03-29)Marine low clouds are critical to the climate system because of their extensive coverage and associated controls on boundary layer dynamics and radiative energy balance. The primary foci for this study are marine low cloud ... -
The Geographies of Non-Lethal Weapons: Transformative Technologies and Political Violence
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Non-lethal weapons, like police batons, rubber bullets and tear gas, are increasingly deployed in interventions against a rising number of bodies in contested spaces. They are formed through notions of (in)security and an ... -
Tracking hydrologic response of tile outlet terraces in agricultural systems to storm events
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Title outlet terrace (TOT) systems have been employed for the last century as a best management practice (BMP) to control surface runoff and associated erosion in agricultural fields. By altering the topography (artificial ... -
Using Numerical Simulations to Assess Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Converting Vacant Areas into Green Spaces
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Impervious surfaces and buildings in the urban environment alter the radiative balance and energy exchange in the boundary layer, increasing sensible heat flux and decreasing latent heat flux near the surface. This typically ... -
Tracking Multidecadal Lake Water Dynamics with Landsat Imagery and Topography/Bathymetry
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-10-10)Water resource management is of critical importance due to its close relationship with nearly every industry, field, and lifeform on this planet. The success of future water management will rely upon having detailed data ... -
Managing malaria: Selected maps of the twentieth century.
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)Understanding malaria's geographic occurrence throughout the world is amazingly complex. Jacques May wrote that "a whole atlas, comprising several dozens of maps, could justifiably be devoted to the cartographical ... -
An Improved Analytical Solution for the Temperature Profile of Ice Sheets
(Wiley, 2019-02-01)The one‐dimensional steady state analytical solution of the energy conservation equation obtained by Robin (1955, https://doi.org/10.3189/002214355793702028) is frequently used in glaciology. This solution assumes a linear ... -
Evaluating the Vulnerability of Time-Sensitive Transportation Networks: A Hub Center Interdiction Problem
(MDPI, 2019-08-25)Time-sensitive transportation systems have received increasing research attention recently. Examples of time-sensitive networks include those of perishable goods, high-value commodity, and express delivery. Much research ... -
Contrasting Physiological and Environmental Controls of Evapotranspiration over Kernza Perennial Crop, Annual Crops, and C4 and Mixed C3/C4 Grasslands
(MDPI, 2019-03-19)Perennial grain crops have been suggested as a more sustainable alternative to annual crops. Yet their water use and how they are impacted by environmental conditions have been seldom compared to those of annual crops and ... -
Decadal-scale shifts in soil hydraulic properties as induced by altered precipitation
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-09-11)Soil hydraulic properties influence the partitioning of rainfall into infiltration versus runoff, determine plant-available water, and constrain evapotranspiration. Although rapid changes in soil hydraulic properties from ... -
Greenspace Pattern and the Surface Urban Heat Island: A Biophysically-Based Approach to Investigating the Effects of Urban Landscape Configuration
(MDPI, 2019-10-05)Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) are influenced by the spatial distribution of green space, which in turn can be influenced by urban planning. When studying the relationship between structure and function it is critical ... -
Characterization and Trends of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Fire Emissions in the Brazilian Cerrado during 2002–2017
(MDPI, 2019-09-27)Fire occurrence is a major disturbance in the Brazilian Cerrado, which is driven by both natural and anthropogenic activities. Despite increasing efforts for monitoring the Cerrado, a biome-scale study for quantifying and ... -
Regional flow conditions associated with stratocumulus cloud-clearing events over the southeast Atlantic
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Large, abrupt clearing events have been documented in the marine stratocumulus cloud deck that resides over the subtropical Southeast Atlantic Ocean. In these events, clouds are rapidly eroded along a line hundreds–to–thousands ... -
Constraining the geothermal heat flux in Greenland at regions of radar-detected basal water
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-11-04)The spatial distribution of basal water critically impacts the evolution of ice sheets. Current estimates of basal water distribution beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) contain large uncertainties due to poorly constrained ... -
Variations of Lake Ice Phenology on the Tibetan Plateau From 2001 to 2017 Based on MODIS Data
(Wiley, 2019-01-02)Lake ice is a robust indicator of climate change. The availability of information contained in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer daily snow products from 2000 to 2017 could be greatly improved after cloud removal ... -
Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Associated with Coastally Trapped Disturbances: Observations and Model Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2019-09-01)Modeling marine low clouds and fog in coastal environments remains an outstanding challenge due to the inherently complex ocean–land–atmosphere system. This is especially important in the context of global circulation ...