Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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OpenPolarServer (OPS) - An Open Source Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Cryosphere Community
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at The University of Kansas has collected approximately 700 TB of radar depth sounding data over the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets since 1993 in an effort to map the ... -
Garbage, society, and environment in a Mexican municipio: The case of Coxcatlán, Puebla, Mexico
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This dissertation examines the practice of garbage management and its construction as a set of environmental issues across the municipio of Coxcatlán, Puebla, Mexico. The generation and sustainable management of garbage ... -
Quantitative Metrics of Soil Structure and Relationships to Hydraulic Properties in a Vertic Argiudoll
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Soil structure is a fundamental property referring to the morphology of soil aggregates and the network of void spaces between them. Structure affects many pedogenic, hydrological, and other ecosystem service processes. ... -
From Section 8 to Starbucks: The Effects of Gentrification on Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This dissertation examines gentrification in Pittsburgh, PA to determine if the process is reducing the amount of affordable housing for low-income groups. There has been considerable debate regarding the merits and ... -
Airborne Observations of a Catalina Eddy
(American Meteorological Society, 2013-10)Summertime low-level winds over the ocean adjacent to the California coast are typically from the north, roughly parallel to the coastline. Past Point Conception the flow often turns eastward, thereby generating cyclonic ... -
Airborne Measurements of Coastal Jet Transition around Point Conception, California
(American Meteorological Society, 2013-11)Low-level winds along the Californian coast during spring and early summer are typically strong and contained within the cool, well-mixed marine boundary layer (MBL). A temperature inversion separates the MBL from the ... -
A synoptic climatology of the near-surface wind along the west coast of South America
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2013-05-20)Prevailing wind along the west coast of South America is equatorward, driven by the southeast Pacific anticyclone. The wind induces strong coastal upwelling that supports one of the most important fisheries in the world. ... -
Coastal Jet Adjustment near Point Conception, California, with Opposing Wind in the Bight
(American Meteorological Society, 2014-03)Typical spring and summer conditions offshore of California consist of strong northerly low-level wind contained within the cool, well-mixed marine boundary layer (MBL) that is separated from the warm and dry free troposphere ... -
Aircraft Observations of the Marine Boundary Layer Adjustment near Point Arguello, California
(American Meteorological Society, 2014-04)Northerly winds set up by synoptic conditions are persistent in the marine boundary layer (MBL) off the California coast from late spring through summer. Wind, pressure, and MBL height are modulated as the low-level flow ... -
Encroachment by Word, Axis, and Tree: Mapping Techniques from the Colonization of New England
(2004)It is well established that mapping has been an important tool for the colonization of North America. Techniques such as removal of toponymy, alteration of a boundary line location, and use of a map grid, were all successfully ... -
Numerical simulation of tropical cumulus congestus during TOGA COARE
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-09-17)Recent observational studies of tropical deep convection typically include some mention of cumulus congestus, a third mode of tropical convection, in addition to shallow trade cumulus and deep convection. This study analyzes ... -
Comparing Surface and Mid-Tropospheric CO2 Concentrations from Central U.S. Grasslands
(MDPI AG, 2013-02-06)Comparisons of eddy covariance (EC) tower measurements of CO2 concentration with mid-tropospheric observations from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) allow for evaluation of the rising global signal of this greenhouse ... -
An inventory of glacier changes between 1973 and 2011 for the Geladandong Mountain area, China.
(European Geosciences Union, 2013-02-12)The snow and ice of the Geladangong Mountain area supply the headwaters of the Yangtze River, and long-term changes to glaciers and ice masses in this region due to a warming climate are of great concern. An inventory of ... -
Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods (WIS2DOM) Workshop
(2014-05-27)This report summarizes the findings of the February 13-16, 2013 workshop, entitled Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods (WIS2DOM), held in Olympia, Washington at The Evergreen State ... -
Distribution, Proliferation and Significance of Small Impoundments in Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2013-01-01)The proliferation of small impoundments across the global and US landscape represents a widespread and little understood man-made environmental change. Small impoundments in the conterminous US number at least 2.6 million ... -
Visualizing the Cherokee Homeland through Indigenous Historical GIS: An Interactive Map of James Mooney's Ethnographic Fieldwork and Cherokee Collective Memory
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)In 1887, the Bureau of American Ethnology appointed James Mooney to work among the Eastern Band of Cherokee. From 1887 to 1916, Mooney documented the sites and stories of the Cherokee homeland as shared with him by members ... -
ASSESSING REGIONAL CLIMATE AND LOCAL LANDCOVER IMPACTS ON VEGETATION WITH REMOTE SENSING
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Landcover change alters not only the surface landscape but also regional carbon and water cycling. The objective of this study was to assess the potential impacts of landcover change across the Kansas River Basin (KRB) by ... -
"Migrating with Dignity": A Study of the Kiribati-Australia Nursing Initiative (KANI)
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Due to the effects of extreme climate change and overcrowding, it has been predicted that the Republic of Kiribati, a small island nation in the Pacific, could become completely uninhabitable by 2050. With the country's ... -
Hispanics in the suburbs - Community adaptation in Olathe, Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Olathe, a predominately white community in Kansas, went through a building boom in the late 1990s that "pulled" a wave of Hispanic immigrants into the area, a people that simultaneously were being "pushed" out of Mexico ... -
Risk Distance: The Loss of Strength Gradient and Colombia's Geography of Impunity
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The dissertation proposes a theoretical category of distance, risk distance, as a prompt for understanding outcomes in internal armed struggles. Geographers are familiar with cost distance -- conceiving distance according ...