Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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Geography: Critical Factors in the Analysis of Complex Systems
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Geography is a disciple of discovery and exploration. From earliest human endeavor until today, it remains the key to understanding human interaction with the landscape. A conceptual framework of geographic factors provides ... -
Using LiDAR, Aerial Photography, and Geospatial Technologies to Reveal and Understand Past Landscapes in Four West Central Missouri Counties
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This dissertation focuses on Hugh Prince's principle of using the present (in this case as seen through remotely sensed imagery) to understand the past via relict features. I studied ghost towns, cemeteries, and abandoned ... -
The Galápagos Perspective: Concerns about life on the Galápagos Islands from the perspective of residents of San Cristóbal
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)The Galápagos Islands are known for their unique flora and fauna. These flora and fauna are what attract almost 200,000 tourists to the islands annually; as a result, tourism is the main economic force on the islands. It ... -
From Made in America to Hecho en Sinaloa: A Historical Geography of North American Methamphetamine Networks
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Most of the major drugs of abuse in the Untied States have a relatively uniform distribution. Their use may cluster in cities, for example, but that general pattern tends to repeat itself in every region of the county. ... -
Oklahoma and American Indian Imagery
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)In the late 1980s and early 1990s marketing firms conducted an in-depth examination of the general public's image of Oklahoma as part of their efforts to make the state a profitable tourist destination. This study found ... -
Biochar Research and a Case Study in Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)As planet Earth's sustainability has become a foremost issue, different methods of prolonging sustainability have become prevalent in society, most prominently are alternative forms of energy and ways to help reduce the ... -
Temporal Scales of Tropospheric CO2, Precipitation, and Ecosystem Responses in the Central U.S.
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Concentrations of CO2 in the mid-troposphere retrieved by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) were examined in relation to surface carbon dynamics, vegetation phenology, and precipitation (PPT) in the central US. ... -
Crafted and Produced: The Emergence of the Mississippi River Hills Geographic Indication
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Geographic indications are designed to transform a region into a brand identity. This strategy, which regionalizes and consolidates place-based businesses, is a growing and popular method of rural community development. ... -
Estimating Continental and Terrestrial Precipitation Averages from Raingauge Networks
(Royal Meteorological Society, 1994)Influences of varying rain-gauge networks on continental and terrestrial precipitation averages (derived from data observed on those networks) are evaluated. Unsystematically and systematically designed station networks ... -
An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part II: Sensitivity to Input Parameters and the Simulated Urban Heat Island in Offline Simulations
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)In a companion paper, the authors presented a formulation and evaluation of an urban parameterization designed to represent the urban energy balance in the Community Land Model. Here the robustness of the model is tested ... -
An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part I: Formulation and Evaluation for Two Cities
(American Meteorological Society, 2008)Urbanization, the expansion of built-up areas, is an important yet less-studied aspect of land use/land cover change in climate science. To date, most global climate models used to evaluate effects of land use/land cover ... -
Influence of Spatially Variable Instrument Networks on Climatic Averages
(American Geophysical Union, 1991)Instrument networks for measuring surface air temperature (T) and precipitation (P) have varied considerably over the last century. Inadequate observing‐station locations have produced incomplete, uneven, and biased samples ... -
Statistics for the Evaluation and Comparison of Models
(American Geophysical Union, 1985-09)Procedures that may be used to evaluate the operational performance of a wide spectrum of geophysical models are introduced. Primarily using a complementary set of difference measures, both model accuracy and precision ... -
Soil degradation, global warming and climate impacts
(Inter Research, 2001)A water balance model is used to assess the relative impacts of global warming and soil degradation scenarios on water resources in the future. Results indicate that overall global warming will have a more widespread and ... -
Estimated impacts of soil degradation on the African water balance and climate
(Inter Research, 1998)This study uses a well-established water balance methodology, the Thornthwaite-Mather approach, to evaluate the effects of soil water holding capacity assumptions on estimates of African evapotranspiration rates, moisture ... -
Predicted change in global secondary organic aerosol concentrations in response to future climate, emissions, and land use change
(American Geophysical Union, 2008-03)The sensitivity of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) concentration to changes in climate and emissions is investigated using a coupled global atmosphere-land model driven by the year 2100 IPCC A1B scenario predictions. The ... -
Research priorities in land use and land-cover change for the Earth system and integrated assessment modelling
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2010)This special issue has highlighted recent and innovative methods and results that integrate observations and modelling analyses of regional to global aspect of biophysical and biogeochemical interactions of land-cover ... -
Global trends in visibility: implications for dust sources
(Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2007-06)There is a large uncertainty in the relative roles of human land use, climate change and carbon dioxide fertilization in changing desert dust source strength over the past 100 years, and the overall sign of human impacts ... -
Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model
(Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2010)Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and improved the ability of the model to reproduce ... -
Effects of white roofs on urban temperature in a global climate model
(American Geophysical Union, 2010-02)Increasing the albedo of urban surfaces has received attention as a strategy to mitigate urban heat islands. Here, the effects of globally installing white roofs are assessed using an urban canyon model coupled to a global ...