Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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Delineating Sea-Level Rise Inundation: An Exploration of Data Structures and Performance Optimization
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Based on a conservative projection by the IPCC (IPCC 2007), inundation caused by sea level rise will likely disrupt the physical, economic, and social systems in coastal regions around the world. This research proposed an ... -
Geoprocessing Approaches to Delineate Impoundments and Characterize Subcatchments within Kansas Reservoir Drainages
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Federal reservoirs in Kansas are presently undergoing infill at varying rates and represent a growing concern, as these features are integral to the state’s infrastructure and projected dredging required to restore capacities ... -
The influence of longwave cloud-top cooling on marine stratocumulus cloud transitions
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The nocturnal transition (beginning around sunset) of the turbulent structure within the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer in the Southeast Pacific is simulated using near-LES model framework and sounding data from the ... -
AN EXPLORATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE LEGAL GEOGRAPHY: MILITARY STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENTS (SOFAs), SEXUAL VIOLENCE, AND JURISDICTION
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Laws and legal practices have long shaped physical space, demarcated acceptable bodies and behaviors in place(s), and determined our rights, privileges, protections, and movements. Often, when we speak of “Law,” we speak ... -
Citizenship Capital & Political Power in Estonia
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Citizenship is an underlying aspect of our geopolitical landscape and everyday political experiences. Citizenship is often accepted as a natural and universal form of legal and/or political membership that binds a nation ... -
Digital Utilities: A Kansas Perspective on Bridging Internet Divides with Municipal Broadband
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The venerable concept of universal service crucial to municipal utility operations may be the key to solving a digital-age challenge. Many rural Americans face persistent inequities in broadband Internet access, as low ... -
The Time Scales of Variability of Marine Low Clouds
(American Meteorological Society, 2016-09-15)Multidecade global regressions of inversion strength, vertical velocity, and sea surface temperature (SST) on low cloud amount, from subdaily to multiyear time scales, refute the dominance of seasonal inversion strength ... -
Life Cycle Characteristics of Warm-Season Severe Thunderstorms in Central United States from 2010 to 2014
(MDPI, 2016-09-08)Weather monitoring systems, such as Doppler radars, collect a high volume of measurements with fine spatial and temporal resolutions that provide opportunities to study many convective weather events. This study examines ... -
Impact of Sensor Zenith Angle on MOD10A1 Data Reliability and Modification of Snow Cover Data for the Tarim River Basin
(MDPI, 2016)Snow in the mountainous watersheds of the Tarim River Basin is the primary source of water for western China. The Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500-m Grid (MOD10A1) remote sensing dataset has proven extremely valuable for ... -
Aircraft Measurements and Numerical Simulations of an Expansion Fan off the California Coast
(American Meteorological Society, 2016-09-12)Mountains along the California coastline play a critical role in the dynamics of marine atmospheric boundary layer (MBL) airflow in the vicinity of the shoreline. Large changes in the MBL topology have been known to occur ... -
Woody Biomass as an Alternative Energy Source for Ft. Yukon, Alaska
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Using renewable energy to offset or to transition completely from fossil fuels is a global trend. Some countries are moving at a faster pace than others. Motives are usually derived from a concern to reduce greenhouse gas ... -
PERCEPTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND OF TOURISM IN THE ALTAI REPUBLIC, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Although only 210,000 people reside in the Altai Republic of Western Siberia, the area received 1.8 million tourists in 2015. The overwhelming majority of visitors arrive from other areas of Russia. While tourists appreciate ... -
Use of MODIS Sensor Images Combined with Reanalysis Products to Retrieve Net Radiation in Amazonia
(MDPI, 2016-07-16)In the Amazon region, the estimation of radiation fluxes through remote sensing techniques is hindered by the lack of ground measurements required as input in the models, as well as the difficulty to obtain cloud-free ... -
Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought
(National Academy of Sciences, 2016-05-24)The global terrestrial carbon sink offsets one-third of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, but the strength of this sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme events. In 2012, the contiguous United States experienced ... -
The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability
(American Geophysical Union, 2016-02-02)In the Great Plains, grassland carbon dynamics differ across broad gradients of precipitation and temperature, yet finer-scale variation in these variables may also affect grassland processes. Despite the importance of ... -
Basal buoyancy and fast-moving glaciers: in defense of analytic force balance
(European Geosciences Union, 2016-06-29)The geometric approach to force balance advocated by T. Hughes in a series of publications has challenged the analytic approach by implying that the latter does not adequately account for basal buoyancy on ice streams, ... -
Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer water reserves in Western Kansas
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Imagery to the Crowd, MapGive, and the CyberGIS: Open Source Innovation in the Geographic and Humanitarian Domains
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The MapGive initiative is a State Department project designed to increase the amount of free and open geographic data in areas either experiencing, or at risk of, a humanitarian emergency. To accomplish this, MapGive seeks ... -
Identification, Representation, and Analysis of Convective Storms
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Large amount of time series of spatial snapshot data have been collected or generated for the monitoring and modeling of environmental systems. Those data provide an opportunity to study the movement and dynamics of natural ... -
Characterizing Woody Encroachment in the Konza Prairie Using Object-Based Analysis of Aerial Photographs
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Woody encroachment is a threat to the ecological integrity of tallgrass prairie in Kansas. Encroachment data that covers a large spatial and temporal scale would be valuable to managers of tallgrass prairie, but no such ...