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A multi-scale modeling study of the impact of land surface heterogeneity on the convective boundary layer in the U.S. Midwest
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-03)
Rain fed agricultural land is the predominant land cover class in the U.S. Midwest. The interannual and sub-seasonal climate variability of this region are determined by atmospheric oscillations on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The principal...
Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Streamside protection ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas;
however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A
quantitative assessment of the ecological ...
Impacts of Precipitation, Land use Land cover and Soil type on the Water Balance of Lake Chad Basin
(2013)
the runoff from the agricultural land. The annual mean interception in LCB for the period 2003 - 2010 ranges from 0 - 63 mm with the mixed forest intercepting more water than open vegetation such as grass and shrub. Also the annual mean actual...
The role of land-atmosphere and aerosol interactions on meso-scale convective weather systems across West Africa
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
This dissertation investigates the modulating effects of land-atmosphere and
aerosol interactions on meso-scale convective systems across the sub-Saharan West
Africa region, and aims at providing a value-added contribution ...
Multi-scale analysis of urban wetland changes using satellite remote sensing techniques
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-10)
This study investigates urban wetland-cover changes in the Kansas City metropolitan area with analyses at various spatial and temporal scales. Not many studies fully addressed multi-scale urban wetland-cover dynamics in ...
Evolution of the Bahamian coastal environment of San Salvador Island over the last 3,500 years based on triangle pond sediment cores
(2014-07-25)
The multiproxy examination of ten soft sediment cores extracted from Triangle Pond
was used in order to establish alterations in the northwestern coastal environment of San
Salvador Island, The Bahamas over the last 3,500 ...
Late Holocene Paleoclimate reconstruction of the northern Gulf of Aqaba using foraminifera as a proxy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-21)
A multiproxy analyses of sediment from a 4.3 m core extracted from 25 m water
depth on the shelf of the northern Gulf of Aqaba suggest shifts in depositional environments
over the past 4000 yrs. Foraminifera assemblages, ...
Effects of Selected Contaminants on the Physical, Chemical, and Geotechnical Properties of Aquifer Solid
(2014)
The primary objective of this study was to investigate the potential effects of hydrocarbons on the geotechnical properties of sand. A series of laboratory experiments were carried out to ascertain the influence of some common and widespread organic...
Assessment of Seismic Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Aqaba
(2014-09-26)
Aqaba and Elat are very important port and recreation cities for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Israel, respectively. The two cities are the most susceptible to damage from a destructive future earthquake because they ...