Browsing School of Natural Resources (MU) by Thesis Department "Soil, environmental and atmospheric sciences (MU)"
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Adsorption of isoxaflutole degradates to hydrous aluminum and iron oxides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Isoxaflutole (IXF) is a pre-emergence herbicide that is rapidly transformed to a more stable and soluble diketonitrile degradate (DKN) after field ... -
Agroforestry and grass buffers for improving soil hydraulic properties and reducing runoff and sediment losses from grazed pastures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Agroforestry buffers, a system of land use in which harvestable trees or shrubs are grown among or around crops or on pastureland, have been proposed for improving water quality in watersheds. The objectives of this study ... -
Alternative tillage and nitrogen management options to increase crop production and reduce nitrous oxide emissions from claypan soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)The Central Claypan Region covers an area of 10 million acres of claypan or claypan-like soil in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. Agricultural production on claypan soil can have lower yield and a greater ... -
Analysis of cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning in winter convection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The combination of the full suite of cloud-to-ground (CG) and cloud stroke data is used to observe lightning in precipitation events involving winter precipitation. In particular, we observe data for the winter season of ... -
An analysis of environmental influences on morphologies and tornadogenesis within quasi-linear convective systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) often take the form of quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs) within the mid-latitudes of the United States. QLCSs have a quasi-linear convective precipitation structure either followed ... -
Analysis of forecast performance for hit, miss, and false alarm thundersnow events during ROCS
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)Thundersnow (TSSN) is a mesoscale event that is typically associated with large amounts of precipitation and both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. Starting in 2003, the Research on Convective Snows (ROCS) group began ... -
Analysis of heavy-rain-producing elevated thunderstorms in the Mo-Ks-Ok region of the United States
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An analysis of interannual and interdecadal variability to increase flood response preparedness of the Missouri National Guard
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] River flooding and flash flooding are common occurrences in Missouri and are of special importance in forecasting. As part of the Missouri National ... -
An analysis of northern hemisphere block sizes compared to climatology and seasonal variations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The goal of the following research was to discover if any trends exist between the size of large-scale, mid-latitude anticyclonic events and seasonal characteristics. A 20-year analysis of North American blocking events ... -
An analysis of the spring-to-summer transition in the west central Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)The spring-to-summer transition is of special importance in forecasting, as the general circulation undergoes an energy shift to a warmer regime, which affects the Midwestern United States. Beginning at the most localized ... -
Analysis of twenty-five years of heavy rainfall events in the Texas Hill Country
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Forecasting heavy rain events and the area of greatest threat has been a long standing challenge in operational meteorology. This is especially true in certain regions where the physical geography lends itself to the ... -
Anthropogenic effects on soil physical, chemical, and biological properties in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The maintenance of healthy forest ecosystems is critical to ensuring the sustainability of forest harvest activities. Forest soil health is a critical component of the knowledge required to manage a forest ecosystem; ... -
Apex and fuzzy model assessment of environmental benefits of agroforestry buffers for claypan soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Contamination of surface waters with pollutants from agricultural land is a major threat to the environment. A field-size watershed study in Northeast Missouri showed that vegetated filter strips containing grass and ... -
Application of a digital terrain model for forrest land classification and soil survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)Land characterization and classification is central to sound natural resource management. Forest land classifications usually lack sufficient detail, are not scale-adjustable, and are limited in scope and applications for ... -
Assessing impacts and targeting of agricultural conservation practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)The U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated the Conservation Effects Assessment Project in 2003 to quantify water quality and wildlife benefits of conservation programs funded by the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment ... -
Assessing soil carbon and soil quality for sustainable agricultural systems in tropical hillslope soils using spectroscopic methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Soil quality is a concept that integrates physical, chemical, and biological components and processes of soil across landscapes. Identifying and developing appropriate methods to quantify and assess changes in soil quality ... -
Assessing the role of probiotics for the enhancement of soil quality under cover crops
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Use of agro-chemicals over the past few decades has increased land productivity, however, frequent use of agro-chemicals may result in some negative impacts on the environment and soil microbial biodiversity. Use of ... -
Cell identification, verification, and classification using shape analysis techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The use of object-oriented approaches in both the verification of meteorological variables (especially precipitation) and the short-term forecasting ... -
Changes in selected soil quality indicators in forested soils following sawlog harvest
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Characterization of soil organic matter under varying conservation management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This study examined the effects of three conservation management practices (i.e., no-till, grass vegetative filter strips (VFS) and agroforestry VFS) and four landscape positions (i.e., summit, shoulder, backslope and ...