Abstract: AbstractThe Salton basin is a closed, subsea level basin located in extreme southeastern California. At the center of the basin lies the Salton Sea, the state?s largest inland lake, which is surrounded by a desert landscape ...

Abstract: In the western United States, water stored as mountain snowpack is a large percentage of the total water needed to meet the region?s demands, and it is likely that, as the planet continues to warm, mountain snowpack will ...

Abstract: African dust outbreaks are the result of complex interactions between the land, atmosphere, and oceans, and only recently has a large body of work begun to emerge that aims to understand the controls on?and impacts of?African ...

Abstract: he International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) dataset and the Pathfinder Atmospheres?Extended (PATMOS-x) dataset are two commonly used multidecadal satellite cloud records. Because they are constructed from ...

Abstract: On average 1?2 tropical cyclones form over the Arabian Sea each year, and few of these storms are intense enough to be classified as very severe or super cyclonic storms. As such, few studies have explicitly identified the ...

Abstract: ust storms are a persistent feature of the tropical North Atlantic and vary over a wide range of temporal scales. While it is well known that mineral aerosols alter the local radiative fluxes, far less is understood about ...

Abstract: hrough the latter half of the twentieth century, meridional shifts in tropical precipitation have been associated with severe droughts. Although linked to a variety of causes, the origin of these shifts remains elusive. ...

Abstract: he naive Bayesian methodology has been applied to the challenging problem of cloud detection with NOAA?s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). An analysis of collocated NOAA-18/AVHRR and Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and ...