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Variations of Twentieth-Century Temperature and Precipitation Extreme Indicators in the Northeast United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An examination of five temperature and five precipitation extreme indicators reveals an increase in both temperature and precipitation extremes over the 1926?2000 period in the northeast United States, with most of this ...
Laboratory Testing of Strengthened Cavity Unreinforced Masonry Walls
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: An experimental campaign consisting of nine pressure-controlled quasi-static airbag tests on unreinforced masonry (URM) walls and accompanying material testing was completed to investigate methods for seismic retrofit of ...
Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors attribute significantly increased Greenland summer warmth and Greenland Ice Sheet melt and runoff since 1990 to global warming. Southern Greenland coastal and Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures were ...
Decadal Changes in Water Mass Characteristics at 24°N in the Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Three transatlantic hydrographic sections across 24°N through the center of the subtropical gyre are analyzed for evidence of decadal changes in water mass characteristics. In the main thermocline, there has been a steady ...