Abstract: Land-use impacts on travel demand and vehicle emissions is emerging as a topic of major interest, as several regions around the nation struggle to demonstrate conformance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments ...

Abstract: Twenty-five years of tropical cyclone data (1945?69) for the western North Pacific were evaluated to determine the, speed-of-movement characteristics of tropical storms and typhoons following recurvature. The results show ...

Abstract: stimating raindrop size has been a long-standing objective of polarimetric radar?based precipitation retrieval methods. The relationship between the differential reflectivity Zdr and the median volume diameter D0 is typically ...

Abstract: Mat foundation design requires an analysis of the mat when subjected to unsupported regions due to swelling or shrinkage of expansive soils. A study was conducted to investigate simple rational methods for calculating the ...

Abstract: One of the primary scientific objectives of the Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment was to study cloud electrification processes in tropical island convection, in particular, the coupling between ice phase precipitation ...

Abstract: A primary goal of the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX), a major field campaign of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), is to define the initiation, structure, evolution, and dynamics of precipitation ...

Abstract: In this study, it is hypothesized that the mesoscale environment can indirectly control the cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning polarity of severe storms by directly affecting their structural, dynamical, and microphysical ...

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Abstract: A two-dimensional cloud-resolving simulation is combined with dual-Doppler and polarimetric radar analysis to study the evolution, dynamic structure, cloud microphysics, and rainfall processes of monsoon convection observed ...

Abstract: The behavior of slender high-strength concrete columns reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars and spirals subjected to concentric and eccentric axial loads was evaluated. Large-scale tests were conducted ...