Abstract: To simulate the effects of feedback between climate and surface albedo via vegetation, a scheme was developed, based on a generalized life zone scheme, for estimating the land surface albedo as a function of annual mean ...

Abstract: Using general circulation model experiments, it was found that thermally induced overturning circulations that flow between oceans and land at low latitudes can be affected by perturbations to the land surface albedo. When ...

Abstract: Wind and turbulence profiles were analyzed during breezy, near-neutral conditions at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory tower to quantify the effects of an abrupt 20- to 30-m increase in terrain located 3?5 km west of the ...

Abstract: The distribution of rainfall and other climatic variables is studied over sloping terrain surrounding Los Alamos in northern New Mexico. Long-term rainfall records and over 10 years of data measured routinely from a raingauge ...

Abstract: An array of three portable, pressurized ionization chambers (PICs) measured external radiation levels during 1986 and 1987 caused by radionuclides emitted from a 30-m stack of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF). ...

Abstract: A long-term tracer study was conducted to evaluate dispersion in complex terrain in support of air quality and emergency response initiatives. An array of monitors continuously measured external radiation levels at different ...

Abstract: The vertical structures of turbulence, winds, and temperatures are analyzed from a 92-m instrumented tower and a collocated acoustic sodar during an outflow episode from a weak thunderstorm over sloping terrain in northern ...

Abstract: This paper examines the institutional origins and functioning of the Monterey County Water Recycling Project (MCWRP), a centralized tertiary-treatment facility that began operating in April, 1998, and delivers urban recycled ...

Abstract: Comparison is made between general circulation model (GCM) cases with and without the inclusion of idealized Great Lakes, in the form of four rectangular bodies of water, each occupying a single grid cell of the GCM at R30 ...

Abstract: method for projecting the water levels of the Laurentian Great Lakes under scenarios of human-caused climate change, used almost to the exclusion of other methods in the past, relies very heavily on the large basin runoff ...