Abstract: The transient status of water availability to vegetation is central in shaping both the canopy-level processes as well as the spatial aspects of the turbulent exchange between the vegetation and atmosphere. This is examined ...

Abstract: An improved parameterization is presented for estimating effective atmospheric emissivity for use in calculating downwelling longwave radiation based on temperature, humidity, pressure, and solar radiation observations. ...

Abstract: The characteristics of dryline passage are documented through an analysis of data from an instrumented surface mesonetwork in the Texas panhandle, and western and central Oklahoma during the Cooperative Oklahoma Profiler ...

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of the importance of land?atmosphere interactions in determining the state of the boundary layer. To examine this phenomenon in more detail, a new technique has been ...

Abstract: The Oklahoma Mesonet, an automated network of 115 meteorological observing stations, includes soil moisture monitoring devices at 60 locations. The Campbell Scientific model 229-L matric potential (water potential) sensor ...

Abstract: A technique is introduced using surface data from triangular networks of adjacent mesonet stations to estimate the terms in the horizontal equation of motion at anemometer level (10 m) on either side of the dryline in the ...

Abstract: In the year 2006, the price of asphalt binders in the United States increased by almost 50% over the 2005 prices. The use of higher recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) percentages with locally available binders was adopted as ...

Abstract: Vaporization and soil adsorption are the two mass transfer mechanisms that control contaminant recovery rates for soil vapor extraction (SVE) systems. At most soil remediation sites, contaminants are distributed among three ...

Abstract: Low grade waste heat recovery presents an opportunity to utilize typically wasted energy to reduce overall energy consumption and improve system efficiencies. In this work, the technoeconomic performance of a turbocompression ...

Abstract: In this paper, we combine recent developments in modeling of fatiguedamage, isogeometric analysis (IGA) of thinshell structures, and structural health monitoring (SHM) to develop a computational steering framework for ...