Earth Interactions: Recent submissions
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On the Nature of Temporal Variability of the Gulf Stream Path from 75° to 55°W
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he response of the Gulf Stream (GS) system to atmospheric forcing is generally linked either to the basin-scale winds on the subtropical gyre or to the buoyancy forcing from the Labrador Sea. This study presents a multiscale ... -
Empirical Relationships of Sea Surface Temperature and Vegetation Activity with Summer Rainfall Variability over the Sahel
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)egional land surface and remote ocean variables have been considered as primary forcings altering the variability of summer rainfall over the Sahel. However, previous studies usually examined the two components separately. ... -
Urban Effects on Regional Climate: A Case Study in the Phoenix and Tucson “Sun Corridor”
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)and-use and land-cover change (LULCC) due to urban expansion alter the surface albedo, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity of the surface. Consequently, the energy balance in urban regions is different from that of ... -
Investigating the Effects of Subgrid Cell Dynamic Heterogeneity on the Large-Scale Modeling of Albedo in Boreal Forests
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)tand-clearing disturbances, which remove most of the tree cover but are followed by forest regrowth, affect extensive areas annually, yet each event is usually much smaller than a typical grid cell in Earth system climate ... -
The Effects of Downscaling Method on the Variability of Simulated Watershed Response to Climate Change in Five U.S. Basins
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)imulations of future climate change impacts on water resources are subject to multiple and cascading uncertainties associated with different modeling and methodological choices. A key facet of this uncertainty is the coarse ... -
Modulation of Land-Use Change Impacts on Temperature Extremes via Land–Atmosphere Coupling over Australia
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he role of land?atmosphere coupling in modulating the impact of land-use change (LUC) on regional climate extremes remains uncertain. Using the Weather and Research Forecasting Model, this study combines the Global ... -
Climate Drivers Linked to Changing Seasonality of Alaska Coastal Tundra Vegetation Productivity
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he mechanisms driving trends and variability of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for tundra in Alaska along the Beaufort, east Chukchi, and east Bering Seas for 1982?2013 are evaluated in the context of ... -
Exploring Winter Mortality Variability in Five Regions of England Using Back Trajectory Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his paper aims to define atmospheric pathways related with the occurrence of daily winter low temperature episodes (LTE) in England, for the 26-yr period 1974?99, and to reveal possible associations with increased mortality ... -
Does an Intrinsic Source Generate a Shared Low-Frequency Signature in Earth’s Climate and Rotation Rate?
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)revious studies have shown strong negative correlation between multidecadal signatures in length of day (LOD)?an inverse measure of Earth?s rotational rate?and various climate indices. Mechanisms remain elusive. Climate ... -
Forest Degradation Associated with Logging Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: The BR-163 Region in Southwestern Pará, Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)orest degradation is the long-term and gradual reduction of canopy cover due to forest fire and unsustainable logging. A critical consequence of this process is increased atmospheric carbon emissions. Although this issue ... -
Calibration and Validation of the Hybrid-Maize Crop Model for Regional Analysis and Application over the U.S. Corn Belt
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)etailed parameter sensitivity, model validation, and regional calibration of the Hybrid-Maize crop model were undertaken for the purpose of regional agroclimatic assessments. The model was run at both field scale and county ... -
Projection of Climate Change Influences on U.S. West Nile Virus Vectors
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)hile estimates of the impact of climate change on health are necessary for health care planners and climate change policy makers, models to produce quantitative estimates remain scarce. This study describes a freely available ... -
Derivation of the Green Vegetation Fraction of the Whole China from 2000 to 2010 from MODIS Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he green vegetation fraction Fg, which represents the horizontal density of live vegetation, is an important parameter for the study of global energy, carbon, hydrological, and biogeochemical cycling. A common method of ... -
Characteristics of Long-Term Climate Change and the Ecological Responses in Central China
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)easurements of air temperature and precipitation at 35 stations in Hubei Province, China, during 1962?2011 are used to investigate the regional climate change. There is an increasing trend for observed air temperature ... -
The Effects of Weather and Environmental Factors on West Nile Virus Mosquito Abundance in Greater Toronto Area
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)e investigated how weather conditions and environmental factors affect the spatiotemporal variability in Culex pipiens population using the data collected from a surveillance program in Ontario, Canada, from 2005 to 2008. ... -
Coping with Household Water Scarcity in the Savannah Today: Implications for Health and Climate Change into the Future
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ven as millions live without reliable access to water, very little is known about how households cope with scarcity. The aims of this research were to 1) understand aspects of water scarcity in three rural villages in ... -
Adaptation of Irrigation Infrastructure on Irrigation Demands under Future Drought in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ore severe droughts in the United States will bring great challenges to irrigation water supply. Here, the authors assessed the potential adaptive effects of irrigation infrastructure under present and more extensive ... -
Climate Variability and the U.S. Corn Belt: ENSO and AO Episode-Dependent Hydroclimatic Feedbacks to Corn Production at Regional and Local Scales
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)l Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) climatology (1980?2010) is developed and analyzed across the U.S. Corn Belt using state climate division weather and historic corn yield data using analysis ... -
A Great Escape from the Bay of Bengal “Super Sapphire–Phailin” Tropical Cyclone: A Case of Improved Weather Forecast and Societal Response for Disaster Mitigation
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he very severe cyclonic storm (VSCS) ?Phailin (2013)? was the strongest cyclone that hit the eastern coast of the India Odisha state since the supercyclone of 1999. But the same story of casualties was not repeated as that ... -
Improvements in Land-Use Classification for Estimating Daytime Surface Temperatures and Sea-Breeze Flows in Southern California
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)nderstanding the interactions between large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns and changes in land cover and land use (LCLU) due to urbanization is a relevant subject in many coastal climates. Recent studies ...