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Title: A Statistical Method of Fog Forecasting in North Carolina
Author: Pettee, Warren
Date Created: 2018
Description: The frequency and intensity at which fog occurs impacts the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States: Maritime shipping, aviation, railroads, and highways. The phenomenon is difficult to accurately capture in current numerical sim...

Title: A Statistical Method of Fog Forecasting in North Carolina
Author: Pettee, Warren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The frequency and intensity at which fog occurs impacts the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States: Maritime shipping, aviation, railroads, and highways. The phenomenon is difficult to accurately capture in current numerical sim...

Title: An observational analysis on the distance to supercell-boundary interaction in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen
Date Created: 2017
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low-le...

Title: An observational analysis on the distance to supercell-boundary interaction in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low-le...

Title: Analyzing supercell intensity changes in a heterogeneous environment in the VORTEX2 supercell pair in southeastern Colorado on 11 June 2009
Author: Ledbetter, Cody
Date Created: 2018
Description: Predicting supercell thunderstorm evolution in strongly-forced environments is relatively well-understood. However, this is not always the type of environment that spawns supercells. In fact, some supercell environments can be quite complex in nat...

Title: Analyzing supercell intensity changes in a heterogeneous environment in the VORTEX2 supercell pair in southeastern Colorado on 11 June 2009
Author: Ledbetter, Cody
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Predicting supercell thunderstorm evolution in strongly-forced environments is relatively well-understood. However, this is not always the type of environment that spawns supercells. In fact, some supercell environments can be quite complex in nat...

Title: Assessing the impact of the nocturnal transition on the lifetime and evolution of supercell thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
Author: Gropp, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Description: Predicting the evolution of supercell thunderstorms during and after the eveningtransition is a known challenge due to an incomplete understanding of how they evolve inresponse to associated environmental changes. As the low-level environment cool...

Title: Assessing the impact of the nocturnal transition on the lifetime and evolution of supercell thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
Author: Gropp, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Predicting the evolution of supercell thunderstorms during and after the eveningtransition is a known challenge due to an incomplete understanding of how they evolve inresponse to associated environmental changes. As the low-level environment cool...

Title: Characterizing the Growth in Spatial Thinking Abilities in Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum
Author: Decker, Lauren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. In particular, previous work on spatial thinking in the atmospheric sciences has demonstrated that skills such as mental a...

Title: Comparing the Tornado Environments Among East Coast and Gulf Coast Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
Author: Toadvine, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Tornadoes spawned by the landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a non-trivial threat tolife and property. Previous research efforts have developed TC-tornado climatologies and have noted differences between East coast and Gulf coast landfalls, b...

Title: Development of a Forecasting Technique for the Charlotte Urban Heat Island Intensity
Author: Stuck, Anna
Date Created: 2020
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) of Charlotte (North Carolina) - a rapidly expanding subtropical city - was studied through statistical analysis and short-term predictive modeling. Our study used hourly surface observations taken from 12 weather statio...

Title: Development of a Forecasting Technique for the Charlotte Urban Heat Island Intensity
Author: Stuck, Anna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) of Charlotte (North Carolina) - a rapidly expanding subtropical city - was studied through statistical analysis and short-term predictive modeling. Our study used hourly surface observations taken from 12 weather statio...

Title: Diagnosing Thunderstorms Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
Author: Cucinotta, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Description: Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution infrastructure. To better anticipate such outages, forecasters would benefit ...

Title: Diagnosing Thunderstorms Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
Author: Cucinotta, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution infrastructure. To better anticipate such outages, forecasters would benefit ...

Title: Environmental Evolution of Supercells Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Purpura, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on day-to-day weather, including severe convection. However, the impact of the Appalachians on supercell thunderstorms is not well understood, posing a significa...

Title: Environmental Evolution of Supercells Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Purpura, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on day-to-day weather, including severe convection. However, the impact of the Appalachians on supercell thunderstorms is not well understood, posing a significa...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES RELATED TO THE PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
Author: Sirico, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Description: The precipitation structure of supercell thunderstorms (e.g., low-precipitation(LP), classic (CL), high-precipitation (HP)) has been associated with differing severeweather threats (wind, hail, or tornadoes) to the public, thus motivating work exa...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES RELATED TO THE PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
Author: Sirico, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The precipitation structure of supercell thunderstorms (e.g., low-precipitation(LP), classic (CL), high-precipitation (HP)) has been associated with differing severeweather threats (wind, hail, or tornadoes) to the public, thus motivating work exa...

Title: Idealized Simulations of Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Riggin IV, Roger
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Geophysics, Geography
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on daily weather, including supercell thunderstorms. Forecasters currently lack a comprehensive conceptual model to assist with the decision-making process when ...

Title: Radar Characteristics of Observed Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: McKeown, Katherine
Date Created: 2021
Description: Few studies have ventured to understand how supercell thunderstorms behave while interacting with complex terrain, though it poses a significant short-term forecasting problem. The few that have investigated this relationship tended to use small s...