To simulate the dynamic interaction between a saline lagoon and a ground water system, a numerical model for two-dimensional, variable-density, saturated-unsaturated, and coupled flow and solute transport (saltwater intrusion by finite elements and characteristics [SIFEC]) was modified to allow the volume of water and mass of salt in the lagoon to vary with each time step. The modified SIFEC al...

We present the development of a reactive transport model and demonstrate its use to model the geochemical evolution of carbonate-rich pore networks within the context of geological carbon sequestration. The model’s architecture is explained, as well as the equations used to model the transport of species and the kinetic and equilibrium equations used for reaction and speciation. We present mode...

This work was undertaken to measure background silver in Illinois precipitation in the absence of any known seeding operations in or near Illinois. The overall rainfall-weighted mean concentration at several stations was 73 ng/liter. This is somewhat higher than has been found in unseeded precipitation in the western United States, but probably not high enough to preclude identification of silv...

Terrestrial vegetation exerts an important influence on climate variability via the exchange of mass, energy, and momentum between the land surface and the atmosphere. This dissertation uses statistical techniques and stochastic models to investigate largescale vegetation/climate interactions in remotely-sensed vegetation datasets and observational climate records. Vegetation feedbacks on clima...

This study evaluates the precipitation product of the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) over the Mexican region during the period between April 2014 and October 2015 using three different time scales for cumulative precipitation (hourly, daily and seasonal). Also, the IMERG data have been analyzed as a function of elevation given the rain gauges ...

The inland river watersheds of arid Northwest China represent an example of how, in recent times, climatic warming has increased the complexity of Earth's hydrological processes. In the present study, the linear and nonlinear characteristics of the runoff response to temperature and precipitation were investigated in the Qira River basin, located on the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains. T...

We present here the results of the measurements of rain-induced attenuation in the vertically polarized signal propagating at 12.25GHz during some rain events, which occurred in the rainy season of the year 2001 at Yongin, Korea. The attenuation measured experimentally was compared with that obtained using the International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector (ITU-R) model, the S...

1 N umerous papers have documented an increase in extreme precipitation events in the US over the past 30 years or so. The fundamental cause of this trend is a subject of active research. The purpose of this study is to examine the meteorological factors that underlie the trend, specifically to determine the contributions of the major types of meteorological precipitation-producing systems to t...

[1] A survey of Advanced Rio‐Imaging Experiment in Scandinavia data reveals evidence for a previously overlooked generation mechanism of high azimuthal wave number magnetospheric waves. Here we present observations of pulsating cosmic noise absorption with azimuthal wave numbers as high as 380, suggestive of precipitation modulation by magnetospheric waves. Dispersion relations of the small‐sca...

Despite El Niño events being one of the main forces shaping the coastal desert vegetation in South America, the impacts of the high precipitation typical of this rare but recurrent climatic event remain understudied. Here we monitored the plant community of a coastal lomas, a seasonal desert ecosystem, during 1998 and 2001 to analyse its changes during the 1997-98 El Niño and the following La N...