Urban estuaries are often heavily impacted by human land use in the watershed. When comparing an urban estuary to a protected natural system, students...
United States. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
1996
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This final programmatic environmental impact statement (Final PEIS) is prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 43...
United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Pacific Islands Region ...
2024
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In an effort to reduce interactions with seabirds, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is proposing to amend the seabird mitigation rules for...
The Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) regularly conducts shore-based surveys of eastern North Pacific (ENP) gray whales (Eschrichtius robustu...
The development of offshore wind energy production in US waters is accelerating. In 2021 the president issued an executive order that outlined a goal ...
Reef fishes play a vital role in supporting local fisheries and providing essential ecosystem services, particularly for maintaining the health of cor...
There were 5,400 and 5,524 confirmed marine mammal strandings documented in the United States in 2020 and 2021, respectively, involving species under ...
Methods were developed using Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIRS) to acquire spectral data from otoliths of three coastal pelagic sp...
The Advanced version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) Model is used to investigate the influence of an easterly wave (EW) on the gene...
2022 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(24)
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This study uses PM2.5 species concentrations from Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspir...
2023 | Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(4), 709-726
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Predictions of drought onset and termination at subseasonal (from 2 weeks to 1 month) lead times could provide a foundation for more effective and pro...
2023 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(3)
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In winter, the Northwest Tropical Atlantic Ocean can be characterized by various wave age‐based interactions among ocean current, surface wind and s...
Convectively coupled waves (CCWs) over the Western Hemisphere are classified based on their governing thermodynamics. It is found that only the tropic...
2022 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103(10), E2222-E2245
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The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) network is a well-regarded, trusted source of precipitation data. The network’s volunteer...
2022 | Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(10), 2417-2430
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The Minimet is a Lagrangian surface drifter measuring near-surface winds in situ. Ten Minimets were deployed in the Iceland Basin over the course of t...
2023 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104(2), E459-E479
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Confidence is a concept important to weather prediction, shaping how risk information is created, shared, understood, and acted upon. For forecasters ...
2023 | Weather, Climate, and Society, 15(2), 307-326
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A long-term goal for warning-message designers is to determine the most effective type of message that can instruct individuals to act quickly and pre...
Accurate predictions of the location and timing of convection initiation (CI) remain a challenge, even in high-resolution convection allowing models (...
Gated storm surge barriers have been constructed or proposed in many estuaries worldwide for coastal flood risk reduction. Past studies have shown tha...
2023 | Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(4), 1123-1138
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Oceanic submesoscale dynamics with horizontal scales < 20 km have similar temporal and spatial scales as internal gravity waves (IGWs), but they diffe...
2017 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34(7), 1423-1432
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The upwelling radiance attenuation coefficient KLu in the upper 10 m of the water column can be significantly influenced by inelastic scattering proce...
2017 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34(6), 1203-1205
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The transmission coefficient TL commonly used to propagate the upwelling nadir radiance from just below the ocean surface to above the surface has bee...
This study explores the feasibility of predicting subdaily variations and the climatological spatial patterns of rain in the tropical Pacific from atm...
Making tracks The magnitude of the effect of anthropogenic aerosols on the formation of clouds is an important unknown about how humans are affecting ...
2020 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(10), 3619-3630
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We extend our previous study, which dealt with structure functions of potential temperature fluctuations, and focus on the characteristics of second-o...
Absorption (a) and backscattering (bb) coefficients play a key role in determining the light field; they also serve as the link between remote sensing...
2018 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35(6), 1283-1298
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This study compares the simulation biases of Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) brightness temperature to observations made at night over China through th...
2020 | Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 57(1), 177-186
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The 16th Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) is the first satellite launched from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat...
On 10 October 2018, Hurricane Michael made landfall along the Florida panhandle as a category 5 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 259 km h−1 an...
2019 | ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3(7), 1237-1247
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Despite increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States, wildfire smoke is poorly characterized, with little known about particle composition a...
2017 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(13), 2826-2834
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Oxidation of monoterpenes (C10H16) by nitrate radicals (NO3) constitutes an important source of atmospheric secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and organo...
Lag Ba’Omer, a nationwide bonfire festival in Israel, was chosen as a case study to investigate the influence of a major biomass burning event on th...
We used site-level methane (CH4) emissions data from over 1000 natural gas (NG) production sites in eight basins, including 92 new site-level CH4 meas...
This work assesses trade-offs between system-wide and superemitter policy options for reducing methane emissions from compressor stations in the U.S. ...
A large-scale study of methane emissions from well pads was conducted in the Marcellus shale (Pennsylvania), the largest producing natural gas shale p...
Unexpectedly simpleChinook salmon are known to return to spawn at two distinct times of the year: spring and fall. Individuals that return during thes...
The Angola low is a summertime low pressure system that affects the convergence of low-level moisture fluxes into southern Africa. Interannual variati...
Predicting marine futures The ability to predict how climate variations will affect marine ecosystems would allow better economic and ecosystem planni...
We examine the link between migrations in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AM...
The soluble fraction of aerosol Fe, mainly Fe(II), represents a large source of nutrient iron to the open ocean. Fe(II) may also play an important rol...
Total maximum daily load (TMDL) implementation at a southern California beach involved ultraviolet treatment of watershed drainage that provided >97% ...
The central role of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) variability in modulating Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical climate has long been know...
2019 | Weather, Climate, and Society, 11(4), 851-862
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Significant effort has been put into advancing the use and usability of information products to support adaptation to drought and climate variability,...
2022 | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(2), 259-270
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Hyperspectral infrared satellite observations from geostationary platforms allow for the retrieval of temperature and water vapor measurements with hi...
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