Severe convective storms cause catastrophic losses each year in the United States, suggesting that any predictive capability is of great societal benefit. While it is known that El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influence high impact weather events, such as a tornado activity and severe storms, in the US during early spring, this study highlights that the influence of ENSO on US severe storm characteristics is weak during May-July. Instead, warm water in the Gulf of Mexico is a potential predictor for moist instability, which is an important factor in influencing the storm characteristics in the US during May-July.
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The timing of fall foliage coloration, especially peak coloration, is of great importance to the climate change research community as it has implicati...
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A substantial body of work supports a teleconnection between the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and cholera incidence in Bangladesh. In particula...
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Soft robotics is an emerging technology that has shown considerable promise in deep-sea marine biological applications. It is particularly useful in f...
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The United States Virgin Islands are comprised of two separate insular platforms separated by the deep water Anegada Passage. Although managed by the ...
Deep-sea corals are a critical component of habitat in the deep-sea, existing as regional hotspots for biodiversity, and are associated with increased...
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However, X. deweerdtae effectively deters predators with its own defensive chemistry. Multiple lines of evidence provide no support for the shared che...