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Identification of mid-tropospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks in the United States.
(2019-12)
The identification of large-scale atmospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks poses a great challenge. It involves analysis of physical processes occurring at different time and space scales that, in the right ...
Road Culvert Impacts on Stream Fish Community Structure in Eastern Oklahoma
(2019-05)
Road culverts threaten the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains regions of Oklahoma with habitat fragmentation and loss of aquatic biodiversity. This region of Oklahoma is understudied when it comes to this issue. Fishes within ...
Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross Via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael
(2019-08-01)
This thesis examined the way disaster relief agencies, FEMA and Red Cross, communicated during natural hazards at the national and regional levels. Using tweets from the weeks of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and ...
CLOSING THE GAP: TINY HOMES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, IMPLEMENTATION, AND DISASTER RECOVERY
(2019)
Over the last fifteen years, the United States has experienced an exceedingly high number of devastating hurricanes; these storms have affected the nation in ways that are still being examined and dealt with years after ...
Use of low-resolution burned area products and implications for fire risk assessment within the wildland-urban interface
(2019)
The impacts of wildfires are socially, economically and ecologically vast and these impacts are often thought to be intensified within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) where structures intermingle with wildland vegetation. ...
PROCESS BASED MODELING OF SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, SOIL MOISTURE, AND SOIL TEMPERATURE IN THE US SOUTHERN PLAINS
(2019-12-13)
This study aims to evaluate the capability and transferability of a physically-based hydrologic model to understand the trade-offs between precipitation, soil moisture and surface energy fluxes at sites with different ...
Future Impact on the Low-Level Jet and its Effects on Wind Energy Generation in Oklahoma
(2019-05-11)
Future increases of wind energy density for the United States’ South-Central Plains region have been projected by several previous research examples. The Central Plains’ low-level jet has been projected to become faster ...