Monsoon circulations are major features of the tropical atmosphere, which, primarily through the rainfall associated with them, are of profound importance to a large fraction of the world’s population. While there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a monsoon, there are some criteria that are widely accepted (see, e.g., the discussions in Ramage (1971), Webster (1987), and...

Title: Severe Convective Mesosystems in New England Author: James Elbert Kester Submitted to the Department of Meteorology on February 5, 1974 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. This study of convection over New England is divided into two parts. Part I is a search for a consistent mesoscale pressure pattern associated with severe convective storms o...

Crop gross primary productivity (GPP) is an important characteristic for evaluating crop nitrogen content and yield, as well as the carbon exchange. Based on the close relationship observed between GPP and total chlorophyll content in crops, we applied a model that relies on a product of chlorophyll-related vegetation index and incoming photosynthetically active radiation for remote estimation ...