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Investigations Of Electronic And Optical Sources In The Mid Infrared And Terahertz Regions, Thakur Siddharth Singh Dec 2016

Investigations Of Electronic And Optical Sources In The Mid Infrared And Terahertz Regions, Thakur Siddharth Singh

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Fundamental sources of mid-infrared and terahertz radiation are of the utmost importance for applications such as chemical sensing, molecular spec- troscopy, imaging and telecommunications to name a few. Practical realiza- tions of room temperature fundamental sources in the terahertz region are often hampered by low power and poor temperature performance and this is referred to as the Terahertz gap. This work presents investigations of Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) as optical sources of mid-infrared radiation and the proposal of a novel electronic oscillator in the extremely important terahertz region based on a single layer of a suspended graphene sheet. Monte Carlo …

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Sequential Monte Carlo Methods For Inference And Prediction Of Latent Time-Series, Inigo Urteaga Dec 2016

Sequential Monte Carlo Methods For Inference And Prediction Of Latent Time-Series, Inigo Urteaga

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In the era of information-sensing mobile devices, the Internet-of-Things and Big Data, research on advanced methods for extracting information from data has become extremely critical. One important task in this area of work is the analysis of time-varying phenomena, observed sequentially in time. This endeavor is relevant in many applications, where the goal is to infer the dynamics of events of interest described by the data, as soon as new data-samples are acquired. This dissertation is on novel methods for sequential inference and prediction of latent time-series. We assume that a sequence of observations is a function of a hidden …

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Design Of A Novel Glitch-Free Integrated Clock Gating Cell For High Reliability, Tasnuva Noor Dec 2016

Design Of A Novel Glitch-Free Integrated Clock Gating Cell For High Reliability, Tasnuva Noor

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

A novel glitch-free integrated clock gating (ICG) cell is developed and demonstrated in 45 nm CMOS technology. The proposed cell is more reliable as it produces an uninterrupted gated clock signal in cases where glitches occur in the enable signal during clock transitions. A detailed comparison of the proposed cell with the existing integrated clock gating cells is also presented. Glitch-free operation (and therefore high reliability) is achieved at the expense of larger power and delay, as quantified for 45 nm CMOS technology. Several design issues and different glitch characteristics are also discussed. The proposed ICG cell is shown to …

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Turned On: A Study Of Sexuality In American Counterculture Music, 1960-2016, Sean Burton Dec 2016

Turned On: A Study Of Sexuality In American Counterculture Music, 1960-2016, Sean Burton

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since the 1960s the American counterculture has been stoked by socio-political and lifestyle movements with a mix of noble ideas, rebellious fervor, and at times even a degree of madness. These movements have correctly been attributed to events worthy of protest and activism, such as the Vietnam War, racial injustice, sexism, and economic inequality, as well as less noble and less developed concerns. However, the power of counterculture music is that it links these causes to a much more universal element of life: sexuality. From the outlandishness of the music of the 1960s, came the trend of sexuality being part …

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The Music Of Romantic Poetry And The Mediation Of Romanticism, Matthew J. Gilbert Dec 2016

The Music Of Romantic Poetry And The Mediation Of Romanticism, Matthew J. Gilbert

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In the poetry of British Romanticism, “music†has a significance that stretches across versification, figurative conceits, rapidly evolving generic modes, song lyrics, the cultural practice of music, impassioned recitation, the conspicuous silence of print, and the sale of printed books—in other words, an interrelated spectrum of issues that reaches through formalism to historicism and beyond. Music’s relevance to various romantic cultures, as well as its many tropes and topoi, mirrors a conceptual versatility that poets found abundantly instrumental when sitting down (or walking along) to contemplate the relation of self and craft, craft and culture, and, above all, sound and …

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Gwendolyn Nisbett, Gwendolyn Editha Nisbett Dec 2016

Gwendolyn Nisbett, Gwendolyn Editha Nisbett

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As You Like It and Hamlet have as a central consideration the need for the restoration of order and the establishment of good governance. A comparative analysis of the roles of the clowns in both plays, using primary and secondary data, reveals that they expose a corrupt political directorate and offer social and political commentary through dialogue, soliloquies, asides and other forms of direct communication with the audience. As You Like It is a romantic comedy in which the usurping Duke causes the courtiers to flee from tyranny by going into exile in the forest of Arden. Touchstone, the jester, …

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Margery Kempe: A Mirror Of Change In Late-Medieval England, Janet Tuthill Dec 2016

Margery Kempe: A Mirror Of Change In Late-Medieval England, Janet Tuthill

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Often considered the earliest autobiography written in English, The Book of Margery Kempe expresses social and religious commentary. This dissertation discusses Kempe’s life story as it mirrors the religious and social changes occurring in late-medieval England. I view Margery Kempe as a real person who was very involved in the production of her book, that the scribes who assisted her played an important part in shaping the text, but that we mainly hear Kempe’s voice. My view is that the work is neither a straightforward presentation of lived experience nor pure fiction, but based upon the real-life experiences of an …

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Monotonicity Properties Of Stochastic Kriging Metamodels And Related Applications, Bing Wang Dec 2016

Monotonicity Properties Of Stochastic Kriging Metamodels And Related Applications, Bing Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Stochastic kriging (SK) and stochastic kriging with gradient estimators (SKG) are popular approaches to approximate complex simulation models because of their ability to replace the expensive simulation outputs by metamodel values. Obtaining an accurate SK/SKG metamodel is highly desirable in practice. This dissertation studies the monotonicity properties of the mean squared error (MSE) of optimal SK and SKG predictors. In particular, we show that in both SK and SKG, the MSEs of the corresponding optimal predictors are non-increasing functions of the numbers of design points. Based on these findings, we design an adaptive sequential sampling approach to obtain SK/SKG predictors …

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A Data Driven Design Methodology For Ss Dyads And Its Application To Unified Synthesis Of Planar, Spherical And Spatial Linkages, Xin Ge Dec 2016

A Data Driven Design Methodology For Ss Dyads And Its Application To Unified Synthesis Of Planar, Spherical And Spatial Linkages, Xin Ge

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This research deals with a general kinematic synthesis problem of how to generate the motion of a spatial platform subject to one or more spherical con- straints. Each spherical constraint can be modeled by a SS dyad, which is a spatial two-link kinematic chain connected by two spherical (S) joints. It defines a five-degree-of-freedom motion of the end link such that a point stays on the surface of a sphere. A spherical constraint degenerates into a plane constraint when the radius of the sphere becomes infinite. In this way, a plane constraint is considered as a special case of a …

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Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly Activates Rad51-Mediated Double Strand Break Repair During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Evelyn Joann Prugar Dec 2016

Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly Activates Rad51-Mediated Double Strand Break Repair During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Evelyn Joann Prugar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Meiosis is a highly conserved specialized cell division that occurs in many organisms, including budding yeast and mammals. Meiosis divides the chromosome number of the cell in half to create gametes for sexual reproduction. A single round of chromosome duplication is followed by two rounds of chromosome segregation, Meiosis I (homologs segregate) and Meiosis II (sister chromatids segregate). Proper segregation at Meiosis I requires that homologs are connected by both crossovers and sister chromatid cohesion. Crossovers are formed by the repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) preferentially by the homolog. The choice of repair template is determined at the time …

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The Role Of The Transcription Machinery In The Remodeling Of The Promoter-Proximal Nucleosomes In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Michael Charles Tramantano Dec 2016

The Role Of The Transcription Machinery In The Remodeling Of The Promoter-Proximal Nucleosomes In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Michael Charles Tramantano

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Approximately 147 base pairs of DNA wraps almost two turns around a protein core comprised of two copies of each H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 histones to form a nucleosome—the fundamental packaging unit of chromatin. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, nucleosomes are organized along the genome in a closely spaced and non-random manner. This compact structure blocks assembly of the transcription machinery and thus is refractory to gene expression. Surrounding the promoters of most genes, a wider nucleosome depleted region (NDR), maintained in part by the activities of chromatin remodelers, serves as the platform for assembly of the transcription preinitiation complex (PIC). …

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Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly | Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly, Fei He Dec 2016

Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly | Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly, Fei He

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Rapid and automated next generation sequencing (NGS) methods have emerged recently and significantly accelerated the research in biological and medical fields. The high-throughput NGS usually generates billions of shorter reads, which poses great bioinformatics challenges on extracting meaningful information from these massive data, one of which is de novo assembly. At the same time, the fast development of massive parallel processing (MPP) systems presents a substantial opportunity for processing larger datasets. Therefore, using supercomputer innovations on NGS research promises a good strategy; however, this application is not straightforward and requires new algorithms and parallel design for efficient implementations. In this …

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Exploration Of Statistical Learning Strategies And Their Applications On Medical Image Data For Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Yifan Hu Dec 2016

Exploration Of Statistical Learning Strategies And Their Applications On Medical Image Data For Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Yifan Hu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Machine learning addresses the question of how computer make decisions and predictions automatically through existing experiences and data, which has become an increasingly important topic with the advent of modern data science and automated big data analysis. Several algorithms are widely used in machine learning. However, each classifier, inevitably, has certain inadequacy for which we hope to compensate. To address these issues, this study first introduces the necessary theoretical background and principles for machine learning and those typical classifiers. Based on these classifiers, this paper attempts to (1) use bagging/boosting to improve the simple classifier, and, (2) find some combination …

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What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples | What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples, Vickie Bhatia Dec 2016

What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples | What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples, Vickie Bhatia

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Research has consistently demonstrated that romantic relationships during emerging adulthood are salient experiences that are important to identity development and set the stage for future intimate relationships. One area of emerging research is on romantic competence, or a set of skills an individual possesses that affect how he/she approaches and negotiates romantic relationships. Although research has begun to examine the association between romantic competence and self-reported relationship behaviors and outcomes, it has not objectively assessed behavioral indicators of competence nor has it examined how romantic competence skills are enacted during couple interactions. The main goal of this dissertation was to …

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Clustering And Classification Methods For Prediction Of The Risk For Developing Disease, Hyejoo Lee Dec 2016

Clustering And Classification Methods For Prediction Of The Risk For Developing Disease, Hyejoo Lee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The purpose of this study is to develop a statistical model to predict the risk for developing disease. In order to enrich our general understanding of schizophrenia disorder, several clustering techniques are used as a preliminary study. Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous decease with great variability in symptoms, cognition, biology and course of illness. Some of this variability may be explained by latent subgroups that differ in etiology and key features. Individuals with paternal age related schizophrenia (PARS) may represent such a subgroup as evidence suggests a distinct symptom profile. Using K-means and hierarchical clustering on a large sample of schizophrenia …

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Response To Monetary And Social Feedback During Development: Associations With Depressive Symptomatology And Risk, Jennifer Nicole Bress Dec 2016

Response To Monetary And Social Feedback During Development: Associations With Depressive Symptomatology And Risk, Jennifer Nicole Bress

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Depression represents a major public health concern, with particularly harmful effects in children. Existing interventions show relatively low response rates and high relapse rates, and there has been a recent effort to identify biomarkers of depression that may improve interventions and guide the way for novel treatments. One potential biomarker is the neural response to reward. However, existing studies typically focus on monetary reward, which may be less relevant to children and adolescents than social feedback. The current study focused on the feedback negativity (FN), an event-related potential (ERP) typically elicited by monetary feedback, in the context of a novel, …

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Estimation And Detection Of Network Variation In Intraday Stock Market, Shanshan Li Dec 2016

Estimation And Detection Of Network Variation In Intraday Stock Market, Shanshan Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The last few years have witnessed an exponential growth in the collection and analysis of financial market data. Investigating the interactions between the dynamics of the financial system and extracting useful information from these multivariate data streams can help us in improving our understanding of the underlying backbone in the financial market. These massive noisy data sets require the application of suitable and efficient dependency measurements for their analysis in a real-time environment. And that is why network analysis has emerged recently, which is a plausible representation helps interpret the hidden interconnection between the elements in large datasets. However, most …

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Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung Dec 2016

Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the jun’ai (pure-love) genre has flourished in Japan, both in works of popular literature and in film. This phenomenon coincides with a time when the country is seen by the media as being characterized by soshitsukan (sense of loss). In jun’ai films, the heroine is often the object of loss. This theme of loss in jun’ai therefore resonates with the Japanese social context, but this connection has not yet been fully elucidated. In this dissertation, I seek to explain why Japanese women, who are arguably treated as “other†within Japan, embody a transnationalism …

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Multi-Source Image Integration Towards Solar Forecast, Zhenzhou Peng Dec 2016

Multi-Source Image Integration Towards Solar Forecast, Zhenzhou Peng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Accurate prediction of solar energy in short-term and mid-term horizons becomes increasingly important for harvesting solar energy and improving its viability in comparing with fossil fuels. Because clouds are the primary cause of large fluctuations in solar radiation, estimating cloud movements and correlating cloud activities and the variability of solar irradiance are the essential components in short-term or mid-term solar predictions and play a vital role in the subsequent mitigation in responding to potential solar power fluctuations. However cloud detecting and tracking is very challenging due to the volatility and complexity of clouds and expensive meteorological instruments or remote sensing …

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Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar Dec 2016

Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet’s routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their connectivity and routing policies as trade secrets. In this environment, researchers rely on a number of simplifying assumptions and models proposed over a decade ago, which are widely criticized for their inability to capture routing policies employed in practice. This thesis makes the following two contributions: â— Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies. First we put Internet topologies …

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Measuring Internet Traffic Manipulation, Anke Li Dec 2016

Measuring Internet Traffic Manipulation, Anke Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Traffic differentiation---giving better or worse performance to certain classes of Internet traffic---is a well-known but poorly understood traffic management policy. There is active discussion on whether and how ISPs should be allowed to differentiate Internet traffic, but little data about current practices to inform this discussion. Previous work attempted to address this problem for fixed line networks, but at the time of the publication of our work, there was no solution that works in the more challenging mobile environment. In terms of censorship measurement, despite the high perceived value and increasing severity of online information controls, a data-driven understanding of …

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Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley Dec 2016

Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As computers become faster and more parallel, the number of computations a process executes is becoming too simplistic a predictor of performance. In many circumstances, modern algorithmic research can no longer rely on the assumption that each computation roughly corresponds to a set amount of time. For example, large-scale computers may spend far more time moving data around than performing computation, in which case minimizing data transfers is the best way to improve wall-clock performance. Similarly, manufacturing plants may need to focus on minimizing maintenance costs. While they must still guarantee good throughput, the maintenance costs are what most impact …

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Automatic Discovery Of Efficient Divide-&-Conquer Algorithms For Dynamic Programming Problems, Pramod Ganapathi Dec 2016

Automatic Discovery Of Efficient Divide-&-Conquer Algorithms For Dynamic Programming Problems, Pramod Ganapathi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation is an excursion into computer-discovered algorithms and computer-aided algorithm design. In our vision of the not-so-distant future of computing, machines will take the responsibility of designing and implementing most, if not all, machine-specific highly efficient nontrivial algorithms with provable correctness and performance guarantees. Indeed, as the complexity of computing hardware grows and their basic architectures keep changing rapidly, manually redesigning and reimplementing key algorithms for high performance on every new architecture is quickly becoming an impossible task. Automation is needed. We design algorithms that can design other algorithms. Our focus is on auto-generating algorithms for solving dynamic programming …

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Securing Web Applications, Riccardo Pelizzi Dec 2016

Securing Web Applications, Riccardo Pelizzi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Over the past decade, web application vulnerabilities have become far more common than vulnerabilities in conventional applications. To mitigate them, we approach the problem from two extremes: one that requires no changes to existing applications but is limited to a few well-defined vulnerability classes, and the second that provides a comprehensive solution but requires a re-thinking of web applications. Our first approach mitigates specific vulnerabilities using policies that do not depend on the application logic, and thus require no developer involvement or effort. We target two of the most common high-profile vulnerabilities, namely, cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery …

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Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze Dec 2016

Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Todays OSes adopt users as the basic unit of trust. Every file and process owned by the same user has the same userid as the user. This design stems from the very first multi-user OS created, a time when computers were self-contained, and file contents were under the control of users. Today, users frequently download data and code from the Internet, without fully understanding their content or consequences. However, existing desktop OSes reuse the same old trust model and treat downloaded files as if users are fully responsible for them. This trust is exploited by today’s malware. In this dissertation, …

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Justices Of The Peace, Lawyers And The People: Local Courts And The Contested Professionalization Of Law In Late Colonial New York, Sung Yup Kim Dec 2016

Justices Of The Peace, Lawyers And The People: Local Courts And The Contested Professionalization Of Law In Late Colonial New York, Sung Yup Kim

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Legal professionalization in New York was a contested social process entailing myriad local struggles over the use of land and credit. New York’s legal professionalization gained momentum in the mid-eighteenth century, as provincial lawyers pursued a collective mission to monopolize doctrinal interpretation and procedural application of English common law in the colony. The on-the-ground application of that mission frequently pitted lawyers against commoners, many of whom preferred the informal resolutions provided by lay justices, jurors, arbitrators, and town meetings. Professionalized law determined cases with doctrines and procedures alien to most laypeople. It disrupted the local communities’ means of equitable dispute …

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The Syntax Of Address, Poppy M. Slocum Dec 2016

The Syntax Of Address, Poppy M. Slocum

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the role of the addressee in syntax, focusing on nominals that refer to addressees: vocatives (calls and addresses) and imperative subjects. Beginning with Moro (2003), generative analyses of vocatives have proposed that they are associated with functional projections at the left edge of or above CP. Such analyses are unable to account for the existence of mid­-sentential addresses. I propose that vocatives (specifically addresses) are merged into the specifier of a functional projection, AddrP, which is located in the topic field of the CP domain (specifically between the highest TopP and FocP). This position correctly reflects that …

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Reconstruction Of Atmospheric [Co] And Stable Co Isotopes δ13c And δ18o Over The Last 250 Years | Reconstruction Of Atmospheric [Co] And Stable Co Isotopes Δ13c And Δ18o Over The Last 250 Years, Alicia Mullaley Dec 2016

Reconstruction Of Atmospheric [Co] And Stable Co Isotopes δ13c And δ18o Over The Last 250 Years | Reconstruction Of Atmospheric [Co] And Stable Co Isotopes Δ13c And Δ18o Over The Last 250 Years, Alicia Mullaley

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a trace gas that influences atmospheric chemical reactions. CO is relatively short-lived (weeks to months) in the atmosphere and therefore spatially variable with a modern concentration range from 35 parts per billion (ppb) to 150 ppb (Globalview-CO, 2009). Because of its lifetime, atmospheric carbon monoxide is a good tracer for hemispheric processes; it is long enough to be transported over hemispheric distances but is short enough where there can be large seasonal and interannual variations. Therefore, measuring the variations in CO from bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice can reveal processes that occur in the Southern Hemisphere …

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Development Of The Simplified Land Model (Slm) And Its Application To The Diurnal Cycle Of Precipitation Over Land, Jungmin Lee Dec 2016

Development Of The Simplified Land Model (Slm) And Its Application To The Diurnal Cycle Of Precipitation Over Land, Jungmin Lee

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The diurnal cycle of convection is a key to understanding the climate and weather in the context of the Earth’s energy and water cycles. Yet, the well-observed late afternoon to early evening precipitation maximum over most of inland regions still remains one of the poorly understood features of continental convection. Many numerical weather and global climate models (GCMs) have had difficulty capturing the correct diurnal cycle of convection over land. Not only does this deficiency create a concern regarding the consistency of GCMs’ physical parameterizations, but it also requires a better understating of physical processes that control the land-atmosphere interactions. …

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Spatial Characteristics Of The Low-Latitude Atlantic Multidecadal Variability During The Past Millennium And Evaluation Of Cmip5 Model Simulations, Tingyin Xiao Dec 2016

Spatial Characteristics Of The Low-Latitude Atlantic Multidecadal Variability During The Past Millennium And Evaluation Of Cmip5 Model Simulations, Tingyin Xiao

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) influences climate of Atlantic coastal continents, including the Atlantic hurricanes, European summer rainfall, Sahelian precipitation, and African dust. Identifying corresponding climate proxies and integrating them with modern instrumental and reanalysis records are important to understand it in the context of future changes caused by human activities. In this study, we used the high-resolution and marine-based Globigerina bulloides abundance data from Cariaco Basin, the 20th Century reanalysis data, as well as other paleoclimate records to investigate the spatial pattern and coherence of the AMV. We then evaluated the ability of climate models in simulating the AMV. From …

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