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A Climatological Study Of Drought In Southern Michigan, Rudy Bartels
A Climatological Study Of Drought In Southern Michigan, Rudy Bartels
Masters Theses
Drought has become a reoccurring phenomenon throughout many regions around the world. Significant drought conditions have beenobserved overthe pastfive decades in relation to economic, social, and agricultural impacts. In this study, Southern Michigan is investigated over the past 52 years from 1960-2012. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) will be calculated over a 6-month timescale from monthly precipitations. Three variables including 500-mb heights, surface pressure maps, and sea surface temperatures, will be correlated with the SPI using sliding correlations and Pearson's R correlation to determine any relations between these variables and precipitation variations. We will further investigate the five driest, wettest, …
A Synoptic Air Mass Climatology Of The Eastern United States, Robert I. Wittick
A Synoptic Air Mass Climatology Of The Eastern United States, Robert I. Wittick
Masters Theses
Chapter I
Introduction
Orientation and Objective
The concept of the air mass was developed by a group of Norwegian meteorologists during World War I. An air mass, they said, was a body of air which was horizontally homogeneous with respect to temperature and humidity. These bodies of air were classified according to their place of origin since the basic character of an air mass is similar to that of its source region.
Since 1932 when the first air mass climatology was written by Dinies1, the meteorological and geographical journals have published many studies of air mass movements and …