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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Recent work has documented dramatic changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) over the past 30 years (e.g., mass loss, glacier acceleration, surface warming) due largely to the influence of the marine environment. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)A machine-learning model was created to predict air pollution at high spatial resolution in Manhattan, New York using taxi trip data. Urban air pollution increases morbidity and mortality through respiratory and cardiovascular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Methylation of mercury (Hg) in the marine water column has been hypothesized to serve as the primary source of the bioaccumulating chemical species monomethylmercury (MMHg) to marine food webs. Despite decades of research ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The aim of seismic tomography is to determine a model of Earth properties that best explain observed seismic data. In practice, the limitations placed on our observations and computational capabilities force us to make a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The ubiquity of cloud clusters and their role in modulating radiative cooling and the moisture distribution underlines the importance of understanding how and why tropical convection organizes. In this work, the fundamental ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Abstract Errors in modeling atmospheric delays are one of the limiting factors in the accuracy of GPS position determination. In regions with uneven topography, atmospheric delay phenomena can be especially complicated. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Paleomagnetic investigations of extraterrestrial samples provide an avenue to test for the presence of ancient core dynamos on planetary bodies. If a core dynamo was indeed present, determining the lifetime of the magnetic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Marine particles include all living and non-living solid components of seawater, representing an extremely dynamic and chemically diverse mixture of phases. The distributions of these phases are poorly constrained and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)At the land-ocean interface, terrestrial groundwater interacts with seawater to form a subterranean estuary, which can play host to dynamic biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, trace metals and radionuclides. This chemically ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Gravity and topography data provide a powerful tool for studying the interiors of rocky planetary bodies. In this thesis I study three such bodies - Venus, Mercury and the Moon - and I use the gravity and topography data ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The primary objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the crustal structure and deformation in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions using surface wave tomography. Green's functions for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)I present work on several topics related to land-atmosphere interaction and radiative-convective equilibrium: the first two research chapters invoke ideas related to land-atmosphere interaction to better understand ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Ice clouds scatter and absorb solar radiation, affecting atmospheric and surface temperatures (Gettelman et al., 2012). On Mars, where ice contained in clouds makes up a large portion of total atmospheric water vapor, ice ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The soil transport coefficient D represents the relationship between local topographical gradient and soil flux in the landscape evolution model. This work presents new estimates of the soil transport coefficient D at 9 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Observations suggest that during the last deglaciation (roughly 20,000-10,000 years ago) the Earth warmed substantially, global sea level rose approximately 100 meters in response to melting ice sheets and glaciers, and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Here I use a simple numerical model of reef profile evolution to show that the present-day morphology of carbonate islands has developed largely in response to late Pleistocene sea level oscillations in addition to variable ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The mechanisms of magma ascent and emplacement inferred from study of intrusive complexes have long been the subject of intense debate. Current models favor incremental construction, but much of this work has been focused ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)In this thesis we further develop concepts in inverse scattering, which enable higher resolution imaging with data from dense networks and arrays. We apply the new methods to studies of the crust beneath south Tibet and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)In this paper, comparisons between the derived Chemistry Climate Model Initiative aerosol data set to balloon sonde measurements of aerosols made in Laramie, Wyoming are made between 1979- 2012. Using the derived CCMI ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)In this thesis, I searched through the Kepler light curves of 14,440 K-star targets for evidence of periodicities that indicate rapid stellar rotation. Many Kepler M, K, and G stars show modulations in flux due to rotating ...
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