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Residual overturning circulation and its connection to Southern Ocean dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Over the last 20 years, our understanding of the meridional overturning circulation has improved, but primarily in a two-dimensional, zonally-averaged framework. In this thesis, I have pushed beyond this simplification and ... -
High resolution sedimentary archives of past millennium hurricane activity in the Bahama Archipelago
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Atlantic hurricanes threaten growing coastal populations along the U.S. coastline and in the Caribbean islands. Unfortunately, little is known about the forces that alter hurricane activity on multi-decadal to centennial ... -
Extratropical storm tracks and the mean state of the atmosphere
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The exact impacts of changes in the mean state of the atmosphere on the high-frequency phenomena that form the extratropical atmospheric circulation are uncertain. The extratropical storm tracks, regions of frequent ...
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