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Climatic effects of the Williston Reservoir on Tsay Keh Dene Nation Territory of northern British Columbia, Canada
Climate change is a major concern for freshwater allocation and management, but there is a lack of attention regarding how water impoundment impacts boreal climate at the intersection of mountain topography. W...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comprehensive Modelling and Visualization of Particulate Matter in Support of Air Quality Management in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Prince George British Columbia has among the highest levels of ambient particulate matter (PM) in western Canada. In order to effectively lower ambient PM levels, management agencies need to be able to attribu...
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Optimal error growth of South Asian monsoon forecast associated with the uncertainties in the sea surface temperature
A recently developed method of climatic relevant singular vectors (CSVs) is applied to an atmospheric general circulation model (CAM4) to investigate the optimal error growth of the South Asian monsoon (SAM) ...
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Separation results for multi-product inventory hedging problems
We analyze financial hedging tools for inventory management in a risk-averse corporation. We consider the problem of optimizing simultaneously over both the operational policy and the hedging policy of the cor...
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Asian monsoon simulations by Community Climate Models CAM4 and CCSM4
This study examines the ability of Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) and Community Climate System Model (CCSM) to simulate the Asian summer monsoon, focusing particularly on inter-model comparison and the role ...
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Chapter
Dynamically-Driven Winds
This chapter is concerned with dynamically-forced atmospheric flow phenomena which occur when the wind encounters mountains. The range of effects is wide and therefore attention is restricted to arguably the m...
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Source Apportionment of Total Suspended Particulates in an Arid Area in Southwestern Iran Using Positive Matrix Factorization
The present study sough to apportion the possible sources of TSP in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran. A high correlation coefficient existed between measured and predicted values (R2 = 0.99), indicating that the data wer...
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Investigation into mountain pine beetle above-canopy dispersion using weather radar and an atmospheric dispersion model
Above-canopy, wind-assisted mountain pine beetle (MPB) dispersion in British Columbia (BC) is examined during the summer 2005 beetle emergence period. Above-canopy dispersion is simulated by the HYSPLIT atmosp...
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Revised dantzig-wolfe decomposition for staircase-structured linear programs
Staircase structured linear programs arise naturally in the study of engineering economic systems. One general approach to solving such LP's is the technique of nested decomposition of the primal or dual probl...