Ramzy, James Robert, Young, Ernest Tillson

Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / Measurements of air temperature fluctuations as close as 2.5 cm above the surface of a pond in the presence of wind generated waves were made. Fast response thermistors were used, one at constant absolute height and one mounted on a styrofoam float. Data were collected on an Ampex CP-100 tape recorder using FM record amplifiers and a tape speed of 1 and 7/8 ips. The data were digitized by an SDS-9300 hybrid computer and analyzed by an IBM 360...

Ma, Binbing

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The minimum curvature with spline method was used to establish a three-dimensional monthly-varying gridded data from the Navy's Master Oceanographic Observation Data Set (approximate 189,000 profiles), covering the area of 5 deg N - 25 deg N and 105 deg E - 125 deg E and from the surface to 400 m depth. For temperature, profiles were binned into 204 monthly data sets from 1968 to 1984 (17 years). Because of the paucity of salinity data, sa...

Beddoes, Mark W.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The U.S. Marine Corps concept for the projection of naval power ashore is Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS). OMFTS calls for movement of Marines from ships at sea directly to objectives deep inland without requiring a pause to build up combat power on the beach. Support for ground forces is expected to come from the sea, and be delivered primarily by air. This demands that sea based logistics assets remain sufficiently close to sho...

Lumpkin, Michael D.

NPS Distinguished Alumni Award presented, March 26, 2015 / The traditional definitional constraints of terrorism have resulted in the failure to effectively categorize all political acts of violence in the maritime environment. This thesis offers the more practical and useful paradigm of 'Microvolence' for viewing this phenomenon. The intent of developing this paradigm was to create a framework which permits the creation of a data-based investigation of all recorded incidents of illegitimate pol...

Moss, Eric Brian

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / Measurements of sea surface radiance were made in the 2-5.6 and 8-14 um wavebands near the azimuth of the sun at low solar observation angles. From these measurement, an analysis of the statistical and physical nature of a sun glitter channel as presented to a low altitude observer (i.e. shipboard) was conducted. findings showed strong correlations between wind speed and corridor width, and between wind speed and strength of source radia...

Adams, Richard Peerson

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. / Oceanic frontal activity in the western Alboran Sea of the Mediterranean Sea was investigated to evaluate spatial and temporal variability. Subsurface features were compared with DMSP sensed sea surface temperature to estimate the feasibility of determining frontal location from DMSP photography. Low frequency sound propagation across the front was modeled to evaluate the effect of the frontal system on propagation loss.

Cho, Paul Kang-Kul

The dissertation recounts the variegated journey of the sea in the Hebrew Bible through the lens of myth, metaphor, and muthos. The journey begins outside the Bible in ancient Near Eastern sea myths exemplified by the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish, which tell the story of a sea deity whose defeat in cosmic battle against a protagonist god precedes three goodly consequences: creation, kingship, and temple. The story continues with the analysis of the biblical presentation...

Fontanez, Kristina

Symbiosis is one of the most widespread evolutionary strategies on Earth. In the deep-sea, symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and invertebrates are abundant at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. These mutualisms, in which symbiont carbon fixation provides for host nutrition, are analogous to the ancient endosymbioses that resulted in the chloroplast and the eukaryotic mitochondrion. However, the evolutionary processes that led to the widespread dispersal of deep-sea organisms and the mech...

Pilling, Evan R.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This thesis examines the developing capabilities of the Indian surface combatant force. The emergence of a powerful Indian Navy is of concern to the United States in view of the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean region and its potentially related effects on Western Pacific maritime security. This study examines the history, current and future capabilities of, and the political and industrial support for the Indian surface combatant ...

Li, Ching-Chung

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The circulation in the South China Sea (SCS) is mainly determined by the monsoons. This monsoon-induced circulation is connected with the circulation in the Pacific Ocean to a small extent and linked with that of the Indian Ocean only by the Timor Current. During winter, the water enters the South China Sea at the north through Formosa Strait and Luzon Strait, and exits at the south through Karimata Strait. During summer, the circulation r...

Zakrisson, Anna

The overall aim of the study was to provide better insights to the ecological role and impact of cyanobacteria in Baltic Sea (BS) bay, coastal and open sea areas. Biomass and heterocyst development of diazotrophic, heterocystous cyanobacteria were monitored over several years simultaneously as physical parameters such as nutrients and temperature. Nitrogen fixation was estimated as well as its transfer in the BS food web. Even after decades of debate there is still controversy whether eutrophica...

Larsson, Stina

The approaches used in recent research regarding the ‘Sea Peoples’ of the late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean have been evaluated in this thesis. Different influences exist on all planes and effect all things in different ways. Researchers have the power of creating the history we know and all too often is the biased influence of the researcher forgotten and their words are taken as facts. Different researchers approach, the studies using different schools of thought such as e.g. ‘proce...

McKeever, Dalton Edward

This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information. / Bachelors / Arts and Sciences / Poli...

Yang, Fengyan

Environmental data hold important information regarding humanity’s past, present, and future, and are managed in various ways. The database structure most commonly used in contemporary applications is the relational database. Its usage in the scientific world for managing environmental data is not as popular as in businesses enterprises. Attention is caught by the diverse nature and rapidly growing volume of environmental data that has been increasing substantially in recent. Environmental data ...

Moisseeva, Nadejda

This study investigates the diurnal evolution of sea-breeze rotation over an island in the mid- latitudes. Earlier research on sea-breezes in Sardinia shows that the onshore winds around various coasts of the island exhibit both the theoretically predicted clockwise rotation as well as seemingly anomalous anti-clockwise rotation. A non-hydrostatic fully compressible numerical model (WRF) is used to simulate wind fields on and around the island on previously-studied sea-breeze days and is shown t...

Moore, Euna Alva.

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Li, Yongxiang, 1962-

Intraseasonal and interannual variability of sea-ice cover (SIC) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, including the time of first ice presence (TFIP), time of last ice presence (TLIP), and sea-ice duration (SID), were investigated, using weekly sea ice observations from 1963--1996. For the intraseasonal variations of sea ice, it was found that SIC in different sub-regions displays contrasting features. The largest intraseasonal variations of SIC occur in the Strait of Belle Isle region and in the southw...

Petrich, Christian, n/a

The aim of this study is to characterise the structure of refrozen cracks, and to deduce the details of their formation. Surveys and experiments are conducted on straight-sided, linear, refrozen cracks of width 80 mm to 340 mm in land-fast first-year sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Refreezing of cracks is simulated analytically, and with a numerical fluid dynamics model of brine movement in the porous sea ice and in the ocean. Systematic arch-shaped patterns of inclusions, upstream-growing...

Owens, Owen C.

Recent work has described how gas exchange can occur through sea ice. First, carbon fluxes over sea ice surfaces have been measured. Second, sea ice brine has an elevated capacity over seawater to absorb CO2(g) due to its cold temperature and chemical equilibrium promoting carbon phase changes. Sea ice pCO2 profiles were collected using a new method of remotely sampling gas in situ via diffusive membranes placed within growing sea ice. Gas analysis was complimented by measurements of loca...

Nitze, Kate

A collection of poems about death and dying, kinship, anatomical histories, surgery, maps, seascapes, and landscapes.

Bouchat, Amélie

In viscous-plastic (VP) sea-ice models, small deformations are approximated by irreversible viscous deformations, introducing a non-physical energy sink. As the spatial resolution and the degree of numerical convergence of the models increase, linear kinematic features (LKFs) are better resolved and more states of stress lie in the viscous regime. Energy dissipation in the non-physical viscous regime therefore increases. We derive a complete kinetic energy (KE) balance for sea ice, including sep...

Diaz, Ariel

Sperm protein, enterokinase and agrin (SEA) modules are small folds within large heavily glycosylated modular proteins. Because decreased expression of SEA-containing proteins such as perlecan (PLN) can lead to diseases such as Schwartz-Jampel syndrome (SJS), characteristics of the PLN SEA module including folding, potential for autocleavage, and protein binding were studied. Sequence analyses, recombinant protein evaluation, and a yeast two-hybrid screen were used to study the PLN SEA module ...

INOUE, HIROKO, YOSHIOKA, TOHRU

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Tesfamichael, Dawit

A comprehensive assessment of the Red Sea large marine ecosystem (LME), with emphasis on fisheries, was carried out using several approaches. The assessment started with a multidisciplinary rapid appraisal of the sustainability of the fisheries using standardized attributes in ecological, economic, social, technical and ethical fields. Then a time-series assessment of the fishery was carried out using data from interviews and the reconstruction of catch from 1950 - 2006. A case study to estimate...

Wiggins, Joseph Lambert.

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Whittemore, Michael Alan Nye.

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Schnell, David Allan.

Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / This thesis develops an object-oriented simulation model of the Computer Aided Telephone Inquiry (CATI) system currenily employed by the Defense Health Resources Study Center, which allows recipients of mailed survey questionnaires to respond to the mailed questionnaires via telephone. The simulation models system performance and the response arrival process as a transitory queuing system. The primary focus of this study is to develop a predi...

Andrade Amaya, Carlos Alberto

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Kao, Chih-Chung

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Colton, Marie C.

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McManus, Thomas M.

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Moschovos, Ioannis S.

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Elliott, John M.

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Gal, Avner.

This thesis suggests an unconventional, unique method for passive range and height estimation of a cruising missile, or other microwave transmitter. Based on multipath propagation, the method uses 5 receiving antennas in a ladder configuration. Ratios of received signal powers are compared with values from lookup tables to determine the correct location of the transmitter. Computer simulation results are presented, to verify the suggested method. (rh)

Turker, Ahmet

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Gallagher, Daniel I.

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Zhang, Fan

The representation of deep convection in ocean models is a fundamental challenge for climate science. Here a regional simulation of the Labrador Sea circulation and convective activity obtained with the Regional Oceanic Modeling System (ROMS) over the period 1980-2009 is used to characterize the response of convection to atmospheric forcing and the variability in its seasonal cycle. This integration compares well with the sparse in time and space hydrographic surveys and ARGO data (Luo et al. 20...

Berndmeyer, Christine

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van Rhijn, Alies van Rhijn

This thesis is about evaluating the impacts of a detailed development plan on ecosystem services instrategic environmental assessment using qualitative methods. A qualitative approach is combined witheconomic concepts and the use of this method is explored through a case study in which the impact on ecosystemservices is integrated into a strategic environmental assessment. The case study used in this thesis concerns theP18 area in Visborg, south of Visby, Gotland, which has been earmarked in a d...

Kent, John E.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / We have investigated air-sea interaction patterns in the equatorial Pacific during the 1991-1992 El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event. Our study focused on the identification of spatial and temporal relationships between sea surface temperatures, subsurface temperatures, and winds. These relationships were examined using time series and statistical analyses of atmosphere and ocean data from the moored buoys of the Tropical Oceans-Glo...

Sung, Gordon K.

The South Terminal Visiting Center, aside from its programmatic purpose to educate and entertain, intends to use its form to draw a parallel relationship with the contents of the museum to the tectonics of the aircraft, bridging the gap between architecture for industry and architecture for art. Building Concept- the Hanger Aside from sprawling lawns and concrete runways, aprons and taxis, the aircraft does not belong to any particular physical place except in the air. Hangar, perhaps, is t...

Southwood, Amanda Leah

Diving bradycardia, or a decrease in heart rate while diving, has been observed in a wide variety of species, from frogs to seals. The degree to which an animal lowers its heart rate during a submergence may vary depending on the behaviour of the animal. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriaced) is an active diver, and has a metabolic rate that is higher than expected for a reptile of its size. The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of the cardiovascular response ...

Taylor, Colin E

In September of 1993, a World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) expedition to the Sea of Okhotsk collected hydrological data along a transect of the sea, located next to the northwest Pacific. Hydrological sampling was conducted at several stations over the Kuril Trench, and continued along a line passing through the Bussol Strait and across the Sea of Okhotsk to the continental mainland. The data collected on this voyage suggest that the Sea of Okhotsk plays only an indirect role in the fo...

Bostrom, Brian Lee

Adult leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) exhibit thermal gradients between their bodies and the environment of ≥ 8 °C in sub-polar waters and ≤ 4 °C in the tropics. There has been no direct evidence for thermoregulation in leatherbacks although modelling and morphological studies have given an indication of how thermoregulation may be achieved. Using a cylindrical model of a leatherback I investigated the extent to which heat production by muscle activity during variation of swim speed...

Hwang, Chung-Yung.

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Seibert, G. H.

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Shirasawa, Kunio.

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Wilmot, Graeme Crossley.

A micrometeorological station was established on the sea ice at Tanquary Fiord, Northern Ellesmere Island, during the late spring and early summer period of 1964. [...]

Leahey, D. M.

Stefan's equation for ice accretion has been modified to take into account the affects of snow depth and density. For regions in the Canadian Arctic the modified equation, when applied in the presence of a light snow cover with climatic estimates of heat loss, gave a satisfactory explanation of the observed ice growth (correlation coefficient = .99). [...]

Gagnon, Raymond. M.

Outgoing energy budgets for the sea surface are calculated for various circulation types over the Norwegian Sea, based on daily weather maps of January 1959-62. After a discussion of the various equations used, an analysis of the different energy terms is given, calculated from the available synoptic and upper air observations. The results are presented for each term of the energy budget and for the net outgoing energy flux, in the form of maps. They are then analysed for the main types along an...