Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Atmospheric Science
Committee Chair
Udaysankar Nair
Committee Member
Sundar Christopher
Committee Member
John Mecikalski
Subject(s)
Convection (Meteorology), Remote sensing, Land use--Borneo
Abstract
Land and sea breeze initiates convection in the maritime continent. This region has the highest rates of tropical deforestation, which has the potential to impact land and sea breeze, convection and thus tropical climate. This study utilizes satellite observations and numerical modeling to characterize land and sea breezes in Borneo as well as investigate the impact of deforestation in this region on these circulations, clouds, and rainfall. The zone of influence for the land and sea breeze circulation is 265km offshore to 55km inland respectively and initiate convection on 42% and 52% of the days respectively. Deforestation has minimal impact on propagation of the land and sea breeze. However, horizontal convective rolls are affected by deforestation, leading to differences in convective initiation along the sea breeze front during the early hours. This leads to changes in convective outflows and larger changes in convection and rainfall in the afternoon hours.
Recommended Citation
Iwasko, William C., "Impacts of land use land cover change on mesoscale circulations, clouds, and precipitation over Borneo" (2017). Theses. 199.
https://louis.uah.edu/uah-theses/199