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- Creators: School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
- Creators: Eakin, Hallie C.
- Creators: Flores, Shalae Alena
- Member of: Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Protest has been both a practice of citizenship rights as well as a means of social pressure for change in the context of Mexico City's water system. This paper explores the role that citizen protest plays in the city's response to its water challenges. We use media reports of water protests to examine where protests happen and the causes associated with them. We analyze this information to illuminate socio-political issues associated with the city's water problems, such as political corruption, gentrification, as well as general power dynamics and lack of transparency between citizens, governments, and the private businesses which interact with them. We use text analysis of newspaper reports to analyze protest events in terms of the primary stimuli of water conflict, the areas within the city more prone to conflict, and the ways in which conflict and protest are used to initiate improved water management and to influence decision making to address water inequities. We found that water scarcity is the primary source of conflict, and that water scarcity is tied to new housing and commercial construction. These new constructions often disrupt water supplies and displace of minority or marginalized groups, which we denote as gentrification. The project demonstrates the intimate ties between inequities in housing and water in urban development. Key words: Conflict, protest, Mexico City, scarcity, new construction
ContributorsFlores, Shalae Alena (Author) / Eakin, Hallie C. (Thesis director) / Baeza-Castro, Andres (Committee member) / Lara-Valencia, Francisco (Committee member) / School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-05
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A numerical study of wave-induced momentum transport across the tropopause in the presence of a stably stratified thin inversion layer is presented and discussed. This layer consists of a sharp increase in static stability within the tropopause. The wave propagation is modeled by numerically solving the Taylor-Goldstein equation, which governs the dynamics of internal waves in stably stratified shear flows. The waves are forced by a flow over a bell shaped mountain placed at the lower boundary of the domain. A perfectly radiating condition based on the group velocity of mountain waves is imposed at the top to avoid artificial wave reflection. A validation for the numerical method through comparisons with the corresponding analytical solutions will be provided. Then, the method is applied to more realistic profiles of the stability to study the impact of these profiles on wave propagation through the tropopause.
ContributorsCole, Alexandra Shea (Author) / Moustaoui, Mohamed (Thesis director) / Kostelich, Eric (Committee member) / Mahalov, Alex (Committee member) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-05
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The Mid-South region, which consists of west Tennessee, northeast Arkansas, north Mississippi, and the Missouri bootheel, is one of many areas in the United States that frequently faces the threats to life and property posed by tornadoes. Forecasting the occurrence of tornadoes is arguably the biggest challenge for meteorologists responsible for the region. This study analyzes synoptic scale weather conditions associated with tornadoes in the Mid-South with the hopes of identifying patterns conducive to tornadic activity and that these patterns can be used to better forecast potential tornado days. It is hypothesized that patterns associated with tornado formation can be identified and that certain patterns may be more favorable to stronger tornadoes or tornado outbreaks than others.
To find these patterns, I analyzed surface and upper air features were analyzed on days where multiple tornadoes occurred from January 1999 to March 2018. Specifically, the surface low pressure, 500hPa trough, and 850 and 300hPa jets were analyzed. Using a floating nine point grid system, I identified the location of the Mid-South in relation to the feature. In the end, eight patterns of similar grid locations were identified to be related to tornado days. For example, the Mid-South was frequently to the southeast of the surface low. However, no correlation appears to exist between the patterns and the number or intensity of tornadoes. It is recommended that in the future these patterns be tested as a forecast method and/or compared to non-tornado days to verify that they are valid tools.
To find these patterns, I analyzed surface and upper air features were analyzed on days where multiple tornadoes occurred from January 1999 to March 2018. Specifically, the surface low pressure, 500hPa trough, and 850 and 300hPa jets were analyzed. Using a floating nine point grid system, I identified the location of the Mid-South in relation to the feature. In the end, eight patterns of similar grid locations were identified to be related to tornado days. For example, the Mid-South was frequently to the southeast of the surface low. However, no correlation appears to exist between the patterns and the number or intensity of tornadoes. It is recommended that in the future these patterns be tested as a forecast method and/or compared to non-tornado days to verify that they are valid tools.
ContributorsWanless, Anna Cecilia (Author) / Cerveny, Randall (Thesis director) / Svoma, Bohumil (Committee member) / School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor, Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
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This study examines the linkage between surface level ozone and planetary boundary layer meteorological variables in the Phoenix Metropolitan region during the summer North American Monsoon period for years 2010 through 2020. Data used in this study was obtained and derived from both 1200 UTC radiosonde observations launched from the Phoenix National Weather Service office, and 8-hour average ozone concentration measurements from Maricopa County monitoring stations. Specific boundary layer meteorological variables examined in this study included inversion temperature, mixing level pressure, mixing level height, and the surface level variables of temperature, dew point temperature, pressure, wind speed, and meridional and zonal wind directions. The daily maximum, 8-hour average ozone concentrations among all Maricopa County monitoring stations were used in this study. To determine ozone’s linkage to meteorological variables, normality tests, determination of Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and/or the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, and the discriminative Student’s two-sided t-test statistic between ozone exceedance and non-exceedance days were used. Statistically significant coefficients indicate weak negative correlations between surface level ozone and surface level pressure, and mixing level pressure, and weak positive correlations between surface level ozone and surface level temperature, surface level zonal wind direction, mixing level height, and inversion temperature. These correlations were linear for surface level pressure, surface level temperature, and inversion temperature. The two-sided Student’s t-test statistic indicates a significant difference in the mean on ozone exceedance and non-exceedance days for surface level temperature, and the upper-air variables of mixing level height, mixing level pressure, and inversion temperature. Both correlations and differences in the mean of upper-air variables showed statistically significant results. These findings suggest that further research should be completed to determine the forecasting ability of morning sounding analyses on surface level ozone in locations exhibiting similar emissions and geographic features as the Phoenix Valley.
ContributorsLopez, David (Author) / Cerveny, Randall (Thesis director) / Balling, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Music, Dance and Theatre (Contributor) / Department of Physics (Contributor) / School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor)
Created2023-05