Search Results - "McGowan, H.A."

Observations of dry season surface energy exchanges over a desert clay pan, Queensland, Australia by Sturman, A.P., McGowan, H.A.

“…Clay pans (playas) are common landforms of semi-arid and arid desert regions ranging in size from 1 to 2km2 to greater than 10,000km2. The first observations…”
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Visual assessment of the Australian Land Erodibility Model by Webb, N.P., Phinn, S.R., McGowan, H.A.

“…There is a growing requirement for techniques to assess land susceptibility to wind erosion, i.e. land erodibility, over large geographic areas (>10 4 km 2)…”
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An extended Last Glacial Maximum in subtropical Australia by Petherick, L.M., Moss, P.T., McGowan, H.A.

“…A continuous, record encompassing the termination of the Last Glacial cycle (defined here as ca. 30–18 cal. kyr BP) has been developed using multiple proxies…”
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Dust emissions from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre: a review by Marx, S.K., May, J-H, Cohen, T., Kamber, B.S., McGowan, H.A., Petherick, L.

“…Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre (KT-LE) sits at the heart of Australia's dust transport system. Satellite mapping demonstrates that the lower Channel Country/northern…”
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continent under stress: interactions, feedbacks and risks associated with impact of modified land cover on Australia's climate by MCALPINE, C.A, SYKTUS, J, RYAN, J.G, DEO, R.C, MCKEON, G.M, MCGOWAN, H.A, PHINN, S.R

“…Global climate change is the major and most urgent global environmental issue. Australia is already experiencing climate change as evidenced by higher…”
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Approaches to modelling land erodibility by wind by Webb, Nicholas P., McGowan, Hamish A.

“…Land susceptibility to wind erosion is governed by complex multiscale interactions between soil erodibility and non-erodible roughness elements populating the…”
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Scavenging of atmospheric trace metal pollutants by mineral dusts: Inter-regional transport of Australian trace metal pollution to New Zealand by Marx, S.K., Kamber, B.S., McGowan, H.A.

“…Dust samples collected from the surface of glaciers and in dust traps on the remote West Coast of New Zealand's South Island can reliably be identified as…”
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Meteorological controls on sand transport and dune morphology in a polar-desert: Victoria Valley, Antarctica by Speirs, Johanna C., McGowan, Hamish A., Neil, David T.

“…The hyperarid polar desert of the McMurdo Dry Valleys contains an abundance of aeolian sedimentary deposits, the largest in Antarctica, providing a unique…”
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Provenance of long-travelled dust determined with ultra-trace-element composition: a pilot study with samples from New Zealand glaciers by Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S., McGowan, Hamish A.

“…We report high‐precision inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric (ICP‐MS) compositional data for 39 trace elements in a variety of dust deposits, trapped…”
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AUSLEM (AUStralian Land Erodibility Model): A tool for identifying wind erosion hazard in Australia by Webb, Nicholas P., McGowan, Hamish A., Phinn, Stuart R., McTainsh, Grant H.

“…We present AUSLEM (AUStralian Land Erodibility Model), a land erodibility modelling system that utilizes a rule-set of surficial and climatic thresholds…”
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High resolution provenancing of long travelled dust deposited on the Southern Alps, New Zealand by McGowan, Hamish A., Kamber, Balz, McTainsh, Grant H., Marx, Samuel K.

“…On 7 February 2000 an atypical orange discolouration of snowfields in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand occurred following the passage of a cold front…”
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Dust transportation and deposition in a superhumid environment, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand by Marx, Samuel K., McGowan, Hamish A.

“…Contemporary rates of dust deposition monitored along a 300-km section of the superhumid West Coast of New Zealand's South Island are presented. In this…”
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Identifying regional dust transport pathways: ­application of kinematic trajectory modelling to a trans-Tasman case by McGowan, Hamish A., McTainsh, Grant H., Zawar-Reza, Peyman, Sturman, Andrew P.

“…A kinematic trajectory model is used to investigate potential pathways of dust transport from Australia to New Zealand. Historically, these have been assumed…”
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Aeolian dust transport and deposition by foehn winds in an alpine environment, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand by McGowan, Hamish A., Sturman, Andrew P., Owens, Ian F.

“…Observations from an automatic weather station and anemograph network are used in conjunction with recorded dust deposition rates to identify principle sources…”
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Mesoscale and local climates in New Zealand by Sturman, A.P., McGowan, H.A., Spronken-Smith, R.A.

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Characteristics of aeolian grain transport over a fluvio-glacial lacustrine braid delta, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand by McGowan, Hamish A., Sturman, Andrew P.

“…This paper presents results from one of the few scientific studies to examine the physical characteristics of aeolian sediment transport in an alpine area,…”
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