Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications
2023
Climate change impacts and adaptation to permafrost change in High Mountain Asia: a comprehensive review, Prashant Baral, Simon Allen, Jakob F. Steiner, Tika R. Gurung, and Graham McDowell
Shallow-water hydrothermal venting linked to the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, Christian Berndt, Sverre Planke, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Joost Frieling, Morgan T. Jones, John M. Millett, Henk Brinkhuis, Stefan Bünz, Henrik H. Svensen, Jack Longman, Reed P. Scherer, Jens Karstens, Ben Manton, Mei Nelissen, Brandon Reed, Jan Inge Faleide, Ritske S. Huismans, Amar Agarwal, Graham D.M. Andrews, Peter Betlem, Joyeeta Bhattacharya, Sayantani Chatterjee, Marialena Christopoulou, Vincent J. Clementi, Eric C. Ferré, Irina Filina, Pengyuan Guo, Dustin T. Harper, Sarah Lambart, Geoffroy Mohn, Reina Nakaoka, Christian Tegner, Natalia Varela, and Mengyuan Wang
Cooler forests in clean air, Liang Chen
Analogue model of rift linkage and inversion with application to the Western Alps, Nicolas Dall’Asta, Yoann Denèle, Vincent Regard, Anne Frayssignes, Guilhem Hoareau, Sylvie Leroy, and Thibaut Pires
Corrigendum to “Testing pyroxenite versus peridotite sources for marine basalts using U-series isotopes” [Lithos 332–333 (2019) 226–244], Lynne J. Elkins, Bernard Bourdon, and Sarah Lambart
Climate-controlled submarine landslides on the Antarctic continental margin, Jenny A. Gales, Robert M. McKay, Laura De Santis, Michele Rebesco, Jan Sverre Laberg, Amelia E. Shevenell, David M. Harwood, R. Mark Leckie, Denise K. Kulhanek, Maxine King, Molly Patterson, Renata G. Lucchi, Sookwan Kim, Sunghan Kim, Justin Dodd, Julia Seidenstein, Catherine Prunella, Giulia M. Ferrante, and IODP Expedition
Holocene variations in Lake Titicaca water level and their implications for sociopolitical developments in the central Andes, Stéphane Guédron, Christophe Delaere, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Julie Tolu, Pierre Sabatier, Anne-Lise Devel, Carlos Heredia, Claire Vérin, Eduardo Q. Alves, and Paul A. Baker
Permian trilobites and the applicability of the “living fossil” concept to extinct clades, Melanie J. Hopkins, Peter Wagner, and Katherine J. Jordan
Elevated Risk of Compound Extreme Precipitation Preceded by Extreme Heat Events in the Upper Midwestern United States, Manas Khan, Rabin Bhattarai, and Liang Chen
Exhumed fluvial landforms reveal evolution of late Eocene– Pliocene rivers on the Central and Northern Great Plains, USA, Jesse T. Korus and Robert Matthew Joeckel
Reply to the discussion and comments of Azerêdo et al. (2023) and Schneider et al. (2023) on the paper by Magalhães et al. ‘Middle Jurassic multi-scale transgressive–regressive cycles: An example from the Lusitanian Basin’, The Depositional Record, 9, 174–202, Antonio J.C. Magalhães, Gerson J.S. Terra, Felipe Guadagnin, Daniel G.C. Fragoso, Mirian C. Menegazzo, Nuno L.A. Pimentel, Sissa Kumaira, Gerson Fauth, Alessandra Santos, David K. Watkins, Mauro D.R. Bruno, Daiane Ceolin, Simone Baecker-Fauth, Guilherme P.R. Gabaglia, Washington L.E. Teixeira, and Francisco P. Lima-Filho
Machine Learning Techniques to Predict the Air Quality Using Meteorological Data in Two Urban Areas in Sri Lanka, Lakindu Mampitiya, Namal Rathnayake, Lee P. Leon, Vishwanadham Mandala, Hazi Md. Azamathulla, Sherly Shelton, Yukinobu Hoshino, and Upaka Rathnayake
Near-Cloud Atmospheric Ingredients for Deep Convection Initiation, JAMES N. MARQUIS, ZHE FENG, ADAM VARBLE, T. CONNOR NELSON, Adam L. Houston, JOHN M. PETERS, JAKE P. MULHOLLAND, and JOSEPH HARDI
Global Three-Dimensional Water Vapor Feature-Tracking for Horizontal Winds Using Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder Data From Overlapped Tracks of Two Satellites, Amir Ouyed, Nadia Smith, Xubin Zeng, Thomas Galarneau Jr., Hui Su, and Ross D. Dixon
Changes of Air Pollutants in Urban Cities during the COVID-19 Lockdown-Sri Lanka, Buddhi Pushpawela, Sherly Shelton, Gayathri Liyanage, Sanduni Jayasekara, Dimuthu Rajapaksha, Akila Jayasundara, and Lesty Das Jayasuriya
A method for successful collection of multicores and gravity cores from Antarctic subglacial lakes, Brad E. Rosenheim, Alexander B. Michaud, James Broda, Alan Gagnon, Ryan A. Venturelli, Timothy D. Campbell, Amy Leventer, Molly Patterson, Matthew J. Siegfried, Brent C. Christner, Dennis Duling, David M. Harwood, John E. Dore, Martyn Tranter, Mark L. Skidmore, John C. Priscu, and SALSA Science Team
The earliest dipodomyine heteromyid in North America and the phylogenetic relationships of geomorph rodents, Joshua X. Samuels, Jonathan J.-M. Calede, and Robert M. Hunt Jr.
Nitrate-Stimulated Release of Naturally Occurring Sedimentary Uranium, Jeffrey Westrop, Pooja Yadav, PJ Nolan, Kate M. Campbell, Rajesh Singh, Sharon E. Bone, Alicia H. Chan, Anthony Kohtz, Donald Pan, Olivia Healy, John R. Bargar, Daniel D. Snow, and Karrie A. Weber
2022
Observations on Late Cretaceous Micrampulla (Corethrales, Bacillariophyceae) from the Campbell Plateau (Zealandia), southwest Pacific Ocean, Kenta Abe, David M. Harwood, and Richard W. Jordan
Analysis of Groundwater Recharge in Mongolian Drylands Using Composite Vadose Zone Modeling, Khulan Batsukh, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, and Paolo Nasta
Recent Advances Toward Transparent Methane Emissions Monitoring: A Review, Broghan M. Erland, Andrew K. Thorpe, and John Gamon
Vortex Sheet Sensitivity to Low-Level Vertical Shear and Airmass Temperature Perturbation, Adam L. Houston and George L. Limpert
Cloud Radiative Effects on MJO Development in DYNAMO, Qi Hu, Zihang Han, and Shuguang Wang
A 1.8 million year history of Amazon vegetation, Andrea K. Kern, Thomas Kenji Akabane, Jaqueline Q. Ferreira, Cristiano M. Chiessi, Debra A. Willard, Fabricio Ferreira, Allan Oliveira Sanders, Cleverson G. Silva, Catherine Rigsby, Francisco W. Cruz, Gary S. Dwyer, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Paul A. Baker
Male mastodon landscape use changed with maturation (late Pleistocene, North America), Joshua H. Miller, Daniel C. Fisher, Brooke E. Crowley, Ross Secord, and Bledar A. Konomi
The dynamic floor of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA: The last 14 k.y. of hydrothermal explosions, venting, doming, and faulting, L. A. Morgan, W. C.P. Shanks, K. L. Pierce, N. Iverson, C. M. Schiller, S. R. Brown, P. Zahajska, R. Cartier, R. W. Cash, J. L. Best, C. Whitlock, Sherilyn C. Fritz, U.S. Geological Survey, H. Lowers, D. A. Lovalvo, and J. M. Licciardi
Biotic and Paleoceanographic Changes Across the Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the Southern High Latitudes (IODP Sites U1513 and U1516, SE Indian Ocean), Maria Rose Petrizzo, Giulia Amaglio, David K. Watkins, Kenneth G. MacLeod, Brian T. Huber, Takashi Hasegawa, and Erik Wolfgring
Seasonally and Diurnally Varying Cold Front Effects along the Minnesotan North Shore of Lake Superior, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Terrestrial carbon isotope stratigraphy and mammal turnover during post-PETM hyperthermals in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA, Sarah J. Widlansky, Ross Secord, Kathryn E. Snell, Amy E. Chew, and William C. Clyde
2021
Prediction of Biome-Specific Potential Evapotranspiration in Mongolia under a Scarcity of Weather Data, Khulan Batsukh, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Andrew E. Suyker, and Paolo Nasta
Multi-proxy record of Holocene paleoenvironmental conditions from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA, Sabrina R. Brown, Rosine Cartier, Christopher M. Schiller, Petra Zahajská, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Lisa A. Morgan, Cathy Whitlock, Daniel J. Conley, Jack H. Lacey, Melanie J. Leng, and W.C. Pat Shanks III
Measurements from mobile surface vehicles during the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE), Gijs de Boer, Sean Waugh, Alexander Erwin, Steve Borenstein, Cory Dixon, Wafa’a Shanti, Adam Houston, and Brian Argrow
pyUserCalc: A Revised Jupyter Notebook Calculator for Uranium-Series Disequilibria in Basalts, Lynne J. Elkins and Marc Spiegelman
Opening of the Gulf of Mexico: What we know, what questions remain, and how we might answer them, Irina Filina, James Austin, Tony Doré, Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel Minguez, Ian Norton, John Snedden, and Robert J. Stern
Subsurface Structures along Western Yucatan from Integrated Geophysical Analysis, Irina Filina and Lucas Hartford
New insights into the drainage of inundated ice-wedge polygons using fundamental hydrologic principles, Dylan R. Harp, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Charles J. Abolt, Bob Busey3, Sofia T. Avendaño, Brent D. Newman, Adam L. Atchley, Elchin Jafarov, Cathy J. Wilson, and Katrina E. Bennett
Lift in the Vertical Shear of Southerly Jet Embedded in a Uniform Westerly Flow, Qi Hu and George Limpert
Influence of Irrigation Drivers Using Boosted Regression Trees: Kansas High Plains, Susan E. Lamb, Erin M.K. Haacker, and Samuel J. Smidt
Occurrence of arsenite in surface and groundwater associated with a perennial stream located in Western Nebraska, USA, Arindam Malakar, Rajesh Singh, Jeffrey Westrop, Karrie A. Weber, Christopher N. Elofson, Manish Kumar, and Daniel D. Snow
Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction, Chris Mays, Stephen McLoughlin, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding, Sam M. Slater, and Vivi Vajda
Age and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Frazer Beach Member—A New Lithostratigraphic Unit Overlying the End-Permian Extinction Horizon in the Sydney Basin, Australia, Stephen McLoughlin, Robert S. Nicoll, James L. Crowley, Vivi Vajda, Chris Mays, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, Alexander Wheeler, and Malcolm Bocking
Late Cretaceous Paleoceanographic Evolution and the Onset of Cooling in the Santonian at Southern High Latitudes (IODP Site U1513, SE Indian Ocean), Maria Rose Petrizzo, Kenneth G. MacLeod, David K. Watkins, Erik Wolfgring, and Brian T. Huber
A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records, Cody Routson, Darrell S. Kaufman, Nicholas P. McKay, Michael P. Erb, Stephanie H. Arcusa, Kendrick J. Brown, Matthew E. Kirby, Jeremiah P. Marsicek, R Scott Anderson, Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, Jessica R. Rodysill, Matthew S. Lachniet, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Joseph R. Bennett, Michelle F. Goman, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Jennifer M. Galloway, Gerrit Schoups, David B. Wahl, Jesse L. Morris, Francisca Staines-Urias, Andria Dawson, Bryan N. Shuman, Daniel G. Gavin, Jeffrey S. Munroe, and Brian F. Cumming
Moisture Transport Associated with Southwest Monsoon Rainfall Over Sri Lanka in Relatively Wet and Dry Rainfall Years, Sherly Shelton
Bioscatter transport by tropical cyclones: insights from 10 years in the Atlantic basin, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Polarimetric Radar Characteristics of Tornadogenesis Failure in Supercell Thunderstorms, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Dynamical Variations of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic Based on a SEICR Disease Model: A New Approach of Yi Hua Jie Mu, Xia Wang, Gang Yin, Zengyun Hu, Daihai He, Qianqian Cui, Xiaomei Feng, Zhidong Teng, Qi Hu, Jiansen Li, and Qiming Zhou
Predicting College Students’ Future Intentions to Engage in Public-Sphere Water Conservation Behaviors, Austin Wise, Donald Johnson, George Wardlow, and Kathi Jogan
Modern silicon dynamics of a small high-latitude subarctic lake, Petra Zahajska, Carolina Olid, Johanna Stadmark, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Sophie Opfergelt, and Daniel J. Conley
2020
Controls on channel deposits of highly variable rivers: Comparing hydrology and event deposits in the Burdekin River, Australia, Jan Alexander, Christopher M. Herbert, Christopher R. Fielding, and Kathryn J. Amos
Spatial and Temporal Ecological Uniqueness of Andean Diatom Communities Are Correlated With Climate, Geodiversity and Long-Term Limnological Change, Xavier Benito, Annika Vilmi, Melina Luethje, Maria Laura Carrevedo, Marja Lindholm, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
The influence of isolated thunderstorms and the low-level wind field on nocturnally migrating birds in central North America, Matthew V.D. Broeke and Timothy J. Gunkel
Assessing the hierarchy of long-term environmental controls on diatom communities of Yellowstone National Park using lacustrine sediment records, Victoria Chraibi and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Data generated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign: an introduction and overview, Gijs de Boer, Adam Houston, and et al.
Evidence of Ridge Propagation in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico from Integrated Analysis of Potential Fields and Seismic Data, Irina Filina, Mei Liu, and Erin Beutel
Introduction to Special Section: Integrated Geophysical Imaging, Irina Filina, Rao Yalamanchili, Simone Re, Daniele Colombo, Antony Price, Vsevolod Egorov, and Guimin Liu
Diversity and equality in honours and awards programs – steps towards a fair representation of membership, Mary Anne Holmes, LaToya Myles, and Blair Schneider
Diagnostic Analysis of Bank Storage Effects on Sloping Floodplains, Xiuyu Liang, Vitaly Zlotnik, You‐Kuan Zhang, and Pei Xin
Surficial fractures in the Navajo sandstone, south-western USA: the roles of thermal cycles, rainstorms, granular disintegration, and iterative cracking, David Loope, Garrison R. Loope, Caroline M. Burberry, Clinton Rowe, and Gerald C. Bryant
Late Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleoceanographic evolution in the Great Australian Bight Basin based on results from IODP Site U1512, K. G. MacLeod, Lloyd T. White, Carmine C. Wainman, Mathieu Martinez, Matthew M. Jones, Sietske J. Batenburg, Laurent Riquier, Shannon J. Haynes, David K. Watkins, K. A. Bogus, H.-J. Brumsack, R. do Monte Guerra, Kirsty M. Edgar, Trine Edvardsen, Dennis Harry, Takashi Hasegawa, R. W. Hobbs, Brian T. Huber, T. Jiang, J. Kuroda, E. Y. Lee, Yong-Xiang Li, Alessandro Maritatai, Lauren K. O'Connor, Maria Rose Petrizzo, Tracy M. Quan, C. Richter, Maria Luisa Garcia Tejada, G. Tagliaro, Erik Wolfgring, and Zhaokai Xu
Estimating the Age and Mechanism of Boulder Transport Related with Extreme Waves Using Lichenometry, Maria A. Oliveira, Esteve Llop, César Andrade, Cristina Branquinho, Ronald Goble, Sónia Queiroz, Maria C. Freitas, and Pedro Pinho
AT: A hydro-economic modeling framework for aquifer management in irrigated agricultural regions☆, Mani Rouhi Rad, Erin M.K. Haacker, Vaishali Sharda, Soheil Nozari, Zaichen Xiang, A. Araya, Venkatesh Uddameri, Jordan F. Suter, and Prasanna Gowda
Assessing agricultural risk management using historic crop insurance loss data over the Ogallala Aquifer, Julian Reyes, Emile Elias, Erin M.K. Haacker, Amy Kremen, Lauren Parker, and Caitlin Rottler
MOD$$AT: A hydro-economic modeling framework for aquifer management in irrigated agricultural regions, Mani Rouhi Rad, Erin M.K. Haacker, Vaishali Sharda, Soheil Nozari, Zaichen Xiang, A. Araya, Venkatesh Uddameri, Jordan Suter, and Prasanna Gowda
End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present, Vivi Vajda, Stephen McLoughlin, Chris Mays, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding, Allen Tevyaw, Veiko Lehsten, Malcolm Bocking, and Robert S. Nicoll
Disdrometer, Polarimetric Radar, and Condensation Nuclei Observations of Supercell and Multicell Storms on 11 June 2018 in Eastern Nebraska, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
The influence of isolated thunderstorms and the low-level wind field on nocturnally migrating birds in central North America, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke and Timothy J. Gunkel
Mid‐Holocene Grounding Line Retreat and Readvance at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, R. A. Venturelli, M. R. Siegfried, K. A. Roush, W. Li, J. Burnett, Robert Zook, H. A. Fricker, J. C. Priscu, A. Leventer, and B. E. Rosenheim
Early Paleogene biosiliceous sedimentation in the Atlantic Ocean: Testing the inorganic origin hypothesis for Paleocene and Eocene chert and porcellanite, Jakub Witkowski, Donald E. Penman, Karolina Bryłka, Bridget S. Wade, Sabine Matting, David M. Harwood, and Steven M. Bohaty
A Model of IceWedge Polygon Drainage in Changing Arctic Terrain, Vitaly Zlotnik, Dylan R. Harp, Elchin E. Jafarov, and Charles J. Abolt
2019
Sensitivity of Potential Groundwater Recharge to Projected Climate Change Scenarios: A Site-Specific Study in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Zablon A. Adane, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Nathan R. Rossman, Tiejun Wang, and Paolo Nasta
Effects of the Sea Breeze Circulation on Soil Temperature Over Kuwait Using in Situ Observations and the ECMWF Model, Hussain Alsarraf, Matthew V.D. Broeke, and Hala Aljassar
Using artificial neural networks to predict future dryland responses to human and climate disturbances, C.E. Buckland, R.M. Bailey, and D.S.G. Thomas
Measurement and characterization of infrasound from a tornado producing storm, Brian R. Elbing, Christopher E. Petrin, and Matthew Van Den Broeke
Testing pyroxenite versus peridotite sources for marine basalts using U-series isotopes, Lynne J. Elkins, Bernard Bourdon, and Sarah Lambart
Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, Stephen McLoughlin, Vivi Vajda, Chris Mays, Allen P. Tevyaw, Arne Winguth, Cornelia Winguth, Robert S. Nicoll, Malcom Bocking, and James L. Crowley
Crustal Architecture of the Northwestern and Central Gulf of Mexico from Integrated Geophysical Analysis, Irina Filina
Integrated Imaging: A Powerful but Undervalued Tool, Irina Filina, Ed K. Biegert, Luise Sander, Victoria Tschirhart, Neda Bundalo, and Cara Schiek-Stewart
The Origin of Shinarump Wonderstone, Hildale, Washington County, Richard Kettler and David Loope
Crustal structure of Mesozoic rifting in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from integration of seismic and potential fields data, Mei Liu, Irina Filina, and Paul Mann
Spatiotemporal Changes in Extreme Precipitation and Its Dependence on Topography over the Poyang Lake Basin, China, Xianghu Li and Qi Hu
Cut, Fill, Repeat: Slot Canyons of Dry Fork, Kane County, David Loope
Hexagonal Fracture Patterns On Navajo Sandstone Crossbeds At Yellow Knolls, Washington County, David Loope
Plant Root Systems Preserved in the Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone at Moki Dugway, Southeastern Utah, David Loope
Plant Root Systems Preserved in the Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone at Moki Dugway, Southeastern Utah, David Loope
Rinded, Iron-Oxide Concretions in Navajo Sandstone Along the Trail to Upper Calf Creek Falls, Garfield County, David Loope and Richard Kettler
Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present, Lorenzo Marchetti, Matteo Belvedere, Sebastian Voigt, Hendrik Klein, Diego Castanera, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Daniel Marty, Lida Xing, Silverio Feola, Ricardo N. Melchor, and James O. Farlow
Multi-proxy constraints on the significance of covariant δ13C values in carbonate and organic carbon during the early Mississippian, Amanda M. Oehlert, Peter K. Swart, Gregor P. Eberli, Samantha Evans, and Tracy D. Frank
The Influence of Fetch on the Holocene Thermal Structure of Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park, Jeffery R. Stone, Jasmine E. Saros, and Trisha L. Spanbauer
Radar quantification, temporal analysis and influence of atmospheric conditions on a roost of American Robins (Turdus migratorius) in Oklahoma, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke
Developing a Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index, Curtis L. Walker, Dylan Steinkruger, Pouya Gholizadeh, Sogand Hasanzedah, Mark Anderson, and Behzad Esmaeili
La evolucion de glaciares de escombros y morenas en la cuenca del rio Blanco, Mendoza, William J. Wayne
2018
Impact of grassland conversion to forest on groundwater recharge in the Nebraska Sand Hills, Zablon A. Adane, Paolo Nasta, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, and David A. Wedin
Lake regionalization and diatom metacommunity structuring in tropical South America, Xavier Benito, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Miriam Steinitz-Kannan, Maria I. Velez, and Michael M. McGlue
Joint and Lineament Patterns across the Midcontinent Indicate Repeated Reactivation of Basement-Involved Faults, Caroline M. Burberry, Jerlyn L. Swiatlowski, Mindi L. Searls, and Irina Filina
Seismicity in Nebraska and adjacent states: The historical perspective and current trends, Irina Filina, Kris Guthrie, Mindi Searls, and Caroline M. Burberry
Evaluating Soil Moisture–Precipitation Interactions Using Remote Sensing: A Sensitivity Analysis, Trent W. Ford, Steven M. Quiring, Balbhadra Thakur, Rohit Jogineedi, Adam Houston, Shanshui Yuan, Ajay Kalra, and Noah Lock
Cosmic-ray neutron probes on the high plains of Nebraska: applications to large scale agriculture, Trenton E. Franz, Darin Desilets, and Ammar Wahbi
Recent ecological change in ancient lakes, Stephanie E. Hampton, Suzanne McGowan, Ted Ozersky, Salvatore G. P. Virdis, Tuong Thuy Vu, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Benjamin M. Kraemer, George Swann, Anson W. Mackay, Stephen M. Powers, Michael F. Meyer, Stephanie G. Labou, Catherine M. O'Reilly, Morgan DiCarlo, Aaron W. E. Galloway, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
An Observational and Modeling Study of Mesoscale Air Masses with High Theta-E, Wolfgang Hanft and Adam L. Houston