Data - Colorado State University
The CSU Data Collection contains the research data produced by scholars at CSU that has been made available in Mountain Scholar. Our current collection has a particular focus on the natural sciences, featuring the Shortgrass Steppe - Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) collection and a number of datasets from the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) and the Department of Atmospheric Science.
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Dataset associated with "Effect of discrepancies caused by model resolution on model-measurement comparison for surface black carbon"
Emission constraining studies have relied on comparisons of model against measurements, but the influence of model resolution has not been fully addressed. This work investigates the discrepancies caused by model resolution ... -
Dataset associated with "Particle Size Distribution Dynamics Can Help Constrain the Phase State of Secondary Organic Aerosol"
Particle phase state is a property of atmospheric aerosols that has important implications for the formation, evolution, and gas/particle partitioning of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). In this work, we use a size-resolved ... -
Data associated with “How Big is Big Enough? Surprising Responses of a Semi-arid Grassland to Increasing Deluge Size”
Climate change has intensified the hydrologic cycle globally, increasing the magnitude and frequency of large precipitation events, or deluges. Dryland ecosystems are expected to be particularly responsive to increases in ... -
Dataset for the reproduction of the item response model in "More robust local governance suggests positive effects of long-term community conservation"
Community-based conservation (CBC) is essential to promoting biodiversity protection and livelihood development. Despite significant financial and institutional investment, performance of CBC interventions is mixed, with ... -
Supporting scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data for manuscript titled "Observations of ice nucleating particles in the free troposphere from western U.S. wildfires"
Wildfires in the western U.S. are large sources of particulate matter, and the area burned by wildfires is predicted to increase in the future. Some particles released from wildfires can affect cloud formation by serving ... -
Data associated with "Lingual electrotactile discrimination ability is associated with the presence of specific connective tissue structures (papillae) on the tongue surface"
Electrical stimulation of nerve endings in the tongue can be used to communicate information to users and has been shown to be highly effective in sensory substitution applications. The anterior tip of the tongue has very ... -
Dataset associated with "Outdoor air pollution in India is not only an urban problem"
Urban outdoor air pollution in the developing world, mostly due to particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 µm (PM2.5), has been highlighted in recent years as it leads to millions of premature deaths. Outdoor ... -
Dataset associated with "Could the exception become the rule? "Uncontrollable" air pollution events in the U.S. due to wildland fires"
Exceptional events occur when air pollution in a specific location exceeds the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) due to an event that cannot be reasonably attributed to human activities, such as wildland fire. ... -
Data associated with "The importance of extreme rainfall events and their timing in a semi-arid grassland"
Climate change is intensifying the hydrologic cycle globally, increasing both the size and frequency of extreme precipitation events, or deluges. Arid and semi-arid ecosystems are expected to be particularly responsive to ... -
20-year vegetation change data in three ecological zones in Mongolia
Mongolian rangelands have experienced warming temperatures and increasing livestock densities over the past 20 years. Remote sensing studies report widespread degradation, but there are no long-term field studies of ... -
Dataset associated with "Genome-wide association analysis of canine T zone lymphoma identifies link to hypothyroidism and a shared association with mast-cell tumors"
Background: T zone lymphoma (TZL), a histologic variant of peripheral T cell lymphoma, represents about 12% of all canine lymphomas. Golden Retrievers appear predisposed, representing over 40% of TZL cases. Prior research ... -
Dataset associated with "Beyond SOx reductions from shipping: assessing the impact of NOx and carbonaceous-particle controls on human health and climate”
Historically, cargo ships have been powered by low-grade fossil fuels, which emit particles and particle-precursor vapors that impact human health and climate. We used a global chemical-transport model with online aerosol ... -
Dataset associated with "Emissions and radiative impacts of sub-10 nm particles from biofuel and fossil fuel cookstoves"
Combustion sources have been shown to directly emit particles smaller than 10 nm. The emission of 1-3 nm particles from biofuel or fossil-fuel cookstoves has not been studied previously, nor have the radiative impacts of ... -
Dataset associated with "Effects of aerosol type and simulated aging on performance of low-cost PM sensors"
Studies that characterize the performance of low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors are needed to help practitioners understand the accuracy and precision of the mass and number concentrations reported by different models. ... -
Dataset associated with "Volatile organic compounds and ozone at four national parks in the southwestern United States"
This file contains the sample information and concentrations of data collected during a study to characterize volatile organic compounds at four national parks in the southwestern US. These data are associated with the ... -
Dataset associated with Vanek et al., 2020, "Participatory design of improved forage/fallow options across soil gradients with farmers of the central Peruvian Andes"
Land use intensity is increasing in Andean smallholder systems, and innovations are needed to sustain soil fertility and productivity of potato-cereal rotations with shortening fallow periods. In collaboration with farmers ... -
Dataset associated with "Changes to the Madden-Julian oscillation in coupled and uncoupled aquaplanet simulations with 4xCO2"
The impacts of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and ocean feedbacks on the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) are investigated with the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5) in an idealized aquaplanet ... -
Source code associated with "Shear-parallel tropical convective systems: importance of cold pools and wind shear"
The impact of cold pools on line-orientated convective systems is assessed using idealized simulations of tropical oceanic convection under weak, moderate, and strong wind shear regimes. Cold pools are weakened by suppressing ...
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