Over the last few decades, new technologies in the form of observational satellites, measurement instruments, and model simulations have enabled the scientific community to make substantial strides to understand the drivers, mechanics, and impacts of climate change. This dissert…
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Fresh water resources are critical for daily human consumption. Therefore, a continuous monitoring effort over their quantity and quality is instrumental. One important model for water quantity monitoring is the rainfall-runoff model, which represents the response of a watershed…
In order to protect critical military and commercial space assets, the United States Space Surveillance Network must have the ability to positively identify and characterize all space objects. Unfortunately, positive identification and characterization of space objects is a manu…
This study investigates demographic factors influencing the diffusion and individuals' adoption of direct broadcasting system service in the United Arab Emirates. The study explores the assessment and contribution of DBS potential adopters' demographic factors including age, sex…
The goal of this interdisciplinary research is to design a mapping satellite system (to be named SULTAN) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and its neighboring regions and to prove its mapping feasibility by a simulation study. SULTAN will be equipped with state-of-the-art im…
This thesis provides an extended analysis and review of the television policies of the UK Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1997 and examines the causes, coherence and consequences of those policies. In particular, it identifies the po…
This dissertation applies a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem) together with ground-based, aircraft, and satellite observations to quantify the sources, transport pathways, and chemical processing of tropospheric pollution in the Arctic. Asian anthropogenic emissions ar…