scholarly journals Contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones and their remnants on flooding in the western United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (14) ◽  
pp. 5441-5446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Barth ◽  
Gabriele Villarini ◽  
Kathleen White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Western United States

scholarly journals Interannual Variability of Human Plague Occurrence in the Western United States Explained by Tropical and North Pacific Ocean Climate Variability

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 624-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Ben Ari ◽  
Rouyer Tristan ◽  
Nils C. Stenseth ◽  
Bernard Cazelles ◽  
Kenneth Gage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Interannual Variability ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Ocean Climate

scholarly journals The Contribution of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Rainfall Climatology of the Southwest United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (8) ◽  
pp. 2415-2435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen L. Corbosiero ◽  
Michael J. Dickinson ◽  
Lance F. Bosart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Warm Season ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Summer Rainfall ◽  
Southwest United States ◽  
Rainfall Climatology

Abstract Forty-six years of summer rainfall and tropical cyclone data are used to explore the role that eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones (TCs) play in the rainfall climatology of the summer monsoon over the southwestern United States. Thirty-five TCs and their remnants were found to bring significant rainfall to the region, representing less than 10% of the total number of TCs that formed within the basin. The month of September was the most common time for TC rainfall to occur in the monsoon region as midlatitude troughs become more likely to penetrate far enough south to interact with the TCs and steer them toward the north and east. On average, the contribution of TCs to the warm-season precipitation increased from east to west, accounting for less than 5% of the rainfall in New Mexico and increasing to more than 20% in southern California and northern Baja California, with individual storms accounting for as much as 95% of the summer rainfall. The distribution of rainfall for TC events over the southwest United States reveals three main categories: 1) a direct northward track from the eastern Pacific into southern California and Nevada, 2) a distinct swath northeastward from southwestern Arizona through northwestern New Mexico and into southwestern Colorado, and 3) a broad area of precipitation over the southwest United States with embedded maxima tied to terrain features. Differences in these track types relate to the phasing between, and scales of, the trough and TC, with the California track being more likely with large cutoff cyclones situated off the west coast, the southwest–northeast track being most likely with mobile midlatitude troughs moving across the intermountain west, and the broad precipitation category generally exhibiting no direct interaction with midlatitude features.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

A New for Science Neurotropic Species of Psilocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. (Agaricomycetideae) from the Western United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Gaston Guzman ◽  
Joel Greene ◽  
Florencia Ramirez-Guillen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western United States

Characterizing fire behavior from laboratory burns of multi-aged, mixed-conifer masticated fuels in the western United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Ann Heinsch ◽  
Pamela G. Sikkink ◽  
Helen Y. Smith ◽  
Molly L. Retzlaff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Mixed Conifer

Women's Studies in the Western United States

NWSA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Karen L. Salley ◽  
Barbara Scott Winkler ◽  
Megan Celeen ◽  
Heidi Meck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Women’S Studies
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