Air–Sea Interaction during an Extreme Cold Air Outbreak from the Eastern Coast of the United States

1990 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Grossman ◽  
Alan K. Betts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Cold Air ◽  
Cold Air Outbreak ◽  
Extreme Cold

People Who Are Homeless

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Moore ◽  
Theresa H. Cheng ◽  
Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi ◽  
Lillian Gelberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Extreme Cold ◽  
Psychological Impairment ◽  
Access To Food

An estimated 100 million people globally suffer from absolute homelessness. The estimated number of people who are homeless in the United States at any given point in time is about 550,000. Mortality and disease severity of people who are homeless far exceed those of the general population because of extreme poverty, delays in seeking medical care, nonadherence to therapy, substance use disorders, and psychological impairment. Many of their health problems, such as infections due to crowded living conditions in shelters, hypothermia from exposure to extreme cold, and malnutrition due to limited access to food and cooking facilities are a direct result of homelessness. This chapter addresses in detail infectious diseases, substance abuse, obesity, mental health problems, and causes of death in this population. It also addresses access to and use of healthcare services. It addresses the roots of and underlying issues related to these problems. Finally, it addresses what needs to be done.

Group Adjustment at the South Pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (450) ◽  
pp. 954-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick McGuire ◽  
Sidney Tolchin ◽  
H. J. Eysenck ◽  
R. A. Willett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Pole ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Extreme Cold

Antarctica is the southern end of Earth, a continent surrounded by oceans. It is a land of extreme cold and it has been estimated that it contains over 85 per cent. of all the world's ice. It is larger than the United States and Europe combined but contains practically no vegetation or wildlife except along its coasts. The coldest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world was noted here (minus 109 · 6 degrees Fahrenheit) and temperatures rarely go above freezing. The wind blows almost constantly, including 200 m.p.h. blizzards. In appearance, it is like a great white desert and it includes a cap of ice that in some places is 100,000 feet think.

Preliminary Results from the Air Mass Transformation Experiment (AMTEX)

1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 1346-1355 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Lenschow ◽  
E. M. Agee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Cold Air Outbreak ◽  
Transformation Experiment ◽  
Transformation Processes

The field phases of AMTEX, a GARP subprogram on air-sea interaction implemented by Japan, were conducted over the East China Sea in the environs of Okinawa, Japan, during the last two weeks of February in 1974 and 1975. Investigators from Australia, Canada, and the United States also participated in this experiment. The weather was generally very favorable for this study of air mass transformation processes in 1975 because of an extensive cold air outbreak during most of the experimental period. A basic synoptic data set was obtained from 6 h soundings from an array of aerological stations centered at Okinawa. In addition, satellite, hourly surface and surface marine, oceanographic, boundary layer, radiation, radar, cloud physics, and aircraft data were obtained and have been or will be available in published data reports or on magnetic tape. Preliminary results from 1974 and 1975 reported at the Fourth AMTEX Study Conference and joint United States–Japan Cooperative Science Program Seminar, “Air Mass Transformation Processes over the Kuroshio in Winter,” held in Tokyo, 26–30 September 1975, are presented and discussed.

On the use of a coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave model during an extreme cold air outbreak over the Adriatic Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 172-173 ◽  
pp. 48-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ricchi ◽  
Mario Marcello Miglietta ◽  
Pier Paolo Falco ◽  
Alvise Benetazzo ◽  
Davide Bonaldo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Cold Air ◽  
Cold Air Outbreak ◽  
Ocean Atmosphere ◽  
Extreme Cold

XXX.—Salmon (Salmo salar) of the River Moisie (Eastern Canada)

1926 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. M. Menzies
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Made In

Included in the area of distribution of Salmo salar are the western coasts of Europe as far south as the Franco-Spanish border as well as the British Isles and Iceland, and, in addition, the eastern coast of Canada and the United States down to the State of Maine. A very large number of investigations have been made in Great Britain and various European countries, both by marking the fish in order to trace their subsequent growth and movements, and by reading their age and history from the scales. Length calculations from scale measurements have also been made in Scotland, Norway, and Sweden.

scholarly journals Residential Natural Gas Demand Response Potential during Extreme Cold Events in Electricity-Gas Coupled Energy Systems

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 5192
Author(s):  
Andrew Speake ◽  
Paul Donohoo-Vallett ◽  
Eric Wilson ◽  
Emily Chen ◽  
Craig Christensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Residential Heating ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Extreme Cold ◽  
Natural Gas Demand ◽  
The Impact

In regions where natural gas is used for both power generation and heating buildings, extreme cold weather events can place the electrical system under enormous stress and challenge the ability to meet residential heating and electric demands. Residential demand response has long been used in the power sector to curtail summer electric load, but these types of programs in general have not seen adoption in the natural gas sector during winter months. Natural gas demand response (NG-DR) has garnered interest given recent extreme cold weather events in the United States; however, the magnitude of savings and potential impacts—to occupants and energy markets—are not well understood. We present a case-study analysis of the technical potential for residential natural gas demand response in the northeast United States that utilizes diverse whole-building energy simulations and high-performance computing. Our results show that NG-DR applied to residential heating systems during extreme cold-weather conditions could reduce natural gas demand by 1–29% based on conservative and aggressive strategies, respectively. This indicates a potential to improve the resilience of gas and electric systems during stressful events, which we examine by estimating the impact on energy costs and electricity generation from natural gas. We also explore relationships between hourly indoor temperatures, demand response, and building envelope efficiency.

Origin and properties of microseisms from the standpoint of oscillator theory

1965 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-390
Author(s):  
Klaus Strobach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Love Wave ◽  
Wave Motion ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Source Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Phase Angles ◽  
Theoretical Results

Abstract The generally large source area for seawave generated microseisms does not readily allow consideration of these events as unidirectional. Rather, these wave patterns must be due to a complicated interference system, whose properties can be described only by statistics. In this study it is postulated that the generation of microseisms results as the superpositon of the outputs of a large number N of seismic oscillators. These oscillators are randomly distributed both in space and time. This random distribution necessarily implies that the phase angles of incoming waves are randomly distributed too. The statistical properties of the resultant ground motion, outside of the generation area, is investigated theoretically. Special attention is given to the probability distributions of the vertical amplitudes and the horizontal vector amplitudes. Good agreement is found between these theoretical results and the measurements obtained from particle motion diagrams. Additionally, the theoretical results lead to two methods for determination of the microseismic directions of approach. Both of these techniques were applied to the microseismic storm of January 28, 1963. This storm was generated by a well-developed cyclonic system off the east coast of the United States and Canada. Basic data for the study were obtained from the long-period seismograms of 5 stations (Rolla and Florissant, Mo., Bloomington, Ind., Dubuque, Iowa, and Ann Arbor, Mich.). The resulting analysis gave generation areas off the southern coast of Newfoundland and eastern coast of the United States. Further use was made of the theory developed to investigate the character of the microseismic waves. This application showed the microseisms to be composed not only of clear, fundamental mode Rayleigh waves, but that Love wave motion was also present. Surprisingly the proportion of Love wave motion was found to be different at different stations. At Rolla, Florissant and Bloomington, it was predominant, while at Dubuque and Ann Arbor the Rayleigh wave motion was dominant.

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