Transformed by Snow

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Higgins ◽  
Richard Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Winter Storm

Thoreau loved trees in all seasons but had a special fondness for trees transformed by snow. Winter made the familiar trees he saw all year look new. After a winter storm, Thoreau went to see them as excited as a child on Christmas morning. He saw surreal and poetic forms in trees covered in snow. They were statues draped in white in a gigantic sculptor’s studio. Trees glistening with ice or clad in a coat of white quickened his pulse and stirred his pen. They stirred some of his best writing about trees.

Extreme North America Winter Storm Season of 2013/14: Roles of Radiative Forcing and the Global Warming Hiatus

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. S25-S28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaosong Yang ◽  
G. A. Vecchi ◽  
T. L. Delworth ◽  
K. Paffendorf ◽  
L. Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
North America ◽  
Radiative Forcing ◽  
Winter Storm ◽  
Global Warming Hiatus ◽  
Warming Hiatus ◽  
Extreme North

scholarly journals The effects of a strong winter storm on physical and biological variables at a shelf site in the Mediterranean

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Grémare ◽  
Jean-Michel Amouroux ◽  
Gustave Cauwet ◽  
François Charles ◽  
Claude Courties ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Storm ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Modification of Fronts and Precipitation by Coastal Blocking during an Intense Landfalling Winter Storm in Southern California: Observations during CALJET

2004 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Neiman ◽  
F. Martin Ralph ◽  
P. Ola G. Persson ◽  
Allen B. White ◽  
David P. Jorgensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Winter Storm

scholarly journals The Relationship between Trauma due to Winter Storm Alexa, PTSD, Mental Health of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz M. Thabet ◽  
Sanaa S. Thabet
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Winter Storm ◽  
Social Dysfunction ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The Relationship

<p><em>Aim:</em><em> This study investigated the relationship between trauma due to winter storm Alexa, PTSD and other mental health problems of Palestinian in Gaza Strip.</em><em> </em><em>Method:</em><em> The sample consisted of 105 males (50%) and 105 females (50%) selected from three of the most affected areas by flooding in 2014 due to Alexa storm in Gaza Strip. Participants age range was 20-65 years, with a mean age 40.88 (SD = 9.8)</em><em>,</em><em> with a mean age of years. Mental health status was assessed by a sociodemographic scale, the Trauma Due to Flood Scale, PTSD scale, and General Health Questionnaire (28 items). Results: Mean traumatic events experienced were 7.8. There were no statistically significant differences between males and females in reporting traumatic events. Mean post-traumatic stress disorder was 18.65, re-experiences symptoms was 6.4, avoidance symptoms was 5.7 and mean arousal symptoms was 5.73. </em></p><p><em>The study showed that 34.8% reported full criteria of PTSD. There were no statistically significant differences in PTSD total scores and subscales and sex of participants. Mean GHQ-28 was 12.12, somatization mean was 3.21, anxiety was 3.31, social dysfunction was 3.34, and depression was 2.27, 91% of the participants were rated as psychiatric morbidity cases and need further investigation. Males significantly scored more in social dysfunction than females. Traumatic events were significantly correlated with PTSD and general mental health and all subscales.</em><em> </em><em>Conclusion and implications</em><em>: </em><em>This study has important implications for need of establishing and implementing psychosocial intervention programs for in the Gaza Strip not only for those victims of political violence but also for people exposed to other types of traumatic events such as natural disasters. </em></p>

scholarly journals Mooring system reliability in tropical cyclone and North Sea winter storm environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 306-316
Author(s):  
Dunja Stanisic ◽  
Mike Efthymiou ◽  
David J. White ◽  
Mehrdad Kimiaei
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Cyclone ◽  
North Sea ◽  
System Reliability ◽  
Mooring System ◽  
Winter Storm

Mapping the risk of winter storm damage using GIS-based fuzzy logic

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-742
Author(s):  
Abdullah E. Akay ◽  
İnanç Taş
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Storm Damage ◽  
Winter Storm

scholarly journals Precessional Drivers of Late Miocene Mediterranean Sedimentary Sequences: African Summer Monsoon and Atlantic Winter Storm Tracks

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1980-1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Marzocchi ◽  
Rachel Flecker ◽  
Daniel J. Lunt ◽  
Wout Krijgsman ◽  
Frits J. Hilgen
Keyword(s):  
Summer Monsoon ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Storm Tracks ◽  
Winter Storm ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences

scholarly journals Northern hemisphere winter storm tracks of the Eemian interglacial and the last glacial inception

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Kaspar ◽  
T. Spangehl ◽  
U. Cubasch
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Storm Track ◽  
Storm Tracks ◽  
Winter Storm ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Hemisphere Winter ◽  
Eemian Interglacial ◽  
The Last Glacial

Abstract. Climate simulations of the Eemian interglacial and the last glacial inception have been performed by forcing a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model with insolation patterns of these periods. The parameters of the Earth's orbit have been set to conditions of 125 000 and 115 000 years before present (yr BP). Compared to today, these dates represent periods with enhanced and weakened seasonality of insolation in the northern hemisphere. Here we analyse the simulated change in northern hemisphere winter storm tracks. The change in the orbital configuration has a strong impact on the meridional temperature gradients and therefore on strength and location of the storm tracks. The North Atlantic storm track is strengthened, shifted northward and extends further to the east in the simulation for the Eemian at 125 kyr BP. As one consequence, the northern parts of Europe experience an increase in winter precipitation. The frequency of winter storm days increases over large parts of the North Atlantic including the British Isles and the coastal zones of north-western Europe. Opposite but weaker changes in storm track activity are simulated for 115 kyr BP.

scholarly journals Collocated Radar and Radiosonde Observations of a Double-Brightband Melting Layer in Northern California

2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
pp. 2016-2024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooks E. Martner ◽  
Paul J. Neiman ◽  
Allen B. White
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Inversion ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Temperature Structure ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Winter Storm ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Layer Height ◽  
Melting Layer ◽  
Automated Algorithm ◽  
Unusual Phenomenon

Abstract A strong elevated temperature inversion in a landfalling winter storm in northern California produced two simultaneous melting layers with associated radar bright bands. The storm was observed with scanning and profiling radars. Serial radiosonde launches from the scanning radar site precisely documented the evolving temperature structure of the air mass that produced the double bright band. The radiosonde and radar observations, which were coincident in location and time, clearly illustrate the cause (two melting layers) and effect (two bright bands) of this unusual phenomenon. An automated algorithm for determining the melting-layer height from profiling radar data was tested on this situation. In its operational form, the algorithm detects only the lower melting layer, but in modified form it is capable of detecting both melting layers simultaneously.

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