Planetary-scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean A Variation of pressure and wind

Elements for a General Organology

Derrida Today ◽

10.3366/drt.2020.0220 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 72-94

Author(s):

Bernard Stiegler

Keyword(s):

Organic Matter ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

General Account ◽

Inorganic Matter ◽

History Of

These lectures outline the project of a general organology, which is to say an account of life when it is no longer just biological but technical, or when it involves not just organic matter but organized inorganic matter. This organology is also shown to require a modified Simondonian account of the shift from vital individuation to a three-stranded process of psychic, collective and technical individuation. Furthermore, such an approach involves extending the Derridean reading of Socrates's discussion of writing as a pharmakon, so that it becomes a more general account of the pharmacological character of retention and protention. By going back to Leroi-Gourhan, we can recognize that this also means pursuing the history of retentional modifications unfolding in the course of the history of what, with Lotka, can also be called exosomatization. It is thus a question of how exteriorization can, today, in an epoch when it becomes digital, and in an epoch that produces vast amounts of entropy at the thermodynamic, biological and noetic levels, still possibly produce new forms of interiorization, that is, new forms of thought, care and desire, amounting to so many chances to struggle against the planetary-scale pharmacological crisis with which we are currently afflicted.

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Medianatures

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000108097 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 103-106

Author(s):

Jussi Parikka

Keyword(s):

Planetary Scale ◽

Nature And Culture ◽

The Earth ◽

Visual Technologies

The article outlines the concept of medianatures. The term is a neologism and in debt to Donna Haraway’s rather eloquent and important coinage naturecultures that already functioned to mark the constant co-becomings of supposedly separated spheres of nature and culture. Medianatures is a further elaboration that elaborates the tie between the earth materialities that are mobilized for technological infrastructures, visual technologies, applications and devices, and the onto- epistemological stance that then feeds back into understanding those planetary scale earth materialities in the first place: the techniques of vision, observation, calculation, and circulation that are part of the governance of the earth and its various localities.

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Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking During COVID-19 Times

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1077800420962477 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 107780042096247 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Annette N. Markham ◽

Anne Harris ◽

Mary Elizabeth Luka

Keyword(s):

Critical Pedagogy ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ethic Of Care ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

The Other ◽

Self And Other ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

Making Sense ◽

Ongoing Experiment

How does this pandemic moment help us to think about the relationships between self and other, or between humans and the planet? How are people making sense of COVID-19 in their everyday lives, both as a local and intimate occurrence with microscopic properties, and a planetary-scale event with potentially massive outcomes? In this paper we describe our approach to a large-scale, still-ongoing experiment involving more than 150 people from 26 countries. Grounded in autoethnography practice and critical pedagogy, we offered 21 days of self guided prompts to for us and the other participants to explore their own lived experience. Our project illustrates the power of applying a feminist perspective and an ethic of care to engage in open ended collaboration during times of globally-felt trauma.

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Development of Tools for Coastal Management in Google Earth Engine: Uncertainty Bathtub Model and Bruun Rule

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13081424 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 1424

Author(s):

Lucas Terres de Lima ◽

Sandra Fernández-Fernández ◽

João Francisco Gonçalves ◽

Luiz Magalhães Filho ◽

Cristina Bernardes

Keyword(s):

Sea Level Rise ◽

Sea Level ◽

Coastal Management ◽

Google Earth ◽

Environmental Data ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

Bruun Rule ◽

Source Models ◽

Google Earth Engine ◽

Bathtub Model

Sea-level rise is a problem increasingly affecting coastal areas worldwide. The existence of free and open-source models to estimate the sea-level impact can contribute to improve coastal management. This study aims to develop and validate two different models to predict the sea-level rise impact supported by Google Earth Engine (GEE)—a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale environmental data analysis. The first model is a Bathtub Model based on the uncertainty of projections of the sea-level rise impact module of TerrSet—Geospatial Monitoring and Modeling System software. The validation process performed in the Rio Grande do Sul coastal plain (S Brazil) resulted in correlations from 0.75 to 1.00. The second model uses the Bruun rule formula implemented in GEE and can determine the coastline retreat of a profile by creatting a simple vector line from topo-bathymetric data. The model shows a very high correlation (0.97) with a classical Bruun rule study performed in the Aveiro coast (NW Portugal). Therefore, the achieved results disclose that the GEE platform is suitable to perform these analysis. The models developed have been openly shared, enabling the continuous improvement of the code by the scientific community.

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Venusian middle-atmospheric dynamics in the presence of a strong planetary-scale 5.5-day wave

Icarus ◽

10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.017 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 217 (2) ◽

pp. 702-713 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Masaru Yamamoto ◽

Masaaki Takahashi

Keyword(s):

Atmospheric Dynamics ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

Middle Atmospheric Dynamics

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Mechanisms effecting the state, evolution and transition of the planetary scale monsoon

Pure and Applied Geophysics ◽

10.1007/bf00874419 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 115 (5-6) ◽

pp. 1463-1491 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Peter J. Webster ◽

Lang Chou ◽

Ka Ming Lau

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

State Evolution

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Traveling planetary-scale waves in the E-region

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics ◽

10.1016/0021-9169(76)90079-9 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 38 (9-10) ◽

pp. 965-977 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

D.J Cavalieri

Keyword(s):

Planetary Scale ◽

E Region

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Southern Annular Mode Dynamics in Observations and Models. Part II: Eddy Feedbacks

Journal of Climate ◽

10.1175/jcli-d-12-00495.1 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 26 (14) ◽

pp. 5220-5241 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Isla R. Simpson ◽

Theodore G. Shepherd ◽

Peter Hitchcock ◽

John F. Scinocca

Keyword(s):

Negative Feedback ◽

Planetary Wave ◽

Southern Annular Mode ◽

Summer Season ◽

Substantial Contribution ◽

Mean Flow ◽

Annular Mode ◽

Planetary Scale ◽

Zonal Wavenumber ◽

Climatological Circulation

Abstract Many global climate models (GCMs) have trouble simulating southern annular mode (SAM) variability correctly, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere summer season where it tends to be too persistent. In this two-part study, a suite of experiments with the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM) is analyzed to improve the understanding of the dynamics of SAM variability and its deficiencies in GCMs. Here, an examination of the eddy–mean flow feedbacks is presented by quantification of the feedback strength as a function of zonal scale and season using a new methodology that accounts for intraseasonal forcing of the SAM. In the observed atmosphere, in the summer season, a strong negative feedback by planetary-scale waves, in particular zonal wavenumber 3, is found in a localized region in the southwest Pacific. It cancels a large proportion of the positive feedback by synoptic- and smaller-scale eddies in the zonal mean, resulting in a very weak overall eddy feedback on the SAM. CMAM is deficient in this negative feedback by planetary-scale waves, making a substantial contribution to its bias in summertime SAM persistence. Furthermore, this bias is not alleviated by artificially improving the climatological circulation, suggesting that climatological circulation biases are not the cause of the planetary wave feedback deficiency in the model. Analysis of the summertime eddy feedbacks in the models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) confirms that this is indeed a common problem among GCMs, suggesting that understanding this planetary wave feedback and the reason for its deficiency in GCMs is key to improving the fidelity of simulated SAM variability in the summer season.

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