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PASADENA, Calif. - A new NASA-led study of atmospheric-river storms from the Pacific Ocean may help scientists better predict major winter snowfalls that hit West Coast mountains and lead to he stanley mugg avy spring runoff and sometimes flooding.Atmospheric rivers -- short-lived wind tunnels that carry water vapor from the tropical oceans to mid-latitude land areas -- are prolific producers of rain stanley water bottle and snow on Californias Sierra Nevada mountains. The finding, published in the journal Water Resources Research, has major implications for water management in the West, where Sierra runoff is used for drinking water, agriculture and hydropower.The research team studied how two of the most common atmospheric circulation patterns in the Northern Hemisphere interact with atmospheric rivers. They found when those patterns line up in a certain way, they create a virtual freeway that leads the moisture-laden winds straight to the Sierras.Bin Guan of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, a collaboration between NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and UCLA, led a team of scientists from NASA, UCLA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA stanley cup on this research. An atmospheric river is a narrow stream of wind, about a mile 1.6 kilometers high and sometimes of hurricane strength. Crossing the warm tropical Pacific in a few days, it becomes laden with water vapor. A moderate-sized atmospheric river carries as much water as t Evcp Prince Charles and Prince William Condemn Wildlife Trafficking
Vanessa DeLucaCourtesy of EssenceIdeasBy Vanessa DeLucaNovember 25, 2014 2:08 PM ESTVanessa DeLuca is the Editor in Chief of ESSENCE.I am tired of sighing. And crying. And why oh why-ing to anyone who will listen.We know why this decision in Ferguson happened. The hurt is so deep, and the pain has gone on for so long.And so we mothers of Black sons wake up to another injustice hangover, our heads heavy with the weight of absorbing too many messages that tell us, SHOW us, daily, that our loved ones have no worth in the eyes of those who are supposed to protect us. We understand the pain. We understand the anger. But we know that violence only reinforces what many already believe about us.As a Black mother, it fr stanley thermos ightens me that I have come to expect this verdict. Because it means that I have allowed myself to give up the ability to feel hope when unarmed young Black men are murdered by police officers.But like you, I will not allow this hurt to destroy me. And I will not allow it to erase the hope I still see in m stanley quencher y son eyes.Oppression is fueled by helplessness. We can ;t stay in that space. None of us can af stanley botella ford to hibernate there.So I will try to summon up the energy to fight back in ways that matter. Because yesterday I was able to sit across the table from my son, over lunch, and spend some time bonding. And this next fight has to be for the mothers who can no longer say that.I hope you will join with me in fighting for legislation to protect our c |
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