Even on her deathbed Granny's children annoy her. "She lay and drowsed, hoping in her sleep that the children would keep out and let her rest a minute" (Porter 243)
However, one of the most significant technological breakthroughs for weather forecasting was put into operation in 1988 when the first Doppler weather system was activated in Norman, Oklahoma. Called NEXRAD, it used WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler) to spot major storms more precisely and sooner than ever before (King, 2004)
After the end of the Civil War, the Army Signal Service established a weather service to warn of storms along the ocean coasts and the Great Lakes. The Army recognized that the weather could have significant military importance (Larson, 1999)
These decisions are crucial because neither final launch decisions nor final landing decisions can be changed once started. The Space Shuttle functions as an engineless glider, and once they have started to land they do not have engine power to return to altitude and fly to another landing site, unlike a commercial airliner (McEnamin, 1996)
A Swedish military chaplain living in what is present-day Delaware started keeping a weather diary in 1644. Such diaries were the main source of information about weather through the early 19th century (Waite, 2004)
The concept of "sustainability" (National Geographic, 2012) certainly applies to tourism, as without dedicated efforts to maintain and preserve the sights that people desire to see, they will (at some point) no longer be able to see them. This notion of sustainability is an important part of the concept of geotourism, which is currently offered as a major at a pair of collegiate universities in the United States (Geiger, 2014) and helps to revolutionize the conventional notion of tourism by attempting to make it as beneficial for locals and for the areas being sought after as it is for the tourists
Geotourism is defined as "tourism that sustains or improves the geographical character of a place. The goal is to enhance traits such as environment, heritage, aesthetics, culture and well being of residents" (Larcom, 2012)
, which produces nearly three fourths of the tart cherries in the continental U.S. (Loeffler, 2012)
Furthermore, this entire process takes place in a way which ultimately benefits the community as a whole (including residents). The fact that geotourism provides a type of economy that involves more than money and fosters camaraderie and community among its participants (Sterkenburg, 2012) helps to reduce wasted energy and efforts spent on other forms of advertising which may be more costly to the region as well as to the pocketbook of the financier
Such revenues stemming from geotourism is not a recent phenomenon; in the state of Michigan in 2006 there was $13.3 billion generated from tourism (Walsh, 2013)
The radioactive in the atmosphere today is mainly composed from radioactive forcing mainly influenced by human activities, so for the current and the future climate change largely depend on the activities of human. It would be inappropriate for me to state whether global warming does exist or not (Saulnier, J
Global Warming Climate change has proved to be a controversial subject over the past decade. Every time you turn on your television or when you are reading the newspaper, you must always come across something new about climate change (Depledge, J
Over the past two decades the environmental migration has be witness to have change. Climatic change has posted a great risk that is most likely to increase the level of humanitarian emergencies that can trigger large movement of population due to the increase weather events, the rise in sea-level, and the acceleration of environmental degradation that includes coastal erosion and desertification (Romm, Joseph 2006)
The records of temperature from the weather station all around the world are the most appropriate place to get the information on whether the climate is changing. Climate is the average weather condition over a period of 20-30 years or more (Oberthu-r, S
When the air pressure reveals a cold core or high pressure it means that there will not be any rain within the center of the pressure front. This is by far the farthest spread type of air pressure system (Keenan, 2011)
Finally, warm core high pressure indicates little rainfall, and is actually known to heat the air even more. This is known as convective daytime heating and is especially common is certain parts of Asia (Romatschke, 2011)
Question 2 The primary cause of thunderstorms within the regions of Colorado and New Mexico is the Rocky Mountains. Mountain regions are so high that the entire area actually changes the course of air pressure systems (Sheppard, 2002)
According to Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University the decade from 1900 to 1910 was one of the coolest in 11,300 years, yet the decade from 2000 to 2010 was one of the warmest. Global thermometer records only date back to 1880, nonetheless those records show the last decade was the hottest for this more recent time period (Borenstein, 2013)
Findings indicate a 20% loss of volume by the end of this century. This in combination with the thawing in Antarctica and Greenland promises to raise the level of the sea from 18 to 59 cm this century or more if the thaw of the vast ice sheets around the world should accelerate (Doyle, 2013)
Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time in a specific area or region. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) climate is composition of such factors as average precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind velocity and phenomenon such as fog, frost, hail storms and other measures of weather that occur over a long period of time in a particular place (Gutro, 2005)