Cloudy Down South

Cloudy Skies

Standard Gaussian-type statistics are not really adequate to describe atmospheric variability; this traditional approach implicitly dismisses fluctuations as "noise" of use only in computing a standard deviation which, together with the mean, presumably varies so little in space and time that one can meaningfully speak of "climatological" values. In geophysics, unfortunately, this approach ofte...

[Going through cloudy periods: the experience of families of children with Down Syndrome].

The purpose of this study was to understand how the family faces the challenge of having a child with Down Syndrome among its members, so that, from this understanding, nurses can propose and carry out a careful emphasis on family responses to current and potential problems experienced. Symbolic Interactionism and the initial steps of Grounded Theory were used. The study comprised eight familie...

A cloudy Vlasov solution

We propose to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson equations giving the evolution of a dynam-ical system in phase-space using a continuous set of local basis functions. In practice, the method decomposes the density in phase-space into small smooth units having compact support. We call these small units " clouds " and choose them to be Gaussians of elliptical support. Fortunately, the evolution of thes...

Down South in/of Dixie: Rethinking the Tourist South

TOMS cloudy ozone anomaly

This study investigates anomalous ozone distributions over cloudy areas in Nimbus-7 (N7) and Earth-Probe (EP) TOMS version-7 data and analyzes the causes for ozone anomaly formation. A 5 •-longitude by 5 •-latitude region is defined to contain a Positive Ozone Anomaly (POA) or Negative Ozone Anomaly (NOA) if the correlation coefficient 5 between total ozone and reflectivity is ≥0.5 or ≤−0.5. Th...