There are large uncertainties in the circulation response of the atmosphere to climate change. 6 One manifestation of this is the substantial spread in projections for the extratropical storm tracks made 7 by different state-of-the-art climate models. In this study we perform a series of sensitivity experiments, 8 with the atmosphere component of a single climate model, in order to identify the...

background and objectives: hyperthyroidism can occur with pregnancy. thyroid storm is a life-threatening exacerbation of hyperthyroidism. the mortality rate for thyroid storm remains surprisingly high at approximately 20%. case report: a 21-year-old primigravida woman presented at 25 weeks, with severe pre-eclampsia and uncontrolled hyperthyroidism was scheduled for emergency cesarean section. ...

The characteristics of seasons with enhanced East Coast winter storm and storm surge activity are identified from among a set of global atmospheric circulation indices and local land and sea surface temperature anomalies. Without regard for storm strength or surge potential, the most active East Coast winter storm (ECWS) seasons occur in association with El Niño events. There is also some indic...

Problem statement: The rainfall based design flood estimation techniques are commonly adopted in hydrological design and require a number of inputs including information on soil loss characteristics. Approach: A conceptual loss model known as the ‘Initial Loss-Continuing Loss (ILCL) model’ is widely used in Australia. Results: The Initial Loss (IL) occurs at the beginning of the rainfall event,...

This paper presents rainfall erosivity values derived from a 7-year rainfall recording in the Cape Verde islands, Central East Atlantic. The data set consisted of 63 storm events, continuously registered in 15-min intervals. Kinetic energy of storm rainfall corresponded to established values in other tropical locations. Two algorithms to estimate erosivity, expressed as energy times intensity, ...

A triply-nested, movable mesh model ..~as used to study the effects of mountainous terrain on the landfall of tropical cyclones onto the islands of Japan. The integration domain spanned 43" latitude and 47" longitude with finest resolution of 1/6". Numerical experiments were separately performed for three cas4~s. In each experiment a storm was embedded onto a stationary Haurwitz type wave at th...

What is the impact of platform design on crowdsourcing contributions? The proliferation platforms with distributed content production, such as Wikipedia, Zooniverse, and others, has led to scholarly interest in understanding why individuals contribute them. One stream research investigated contributor motivations, while another growing stream, scattered across several disciplines, explored effe...