Atmospheric circulation

In April of 2011, a supercell caused 363 tornadoes to touch down in several states within a four day period. On April 27th alone, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed over 200 tornadoes touched down that ranked between F-0 and F-6 on the Fujita scale. This record breaking phenomenon resulted in the deaths of 348 people with damages estimating over $11 billion dollars. Due to the magnitude of the outbreak, National Weather Services assigned several teams to not only…

Research Day Reflection Attending the research day in Sykes Student Union was an interesting and beneficial alternative clinical day. The day had a variety of different presentations, posters and a complimentary breakfast! To begin the day, we took a look at some research posters created by students who were enrolled in NSG 313 in the spring semester. The first poster I viewed was a literature review of the affects of breastfeeding infants with NAS. It showed that breastfeeding reduced the…

Intro to EWB: The EWB challenge is devoted improving lives, “Welcome to Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia. We 're here to engineer a better world, (Engineers Without Borders Australia, 2016).” The challenge they set before themselves is to allow everyone to lead a life without poverty through engineering knowledge and resources. “We connect, educate and empower people through humanitarian engineering. Humanitarian engineering uses a people centered, strength based approach to improve…

Every vehicle has a number of electrical instruments. Each one varies due to the certain make and model of the vehicle with the different variations on the particular vehicle. Take a truck for instant it has a speedometer, tachometer, and transmission temperature gauge. Due to the fact that it will be towing a heavy object and be putting stress on the motor, so it doesn’t get too hot the gauge is there to protect it. Now on a sport car your two main instruments will be the speedometer and the…

Introduction Vapor pressure is the pressure of a vapor (gas) at equilibrium; equilibrium occurs when there is no net change between the amount of liquid and the amount of vapor because they balance each other. When the temperature of water becomes extremely low, as it does in this experiment, the rate of vaporization does not matter. The objective of this experiment is to determine the experimental heat of vaporization and compare it to the accepted heat of vaporization of water (40.7 kj/mol).…

Exercise 1 The abundance of nitrogen in the standard dry atmospheric composition is 781,000ppmv. The mass mixing ratio is the volume mixing ratio multiplied by the molecular mass of nitrogen all divided by the molecular mass of air. As the molecular mass of air, 28.8g, is higher than the molecular mass of nitrogen, 28g, the mass mixing ratio would be lower than the volume mixing ratio. a) m=F/a m=101300/9.8=10,336 An estimate of the total mass of a column of the atmosphere with a base…

It is easy for us to neglect the immediate and colossus problems plaguing our world, because the biggest problems, the ones that affect not only our future generations here in America, but the future generations across the globe, seem like they are flames, too bright to look at. We know it is there, yet instead of trying to put out the fires, we turn away, hoping someone else will eventually do it for us. One of the biggest, if not the biggest, flame destroying our world is the unbelievably high…

1. Compare two poems that were not present as pairs on our syllabus but were assigned on different days. How do these poems speak to one another? Two poems that were not present as pairs in our syllabus that have some things in common would be, Fond Memory and Marks. In Marks, it talks about a mom being graded by her family on things she does. In the poem, she writes, “My husband gives me an A, for last night's supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B-plus in bed.” This is a common…

Altitude sickness, is divided into 3 different levels of intensity, Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE), and High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE). These illnesses occur when someone is exposed to levels of higher elevation, reduced oxygen levels and lowered air pressure. Altitude sickness causes the veins and capillaries to expand in order to take in more oxygen. Some scientists also believe that it can cause the brain to slightly swell. Altitude sickness can…

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