Climate of the Los Angeles Basin

In the “Santa Ana” by Joan Didion, she describes the Los Angeles wind and the effect it has on people. Didion describes the Santa Ana winds as a very unpleasant time that people have to go through. She says, “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe…” (Didion 47). Her description of the Santa Ana winds is extreme and shocking. Didion says the winds make people depressed and sometimes the winds make people go crazy. The way the Santa Ana winds are described makes me not want to be anywhere near the people that are affected by the winds. Unlike the Santa Ana winds, my hometown, Parkdale, Oregon, has weather and an environment that is much more enjoyable. In the summer, Parkdale is busier than usual. The environment around Parkdale consists of dense woods, spread out houses, big mountains, hidden creeks, hidden ponds, lakes, green grass, and orchards, a lot of orchards. The summer really makes Parkdale a nice place to be in. In the summer, the temperature will almost always be around 80 degrees Fahrenheit and it can go up to 100. During this time many tourists visit Parkdale with their family to look around, visit the small shops, go to the lake, or hang out. People wear shorts, tank-tops, sun hats, sun glasses, and all the usual summer clothing. Vehicles pass by, mostly all wheel drive, loaded up with small boats, bicycles, coolers, fishing rods and other gear. Most people that are…

THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It has everything that a person would want in life. The city is the second largest in the U.S. behind New York City. It is California most populous city and the county. It is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains. Los Angeles has some of the most…

In the article by Ian Lovett and Michael Wines it is stated that Jerry Brown, Governor of California, is known of his battle against climate change and even participated in the United Nations climate change conference in Paris but failed to prevent the fire of emissions in California. Lovett and Wines claimed that the report in the journal Science the Porter Ranch breach doubled the amount of methane emitted daily in the Los Angeles Basin and Brown administration did take any actions to regulate…

After each basin obtained a rank value, the basin rankings were divided into four ranges to identify the threshold under which a basin would be identified as very low, low, medium, or high priority. The resulting thresholds (Figure 5) were used to classify each basin into very low, low, medium, or high priority. Figure 5. Table used to classify each groundwater basin and subbasin as high, medium, low or very low priority (DWR 2014b). From the CASGEM Groundwater Basin Prioritization Process…

Huang, Keyi Antos, Michael Austin Environment M1CW 7 June 2015 Los Angles Regional Water Quality Control Board The Los Angles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB) is one of the nine Regional Boards under the State Water Resource Control Board. The State Water Board was created by the State Legislature in order to protect water quality and best allocate water uses in the State. It supports Regional Boards’ works, and also reviews the petitions against Regional Boards’ actions (Lauffer,…

Teresa Grimes, the Gamble House “exemplified the ideals of handcrafted materials and decorative motifs inspired by natural elements and pre-industrial architectural designs” (Grimes 2016:6–7). While other high-style Craftsman homes—sometimes referred to as Western Stick style homes—were constructed in Southern California, as the style was popularized in pattern books and magazines, architects and builders quickly employed it in the design and construction of bungalows. Borrowed from the Indian…

British Columbia, Idaho Plateau, Great Basin, Colorado and Mexico Plateau are situated from north to south in the region between the Rocky and the Central Mountains. 2.The Eastern Highlands : This highland covers Greenland. Island in the north, Labrador Plateau and New England highland at the middle and the Appalachian highland extending almost upto Florida Island in the south. 3.The Central Plain Region : This is the largest region. This area covers about three-fifth of the total area of…

innovations…, 2014). Many of these new innovations spring from growing concerns about the harmful emissions that automobiles emit. This issue has been plaguing the automotive industry for since the beginning. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES “In the 1940s, citizens of the car-dominated Los Angeles basin complained about a white or sometimes yellow-brown haze that made their eyes tear. They referred to this irritation as "smog." The word was taken from a combination of "smoke" and "fog," a term…

Palm Springs Train Station features both Amtrak passenger train service and Greyhound bus service. Palm Springs International Airport serves the city and the entire Coachella Valley. The Palm Springs BUZZ is a trolley service that runs for free every Thursday through Sunday, and other services, such as the SunLine Transit Agency and the Morongo Basin Transit Authority, provide transportation to and from Palm Springs. Other forms of transit, like walking, driving, and biking, are also popular.…

The Mojave Desert is located about 212 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, near the border of California and Nevada. Death Valley is located in the eastern part of the Mojave Desert, in California, which is located in the United States of America. Death Valley is 150 miles long and twenty miles wide, mountain ranges can be up to 11,000 feet tall, and areas are as low as 282 feet, eighty six meters, below sea level. Death Valley functions within the region of Death Valley National Park.…