Sometimes You Just Have To Write. Even If It’s Nonsense, You Are Spilling Black Truth Onto Empty Paper.

Sometimes you just have to write. Even if it’s nonsense, you are spilling black truth onto empty paper. Even if it’s not pretty, there is honesty in those desperate words. Even if it hurts, sometimes you just have to write. Because if you don’t, then who will?

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Seeing El Niño…From Space

First, What is El Niño?

This irregularly occurring weather phenomenon is created through an abnormality in wind and ocean circulation. When it originates in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Niño has wide-reaching effects. In a global context, it affects rainfall, ocean productivity, atmospheric gases and winds across continents. At a local level, it influences water supplies, fishing industries and food sources.

What About This Year’s El Niño

This winter, weather patterns may be fairly different than what is typical — all because of unusually warm ocean water in the east equatorial Pacific, aka El Niño. California is expected to get more rain while Australia is expected to get less. Since this El Niño began last summer, the Pacific Ocean has already experienced an increase in tropical storms and a decrease in phytoplankton.

How Do We See El Niño?

Here are some of El Niño’s key impacts and how we study them from space:

Rainfall: 

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El Niño often spurs a change in rainfall patterns that can lead to major flooding, landslides and droughts across the globe.

How We Study It: Our Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM), tracks precipitation worldwide and creates global precipitation maps updated every half-hour using data from a host of satellites. Scientists can then use the data to study changes in rain and snow patterns. This gives us a better understanding of Earth’s climate and weather systems.

Hurricanes:

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El Niño also influences the formation of tropical storms. El Niño events are associated with fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic, but more hurricanes and typhoons in the Pacific.

How We Study It: We have a suite of instruments in space that can study various aspects of storms, such as rainfall activity, cloud heights, surface wind speed and ocean heat.

Ocean Ecology:

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While El Niño affects land, it also impacts the marine food web, which can be seen in the color of the ocean. The hue of the water is influenced by the presence of tiny plants, sediments and colored dissolved organic material. During El Niño conditions, upwelling is suppressed and the deep, nutrient-rich waters aren’t able to reach the surface, causing less phytoplankton productivity. With less food, the fish population declines, severely affecting fishing industries.

How We Study It: Our satellites measure the color of the ocean to derive surface chlorophyll, a pigment in phytoplankton, and observe lower total chlorophyll amounts during El Niño events in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Ozone:

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El Niño also influences ozone — a compound that plays an important role in the Earth system and human health. When El Niño occurs, there is a substantial change in the major east-west tropical circulation, causing a significant redistribution of atmospheric gases like ozone.

How We Study It: Our Aura satellite is used to measure ozone concentrations in the upper layer of the atmosphere. With more than a decade of Aura data, researchers are able to separate the response of ozone concentrations to an El Niño from its response to change sin human activity, such as manmade fires.

Fires:

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El Niño conditions shift patters of rainfall and fire across the tropics. During El Niño years, the number and intensity of fires increases, especially under drought conditions in regions accustomed to wet weather. These fires not only damage lands, but also emit greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.

How We Study It: Our MODIS instruments on Aqua and Terra satellites provide a global picture of fire activity. MODIS was specifically designed to observe fires, allowing scientists to discern flaming from smoldering burns.

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8 years ago

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

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9 years ago

It’s an exhausting thing; being at constant war with yourself.

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8 years ago
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams
Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings By Trisha Thompson Adams

Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings by Trisha Thompson Adams

Artist Trisha Thompson Adams produces macabre and mystical art prints that depict nature and the human anatomy. Inspired by old folklore, astronomy and her dreams, the artist’s paintings lean away from bright colors and create mystery through scenes depicted in somber colors and strange subjects converged with realistic and whimsical concepts.

Adams’ artwork is artistically spiritual, celebrating nature through the human body and the flowers that bloom, as well as cosmic scenes. In order to sustain life, the body must be connected with nature, and her flowers entwined in the heart and ribcage symbolise new life that blooms forth. The universal balance of life and death, the struggle between humanity and nature, earthly and cosmic elements become the heart of her artwork. You can find her work in her Society6 and Etsy shop.

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