Indigenizing Environmental Justice: Case Studies from the Pacific Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-181
Author(s):  
Jessica Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The Pacific

Impacts of Assimilating Smartphone Pressure Observations on Forecast Skill during Two Case Studies in the Pacific Northwest

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1375-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor McNicholas ◽  
Clifford F. Mass
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Android App ◽  
Global Surface ◽  
Correction Strategies

Abstract Over a half-billion smartphones are now capable of measuring atmospheric pressure, potentially providing a global surface observing network of unprecedented density and coverage. An earlier study by the authors described an Android app, uWx, that served as a test bed for advanced quality control and bias correction strategies. To evaluate the utility and quality of the resulting smartphone pressure observations, ensemble data assimilation experiments were performed for two case studies over the Pacific Northwest. In both case studies, smartphone pressures improved the analyses and forecasts of assimilated and nonassimilated variables. In case I, which considered the passage of a front across the region, cycled smartphone pressure assimilation consistently improved 1-h forecasts of the altimeter setting, 2-m temperature, and 2-m dewpoint. During a postfrontal period, cycled smartphone pressure assimilation improved mesoscale forecasts of hourly precipitation accumulation. In case II, which considered a major coastal windstorm, cycling experiments assimilating smartphone pressures improved 10-m wind forecasts as well as the predicted track and intensity. For both cases, free-forecast experiments initialized with smartphone data produced forecast improvements extending several hours, suggesting the utility of crowdsourced smartphone pressures for short-term numerical weather prediction.

Documenting life in the era of climate change: Huang Hsin-yao’s Nimbus and Taivalu

Asian Cinema ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-ju Chang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
The Pacific

What can the poetic or experimental mode of documentary contribute to the discourses of the New Taiwan Documentaries, particularly the ones that address everyday eco-disasters in the Pacific Rim during the climate change era? In this article, I use Huang Hsin-yao’s Daishui yun (Nimbus) (2009) and Shenmei zhi dao (Taivalu: Taiwan vs. Tuvalu) (2010) as case studies of what I call ‘cli-fi ethnographic documentary’. These documentaries demonstrate that the employment of the poetic documentary mode, as a filmic strategy, provides a different outlet to address the tension, for example, between planetary suffering, eco-aesthetics, human psychological adaptability and environmental justice. Here the Taiwanese directors dare to imagine a broader, deep-time, more-than-human multispecies world, affect and aesthetics, while not eschewing the question of justice, accountability and causality.

scholarly journals Towards Cross-Border Environmental Policy Spaces in North America: Province-State Linkages on the Canada-U.S. Border

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora L. VanNijnatten
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
New England ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Over Time

A growing number of case studies have painted a picture of a burgeoning network of subnational and cross-border regional environmental linkages along the Canada-United States border, a development which may indicate an evolution in governance arrangements such that cross-border environmental policy spaces are being created. In addition to increasing in number, this literature suggests that cross-border interactions have become more formalized, more functionally intense and increasingly multilateral, or regional, in orientation. This paper explores in a comprehensive, cross-regional manner the finding of these case studies with regard to the extent and intensity of subnational activity by examining the findings of a 2005 survey of environmental linkages between states and provinces along the Canada-U.S. border. The survey findings indicate that subnational and regional interactions have been institutionally and functionally ‘intact’ for longer than most observers of Canada-U.S. environmental relations might expect. One of the most interesting findings is that subnational and regional cross-border environmental linkages, contrary to conventional wisdom, have become more numerous over time but not necessarily more intense in functional terms. Moreover, as expected, environmental linkages are clearly regionally concentrated; clusters of highly linked states and provinces can be found along the Canada-U.S. border, particularly in New England, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Each of the clusters – or environmental regions – exhibits unique characteristics in terms of the extent and intensity of cross-border linkages.

Suitability of Natural Areas for Representing Ecological Change in the Pacific Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Massie ◽  
Todd M. Wilson ◽  
Anita T. Morzillo ◽  
Emilie B. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
The Pacific
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