scholarly journals Wildlife diversity of the central Sierra foothills

1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Block ◽  
Michael L. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Foothills

scholarly journals Controls on mineralisation in the Sierra Foothills gold province, central California, USA: a GIS-based reconnaissance prospectivity analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. P. Bierlein ◽  
H. J. Northover ◽  
D. I. Groves ◽  
R. J. Goldfarb ◽  
E. E. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Central California ◽  
Prospectivity Analysis ◽  
Sierra Foothills

scholarly journals Terrestrial Habitat use by Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata) in the Sierra Foothills

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Zaragoza ◽  
Jonathan P. Rose ◽  
Kathryn Purcell ◽  
Brian D. Todd
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Terrestrial Habitat ◽  
Sierra Foothills ◽  
Actinemys Marmorata

scholarly journals The Smell of Gold

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Caitlin Mohan
Keyword(s):  
River Watershed ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sierra Foothills

This personal piece of non-fiction explores the history of the Sierra Foothills and the current changes brought on by the marijuana industry. Attempts to present various ways of looking at how the changes in the Yuba River watershed are about and reflect important changes in California, the essay focuses on the unmistakeable scent of the place and how its reality is transmitted down through time, generation to generation.

Sierra Barrier Jets, Atmospheric Rivers, and Precipitation Characteristics in Northern California: A Composite Perspective Based on a Network of Wind Profilers

2013 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
pp. 4211-4233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Neiman ◽  
Mimi Hughes ◽  
Benjamin J. Moore ◽  
F. Martin Ralph ◽  
Ellen M. Sukovich
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Vapor Transport ◽  
Water Vapor Transport ◽  
Atmospheric Rivers ◽  
The North ◽  
Windward Slope ◽  
Barrier Jets ◽  
Sierra Foothills ◽  
North End ◽  
Wind Profilers

Abstract Five 915-MHz wind profilers and GPS receivers across California's northern Central Valley (CV) and adjacent Sierra foothills and coastal zone, in tandem with a 6-km-resolution gridded reanalysis dataset generated from the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, document key spatiotemporal characteristics of Sierra barrier jets (SBJs), landfalling atmospheric rivers (ARs), and their interactions. Composite kinematic and thermodynamic analyses are based on the 13 strongest SBJ cases observed by the Sloughhouse profiler between 2009 and 2011. The analyses show shallow, cool, south-southeasterly (i.e., Sierra parallel) flow and associated water vapor transport strengthening with time early in the 24-h compositing period, culminating in an SBJ core at <1 km above ground over the eastern CV. The SBJ core increases in altitude up the Sierra's windward slope and poleward toward the north end of the CV, but it does not reach the westernmost CV. Above the developing SBJ, strengthening southwesterly flow descends temporally in response to the landfalling AR. The moistening SBJ reaches maximum intensity during the strongest AR flow aloft, at which time the core of the AR-parallel vapor transport slopes over the SBJ. The inland penetration of the AR through the San Francisco Bay gap in the coastal mountains contributes to SBJ moistening and deepening. The SBJ subsequently weakens with the initial cold-frontal period aloft, during which the shallow flow shifts to southwesterly and the heaviest precipitation falls in the Sierra foothills. An orographic precipitation analysis quantitatively links the Sierra-perpendicular (nearly AR parallel) vapor fluxes to enhanced precipitation along the Sierra's windward slope and the SBJ-parallel fluxes to heavy precipitation at the north end of the CV.

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