The movement of air masses above the earth's surface helps to create wind, and help to move the air masses that predict our weather. Continental Polar/Arctic (cP or cA). Large scale rotating air mass index. Hurricane Katrina was expected to loose intensity as moved out of the warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Although hurricanes loose strength as they move over land, they still carry vast amounts of moisture onto the land causing thunderstorms with associated flash floods and mass-wasting hazards.
Continental Polar (cP). The peak occurs on September 10. They are found in cold, stormy regions of rising air. Summers are cool, winters are mild and wet. The controlling factors that determine the characteristics of the air mass. Air masses also move vertically.
Maritime tropical (mT) – moist, warm air mass. Air Mass Classification. The distance outward from the eye to which hurricane strength winds occur determines the size of the hurricane. Further inland, the weather is hot and dry. The water vapor molecules clump together when humidity is at 100 percent, and liquid water is produced.
Along coastal areas with barrier islands offshore, the surge may first destroy any bridges leading to the islands, and then cause water to overflow the islands. In this way middle latitude circulations transport energy from the equator toward the poles. Accurate forecasting of storm tracks is more problematical because of the numerous variables involved and the erratic paths hurricanes sometimes take. An air mass is a widespread body of air with similar temperature and moisture characteristics in both the horizontal and vertical (homogeneous). Region and (2) the latitude of the source region. Summer storms derive most of their energy from the latent heat release during cloud formation. As a low pressure disturbance forms, the warm, moist air rushes towards the low pressure in order to rise upward to form towering thunderstorms. The height of the storm surge depends on wind speed, the shape of the coastline, and variations in the water depth along the coast line. Water vapor is not visible unless it condenses to become a cloud. Small annual temperature ranges are experienced. Hurricane Intensity and Frequency. Large scale rotating air mass effect 3. On surface weather maps, a weather front is simply the boundary between two different air masses.
Due to the rotation of the earth and resulting coriolis force, surface waters are transported to the right of the flow, away from the coast. Hurricanes are huge with high winds. 4 (Very Strong)||131-156||Complete roof failure on small residences; major beach erosion of beach areas|. We usually use the term to mean relative humidity, the percentage of water vapor a certain volume of air is holding relative to the maximum amount it can contain. Tornadoes, destructive, local storms of short duration, are violent. Usually stay in place but occasionally break away and are carried southeast by the upper level winds. The last page shows the energetics involved. The cP airmass is noted for it's wide annual variations in all properties, especially temperature. The distribution of the continents and oceans. Air Mass Types, Locations, Characteristics & Climate Controls –. Examples of these differences are the Siberian cP is coldest, while European cP is the mildest and-winter cP is more stable than summer cP. If neither the cold nor warm air is advancing, the frontal zone is marked by a stationary front. These currents will have a definite effect on coastal climates as well as on high and low pressure systems that transit across them.
However, since the earth rotates, the axis is tilted, and there is more land mass in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere, the actual global pattern is much more complicated. As the air rises, water vapor condenses, releasing energy from latent heat. Storms vary immensely depending on whether they're warm or cold, coming off the ocean or off a continent, occurring in summer or winter, and many other factors. Dew-point temperatures are greater than 60°F. The Coriolis Effect: Earth's Rotation and Its Effect on Weather. However, air masses do not move north or south in a direct, straightforward line due to the rotation of the earth and the Coriolis effect. Water has one of the highest heat capacities of all known substances. In industrial areas there may be problems with visibility due to smoke trapped under a subsidence inversion.
The alcoholic satyr-like poet Martin Sileneus is the scene-stealer of this book, although his best line comes in Fall of Hyperion (in an abundance of caution I'll leave that comment to the review of the sequel). The film Cthulhu produced in 2000 by Onara Films is a Cthulhu Mythos story loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth. ISSN 0090-5224, 2009, vol. Durante esta peregrinación conoceremos las increíbles historias y los misteriosos motivos que rodean a cada uno de los peregrinos y los ha llevado hasta esta misión y viaje suicida, revelándonos a su vez pinceladas del complejo universo que ha desarrollado Simmons. And yet I could extract nothing definite from the man. I'm about to give up on rereads and my books in general.
His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15, 000 potential students. This story opens with a brief overview of the early life of Professor Sol Weintraub. I was delighted to learn that its (his?, her? ) It was narrated by Garrick Hagon. Other inspirations for Lovecraft's story are referenced in the story itself–for example, James Frazer's The Golden Bough, Margaret Murray's Witch-Cult in Western Europe, and W. Scott-Elliot's Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, a work based on theosophy. Some of the originals were clearly too close to horror fiction for comfort.
This is the monstrous but momentous savagery of bands like ASHPYX, GORGUTS, MALEVOLENT CREATION and, more recently, SKELETAL REMAINS (whose guitarists Mike De La O and Chris Monroy both contribute cameo solos here), but with the added bonus of NECROPHAGIA-levels of horror obsessions festering beneath every cudgeling groove. As a sci-fi newbie, I had some trouble swallowing down the futuristic elements, especially since the story throws you right into the heat of things. There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold; vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy with perfumes from beyond the worlds. It did take me some time to get used to the narrative structure. To them he told a simple story. Overall this was a great read; the depth of the world-building, the complexity of the plot and the intelligent exploration of morality, religion and the place of humanity in the world has raised the bar for any sci-fi I read in the future and I'm really interested to see where Dan Simmons takes this series from here. The start of this tale was interesting with an ageing priest on a journey to find a mysterious people in an isolated rain forest. And each tale brings the group closer to the Valley of the Time Tombs, where the Shrike is waiting for them. Guarding these relics is a murderous creature of inestimable power and unknown capability called The Shrike. I wasn't focused on any particular genre when I started my writing journey, but in an odd sort of way, my five-year-old self had it all sussed out. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature"The One Fixed Point in a Changing Age": Watson, the Narrating Instance, and the Sherlock Holmes Narratives.
Whereas the narrators of the two previous stories represent major monotheistic religions, the poet takes a more pluralistic approach to theology, having embraced and rejected a surprising number of faiths throughout his life. AIs, a noir crime element of sorts, a heist and one hell of an implication for the resolution to come. Later, we have the invention of the wicked step-mother to make the cruelty a little more distant. How is that even possible? Bluebeard tests his wives' obedience and murders them when they fail. Eleven and twelve-year-old students in Simmons' regular 6th-grade class averaged junior-year in high school writing ability according to annual standardized and holistic writing assessments.
I was bummed out, honestly hadn't been that sad since my pet dolphin died when the Hegemony colonised my home world. In my favorite part of the story, the cybrid Keats recites the first canto from The Fall of Hyperion – A Dream, another unfinished gem by the real historical Keats. Me flipa la CF pero mi recorrido comenzó hace poco con los grandes del género, por consejo de un buen amigo el siempre presente, Xabi, deje "Hyperion" para algo más adelante y leer algo más de este género antes de adentrarme en ésta interesante y oscura historia. That humanity has destroyed its homeworld, and now it embarks on a war that can engulf the whole known colonized space. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", p. 154.
However this story did have some cool action scenes at the end and I found the exploration of how the military, it's culture and role in society had developed in this world to be really interesting although, again, it felt rushed and should have had more screen-time. While interesting, it didn't leave a lot of room for plot advancement, and in fact made most of the book read like a collection of prequel novellas leading up to the actual beginning of the story. Okay, not really) I'm just not liking anything! Imagine a universe where the Earth has been destroyed and humanity is spread out across hundreds of planets. "Mr. Lovecraft's latest story, 'The Call of Cthulhu', is indeed a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature, " Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan the Barbarian) wrote in a letter to Weird Tales. After a great start with a gripping and surprisingly historically accurate portrayal of the Battle of Agincourt the rest of this section felt rushed.
I was also impressed how Simmons writing this in 1989 foresaw a computer network linking people, but also turning them into information overloaded cyber junkies who confuse accumulating news with taking action. Brawne Lamia is a private investigator hired by a person who claims to have been murdered before coming to her dingy office. In "The Detective's Tale, " the cybrid Keats hires the detective to investigate his own murder, where the circumstances of his death are connected to the Shrike. Critical Survey of Mystery & Detective FictionInnovations in Mystery and Detective Fiction. I wanted to love this book so bad. The violence isn't restricted to the baddies, either.
My favorite is Part 5, The Detective's Tale: "The Long Good-Bye" which begins as a noir crime fiction then transform into a cyberpunk story with a ton of action with a touch of martial arts and even romance. Borrowing its structure from the Canterbury tales, Hyperion is a literary sf tour de force, encompassing much of what I love about reading in the first place. That nevermore should I behold the blessed light of day, or scan the pleasant hills and dales of the beautiful world outside, my reason could no longer entertain the slightest unbelief. Not that his form of language was at all unusual, for he never spoke save in the debased patois of his environment; but the tone and tenor of his utterances were of such mysterious wildness, that none might listen without apprehension. The story opens with a beautiful stranger walking into the office of a tough P. I. with a request to investigate a murder. The Hegemony has become somewhat authoritarian amd paranoid following the incredible rise of intelligence in the AI systems and the menace of the Ousters who are now completely comfortable living in deep space and have developed sophisticated weapons that threaten Hegemony worlds. Nor did the thought that I had probably wandered beyond the utmost limits of an ordinary search cause me to abandon my composure even for a moment. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. They go up endless rivers, stormy seas, remote lands in aerial trams high above the ground telling stories when the pilgrims stop to rest... and finally walking slowly in the eerie valley of the Shrike to their doom, all believe still continue on holding hands one begins singing an obscure song from old Earth, everybody joins in... " We're off to see the Wizard "... A brilliant novel that of course has a sequel, three in fact. After years he began to call the slow-sailing stars by name, and to follow them in fancy when they glided regretfully out of sight; till at length his vision opened to many secret vistas whose existence no common eye suspects. It was from a youthful reverie filled with speculations of this sort that I arose one afternoon in the winter of 1900–1901, when to the state psychopathic institution in which I served as an interne was brought the man whose case has ever since haunted me so unceasingly. This story also had 2 great characters in the form of the Poet's tough, acerbic editor and the awkward, stuttering and ultimately heroic Sad King Billy. I guess the Consul's story wouldn't have been as meaningful without the greater understanding we got about the Hegemony and the Ousters, but if not knowing that meant not having this disappointing unresolved feeling that I have right now (I just finished the book a few minutes ago), I think it would have been a fair trade. On the second read, it still is.
If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you. Of course he's not the first to do this but here's what he achieves: he makes this future social construct of humans actually feel familiar. The first novella, "The Priest's Tale, " is a horror story detailing the journey of two Catholic missionaries on Hyperion who are infected with a wormlike parasite known as the cruciform. What in the world did I just read, and why didn't I read it sooner? After reading the Priest's story I wondered how this one could be topped. I am tempted to leave out as many details as I can from each pilgrim's story, letting the readers make their own choices for meaning or reason for inclusion in the overall puzzle. The Hegemony and the TechnoCore join forces against the Ousters, a group of genetically modified superhumans bent on intergalactic domination. This is another one of those classics of SF literature that I have somehow missed reading over the years. My only gripe is that while I knew there were sequels to this, I thought I was getting a complete story, and it definitely leaves a lot hanging for the next book. The world building—excuse me—worlds building is an enormous achievement.
Looking forward to the next installment! The next story, "The Scholar's Tale, " features a Jewish scholar seeking a cure for his infant daughter, who has been aging backwards after being infected by a mysterious illness that reverses the arrow of time. So I just reminded myself that this book was about the journey, and not the destination. From the medical and court documents we learned all that could be gathered of his case. In the third part of the story, "The Madness from the Sea", Thurston extends the inquiry into the "Cthulhu Cult" beyond what Professor Angell had discovered. On the third day Slater was found unconscious in the hollow of a tree, and taken to the nearest gaol; where alienists from Albany examined him as soon as his senses returned. I was a dreamy little kid who loved reading and making my own books, and more than that, I adored fairy tales. Schema on Lovecraft's »The Call of Ctuhulhu« and the Cthulhu Mythos on. Hyperion is where the 'gates' currently are, the nexus where the forces of the Hegemony and of the Ousters converge for the battle to control the ultimate mystery of the Galaxy. Labyrinthine worlds are always Earthlike, at least to 7. The urge to scream "what's not to like? " And I will read the next book in the series, Sam I Am, with a fox and in a box, because Simmons has created a very good book in Hyperion that will probably continue to be good as a series.
His scope is unlimited, and his range is cosmic. " Yet, indoctrinated as I was by a life of philosophical study, I derived no small measure of satisfaction from my unimpassioned demeanour; for although I had frequently read of the wild frenzies into which were thrown the victims of similar situations, I experienced none of these, but stood quiet as soon as I clearly realised the loss of my bearings. You can read why I came to this decision here. The Ousters are the part of humanity that preferred to live in freefall, among 'swarms' of spaceships and asteroids, instead of colonizing new planets.
When people rave about this book they should really mention that it doesn't have a real ending! The "statuette, idol, fetish, or whatever it was" closely resembled the Wilcox bas-relief: - It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. Besides, at times, when I listened carefully, I seemed to trace the falls of four instead of two feet. All the parts are great, though, these two are just my personal highlights.