Snow Albedo Feedbacks Enhance Snow Impurity‐Induced Radiative Forcing in the Sierra Nevada
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DOI: 10.1029/2022gl098102
Abstract: This study employs a fully coupled meteorology‐chemistry‐snow model to investigate the impacts of light‐absorbing particles (LAPs) on snow darkening in the Sierra Nevada. After comprehensive evaluation with spatially and temporally complete satellite retrievals, the model… read more here.
Keywords: radiative forcing; snow albedo; sierra nevada; impurity induced ... See more keywords
Making neoliberal subjects: ‘idle’ youth, precarity, and development intervention in Sierra Leone
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DOI: 10.1057/s41268-020-00200-0
Abstract: Since the end of the Sierra Leonean civil war, successive governments have designated youth as a priority area of policy intervention and proposed numerous programmes to deal with the so-called ‘idle’ youth problem in the… read more here.
Keywords: idle youth; development; sierra; intervention ... See more keywords
Tailored contraception training: Enabling implementation in Sierra Leone
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DOI: 10.1111/medu.14840
Abstract: At a low-resource small district hospital in rural Sierra Leone, there had been difficulties incorporating post-partum family planning into maternity care due to training and material challenges. Hence, there were learning needs to increase staff… read more here.
Keywords: sierra leone; sierra; tailored contraception; contraception training ... See more keywords
Late Cenozoic structure and tectonics of the southern Sierra Nevada–San Joaquin Basin transition, California
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DOI: 10.1130/ges02052.1
Abstract: This paper presents a new synthesis for the late Cenozoic tectonic, paleogeographic, and geomorphologic evolution of the southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent eastern San Joaquin Basin. The southern Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Basin contrast… read more here.
Keywords: joaquin basin; sierra; southern sierra; san joaquin ... See more keywords
A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story
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DOI: 10.1215/00138282-8237465
Abstract: This article examines an Indigenous origins narrative from central California. The text is an oral narrative about the theft of the sun by Coyote, recorded in the Central Sierra Miwok language. The article presents a… read more here.
Keywords: central sierra; origins story; sierra miwok; sierra ... See more keywords
A new species of Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) fungus-growing ant from the Sierra Madre Oriental of northeastern Mexico
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DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.706.12539
Abstract: Abstract Here we describe a new species of Trachymyrmex, T. pakawa sp. n., from the Gran Sierra Plegada range of the Sierra Madre Oriental, in the states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, northeastern Mexico. Trachymyrmex… read more here.
Keywords: species trachymyrmex; smithi; new species; sierra madre ... See more keywords