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A retrospective on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was intermittent, with extended quiet periods separated by three clusters of activity. The broad‐scale conditions were often unfavourable for cyclogenesis and common drivers of activity such as La Niña were weak, but well above‐average sea temperatures still supported intense storms.
Charles W. Powell
wiley   +1 more source

Chaetognath species composition from a coral reef lagoon in the Mexican Caribbean Sea

open access: yes, 2016
Se examinan los resultados de muestreos mensuales de zooplancton de enero a diciembre de 1991, en dos estaciones en la laguna arrecifal de Puerto Morelos, México. Las especies encontradas fueron: Ferosagitta hispida, Flaccisagitta enflata, Flaccisagitta hexaptera, Krohnitta pacifica, Pterosagitta draco, Sagitta bipunctata, S.
Ramírez Avila, Yazmín   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Reassessing sixteenth and seventeenth century written accounts of hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
wiley   +1 more source

Field guide to requiem sharks (Elasmobranchiomorphi: Carcharhinidae) of the Western North Atlantic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Identification problems are common for many sharks due to a general lack of meristic characteristics that are typically useful for separating species. Other than number of vertebrae and number and shape of teeth, identifications are frequently based on ...
Grace, Mark
core  

Epidemiological Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Mortality in Severe Burns: A 32‐Year Analysis (1993–2024) From a National Referral Center in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Severe burns represent a major public health burden in middle‐income countries. This study describes the epidemiological profile and identifies independent prognostic factors for in‐hospital mortality in patients with severe burns treated at the national referral center of the Dominican Republic over a 32‐year period.
José Enrique Cueva‐Ramírez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diurnal variability of tropical rainfall retrieved from combined GOES and TRMM satellite information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Recent progress in satellite remote-sensing techniques for precipitation estimation, along with more accurate tropical rainfall measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR ...
Gao, X   +6 more
core   +1 more source

First Non‐Invasive Monitoring of Fecal Steroids in Greater Caribbean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
This study established the first fecal hormonal reference values (P4/E2) for the Greater Caribbean manatee. Using non‐invasive ELISA, the authors found no significant differences between mature and immature females, highlighting that long‐term monitoring and ultrasounds are essential to fully understand their complex reproductive cycles.
Vanessa Bermúdez‐Cardona   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Review of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This is a rather loose collection of cuentos, or stories, by a person of two very different worlds. In the years of her youth, Judith Ortiz was shuttled between Paterson, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.
Costanzo, Angelo
core   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

A new estuarine species, Nereis garwoodi (Polychaeta: Nereididae), from Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2003
Nereis garwoodi n. sp. is described on the basis of eight syntype specimens (six atokous and two heteronereis) collected in Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast, and the variability in the paragnath numbers in the pharynx is established using 180 ...
Luis E. González-Escalante   +1 more
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