Vapor kinetic energy for the detection and understanding of atmospheric rivers.

Poleward water vapor transport in the midlatitudes mainly occurs in meandering filaments of intense water vapor transport, spanning thousands of kilometers long and hundreds of kilometers wide and moving eastward. The water vapor filaments are known as atmospheric rivers (ARs). They can cause extreme wind gusts, intense precipitation, and flooding along densely populated coastal regions.

Investigation of Upper Respiratory Carriage of Bacterial Pathogens among University Students in Kampar, Malaysia.

The carriage of bacterial pathogens in the human upper respiratory tract (URT) is associated with a risk of invasive respiratory tract infections, but the related epidemiological information on this at the population level is scarce in Malaysia. This study aimed to investigate the URT carriage of , , , , and among 100 university students by nasal and oropharyngeal swabbing. The presence of , and was assessed via swab culture on selective media and PCR on the resulting isolates.