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From:Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of ScienceCurrent observations across the inner-shelf of North Carolina are used to examine the physical mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of large subtle bedforms identified in high-resolution seafloor mapping studies...
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From:Science (Vol. 290, Issue 5497) Peer-ReviewedThe Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is where tropical easterly winds, known to sailors as "tradewinds," converge over the oceans. The ITCZ moves back and forth across the equator in an annual cycle, its position...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 13, Issue 2-3)from First New York 2013 The wind blows without notice, anywhere in our city far beyond, The colonial film goes on for so many uncountable decades. We all talk without really saying anything, just the same talk...
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From:Oceanus (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTasiilaq, Greenland, Friday, Feb. 6, 1970. 6 p.m. Dead silence falls over Tasiilaq. Whatever midwinter daylight appeared briefly in this village on the southeast coast of Greenland is long gone, leaving the...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 36, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIf natural windbreaks create air turbulence and can help disperse odours from livestock operations, their dispersion effect has not been extensively researched. This paper introduces a model simulating odour dispersion...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Mary Borderies, Olivier Caumont, Julien DelanoÃ,«,, Vé,ronique Ducrocq, Nadia Fourrié, To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 99, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACTS This article presents the prospects of measurement systems for wind hazards and turbulence at airports, which have been explored in the Ultrafast Wind Sensors (UFO) project. At France's Toulouse-Blagnac...
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From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 15, Issue 22) Peer-ReviewedAerosols affect the atmosphere through direct interaction with short-wave and long-wave radiation and the microphysical properties of clouds. In this paper we report in detail on several mechanisms by which the...
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From:Nature (Vol. 440, Issue 7080) Peer-ReviewedHelping the public understand climate change is an important part of tackling the problem. Spring books? With so much news and comment in the media about Kyoto, global warming and the rest, there is a clear need...
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From:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-ReviewedA subtropical squall line moved from Guangxi to Guangdong province in South China on 23-24 April 2007, which resulted in gale and heavy precipitation. The three-dimensional (3D) wind field of the squall line in its...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 96, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI When I was still too young to form more than simple sentences, I lived in Glasgow, Montana. Wind washed like a tide through the tall grasses of this arid country. Over the air force base--long since...
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From:Science (Vol. 307, Issue 5707) Peer-ReviewedThe past three Septembers have seen the Arctic ice pack shrink dramatically to a record low amid signs that greenhouse warming could be melting the ice, threatening to clear the Arctic Ocean within decades. Researchers...
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From:Science (Vol. 301, Issue 5631) Peer-ReviewedIs the stratosphere, the atmospheric layer between about 10 and 50 km, important for predicting changes in weather and climate? The traditional view is that the stratosphere is a passive recipient of energy and waves...
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From:Antigonish Review (Issue 158) Peer-ReviewedWind can dart through the trees as wind-squirrel: limb after limb bending while the creature rummages the foliage of hazel or scrub maple, scuffles amid their branches whose leaves tremble, ends bob and sway. Other...
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From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 49, Issue 1)The porter at the Royal Hotel in Smith Street, Durban, likes to read poetry. I gave him my latest collection in lieu of a tip for carrying my three bags all the way to the thirteenth floor. Room Thirteen Thirty-One....
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 98, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the tropopause--the boundary layer between the troposphere and the stratosphere--is important in climate research, because the temperature there influences the amount of water vapor reaching the...
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From:Advances in Science and Research (Vol. 15) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sigalit Berkovic To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:Estonian Journal of Engineering (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedChanges in the location, instrumentation and measurement times are documented for three Estonian meteorological stations during the last century. These metadata were used to check if such changes have introduced...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 38, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedUse of the gust factor approach is an acceptable practice in evaluating wind- induced structural responses. The gust factor concept was developed by Alan G. Davenport in a series of studies published in the early 1960s....
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From:Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Vol. 58, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Continuous carbon dioxide ([CO.sub.2]) measurements over the period 2004-2005 for a rural area in the upper Spanish plateau were examined to characterize the influence of sources and sinks. The diurnal...