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WISE - Weather Impacts on Natural Social and Economic Systems
Europe. A Project of the European Commission DGXII ...
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Eco-Pros Grasslands and Prairies
The Story of the catastrophic 8-year drought and great dust storms that led to a mass exodus from the Great Plains of ... and a series of major wind storms swept over the Great Plains and the Southwest creating huge smothering dust storms. The soil in the ... unable to withstand such a long drought period and unusually severe wind storms. The government set up programs to help restore the land, ...
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Clean Air Online -
Low-impact renewable energy, such as from the sun and wind, or other types of alternative fuels, such as biodiesels, are becoming an increasingly important ... dependency on the energy-electricity life cycle when it reveals its vulnerability during ice and wind storms, or after unexpected events. Blackouts, or the complete loss of power, are often localized, but ...
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EnviroZine - Features - Canada's Top Ten Weather Stories for 2007
Prairies witnessed a record number of severe summer weather warnings, with tornadoes, intense rainfalls, wind storms and hail storms. August's destructive hailstorm in Dauphin, Manitoba, for example, was only one of 279 ...
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QuikSCAT Wind Retrieval Ambiguity Selection Quality Assurance
Because the QA algorithm is effective in locating unnatural breaks in the wind flow, areas with realistic fine-scale wind features (such as storms and fronts) may be flagged while ambiguity selection errors resulting in consistent wind flow may not. [ ...
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Mount Washington Observatory – The Story of the World Record Wind
Before the week was out, those men would not only get another severe taste of winter, they would be a part of one of the most intense storms ... to experience during the next 48 hours one of the worst storms ever recorded in the history of any observatory." - Log Book entry, ... Trace on Mount Washington The Impact of the Wind The Story of the World Record Wind The 1997 Challenge to the Record The Old ...
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Weather -- Powerful Storms
Earth's surface. These storms can vary from relatively mild rainstorms to very damaging storms that feature hail and high wind. Thunderstorms form when warm air rises from Earth ... short in duration (normally only a few minutes long). Though these storms are localized, they can be extremely violent. The wind speed inside a tornado's funnel can exceed 200 miles per ...
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Oceans Alive! | Oceans in Motion | Wind and Waves
When wind blows over the ocean's surface, it creates waves. Their size depends on how far, how fast and how long the wind blows. A brief, gently breeze forms patches of tiny ripples on the ... waves. But even when you feel no wind at all, you may encounter large swells created by distant storms. In the open sea, waves make floating ...
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Natural Hazards.org: Investigate: Wind
This page is available for sponsorship! (more information here) WHAT is wind? Wind is commonly associated with tornadoes, hurricanes, and other storms. However, damaging wind events ... of Transportation maintains a network of over 100 weather stations that include wind speed and wind direction measurements. Such stations help meteorologists issue advisories to the public, ...
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Wind creation, sea breeze.
My Books Blog Downloads Bioweather Indoor Air Aviation RC Gliding Wind When the wind blows What is in the book? Chapter: Violent Weather Wind Cyclones/hurricanes Tornados Thunderstorms Lightning Floods Global Warming More ... few minutes to flatten your home, a cyclone threatens many kilometres of coastline, while winter storms bring traffic to a halt.
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