Sentences with phrase «from upwind»

A recently completed wake - steering experiment at the Sandia National Laboratories Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility has successfully demonstrated that the wake from an upwind turbine can be steered away from a downwind turbine by yawing the upwind turbine.

Liu et al used observations of CO from the MOPITT instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite to identify CO2 released from upwind wildfires.

Not exact matches

The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.

«We find that fires that are upwind from population centers increase pollution levels in those areas and other fires don't increase pollution nearly as much,» Vogl said.

Be sure there is good airflow and always stand upwind of the flame (so that the breeze carries the smoke away from you).

Drawing on evidence from a Pennsylvania power plant located upwind of New Jersey, the researchers studied live singleton births that occurred from 1990 to 2006 in the area downwind of the plant.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

We avoid the bug and mosquito problem by never putting anchor down within at least a couple of miles upwind from the nearest cay.

While sitting on one of the many decks with the Trade Winds blowing from the East and looking at Coral Bay 1,000 feet below, the sensation is reminiscent of riding the bow of a sailing ship on an upwind -LSB-...]

A nearby circuit showed higher methane upwind of a pad than downwind, indicating a source outside the target area, possibly from nearby mine vents.

We spent all of that day in a harbor along the other side of the bay (upwind of the volcano), scrubbing and hosing and prying and scraping the muddy, crunching mess from the decks and from every conceivable crevice on the boat.

You can strategically place a bush or a fence upwind of the coils to block the unit from high winds.

And compare that to the CO2 levels for the same days at Mauna Loa (or you can take data from anyware, away from local sources): Note: while we used the same scale as for Diekirch, the MLO data are the raw hourly CO2 levels, without pre - or postprocessing, thus including local influences of upwind conditions (depleted by vegetation at about -2 ppmv).

But if you look at the temperature record of several stations upwind and downwind the industrial area's, there is hardly any difference over a long period, except for a stepwise change in 1989, which is directly atributable to the switch of the NAO from negative to strong positive.

Local circumstances over land are local vegetation, traffic, heating,... Which with some precautions (upwind from the base, don't take flask samples with the wind in your back: exhaled air contains 20,000 ppmv CO2...) don't exist at the South Pole.

For example, the passage of the heliosphere through a cloud with a neutral hydrogen density of 11 cm − 3 rather than the present value of about 0.2 cm − 3 would shrink the termination shock from about 90 AU in the upwind direction to only 14 AU.»

A study by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that residents of Port Arthur were four times more likely than people just 100 miles upwind to report suffering from heart and respiratory conditions; nervous system and skin disorders; headaches and muscle aches; and ear, nose, and throat ailments.

«Whilst the aerodynamic noise from a rotating turbine blade produces energy in the infrasound range, measurements of infrasound noise emissions from modern upwind turbines indicates that at distances of 200 metres, infrasound is in the order of 25 dB below the recognised perception threshold of 85 dB (G) and other similar recognised perception thresholds (Hayes Mckenzie Partnership Ltd, 2006).

I was standing just above a seemingly endless sea of wind driven fog which continuously disappeared just a few feet upwind from where I was standing.