Sentences with phrase «larger peak wind»

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Hurricanes, the largest and most damaging weather events, peak in late autumn, when winds coming off the coast of West Africa meet thunderstorms clustered over the warm tropical ocean.

These stars also have large Halpha equivalent widths, and either centrally peaked, lumpy Halpha emission profiles or profiles with blue - shifted absorption dips associated with disk or stellar winds.

A must visit feature on Fraser Island is the large towering cliffs of spectacular multicoloured sands sculptured by the wind into huge peaks.

Levelised Costs of Electricity (LCOEs) provide one way of comparing the costs of technologies, although it is widely recognized that there are large ranges of values for each technology, and that other important factors such as daily peak pricing and the system value of wind and solar also come in to play.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

The sea ice in the Siberian Arctic is peaking, its effect on the meridional temperature gradient strong, promoting increased zonal flow of large - scale winds, which advect warm air and moisture over the Eurasian continent from the Atlantic and disrupt vertical stratification near the surface and promote high cloudiness, both of which lead to increasing temperatures — greatest at low altitudes and high latitudes.

Combining wind with the large amounts of solar generation expected to be added to the Queensland grid, will allow a higher penetration of renewable energy at lower costs while reducing the need for storage and other peaking capacity across the network.»

Because Meranti is so large, its central pressure is even lower than would be the case for a smaller storm that had the same peak winds.

Wind farms and solar require backup power almost as large as their own output and the backup is usually of the more expensive type for fast peak switching.

«Among the different spectral peaks thus discriminated, the one at frequency 1.7 Hz has associated the greatest power, and under particular conditions it can be observed at distances as large as 11 km from the wind park.»

The largest city park, Mount Helena, has over 630 acres of trails, many of which start at the base of the mountain and wind their way to the peak which is over 1,000 feet above the park.