Article: Ballon race. (Puzzle Pages).

Article: A Novel Approach to Marine Wind Speed Assessment ...
Weather and Forecasting;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based marine wind speed. The SAR-based wind speed fields of the current research are generated ... product described here consists of a pair of wind speed images bounding the wind speed range consistent ...

Article: Observed and CAM3 GCM Sea Surface Wind Speed ...
Journal of Climate;  December 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Climatological surface wind speed probability density functions (PDFs ... moored buoy data, all from 2000 to 2005. Wind speed mean, 90th percentile, standard deviation ... identification of a stationary pattern to the wind speed variance in the equatorial Pacific ...

Article: The analysis of design wind speed estimates ...
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... distribution fitted to annual maximum wind speed data collected up to early 1990s. The ... considers a fairly small subset of available wind speed records. Advanced statistical methods ... including additional maxima observed in wind speed time series. The objective of the paper ...

Article: Wind speed simulation using wavelets.
American Journal of Applied Sciences;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... this, there has been several studies of wind speed characteristics in different parts of ... methods and related software to study wind speed data of certain places in Saudi Arabia. Key words: Wind Speed, Simulation, Wavelets INTRODUCTION ...

Article: Nowcasting the variation of wind speed with height ...
National Weather Digest;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... level up to a few hundred feet, the wind speed normally increases with height under ... Knowledge of the vertical variation of the wind speed is important to operational meteorologists ... evacuation shelter? This increase in wind speed is often estimated operationally using ...

Article: Manual and Semiautomated Wind Direction Editing for Use in the ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... as an accurate scatterometer, yielding wind speed fields with subkilometer resolution. This wind speed generation is only possible, however ... sources has shortcomings that can lead to wind speed errors in the SAR-derived field. Manual ...

Article: Biases in wind speed estimation from ...
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  December 1, 2002 ;     689 words ...Wind speed distributions over the oceans are necessary ... winds of +/- 2 m s^sup -1^ in the wind speed range 2-24 m s^sup-1^ if the wind ... the operational range and accuracy of wind speed measured using conventional in situ instrumentation ...