ELECTROPHILIC HALOGENATION OF nido-5,6-C^sub 2^B^sub 8^H^sub 12^

Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Room-temperature chlorination of the dicarbaborane nido-5,6-C^sub 2^B^sub 8^H^sub 12^ (1) with CCl^sub 4^ in the presence of anhydrous AlCl^sub 3^ yielded a mixture of 7-Cl-5,6-C^sub 2^B^sub 8^H...

POLYHEDRAL MONOCARBABORANE CHEMISTRY. FUNCTIONALITY AND ISOMERISM:...

Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Reaction of NC^sub 5^H^sub 4^-2-NH^sub 2^ with the [6-Ph-nido-6-CB^sub 9^H^sub 11^]^sup -^ anion (1) in the presence of hydrated FeCl^sub 3^ gives [6-Ph-9-(NC^sub 5^H^sub 4^-2-NH^sub 2^)-arachno-6-CB^sub 9^H^sub 12^] (4) and thence ...

Global Variations in Oceanic Evaporation (1958-2005): The Role of the...

Journal of Climate;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......air-sea variables [i.e., wind speed (U) and air-sea humidity...way is direct: the greater wind speed induces more evaporation...air movement related to wind speed and surface roughness facilitates...following relation: Evp = c^sub e^U(q^sub s^ - q^sub a...the ...

100-Year Return Value Estimates for Ocean Wind Speed and Significant Wave...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of 100-yr return values of wind speed and significant wave height...significant wave height and wind speed data belong to the domain...significant wave height and wind speed on the prediction of their...ideal for the study of extreme wind and wave phenomena over ...

Biases in wind speed estimation from satellite-based remote sensing

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  December 1, 2002 ;     445 words ...Wind speed distributions over the oceans are necessary...10-m winds of +/- 2 m s^sup -1^ in the wind speed range 2-24 m s^sup-1^ if the wind direction...the operational range and accuracy of wind speed measured using conventional in situ instrumentation...

Modeling of the Solubilities of NiO/NiAl^sub 2^O^sub 4^ and FeO/FeAl^sub...

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Experiments to measure the solubilities of NiOTNiAl^sub 2^O^sub 4^ and FeO/FeAl^sub 2^O^sub 4^ were performed, and the results confirmed existing literature values. The solubilities of NiAl^sub...

A Novel Approach to Marine Wind Speed Assessment Using Synthetic Aperture...

Weather and Forecasting;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......The corresponding range of possible SAR-based wind speed is large enough to have operational significance...aperture radar (SAR) can be used to produce marine wind speed fields1 that are comparable to those provided...Thus, SAR has the potential to provide detail in wind speed fields ...

Nowcasting the variation of wind speed with height using gust factor...

National Weather Digest;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......v.sub.1]([z.sub.2]/[z.sub.1])[.sup.P] (1) where [v.sub.1] is the reference (or known) wind speed (e.g., from ASOS...known height of [z.sub.1] (e.g., 10 m), [v.sub.2] is the wind speed needed at the height of [z.sub.2], and P is the...

A two-parameter wind speed algorithm for Ku-band altimeters

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......sigma^sup O^, H^sub S^ and observed...indicates that H^sub S^ is a limited...altimeter ocean wind speed retrieval using...minimization of wind speed biases and rootmean-squa...such that the wind speed histogram is not...operational altimeter wind speed ...

Questions & answers. (Mind games).(wind speed and time zones)(Brief...

Geographical;  April 1, 2002 ;     403 words ...FAST AS THE WIND What is the fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth and where was this? How is wind speed measured? Wind speed is usually measured using an anemometer. There are many varieties but the traditional cup-type anemometer works on...

Atmospheric Circulation Effects on Wind Speed Variability at Turbine...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Mean monthly wind speed at 70 m above ground level is investigated...as 12 months. Monthly variation in wind speed primarily is determined by the north-sou...depending on the site). Regression on wind speed residuals (pressure gradient effects...

Manual and Semiautomated Wind Direction Editing for Use in the Generation...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......scatterometer, yielding wind speed fields with subkilometer resolution. This wind speed generation is only possible...shortcomings that can lead to wind speed errors in the SAR-derived...increases with near-surface wind speed. Wind direction also affects...of the ...

A Combined Physical-Statistical Approach for the Downscaling of Model Wind...

Weather and Forecasting;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the downscaling of model wind speed is assessed. The key factor...valid conditions. For wind speed, the RM is primarily determined...produce high-resolution wind speed fields. Using a 3-yr dataset...conditions, such as high wind speed cases. (ProQuest Information...or ...

An Examination of Tropical and Extratropical Gust Factors and the...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......ratio between a peak wind gust and mean wind speed over a period of time, can be used along...extratropical systems. Using high-resolution wind speed data collected from both landfalling...associated tropical and extratropical wind speed histograms. As expected, the mean gust...

Beck's graphs associated with [Z.sub.n] and their characteristic...

International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT In this paper, the graphs G([Z.sub.n]) associated with the residue class rings [Z.sub.n] defined by I. Beck (?) where the vertices set [Z.sub.n] and the edges set such that an edge [a, b] if and only if ab = 0 for two distinct vertices a...