Meteorology and Aeronautics

Meteorology and Agroforestry Meteorology and Agroforestry

The physical environment affects and interacts with agroforestry systems through tree and crop growth, animal performance, management operations and interactions between the tree/shrub and non-tree components (abbreviated to tree/crop interactions). Interactions take place mainly through the media of microclimate, soil moisture and soil. They may have beneficial or adverse effects, for tree and...

Aeronautics and Astronautics

TOPICS RELATED TO ROTORCRAFTAND VERTICAL FLIGHT: The rotary wing program led by Professor Wood has worked in the following areas: Professors Wood's and Danielson's and research for 1999 and 2000 is focused on developing the capability of modeling the effects of a 23mm HEI (high explosive incendiary) inside the Comanche helicopter. Recent work at NPS has resulted in a new and powerful tool for e...

1 Meteorology and Oceanography

2 NASA Aeronautics Blueprint NASA unveiled the Aeronautics

NASA’s Aeronautics Blueprint lays out a research agenda for the Agency’s aeronautics program. The word software appears only four times in this Blueprint, but the critical importance of safe and correct software to the fulfillment of the proposed research is evident on almost every page. Most of the technology solutions proposed to address challenges in aviation are softwaredependent technologi...

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The temperature of the Earth is rising, and is highly likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The study of the effects of sustained heating on the ecosystems of theworld is necessary so thatwemight predict and respond to coming changes on both large and small spatial scales. To this end, ecosystem warming studies have been performed formore than 20 years using a variety ofmethod...