The paper presents results from an experimental and numerical study of wind-induced flows and transportation patterns in highway wet detention ponds. The study presented here is part of a general investigation on road runoff and pollution in respect to wet detention ponds. The objective is to evaluate the quality of long term simulations based on historical rain series of the pollutant discharg...

In order to provide an uncertainty estimate for short-term wind power predictions the accuracy of the underlying wind speed prediction is assessed quantitatively for different meteorological situations. With methods from synoptic climatology an automatic classification scheme is implemented using measurements of wind speed, wind direction and pressure at mean sea level to characterize the local...

Terminal guidance of autonomous parafoils is a difficult problem in which wind uncertainty and system underactuation are major challenges. Existing strategies almost exclusively use impact error as the criterion for optimality. Practical airdrop systems, however,must also includeother criteria thatmaybe evenmore important than impact error for somemissions, such as ground speed at impact or con...

TWC modes. Results indicate that the oceanic evolution for both modes is consistent with wind stress induced verticallyintegrated, meridional mass transport into and out of the equatorial Pacific—i.e. a charging and discharging of the equatorial Pacific—despite having distinctly different wind stress anomaly patterns. The process-based similarity between these two modes of tropical Pacific wind...

To clarify how root-synthesized cytokinins (CKs) are transported to young shoot organs, CK distribution patterns were analysed in free-CK-responsive ARR5::GUS transformants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. together with free plus bound CKs using specific CK monoclonal antibodies. Plants were subjected to two different growth conditions, completely protected from any air movement, or exposed ...

Swifts regularly spend the night flying at high altitude. From previous studies based on tracking radar observations, we know that they stay airborne during the night and prefer to orient themselves into the wind direction with an increased angular concentration with increasing wind speed. In this study, we investigated the orientation relative to the wind of individual swifts by frequency (dis...

The intermittency of wind resources may appear as an important handicap for integrating large-scale wind power in existing grids. However, in Canada and the United States, studies show that coordination between interconnected power systems can be economically beneficial for both the wind power and electric utility industries if some power system management and market rules are applied. In order...

Different Holocene sea-ice drift patterns in the Arctic Ocean have been hypothesized by Dyke et al. from radiometric analyses of driftwood collected in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. A dynamic-thermodynamic sea-ice model is used to simulate the modes of Arctic Ocean ice circulation for different atmospheric forcings, and hence determine the atmospheric circulations which may have accounted fo...

n-ith the aid of an electronic computer, case studirs of n-ind malyses at the 85O-and ZOO-mb. pressure levels have beet1 made. The divergent and non-divcrgetlt wind cornpotleuts resulting from the and v wind-component analyses are investigated. For thfs caws considered, the streamfunction fields are slightly superior to the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction opcxrational fields, obtained initia...