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  • Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. On...
    49 KB (4,787 words) - 21:26, 14 May 2024
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    Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...
    106 KB (12,802 words) - 02:08, 29 April 2024
  • The amount of heat energy received at any location on the globe is a direct effect of Sun angle on climate, as the angle at which sunlight strikes Earth...
    4 KB (433 words) - 09:36, 10 August 2023
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    the azimuthal angle φ of the radial line r. The polar angle θ is measured between the z-axis and the radial line r. The azimuthal angle φ is measured...
    42 KB (6,293 words) - 14:39, 9 May 2024
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    60° apex angle of the hexagonal ice prisms, it is deflected twice, resulting in deviation angles ranging from 22° to 50°. Given the angle of incidence...
    8 KB (956 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
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    The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County,...
    25 KB (2,703 words) - 08:11, 9 May 2024
  • Angle Inlet is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Angle Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. Its...
    11 KB (424 words) - 19:03, 30 April 2024
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    electronic distance measurement (EDM) to measure both vertical and horizontal angles and the slope distance from the instrument to a particular point, and an...
    13 KB (1,548 words) - 17:26, 1 April 2024
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    adverse weather conditions. Historically, various forms of dirt, rocks, sand, and crushed cinders were used. Many examples of these varieties of track still...
    14 KB (1,358 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
  • Weathering with You (Japanese: 天気の子, Hepburn: Tenki no Ko, lit. 'Child of Weather') is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed...
    98 KB (7,918 words) - 21:36, 28 April 2024
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    Canadian weather radar network consists of 33 weather radars spanning Canada's most populated regions. Their primary purpose is the early detection of precipitation...
    34 KB (2,256 words) - 20:30, 25 April 2024
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    any of the reflectivity angles of the NEXRAD weather radar. In the Composite, the highest intensities amongst those available in the different angles above...
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  • typically defined as the center of the additional pressure field due to a change in the angle of attack off of the trim angle of attack. For unguided rockets...
    12 KB (1,781 words) - 07:19, 13 May 2024
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    Space weather is a branch of space physics and aeronomy, or heliophysics, concerned with the varying conditions within the Solar System and its heliosphere...
    64 KB (7,946 words) - 06:50, 13 May 2024
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    the prediction of energy generation from solar power plants, the heating and cooling loads of buildings, climate modeling and weather forecasting, passive...
    56 KB (6,854 words) - 18:02, 27 April 2024
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    waves from one weather system continue despite a shift in wind. Waves generated by the new wind run at an angle to the old. Two weather systems that are...
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    Numerical weather prediction (NWP) uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions. Though...
    67 KB (7,233 words) - 17:19, 15 November 2023
  • time. Any action that reduces the angle of heel of a boat that is reaching or beating to windward will help reduce weather helm. Racing sailors use their...
    6 KB (1,001 words) - 14:39, 26 February 2023
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    Horizon (redirect from Horizon zenith angle)
    where ϕ {\displaystyle \phi \,\!} is the angle between the ray and a line through the center of the Earth. The angles ψ and ϕ {\displaystyle \phi \,\!} are...
    28 KB (3,996 words) - 20:42, 31 March 2024
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    TIROS-1 (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    full-scale weather satellite (the Vanguard 2 satellite was the first experimental/prototype weather satellite), the first of a series of Television Infrared...
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