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  • Thumbnail for Passive ventilation
    buildings: wind driven ventilation and buoyancy-driven ventilation. Wind driven ventilation arises from the different pressures created by wind around a...
    26 KB (3,311 words) - 08:23, 2 June 2024
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    Whirligigs can be divided into four categories: button, friction, string, and wind-driven. Button whirligigs, also known as button spinners and buzzers, are the...
    23 KB (3,062 words) - 16:56, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ocean current
    climate zones and weather patterns around the world. They are primarily driven by winds and by seawater density, although many other factors – including the...
    30 KB (3,876 words) - 17:44, 6 June 2024
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    Windmill (redirect from Wind mill)
    to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine. His description of a wind-powered organ is not a practical windmill but was either an early wind-powered...
    46 KB (5,491 words) - 10:50, 14 June 2024
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    Two primary mechanisms transport water downward: buoyancy forcing and wind-driven Ekman transport (i.e., Ekman pumping). Downwelling has important implications...
    27 KB (3,015 words) - 20:05, 22 May 2024
  • the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes. When wind is...
    24 KB (3,206 words) - 14:50, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stellar wind
    (v = 10 km/s) winds. These include red giants and supergiants, and asymptotic giant branch stars. These winds are understood to be driven by radiation...
    5 KB (592 words) - 03:27, 3 August 2023
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    azimuth (predominantly driven by wind direction) A fully developed sea has the maximum wave size theoretically possible for a wind of specific strength...
    49 KB (6,139 words) - 18:26, 8 May 2024
  • A Wind generated current is a flow in a body of water that is generated by wind friction on its surface. Wind can generate surface currents on water bodies...
    10 KB (1,389 words) - 23:33, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of wind power
    to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine. His description of a wind-powered organ is not a practical windmill, but was either an early wind-powered...
    48 KB (5,725 words) - 12:55, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ocean gyre
    largest ocean gyres are wind-driven, meaning that their locations and dynamics are controlled by the prevailing global wind patterns: easterlies at the...
    63 KB (8,074 words) - 08:47, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ventifact
    ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals...
    6 KB (619 words) - 22:08, 22 May 2024
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    Transactions, American Geophysical Union: "The Westward Intensification of Wind-Driven Ocean Currents", in which he used a simple, homogeneous, rectangular...
    15 KB (2,033 words) - 18:20, 21 October 2023
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    buildings: wind driven ventilation and buoyancy-driven ventilation. Wind driven ventilation arises from the different pressures created by wind around a...
    99 KB (10,057 words) - 02:14, 1 July 2024
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    four-bladed 23-metre (75 ft) diameter rotors. By 1908, there were 72 wind-driven electric generators operating in the United States from 5 kilowatts (kW)...
    85 KB (9,082 words) - 23:43, 22 June 2024
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    Cross ventilation (category Wind)
    area. Cross ventilation is a wind-driven effect and requires no energy, in addition to being the most effective method of wind ventilation. A commonly used...
    13 KB (1,744 words) - 08:22, 2 June 2024
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    The Canary Current is a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre. This eastern boundary current branches south from the North...
    8 KB (1,040 words) - 08:40, 17 November 2023
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
    123 KB (10,954 words) - 03:05, 27 June 2024
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    horizontal current appear to twist as the depth changes. The oceanic wind driven Ekman spiral is the result of a force balance created by a shear stress...
    10 KB (1,851 words) - 06:25, 5 June 2024
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    direction. As the wind moves across the water's surface, it applies a shear stress to the water, prompting the formation of a wind-driven current. When this...
    7 KB (981 words) - 07:12, 17 February 2024
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