The Desert Wind was an Amtrak long-distance passenger train that ran from 1979 to 1997. It operated from Chicago to Los Angeles as a section of the California...
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and the resulting fragments and rubble strewn over the desert floor are further eroded by the wind. This picks up particles of sand and dust, which can...
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The Desert Wind Farm, also known as Amazon Wind Farm US East, spans Perquimans and Pasquotank County on the Atlantic coastal plain in northeast North...
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Desert Wind is an album by the Israeli singer Ofra Haza, released in 1989. Popular in Israel, Haza was unknown in the rest of the world until the previous...
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perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction in coastal and desert locations. Insects drift along with the prevailing wind, but the flight of birds is less...
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clay shapes dotting the landscape, sculpted by the desert wind. The region encompassing the desert, however, has many diverse features. Ephemeral rivers...
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Aeolian processes (redirect from Wind erosion)
desert pavement, a sheet-like surface of rock fragments that remains after wind and water have removed the fine particles. The rock mantle in desert pavements...
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and Desert Wind at Denver in 1991, while the Desert Wind continued splitting from the Zephyr at Salt Lake City.: 148–150 The Pioneer and Desert Wind were...
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dictionary. Ghibli (Italian: ghibli, also used in English), the name of a hot desert wind also known as sirocco, derived from Libyan Arabic (قبلي, 'gibli'). Ghibli...
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Desert Winds is an album by saxophonist Illinois Jacquet with guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1964 and released on the Argo label. Allmusic awarded...
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or southeasterly wind which blows on the southernmost part of Morocco, a hot and dry wind coming from the Sahara Desert. This wind can be compared with...
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Angeles from inland desert regions". Santa Ana winds originate from high-pressure airmasses over the Great Basin and upper Mojave Desert. Any low-pressure...
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2009-06-03. "Desert wind pattern in Iraq to shift in next two months". Weather Corner. ggweather.com. Retrieved 9 December 2006. "Shamal winds drive Middle...
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Hotel & Casino and was in service from 1971 until the demise of the Desert Wind in 1997. Prior to the construction of the casino, part of the site was...
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received critical acclaim for the albums Fifty Gates of Wisdom (1984), Desert Wind (1989), Kirya (1992) and Ofra Haza (1997).[citation needed] In 1992,...
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structures formed by wind moving sediments into mounds. Desert dunes are generally classified based on their orientation relative to wind directly. Possibly...
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Eastern wind coming from the south and southeast) Simoom (Samiel) (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia)...
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Brightline West (redirect from Desert express)
lost its last passenger train service in 1997 when Amtrak canceled the Desert Wind. In September 2018, Fortress Investment Group, which owns an inter-city...
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The Desert Sky Wind Farm is a 160.5 megawatt (MW) wind power station near the far West Texas town of Iraan, in Pecos County. The wind farm consists of...
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of desert pavements. A common theory suggests that they form through the gradual removal of sand, dust and other fine-grained material by the wind and...
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Africa from 1937 to 1943. Its nickname, 'Ghibli', refers to a Libyan desert wind. The Caproni Ca.309 was designed by Cesare Pallavicino, based on the...
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the Southern Crescent, to Amtrak, who renamed it the Crescent. The Desert Wind also entered service in 1979. In 1981 the Capitol Limited began service...
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other forms of arid vegetation, reducing the harmful effects of dust and desert wind. The city was once a major center of Islamic scholarship and education...
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"the 3D technology will really help in elevating the overall mood. The desert wind, a small movement of the goat, the loneliness of Najeeb ... the 3D tool...
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to the name "the Storm" after a legal conflict in the United States. Desert Winds, his next album, was released under his own name, even though the members...
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Desert Winds High School was an intervention/retention high school in Casa Grande, Arizona. There are two sessions in the school: Credit Recovery and Alternative...
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Harry And The Mountain," which was recorded in 1980 by Ron Shaw & The Desert Wind Band. Musicians Ron Allen and Steve Asplund wrote a country rock song...
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Erg (landform) (redirect from Erg desert)
sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover. The word is derived...
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
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Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, suggested that some seif dunes form when a barchan dune moves into a bidirectional wind regime, and one arm or wing...
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