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    A wind profiler is a type of weather observing equipment that uses radar or sound waves (SODAR) to detect the wind speed and direction at various elevations...
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  • Look up profiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Profiler or profiling may refer to: Profiler (TV series), an NBC television drama series about a...
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  • The log wind profile is a semi-empirical relationship commonly used to describe the vertical distribution of horizontal mean wind speeds within the lowest...
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  • The wind profile power law is a relationship between the wind speeds at one height, and those at another. The wind profile power law relationship is u...
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    instrument used as a wind profiler based on the scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence. Sodar equipment is used to measure wind speed at various...
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  • many other facilities such as Mie/Rayleigh Lidar, Lower atmospheric wind profiler, optical rain gauge, disdrometer, and automated weather stations were...
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    Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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    to a radar wind profiler or to a sodar system. In the former case, the necessary acoustic subsystems must be added to the radar wind profiler to generate...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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    acquired Tycho Technologies Inc. of USA, manufacturer of upper air wind profiler.[citation needed] August 1989: the Group acquired the British Thermal...
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    one form of wind profiler, which measures the scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence. Sodar systems are used to measure wind speed at various...
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  • In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient or wind velocity gradient, or alternatively shear wind, is the vertical component...
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    parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground. In the log wind profile, it is equivalent to the...
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    Jonas Older Wind (born 7 February 1999) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Denmark national...
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    observation and surface weather analysis Weather radar Weather satellite Wind profiler Naylor, Simon (2024). The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain...
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    figure to the left, at the top is a view of a thunderstorm taken by a wind profiler as it was passing overhead. This is like a vertical cross section through...
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    maximum or peak wind speed exceeds the average wind speed by 10–15 knots (12–17 mph). wind profiler wind shear Any difference in wind speed and/or direction...
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    the melting of snow or ice in the layer below that's above 0 °C. A wind profiler, an upward pointing radar, can detect the speed of precipitation, which...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (abbreviated as EW&F or EWF) is an American music band formed in 1969. Their music spans the multiple genres, including jazz, R&B, soul...
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    Wind turbine design is the process of defining the form and configuration of a wind turbine to extract energy from the wind. An installation consists...
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    Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship,...
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  • and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Dark Winds. His feature films include The Cowboys (1972), Powwow Highway...
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  • there is a wind gradient in the wind flow ~100 meters above the Earth's surface—the surface layer of the planetary boundary layer. Wind speed increases...
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    Wind power generation capacity in India has significantly increased in recent years. As of 31 March 2024, the total installed wind power capacity was 45...
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    periods. Nowcasting in meteorology uses surface weather station data, wind profiler data, and any other weather data available to initialize the current...
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  • Liquid Level Sensor Dual Polarization LIDAR- DPL Lower Atmospheric Wind Profiler-LAWP Precision Tapping Attachment Photosynthesis Irradiance incubation...
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  • converted to precipitation intensity through calibration to rain gauges Wind profiler – precipitation vertical and horizontal motion, vertical cross-section...
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  • (from ground to cloud base). Whirlwind Wind Windstorm Wind direction Wind profiler Wind shear Wind speed Wind Science and Engineering Research Center...
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    Service (NWS) Cooperative Observers, aircraft, ships, radiosondes, wind profilers, rocketsondes, solar radiation networks, and NWS Forecast/Warnings/Analyses...
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    Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the...
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