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Storm Surge Low Lying
979 wordsHurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are a major hazard in the Tropics. Every year, some 80 occurrences claim, on average, 20 000 lives and cause immense damage to property, natural vegetation, and shipping. A hurricane is a large rotating storm around a centre of very low pressure with values of 950 mb or lower. Most systems have a diameter of about 650 km, less than half that of a mid-latitude depression. Wind speeds often exceed 33 m per second (119 km per hour) and, in the most intense hurrica...
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647 wordsWhy There Are Different Climates In Different Places Why Are There Different Climates Different Places The main factor that determines the climates of any place is its distance from the equator. This is because sun never rises high. Therefore the places close to the equator remains warm. Temperature typically decreases as altitude increases. At high altitudes the air is less dense, and it does not absorb and hold as much heat. On the average, the temperature drops about 3. 5 Fahrenheit for every...
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1,499 wordsFacts. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. Types Of Tornadoes. The average tornado is usually spli...
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Dust Particles Magnetic Fields
2,093 words... planet from the Sun and is the third largest in the solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 51, 800 kilometers (32, 190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84. 01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2. 87 billion kilometers (1. 78 billion miles). The length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours 14 minutes. Uranus has at least 22 moons. The atmosphere of Uranus is composed of 83 % hydrogen, 15 % helium, 2 % methane and small amounts of acetylene and other hydrocarbons. Methan...
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People Were Killed Early Morning
1,040 wordsA tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earths surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100 mph or less. In +F 4 's they can exceed 250 mph. They usually stay on a track of a few miles or less and are less than 100 yds. wide. For the development of tornadoes there are a few conditions required. An abundant low-level of moisture and unstable atmosp...
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Storm Surge Low Lying
970 wordsO The Caribbean region and the South Eastern United States of America are regularly subjected to the impact of tropical hurricanes; (A) Briefly outline characteristics of such hurricanes. The hurricanes that occur over the Caribbean region and the United States of America usually eventuate between August and October. For these hurricanes to occur the surrounding ocean temperatures must be minimal, also there must be a prolonged spell of equable temperature, pressure and humidity in the lower tro...
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Los Angeles County Santa Ana
1,327 wordsHuman beings are able to adapt to almost any environment, unfortunately sometimes we take advantage of our natural surroundings. We find ourselves amidst a struggle between our lifestyles and nature. Although we affect nature profoundly with our activities, we in turn are shaped by nature's potent forces. Nature can be brutal to humans, but we must remember that it merely is following its course. As a result, we must learn to coexist with it. Fire is a naturally occurring phenomenon which humans...
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Eastern And Western Prevailing Winds
2,110 wordsEnergy Conservation through Landscaping The outline Background on Energy usage current Energy strategies alternative energy strategies Energy Conserving Landscape Landscape Changes tempering the sun sculpting the wind possible solutions for temperature increasing and decreasing Landscaping Alternatives Planting Landscape adjustments Using windbreaks to shape the wind Planning your plantings Quick fixes for climate control Conclusions Until recently global energy use was increasing rapidly, and s...
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Hundred Years Ago Greek Gods
1,408 wordsThe World is Too Much With Us "The world is Too Much With Us" is a very strong and emotional poem. This poem was written almost two hundred years ago. William Wordsworth loved nature and based many of his poems on it. He uses very strong diction to get his point and feelings across. This poem expresses Wordsworth's feeling about nature and religion. It contains a melodic rhythm. Each line and each word were chosen very carefully to express his thoughts and feelings. His references to God and Gre...
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Forty Five Knot Winds Five Knot Winds Cobi
746 wordsCreative Writing: The Wind in His Sail Ahh, theres no wind today, sighed Cobi as he tacked his sail around and headed for the shore. Cobi was a sailor. Cobi wasnt a typical sailor, Cobi was a National Championship winning sailor. A sailor who thrived on high winds and rough seas, who has accomplished everything there is to accomplish in Canadian sailing. He is the envy of every young sailor and child. They wish, aspire, and dream to be like Cobi. Hii Cooobiii, wines Julie. Julie just happened to...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
1,472 wordsDangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the lives of people around the world for years. This research paper is going to state some of the worst floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry land. The two types of floods are coastal and river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic in this research paper. A coastal flood is the flooding of beaches and surrounding areas; including bar spit...
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Opposite Direction Jet Stream
1,782 wordsEconomical Effects of El Ni? o El Ni? o is a warm coastal current that flows south along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru (Wyrtki). El Ni? o is a Spanish term meaning the child. The name refers to the Christ child because it usually begins around Christmas and ends around Easter (Cane). El Ni? o has recurred about twenty four times in the last century (Erickson). It is first recorded as far back as the early 1500 s and returns on average of once every four years (Cane). El Ni? o causes much destru...
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Tropical Storm Wind Speeds
2,645 wordsKauia Hurricane Iniki Hurricane Iniki Kauia County, Hawaii consists of the islands of Kauia and Niihau. Kauia is a 555 -square-mile island with a population of about 57, 000 people. Lihue, the largest city on Kauia, is home to an estimated 12, 000 people. Kauia is one of the wettest spots on Earth with an annual rainfall averaging 400 inches. It has seven microclimate's including desert-like conditions on the west to tropical rain forests in the interior. Many species of endangered or threatened...
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Tropical Storms Pacific Ocean
456 wordsTropical CYCLONE formed Hurricanes Hurricanes Tropical CYCLONE formed over the North Atlantic, E North Pacific, W South Pacific, and Indian oceans in which the winds attain speeds greater than 75 mph (121 km / hr ). A tropical cyclone passes through two stages, tropical depression and tropical storm, before reaching hurricane force. An average of 3. 5 tropical storms per year become hurricanes; one to three of these approach the U. S. coast. Hurricanes usually develop between July and October. A...
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5 Billion Dollars Angular Momentum
934 wordsWhat is a hurricane? A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that has a maximum sustained wind of at least 75 mph. The primary energy source for tropical cyclones is the latent heat released when water vapor condenses. Only extremely moist air can supply the energy necessary to spawn and maintain tropical storms, and only very warm air contains enough moisture. Tropical cyclones, therefore, form only over oceans with water temperatures of at least 80 deg F. After they have formed, such storms tend to ...
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Generation To Generation Sense Of Belonging
1,326 wordsThe Pacific is a place of mystery and savagery, and yet is know to many as paradise. The Pacific is ten thousand miles wide and holds twenty-three percentage of the worlds languages. What makes the Pacific so intriguing? The people and their culture have mystified so many people, and yet their history was never written down, instead it was orally pasted down from generation to generation. Thoughts on the natives origin, migration, and survival have puzzled other nations due to their lacking of w...
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Southern United States El Nino
2,315 wordsEl Nino has been a reoccurring phenomenon for centuries. Man has only started to realize how much of the worlds weather is effected by it. The term El Nino refers to an irregular warming of the seas surface. During the last 40 years there have been 10 significant El Nino occurrences. Most affecting the coast of South America. Water temperatures increase along the coast as far as the Galapagos islands. Weak events will raise the water temperature 2 to 4 degrees Celsius and will have minor impact ...
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Waterfield Robin Herodotus Oxford University Press Oxford Story
1,787 wordsQuestioning the Authority of Myth in The Histories History can be defined as the systematic study of and writing about the past (Cartledge, Paul, The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993). Does this mean anything that happened, or that was believed to have happened, in the past can be recorded as history? Or, does one need proof? In Herodotus The Histories, the narrative is arranged in a dramatic form. Modern historians also arrange their narrative in dram...
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1,854 wordsHalloween Storm 199 The Storm? s beginning It was Halloween Eve 1991, the weather was crisp and pleasant in western Massachusetts and New England. However, it was not the children that would be playing tricks on the people of this region, it was instead nature. The day before a storm of surprising intensity had brought waves of 25 feet crashing onto the short and swells of more than 100 feet at sea. Thousands of costal homes were seriously damaged, and Atlantic City recorded its second highest r...
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People Were Killed Early Morning
1,043 wordsA tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earth? s surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100 mph or less. In +F 4 s they can exceed 250 mph. They usually stay on a track of a few miles or less and are less than 100 yds. wide. For the development of tornadoes there are a few conditions required. An abundant low-level of moisture and unstable atmos...
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