Essays on Wind Page 2

The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere “behaves” over relatively long periods of time. http://www. nasa. gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather. html The definition and discussion of Meteorologist and Climatologist? A meteorologist is a scientist…

Slash! The nose of the huge antagonistic fish pierces his skin like a knife through butter. He moans and screeches for only a minute, but feels like a lifetime. His whole future at sea shines before him as a blurry disarray of fear and pain.It was a cold and dreary day in the endless moors…

Out Of the wind she felt warmer, and she could watch the wide fluffy snow fill in ere tracks, steadily, until the direction she had come from was gone. By the light of the snow she could see the dark outline of the big arroyo a few feet away. She was sitting on the edge…

Soil Erosion Although many areas on earth can sustain plant growth, only about eight percent of the earth’s surface is covered with good topsoil. While it takes nature hundreds of years to make a few centimeters of topsoil, erosion can easily remove it. Without topsoil, people cannot raise crops for food. People know that without…

All living organisms inhabit a world governed by mechanical laws and processes. For all organisms, too, the primary daily task is the search for food. This is not only limited in quantity but can also be energetically costly to obtain. As a result many animals have evolved ways of harnessing these mechanical processes to assist…

Describe how the use of a tall smoke stack might improve air quality near a large industrial facility. A taller smoke stack in an industrial area would improve air quality over shorter stacks. At night, when there is a temperature inversion, pollution from shorter stacks can become trapped and cannot rise any higher than the…

The El Niño/ ENSO phenomenon refers to the abnormal warming or cooling of the waters in the Pacific Ocean. This is caused by a shift of warm waters in the Pacific from west to east, resulting in various metrological anomalies around the world. The normal system sees the east west winds depositing warm water in…

Tides: Caused by gravity from the sun and the moon pulling on and deforming large bodies of water. Daily changes in tides: High tides occur on the side of earth closest to the moon and the side opposite the moon. -High tides draw water away from the areas between, causing low tides to form. For…

In the piece, Joan Didion describes the Santa Ana Winds which hit Los Angeles every so often. The winds are seen as a threatening issue, as Didion describes them as dangerous and unwanted. The passage portrays her view on the Santa Ana winds as something horrendous that makes a dramatic effect on the inhabitants of…

The most drought-ridden wastes of sub-Saharan Africa are almost verdant compared with the planet Mars, which was completely hiddne from view by a global dust storm when the U.S. Mariner 9 spacecraft arrived there in 1971. Decades before that, astronomers had noted surface changes — so vast as to be visible all the way from…