Sentence examples for a landing surface from inspiring English sources

On high-speed contact, water is about as soft a landing surface as concrete.

This type of landing was initially facilitated by the introduction of padded mats, which were then replacing sand as a landing surface.

A common mechanism is by the heating of a land surface and the adjacent layers of air by sunlight.

The force of rainfall striking a land surface unimpeded by vegetation or man-made structures is sufficient to raise 15 cm (6 inches) of material from an A horizon nearly 1 metre (39 inches) into the air.

The southwestern, northwestern, and extreme northern parts of the country consist of a dissected peneplain (a land surface worn down by erosion to a nearly flat plain, later uplifted and again cut by erosion into hills and valleys or into flat uplands separated by valleys); it is made of Precambrian rocks (about 540 million to 4 billion years old).

The first of these, located in the north and northwest, consists of underlying Precambrian rock (about 2.7 billion years old), which emerges to form not only the backbone of northern Mauritania's Reguibat ridge region but also the Akjoujt rock series that forms a vast peneplain (a land surface worn down by erosion to a nearly flat plain) studded with inselbergs.

As a land surface model, the Noah land surface model (Chen and Dudhia 2001) was applied.

Northern Africa includes the countries Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, North Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara, covering a land surface of about 8935659 km2 [1].

This approach of generating landforms from DEM is on the basis of applying a moving neighborhood analysis window and a land surface classification method modified from Hammond (1964).

This is demonstrated on the basis of simulations from a land surface model (i.e., Community Land Model – CLM, version 3.5).

This caused a land surface lowering of at least 3 m and a transformation of Histosols in original peat deposits into eluvial clay covers with Mollic Gleysols.