In our era of glorifying sports players, when most Americans can name an NFL quarterback before they can name a Renaissance painter, when the persistent cloud of endless war hangs over us, maybe it's a good thing that The Monuments Men can reach a mainstream audience about the importance of art, how easily it is lost, and what we should do to protect it.
That was especially true under the persistent cloud of Rihanna's personal life, in which she appears to have romantically reunited with Mr. Brown, who in 2009 beat her on the night of the Grammys.
Destiny is an extension of that concept into a persistent, cloud-supported online space.
The last of these events occurred 65 million years ago, when a meteorite slammed into Earth, throwing up persistent clouds of debris that darkened the sky for years.
Sampling error of satellite-derived PM2.5 is larger in regions influenced by biomass burning, mineral dust, or persistent cloud because of a combination of large seasonal variability and nonrepresentative sampling.
The classification of tropical fragmented landscapes and moist forested areas is a challenge due to the presence of a continuum of vegetation successional stages, persistent cloud cover and the presence of small patches of different land cover types.
Then, hungering for a glimpse of the ocean, even through the persistent cloud cover, the four of us drove up the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu, and pushed the Impala through hairpin turns into the Santa Monica Mountains, where we found the Paramount Ranch.
Early saturation of the signal is the limiting factor in optical systems, along with persistent cloud cover in many of the regions of high biomass over the globe, in particular in the tropical zone.
The daily repeat frequency of MODIS data acquisitions makes this sensor essential to overcome persistent cloud cover for observations of the land surface in tropical Southeast Asia.
