Sentence examples for direction of wind from inspiring English sources

He became interested in wind speed and invented a pressure-tube anemometer, the first device to measure both the velocity and direction of wind.

The increase of wind speed with height (called vertical speed shear) produces "crosswise spin," that is, rotation about a horizontal axis crosswise to the direction of wind flow.

By the time puddings arrived, we would be testing each other on weather patterns and how best to trim the sails depending on the direction of wind.

The portolan charts were characterized by rhumb lines, lines that radiate from the centre in the direction of wind or compass points and that were used by pilots to lay courses from one harbour to another.

Open image in new window Fig. 2 Different faces of the model with direction of wind.

Wind shear is a rate of change of speed and direction of wind.

But they added that the current direction of winds could prevent the 25-square-mile slick from striking at the city's prized beaches of Flamengo, Botafogo, Copacabana and Ipanema.

"Satellites can track not only velocity but the direction of winds over large areas, so we'll be able to know well in advance where a hurricane is going — enormously helpful for reducing property damage," Mr. Wertz said.

The journey, similar in distance to traveling from Boston to Washington, required nearly a full day in each direction of winding up and down mountains by train or by car.

The overturning shape of these billows also depends on the direction of winds.

Initially, Añel's project was to continue working to quantify climate change using data from radiosondes--balloon-borne instruments able to sense the speed and direction of winds.