Sentence examples for downwind side from inspiring English sources

I got on the downwind side of a ridge, and I couldn't get upwind against it.

Consequently, the predominantly downwind side of a lake is more influenced by the ameliorating effects of a lake.

We went to the downwind side of its regular watch circle, and the captain spotted it in minutes.

Lee cyclone, small-scale cyclone that forms on the leeward, or downwind, side of mountain barriers as the general westerly flow is disturbed by the mountain.

Finding none, Madden and I went upstairs to the outdoor balcony of Avery Fisher Hall, while, below, a guard steered people away from the downwind side of the fountain, just in case.

Almost all of it can be recovered on the downwind side, and through the use of ordinary irrigation equipment, it can be pumped back to the upwind side and released again, he said.

A terrestrial equivalent remains to be discovered for the larger Martian waves, characterized by net ablation on their downwind sides.

Old layers of dusty ice, indicative of net ablation, are exhumed on the steep-dipping downwind sides of the larger waves.

Smooth surfaces of coarse-grained ice, indicative of reduced accumulation associated with sublimation metamorphism, cover the steep-dipping downwind sides of the smaller waves.

Martian smaller waves, characterized by reduced net accumulation on their downwind sides, are analogous to Antarctic snow megadunes that have been described so far.

We observe a pronounced asymmetry in glacial ELA, area, debris cover, and headwall relief that we interpret to reflect both structural and climatic control: glaciers on the downwind (eastern) side of the range are larger, more debris covered, have steeper headwalls, and tend to erode headward, truncating the smaller glaciers of the upwind, fault-controlled side of the range.