Because of their central location in Europe, the Alps are affected by four main climatic influences: from the west flows the relatively mild, moist air of the Atlantic; cool or cold polar air descends from northern Europe; continental air masses, cold and dry in winter and hot in summer, dominate in the east; and, to the south, warm Mediterranean air flows northward.
In the case of the equal-mass, cold systems, there are more low eccentricity binaries compared to the theoretical prediction.
The results by Brutus are represented by the data points: equal-mass Plummer (black bullets), Plummer with different masses (red triangles), equal-mass cold Plummer (blue squares) and cold Plummer with different masses (green stars).
For the equal mass case, the fraction of preservation and exchange is comparable, except in the case of the equal-mass cold Plummer with the low precision ((eta= 2^{-3}), the bottom row).
The accurate fraction generally remains dominant, with a final fraction varying from about 0.4 for the equal-mass cold Plummer to about 0.7 for the Plummer with different masses.
From left to right, the data are from the Plummer, Plummer with different masses, cold Plummer and cold Plummer with different masses data sets.
In early December 1952, a great mass of cold air moved off the English Channel, draped itself over London like an icy comforter and then simply stayed put.
Or the vapour may move as a tropical air mass over cold land or sea, causing widespread and persistent fog, such as occurs over the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
European honey bees live on stored reserves of food and huddle together in a large mass during cold winter weather.
