We went to the downwind side of its regular watch circle, and the captain spotted it in minutes.
Post hoc validation of assignment of downwind and upwind study sites for each testing day was checked using wind rose data.
A female gypsy moth is able to attract males thousands of metres downwind of it simply by releasing minute quantities of its sex pheromone each second.
These "wind tails" are seen around boulders, where the rock acts as a natural obstacle to some process - forming a streak of material "downwind" of it.
There was no consistent evidence of adverse respiratory effects of being located downwind of the tunnel ventilation stack, except for an increase in dry nose symptoms.
Part of a separate experiment run by the U.S. Department of Energy called Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC), the ground station recently captured samples of the downwind smoke to see how its properties changed during its drift westward.
The result is a prediction of expected exposure downwind of specific kinds of people in specific places.
Increasing industrial pollution had both darkened the surfaces of trees and rocks and had also killed the lichen cover of the forests downwind of pollution sources.
He accused the firefighters of deliberately staying downwind of the fire, from which pungent black smoke billowed.
