Based on field observations and wind tunnel experiments, gravel sand barriers and tree shelterbelts were designed to serve as the main measures to control windblown sand, with artificial grasslands and irrigation systems also contributing.
With roads perilously icy, windblown and littered with debris, schools were closed in Burlington, Canton, Hartland, Litchfield, Barkhamsted, Colebrook, New Hartford, Norfolk, Plymouth, Simsbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Winchester and Wolcott.
We conclude that stagnant air pollution episodes with higher concentrations of primary and secondary combustion-source particles were more associated with elevated mortality than windblown dust episodes with relatively higher concentrations of coarse crustal-derived particles.
That stationary-camera view of the Baghdad skyline, meanwhile, was becoming more and more familiar and depressing, as we saw it now at dawn and again at midday, with plumes of smoke curling in the background or else with windblown sand whipping past.
This area is mostly covered with windblown limon, which is the basis of an excellent loamy soil.
"It's been 31 years," she said contentedly one morning recently, her hair spangled with windblown rice.
Another masterpiece is "Model for the Fountain of the Moor" (1653), which represents a muscular fellow with windblown hair surfing an ocean wave on a giant conch shell.
Soon after being dug, the burrows were sealed with windblown earth, buried under 125 feet of sediment and permanently frozen at minus 7 degrees Celsius.
Soon they brought their first collaborators down to the site, Jim and Tina Darling, West Coast artists who painted big, contrasting images — his a leering man's face, hers a woman with windblown hair — in a small side room.
