Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

The future of the energy industry lies in clean power that minimizes or entirely removes pollutants from the process of power generation. The perfect clean energy mix occurs where green energy, ...

Trees in the interior of a forest have less wind pushing them from the side and more pushing the top around. The snow hasn’t stuck around for very long lately, but the blustering winds remain strong.

To navigate towards a food source, animals frequently combine odor cues about source identity with wind direction cues about source location. Where and how these two cues are integrated to support ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Brett, By general agreement in the meteorological and aviation communities, the term "wind direction" is defined as the compass heading FROM which the wind is blowing. This is in ...

Different wind directions at the surface and aloft are not at all unusual. In fact, it is the case much more often than not. And it’s true of wind speeds as well; it is usually much windier aloft than ...

Mike Moss: The term "wind direction" is defined as the compass heading FROM which the wind is blowing. This is in contrast to the term "bearing," which indicates the direction toward which an object ...