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Hace 4 días · The Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) region has experienced a pronounced increase in summer precipitation, including high-impact extreme events, over recent decades. Despite identifying large ...
Hace 4 días · Sahara, (from Arabic ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”) largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa , it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square km); the actual area varies ...
Hace 1 día · Wind. Cherry tree moving with the wind blowing about 22 m/sec (about 79 km/h or 49 mph) Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global ...
Hace 1 día · As usual, the most powerful winds will be centered on San Gorgonio Pass, where winds of 35 mph and gusts of up to 55 mph are expected on Saturday before they gradually decrease on Sunday and ...
Hace 3 días · From there the fierce desert winds pick up the lightest of the soil particles, and carry them southeast along the valley floor. As wind speed slows, the particles drop onto the desert floor, creating sweeping dunes of glittering sand. Only a fragment of the once-abundant dunes remain.
Hace 3 días · While only a few species reach the height of a cruising commercial aircraft, studying how they respond at lower altitudes could help meteorologists build better models to predict turbulence, says ...
Hace 5 días · The sun beats down like a hammer upon this vast desert’s anvil. Winds tear across the face of the planet with such power that it can destroy large machinery. There is so much energy boiling around the Fremen one wonders how they might capture and exploit this bounty. How would the Fremen construct sustainable technologies?
