Wind

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Characterization of Spatial Air Pollution Patterns Near a Large Railyard Area in Atlanta, Georgia. 
  • Correlations between water-soluble organic aerosol and water vapor: a synergistic effect from biogenic emissions? 
  • Cost of wind energy: comparing distant wind resources to local resources in the midwestern United States. 
  • Dust in the wind: How climate variables and volcanic dust affect rates of tooth wear in Central American howling monkeys. 
  • Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea mays field 
  • Foliage shedding in deciduous forests lifts up long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Fruiting trees as dispersal foci in a semi-deciduous tropical forest. 
  • Fuel-based fine particulate and black carbon emission factors from a railyard area in Atlanta. 
  • Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity. 
  • Gliding flight: drag and torque of a hawk and a falcon with straight and turned heads, and a lower value for the parasite drag coefficient. 
  • Implications of nonrandom seed abscission and global stilling for migration of wind-dispersed plant species. 
  • Incidence of free-living amoebae in the nasal passages of local population in Zaria, Nigeria. 
  • Increases in air temperature can promote wind-driven dispersal and spread of plants. 
  • Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind. 
  • Mechanistic analytical models for long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Minimizing wildlife impacts for offshore wind energy development: Winning tradeoffs for seabirds in space and cetaceans in time. 
  • Oxidant enhancement in martian dust devils and storms: implications for life and habitability. 
  • Oxidant enhancement in martian dust devils and storms: storm electric fields and electron dissociative attachment. 
  • Plant propagation fronts and wind dispersal: an analytical model to upscale from seconds to decades using superstatistics. 
  • Recovery of soil Amebas from the nasal passages of children during the dusty harmattan period in Zaria. 
  • Simple models for community exposure from point sources of pollution. 
  • Simulated effects of crop rotations and residue management on wind erosion in Wuchuan, west-central Inner Mongolia, China. 
  • Source proximity and outdoor-residential VOC concentrations: results from the RIOPA study. 
  • Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments 
  • State of knowledge about energy development impacts on North American rangelands: An integrative approach. 
  • The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition 
  • The association between meteorological events and acute heart failure: new insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • The effects of leaf area density variation on the particle collection efficiency in the size range of ultrafine particles (UFP). 
  • The impacts of wind power integration on sub-daily variation in river flows downstream of hydroelectric dams. 
  • Total Social Costs and Benefits of Long-Distance Hydropower Transmission. 
  • Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions. 
  • Why the bigger live longer and travel farther: animals, vehicles, rivers and the winds. 
  • Year-round spatiotemporal distribution of harbour porpoises within and around the Maryland wind energy area. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Gavin, Henri P., Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative