SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Special wind experiments are underway in the Santa Barbara County foothills to help researchers learn more about the unique sundowner winds that squeeze through the coastal ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Meteorologists all over the world use a wide variety of instruments to measure things like temperature, air pressure, humidity and a host of other variables. In Tuesday's ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Recently we have had some very windy days, but do we always know which direction the wind is blowing? In today's weather experiment we are going to build a wind vane or weather vane to ...

Zein Sadek and Natalie Frank perform experiments in the wind-wave facility at Portland State University to observe/characterize the flow behind an offshore floating wind turbine using particle image ...

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 recognizes kits for their ease of use, value, versatility, and utility in teaching about renewable wind energy BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 19, 2025 ...

I've always been a scientist at heart. From a very early age I was fascinated with space and biology and just about anything I could get my hands on. Carl Sagan and Nikola Tesla were my Michael Jordan ...

In this work we present laboratory measurements on the reduction of the threshold friction velocity necessary for lifting dust if the dust bed is illuminated. Insolation of a porous soil establishes a ...