Long term trends of precipitation and wind speed were evaluated along elevation gradients to assess the dominant effects on snow water equivalence (SWE) using current and historical records of ...

The TRANSMISSION of acoustic energy through a medium via a SOUND WAVE. See: SOUND, SPEED OF SOUND. Compare: ACOUSTIC RADIATION. The levels of outdoor NOISE, whether they are intrusive or the normal ...

I HAVE often felt surprised that the superiority in force of northerly and easterly as compared with southerly and westerly winds accompanying any given amount of barometric gradient has, at least ...

Studies of altitudinal gradients in species richness have increasingly replaced the latitudinal gradient as a model template for large-scale gradient studies 9. Altitudinal gradients encompass several ...