Scientists have determined that peak wind gusts in Boulder have become less powerful in the last 30 years, according to research from Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A weather vane is an instrument used to show the direction the wind is blowing from. It is one of the simplest weather instruments created and it has been used since ancient times ...

We performed a systematic comparison of wind speed measurements from the SeaWinds QuikSCAT scatterometer and wind speeds computed from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) normalized radar cross ...

Have you ever paused to think about the invisible force that brushes against your face, rattles your windows, or even powers entire cities? Wind is ... Read more The post 16 Surprising Ways Wind ...

Therefore, celestial navigation requires knowledge of the currents' presence, speed, strength and direction, as well as being able to judge winds' strength, direction and effect on the canoe.

Two new models for wind speed retrieval from C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data have been developed, based on a large body of statistics on buoy observations collocated and coinciding with ...

Founded in 1939 by father and son Aaron and David Davis, the company established patents on their wind speed and direction instruments, then set out to build a line of instruments that would stand ...

The new owners plan to grow the company and have fun doing so, he added. The locally-based firm has been hand-crafting and marketing weather instruments since Aaron Davis and his son David, both ...