The difference in wind speed from the center of Hurricane Melissa in western Jamaica and the outer part of the storm in ...

We’ve marveled at this mesmerizing map of cargo ships plying the oceans of the worlds, been amazed by another depicting the birth of major cities over thousands of years, and charmed by this one ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requires Contractor support services to provide wind field modeling, mapping, and related analysis in support NIST's recently initiated ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

The current wind speed maps are based on new uniform recurrence interval wind speed contours developed by wind researchers. But the ASCE 7 standard also carries new factors to use with the new maps, ...

Winter storm Jonas brought with it record-breaking amounts of snow and blustering winds when it plowed through the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States in late January. Now, scientists at NASA ...

Modellers have devised a map that could guide the positioning of wind turbines. It shows wind speeds 80 metres above the ground,which is the right height to turn most turbines' blades and generate ...

A model for using wind speed data to predict Pattern Energy power generation is proposed. Results were backtested with 3 years of data and show reasonable agreement between projections and actual data ...