wind shadow

Buildings cause wind shadow so you need to make them very tall.

Seas get too high for the surface equipment outside the wind shadow.

Wind shadows swept across a calm sea, which was only gently pewtered.

The wind would come in and out creating wind shadows behind those islands."

He'd watched a tiny wind shadow dancing over the sea to the north; then more appeared and closed with theKathleen.

'Just look at that wind shadow over there.

Most came to grief when leaving fully laden and became caught in the wind shadow cast by South Head where the deep water lay.

Well, at least he could see the wind shadows of an idea, and they hinted where this frigate could fit in.

Meanwhile, on the windward side, young trees grow, protected by the wind shadow of the remaining tall trees.

The lagoon was almost mirror smooth, and the moon, higher now and showing the wind shadows, outlined the channel running north.

"We're just getting out ofthe wind shadow of the big mountains; it should freshen a littleonce we round this point.

Foredunes may begin as shadow dunes that form in the wind shadows of clumps of vegetation.

Simulates sailboat racing including wind shadow effects.

Some relief from the wind could be had by darting from the wind shadow of one sled to that of the next.

'Wind shadow on the larboard quarter!'

Now they were in the wind shadow cast by the frigate: the sea was calmer and there was practically no wind.

The Zodiac raced up the side of the ferry, out of her wind shadow, and then southwest toward the English Channel.

One weapon skippers use to achieve this is their boat's wind shadow: the pie-shaped wedge of disturbed air that spills off a yacht.

He reached the gate, which formed a cathedral shape in wrought iron, slim and graceful in the moving wind shadows thrown by the streetlights.

Finally they would come clear of the wind shadow cast by the island of Martinique and probably end up drifting across the Caribbean to Jamaica.

Jeffery cites the piece Wind Shadows by Alvin Lucier influencing the development of the instrument.

Kim Robertson - Give me your Hand [Wind Shadows, Vol.

Klinkenborg's writing serves a sheltering purpose: it's like briefly stepping out of a Great Plains gale and into the wind shadow of a butte.

These streaks are accumulations of dust resulting from disruption of the wind by the elevated rims of the craters ('wind shadows').

Five minutes into the race against Mighty Mary, Young America forced its opponent to tack away to the left side of the course to escape its wind shadow.