An advective, or windborne freeze, occurs when a cold air mass moves into the area, and brings freezing temperatures. |
In interviews, some private nuclear experts called a windborne threat unlikely. |
Appropriate and technically feasible mitigation measures to eliminate the risk of windborne particles would increase the cost of the Project. |
After earning degrees in architecture and engineering, she eventually landed at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center, where she studied the effects of wind loads on buildings and the aerodynamics of windborne debris. |
In skyscrapers as well as in low-rise buildings, a major risk is windborne debris. |
It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South. |