Abstract: Calculations are presented which suggest that useful amounts of rainfall might be produced economically in and regions near seas or lakes. The proposed technique involves the coating of a large area with asphalt to produce ...

Abstract: Batch anaerobic digestion studies of the effects of pH and sulfide concentration upon lactose utilization, acetate utilization, and sulfate reduction using lactate as a carbon source were performed using 100 ml glass ...

Abstract: Spindown experiments have been conducted, using an atmospheric general circulation model, to determine the nature and timescale of adjustment to a baroclinically neutral state. The spindown was obtained by turning off the ...

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Abstract: A two‐part study was conducted to help evaluate analytical methods used to assess the ductile behavior of offshore structures subjected to severe earthquake ground motion. The first part of the study was a comparison of ...

Abstract: Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992, the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is required to provide federal facility managers with a clear determination of the impact of water conservation practices on energy consumption. ...

Abstract: A 44-yr climatology of spring Asian dust aerosol emission, column loading, deposition, trans-Pacific transport routes, and budgets during 1960?2003 was simulated with the Northern Aerosol Regional Climate Model (NARCM). ...