Rex Britter

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the shear stresses are only important in an inner region close to the hill surface, so that, as suggested by Jackson and Hunt (1975), the perturbation to the mean flow outside this region is essentially inviscid.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new method to measure activity, using WiFi connections as a proxy for human occupancy, and compared data on the number of WiFi connections and energy consumption (electricity, steam and chilled water) for two buildings within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus.

TL;DR: In this article, the leading edge of a well-defined flow of dense air without significant condensation, such as occurs at a thunderstorm outflow or a sea-breeze front, is explained in terms of a gravity (density) current formed by the denser air.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the thermal theory gives a good description of the flow in the slope angle range 5° [lsim ] ≤ 90°, and that the spatial growth rates of the cloud height and length are constant for a given slope angle and show a linear dependence on θ.

TL;DR: It is shown that aircraft cruise emissions impact human health over a hemispheric scale and provided the first estimate of premature mortalities attributable to aircraft emissions globally, and recommended that cruise emissions be explicitly considered in the development of policies, technologies and operational procedures designed to mitigate the air quality impacts of air transportation.