This paper discusses some features and conditions that characterize the Zonda wind, focusing particularly on the implications for wind engineering applications. This kind of wind, typical of mountainous regions, is far ...

This study presents a climatology of convectively-generated strong wind gusts (SWG) occurred in Southern Brazil in the 2005-2015 period. The selection of these events was based on surface hourly data from the operational ...

In the present paper, the highest wind waves measured at the Río de la Plata mouth were selected to characterize weather patterns associated with the most severe wave conditions in this region. This study was carried out ...

Recently, a number of countries have taken new initiatives with regard to energy technology applications related to the installation of wind turbines, which convert the kinetic energy of the wind into electric power to ...

Convective storms can significantly alter the evolution of the flow in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL). In this study, thermodynamic, kinematic and turbulent quantities were calculated in the PBL during the passage ...

Wind erosion starts when the threshold wind velocity (μ t ) is exceeded. We evaluated the sensitivity of μ t to determine the wind erosion susceptibility of soils under variable climatic conditions. Three years field data ...

Uruguay belongs to the second most prone region of the world to the occurrence of severe convective storms, and to the region of South America that presents the highest frequency of occurrence of intense cyclogenesis events. ...