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Robert M. (Bob) Cunningham (July 1, 1919 – April 15, 2008) was an American cloud physicist.He specialized in the study of fog, running a weather research station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy for over 60 years.
Tsurumi-ryokuchi Station (鶴見緑地駅, Tsurumi-ryokuchi-eki, Station Number: N26) is a train station on the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Tsurumi-ku, Osaka, Japan. [1] The line was opened to provide access to Tsurumi-ryokuchi Park during the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition .
Before the introduction of FIDO, fog had been responsible for losses of a number of aircraft returning from operations. Often large areas of the UK would be simultaneously fog-bound and it was recommended procedure in these situations for the pilot to point the aircraft towards the sea and then, while still over land, for the crew to bail-out by parachute, leaving the aircraft to subsequently ...
Tsurumi was connected to Yokohama and Tokyo by train in 1872, and the area rapidly urbanized. Sōji-ji, the head temple of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism relocated to Tsurumi from Ishikawa Prefecture in 1911. Tsurumi suffered severe damage from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. In April 1924, Tsurumi became a town within Tachibana District.
Freight services started on 1 April 1898. The Keihin Line began operations to Tsurumi from 20 December 1914. On 23 December 1934, the Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (present-day Tsurumi Line) connected to Tsurumi Station. The station was the location of a major railway accident, the Tsurumi Accident on 9 November 1963. It was one of the five major post ...
Umi-Shibaura Station (海芝浦駅, Umi-shibaura-eki) is a railway station on the Tsurumi Line in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is located on the grounds of Toshiba's Keihin Product Operations, and the only exit from the station is into the company's grounds. As a ...
The fog sculpture became recognized as one of the signature projects of the Pepsi Pavilion, and the fog system was patented by both Mee (hardware) and Nakaya (airflow) after Expo '70. [7] Nakaya has since established many other fog installations at galleries worldwide, including the Australian National Gallery , Canberra and the Guggenheim ...
In March 2015 Dar Si Hmad (DSH), a Moroccan NGO, built a large fog-collection and distribution system in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. [9] The region DSH worked in is water-poor, but abundant fog drapes the area 6 months out of the year. [10] DSH's system included technology that monitored the water system via SMS message.