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The airport was built in the 60's, with a grass runway, as logistical and technical support for the near Arbatax paper mill. The mill closed in 1986. The mill closed in 1986. In 1975, a 1,188-metre (3,898 ft) [ 2 ] asphalt runway, a hangar and a control tower were built.
The ENIAC main control panel at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering operated by Betty Jennings and Frances Bilas. The history of numerical weather prediction began in the 1920s through the efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson, who used procedures originally developed by Vilhelm Bjerknes [1] to produce by hand a six-hour forecast for the state of the atmosphere over two points in central ...
Weather balloons are launched around the world for observations used to diagnose current conditions as well as by human forecasters and computer models for weather forecasting. Between 900 and 1,300 locations around the globe do routine releases, two or four times daily. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Tortolì is situated on the eastern coast of Sardinia. Its port and greatest hamlet is Arbatax, which has also an airport that once connected it to continental Italy and the European continent.
Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...
The origin of the name Arbatax is uncertain. According to german linuist Max Leopold Wagner, it is derived from an Arabic word, which means "14th Tower", and refers to the nearby watchtower built by the Spaniards to protect the territory from the incursion of Arab pirates.
Meteo may refer to: The spelling, without accents, of Météo; Meteo (film), a 1989 Hungarian film; Meteo, an asteroid belt in the Star Fox series of video games; Meteo, a magic spell in some of the Final Fantasy video games; Meteo, a destructive planet in the video game Meteos; METEO System, a machine translation system for weather bulletins
The Chamorro Time Zone, [1] formerly the Guam Time Zone, is a United States time zone which observes standard time ten hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 150th meridian east of the Greenwich Observatory .