WeatherwatchEnvironmentPrecipitation generated or enhanced by air that rises as it interacts with terrain is called orographic
Precipitation is described as orographic when it is generated or enhanced by air that rises as it interacts with terrain. This interaction can act to increase precipitation amounts (for example, locally increased precipitation in the mountains of south Wales during moist southwesterly airflow). Alternatively, this interaction may generate precipitation in a location where none would otherwise occur. Read More...
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Never has the phrase “mathematical model” had such a delicious double meaning than in the case of Pietro Boselli, the Italian model and engineering lecturer whose academic specialism is mathematical modelling. Read More...
Philippines This article is more than 13 years oldAt least eight dead in Philippines as siege ends with police storming busThis article is more than 13 years oldViewers worldwide watch deadly standoff live on TV after former policeman hijacks bus carrying Hong Kong touristsIn pictures: Manila bus siege
Footage from the scene of the Manila siege ReutersAn embittered policeman was shot dead by police marksmen in Manila yesterday after killing at least eight tourists he had taken hostage in a fatally ill-conceived plot to get his job back. Read More...