Cape Wind

The largest wind farm in the world, located on the Oregon-Washington border, generates 300 MW. A controversial wind farm called Cape Wind, in the ocean five miles off the coast of Cape Cod, is planned to produce more than 400 MW of power. 

Cape Wind Project Safety Management System, Rev. Bl, October 2010 ... 

SMS Element 30CFR 585 Current TRB Study (BSEE TA R 686) API RP 75 1 MO-ISM ILO- OSH 2011 MMS TA R 633 Cape Wind SMS Description ANSI/ AIHA/ ASSE Z10-2012 OHSAS 18001 OSHA PSM 29CFR 1910 OSHA Safety and Health Guidelines BSEE TA R 709 (PMSS Sample SMS)... 

In the Cape Basin region of the South Atlantic, polyethylene and polypropylene pellets were observed at concentrations of 1333-3600 pellets km (48). Since this area is far from any major shipping lane and is dominated oceanographically by the Antarctic West-Wind Drift with possibly some input from the Brazil Current, the source of the floating plastic was thought to be ships transporting the raw material in the South Atlantic (48). The weathered appearance of the pellets indicated that they had been adrift for an extended period and, therefore, carried long distances by the ocean currents. 

Cape Grim is an ideal location to study free-radical chemistry in extremely clean conditions (Penkett et al., 1997). It frequently experiences air masses characterized by low condensation nuclei (CN) and Radon counts (<462 cm-3 and < 100 mBq m-3, respectively) with the local wind direction in the sector 190°-280°. In these baseline conditions, air has not passed over land for 5 days or more and is therefore relatively free of anthropogenic influence. Four days, which were characterised by the lowest NOx and NMHCs levels experienced during the campaign, have been selected to be representative of baseline conditions in the Southern Ocean. 

Benhamou K., Policies for the future spreading awareness of wind opportunities (North Africa) Proceedings of the CD World Wind Energy Conference, November 23-26 Cape Town, South Africa 2003. 

The Crimean shelf extends from Cape Khersones in the west to Cape Meganom in the east. It is widest off Cape Sarych (35-40 km) and narrowest off Cape Ayu Dag (5 km) [1,2]. This region is subjected to intensive wave action because it is exposed to all the southerly winds. The boundary of the underwater coastal slope is located at depths of 30-40 m. The near-shore zone is the area of alongshore sediment transport and smoothing of the bottom topography. Underwater and dried abrasive remnants are common the largest of them are confined to the capes composed of strong volcanic rocks [7,8]. 

Fig. 16.13 The ice caves in the Erebus Glacier Tongue are a target for exploration by geologists on their way to Cape Royds. The caves also provide shelter for travelers who may be exposed to a sudden wind storm. The ceiling of the ice cave supports long...

The patterns apparent at both locations indicate that the transport of marine strontium and sulfur decreases with increasing elevation and distance from the coast. The trend is reversed in areas where prevailing winds favor the transport of marine salt up-slope or where excessive melting of snow releases marine salts into the environment. Faure and Jones (1989) noted that the water of McMurdo Sound at Cape Bird is ice-free somewhat longer than at Cape Royds which may explain why the marine component is more abundant at Trachyte Hill (Cape Bird) than at Cape Royds. 

Of importance to studies of severe thunderstorms is the vector difference between the wind at different altitudes. Shear vector LM is the difference between the middle-altitude (OM) and the low-altitude (OL) wind vectors (Fig. 6a) by definition, the shear vector at a particular height is tangent to the hodograph at that point. The magnitude of LM tends to correlate with the storm severity, in an environment with a sufficiently high CAPE. It is preferable, though, to consider the combined contributions of shear and CAPE, the correlation with storm severity of which is quantified through a bulk Richardson number,... 

Long-lived severe thunderstorms do not form in an environment in which the wind is essentially uniform with height (hence no vertical wind shear), even though the CAPE may be large. Such an environment, characterized by Ri 00 does, however, allow for the development of single-cell storms. A discussion of the simpler processes associated with this storm type provides a worthwhile introduction to the more complex processes found in most severe thunderstorms. 

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