Re: Cities incite thunderstorms, researchers find !!

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From: Landy
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:16

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<johnabrahamhere@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Summer thunderstorms become much more fierce when they collide with a
> city than they would otherwise be in the open countryside, according
> to research led by Princeton engineers.
>
> http://theanalystmagazine.com/pr/n223.html
>
> Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University's
> School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on
> computer models and detailed observations of an extreme thunderstorm
> that hit Baltimore in July of 2004.

Re-inventuing the wheel are they?  We have known this for years -
it's in all the textbooks on atmosphere.  But then again I guess they are
engineers!

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