Once established, the heat content of the air at ground level is enough to keep the vortex going.
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The vortex is critical to providing the right chemical conditions for ozone depletion.
The vortex generators themselves are pins or vanes that protrude from the surface and set up microscopic eddies in the boundary layer.
Now that it has been sucked into the vortex and the won devalued by 20% against the dollar, the prospects for Japanese exports look a lot less rosy.
Steam is also injected to get the vortex started.
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However, at a speech Friday at a legal conference in Los Angeles, she talked about how she had been "sucked into the black hole, the vortex" of death penalty cases 18 years ago when she represented Smith.
BetOnSports has been thrust into the vortex of speculation about the future of online gaming in the U.S. after its chief executive was arrested in the VIP lounge of a Dallas airport on July 16 while waiting for a flight to Costa Rica.
Donzelli, who also directs, plunges the couple into the bureaucratic vortex of the French medical establishment and shows it to be remarkably pliable.
Before joining CNNI, Kinkade worked for Seven Network Australia, most recently as a freelance correspondent from New York where she filed reports on the Polar Vortex, the push to legalize marijuana, Boeing's first space taxi, the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the spread of the Ebola virus.
Canadian inventor Louis Michaud has created the Atmospheric Vortex Engine, which harnesses the energy of tornados to produce clean energy, and energy companies Dominion and FuelCell Energy Inc. announced plans to build the largest fuel cell power plant in North America.
When we hear the word Vortex, we're inclined to think of dodgy eighties nightclubs, or even dodgier science fiction from the same decade.
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This attempt to manage versus lead our way out of the VUCA vortex seldom is successful.
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France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, finds itself in the middle: not in recession, but at risk of being sucked into the Mediterranean vortex.
Federal agencies and related parties are sucking more than their fair share of highly educated workers away from the intellectual economy outside the federal vortex.
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The film's chase teams were loosely based upon the fleets of vehicles called Mobile Mesonets in project VORTEX and the early chase forays by the National Severe Storms Laboratory and Oklahoma University.
The invention of vortex filters may, however, lead to at least a partial rethink.
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The Doctor invites them on adventures across the "time vortex" to face monsters and save worlds.
In 2006, Dr. Dabiri co-authored a study, involving 120 participants, which suggested that the process of vortex-ring formation could offer important clues about cardiac health.
Mr. Ratmansky, taking a cue from the "General Rejoicing" description that Stravinsky gave to his score's ending, turns the tableau into a vortex, with his firebird held aloft and spun over the scene.
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There is an area of the Pacific the size of Texas known as the "trash vortex" or "plastic soup" where gyrating currents hold an estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton, according to Greenpeace.
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This led to the start of Operation Vortex where men originally questioned back in 1981 were asked for samples of their DNA taken from swabs in the mouth.
The pound has been caught in a ratings and a growth vortex squeeze over the past week.
Before long, I was sucked from the relatively simple playing field of note-taking apps into the deep and horrible vortex of productivity tools.
Over the next 18 years, the masterpiece was built at a geomagnetic vortex near Landers, California, purportedly drawing from the powers of Giant Rock: an enormous, freestanding boulder thought by Van Tassel to be a centre of UFO activities.
His scheme replaces the chimney with a tornado-like vortex of spinning air, which could extend several kilometres into the atmosphere.
The two new models complement the company's popular Polaris 9300 Sport and 9300xi Sport models, and share the platform's patented Vortex Vacuum technology.
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In addition to vortex generators, the swimsuits have a ribbed structure which prevents the flow from spilling out too much at a swimmer's sides.
If, on the other hand, you just want to know what a knotted vortex looks like, head down to the video below.
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