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Ontario, she likes the wind.


With the opening of selected Crown property sites for wind energy development, the Ontario Ontario, city, United States
Ontario, city (1990 pop. 133,179), San Bernardino co., S Calif., near Los Angeles, in a region of vineyards; inc. 1891.
 government is producing an online provincial wind atlas A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meter) over even longer periods (30 years).  to identify areas with the best wind power potential.

Visitors to the Web site will be able to zoom To change from a distant view to a more close-up view (zoom in) and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom. A display adapter may also have built-in zoom capability.  in on an area of interest and click to reveal precise wind speed and wind power density for that location.

The wind atlas will include a forecasting feature of live-time wind forecasting for specific areas, a feature on environmental sensitivities including migratory migratory /mi·gra·to·ry/ (mi´grah-tor?e)
1. roving or wandering.

2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by migration; undergoing periodic migration.


migratory

emanating from or pertaining to migration.
 bird paths, breeding habitat and weather sensitivities for fog and ice.
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Title Annotation:AROUND THE NORTH
Publication:Northern Ontario Business
Date:Mar 1, 2005
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