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  2. Obscuro Barroco - Wikipedia

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    Obscuro Barroco is an object that transforms infinitely, that devours infinitely: it is the mouth of Luana Muniz, a legendary figure of Rio de Janeiro’s night that serves as the stolen point of entry to the city's nocturnal incandescence.

  3. Subterranean fauna - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics of underground environment caused cave dwelling animals to evolve a number of adaptations, both morphological and physiological. Examples of morphological adaptations include depigmentation (loss of external pigmentation), a reduction of cuticle thickness and the often extreme decrease of eyesight culminating in anophthalmia ...

  4. Pressure-wind relationship calculations for tropical cyclones

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    According to Christopher Burt from Weather Underground, the most reliable method of estimating pressure from wind involves using the Dvorak Technique with an infrared image, which shows how cold cloud tops are. [2] Joe Courtney and John Knaff noted that as several models are based on Atlantic data, it can lead to biases in other parts of the ...

  5. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is a protected area in the Philippines.. The park is located in the Saint Paul Mountain Range on the western coast of the island of Palawan, about 80 kilometers (50 mi) north of the city of Puerto Princesa, and contains the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River (also known as the Puerto Princesa Underground River or just Underground River).

  6. Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System - Wikipedia

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    The transport of pipe segments for the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) in the Sahara desert, Libya, during the 1980s.A network of pipes that supplies water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer in the Sahara desert of Libya, the GMMR is the world's largest irrigation project.

  7. Tropical cyclone - Wikipedia

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    A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around the world. [4] [5] The systems generally have a well-defined center which is surrounded by deep atmospheric convection and a closed wind circulation at the surface. [4]

  8. Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan - Wikipedia

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    Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on ...

  9. Entangled Life - Wikipedia

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    Sheldrake is an expert in mycorrhizal fungi, [5] holds a PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, [6] and he is on the advisory board of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).