Pictures from Google Image Search

Evan Harrington

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Evan Harrington, a novel by G. Meredith, published 1861.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

  • MLA
  • Chicago
  • APA

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Evan Harrington." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 24 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Evan Harrington." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (December 24, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EvanHarrington.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Evan Harrington." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved December 24, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EvanHarrington.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Wind-shear detection equipment being developed by McDonnell Douglas Aircraft.
PR Newswire; 5/27/1986; 700+ words ; ...flight director, and the wind shear computer will automatically...for flying through the shear. McDonnell emphasized...in dealing with wind shears. "The industry also...Doppler radar to detect shears on the ground and warn...recognize and avoid wind shear conditions," ...
Vertical wind shear influences on tropical cyclone formation and intensification during TCM-92 and TCM-93
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...storms, which leads to vertical wind shears exceeding the 12.5...blends composited cloud-drift winds and aircraft reports between...analyses indicate that the high winds at 200 mb associated with low...convective outflows. Vertical wind shears calculated from the interactive...the ...
Microbust Wind Shears Responsible for Many Air Crashes
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 7/7/1994; 700+ words ; ...known as microbust wind shear caused the crash...Microburst wind shears occur most often...anticipate a tail wind, which can cause...of heavy rain and wind shear warnings from flight...There are some wind shears that are so severe...low-level wind ...
RESEARCH ON WIND SHEAR LAGS DESPITE RISK TO FLYING
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/20/1987; 700+ words ; ...government stepped up its wind shear programs last year. Electronic wind shear detection equipment...helping pilots deal with shears. But the LLWS system...committee that has studied wind shear. "It doesn't matter...particularly threatened by wind shears. The ...
Pilots told to fly away from wind shear threat
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/2/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...Stapleton from further wind-shear incidents. The Denver radar...under circumstances conducive to wind shear, but it left no doubt that...the conditions that lead to wind shear, and if you see them...flight path has localized heavy winds or heavy precipitation, and...
A Comparison of Tropical and Midlatitude Thunderstorm Evolution in Response to Wind Shear
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...influence of vertical wind shear on storm development...show that larger wind shears are required in a tropical...storms require higher shears to split can be attributed...gust front. At higher shears in the tropics, entrainment...generally weak vertical wind shear ...
Firm Granted Wind Shear Detection Patent.
Newspaper article from: Air Safety Week; 3/7/2005; 470 words ; ...Australian company's new airborne wind shear detection system could save...patent for its Airborne Wind Shear Detection System. The patent...atmospheric conditions including wind shears, which may occur during the...conditions by detecting wind shear in aircraft not ...
New device helped pilot here avoid wind shear
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/18/1986; ; 670 words ; ...to warn pilots of wind shears paid off on its first day...time to avoid a severe wind shear on Nov. 11, 1985 - just three months after such winds caused a crash at Dallas...Commercial Flight Systems. Wind shears, sudden and violent shifts...
Radar Data Suggest DC-9 Encountered Wind Shear Before Crash
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/5/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...experience when encountering microburst wind shears - cold columns of rapidly falling...questions remain unanswered. Even if wind shear was involved, investigators want...undergo intense training to recognize wind shear and fly through it if necessary...
Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: The role of water vapor
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences; 3/15/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...of factors such as vertical wind shear or underlying sea surface...in length, with no imposed winds, and horizontally uniform...cases of imposed vertical wind shear. It is found that strong wind shears prevent the feedback by effectively...

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Wind Shear
Book article from: World of Earth Science Wind shear Wind shear is a phenomenon describing highly localized variability in wind...particularly hazardous when encountered during take-off or landing. Wind shear is the difference in speed or direction between two layers of air in...
wind shear
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition wind shear a sudden, drastic change in wind direction or speed over a comparatively short distance. Most winds travel horizontally, as does most wind shear, but under certain conditions, including...
shear
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English shear / sh i(ə)r / •...wool, or grass), with scissors or shears: I'll shear off all that fleece. ∎...in relation to each other.See also wind shear . DERIVATIVES: shear·er n...
thermal wind
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences thermal wind The vertical geostrophic wind shear for a given layer of the atmosphere, i.e. the vector that defines the difference between the geostrophic winds at the bottom and at the top of the layer. It is parallel...
Safe Flight Instrument Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories ...angle-of-attack systems, airborne wind shear warning systems, automatic throttles...separate from the wing in a stall. When wind passed the sensor at a dangerous angle...on corporate jets. Warning Against Wind Shear in the 1980s In the late 1970s...

Find thousands of answers for hundreds of subjects at Smart QandA .

All answers verified by trusted sources at Encyclopedia.com

Try Smart QandA now!

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: