The direction of the wind acts to aid the weak flyers to move to the downwind islands and continually "dilute" the resident subspecies.
When these features are associated with a particular facility, theirdownwind side is a suitable place to collect a sample because the emission remains more concentrated further from the release point.
Should an attack occur or a downwindhazard exist the DCS must seek out a contamination free area, or must establish collective protection to continue the mission.
Should an attack occur or a downwind hazard exist, the BAS must seek out a contamination free area to establish a clean treatment area, or must establish collective protection to continue the mission.
When the hospital does not have collective protection, the patient decontamination point must be at least 50 yards downwind of the hospital entry point.
The station is separated from the clean treatment area by a "hot line" and is located downwind of the clean treatment area or CPS.
Requiring all ambulances and helicopters with contaminated (or suspected) patients to stay downwind of the MTF.
Conducting initial triage, decontamination, and contaminated treatment downwind of the clean treatment area (Appendixes F and H).
The sample should be taken within 102 meters of a contaminated surface and at the downwind edge of a contaminated area.
Although a unit may be targeted for chemical attack, that unit might not be located where the highest number of casualties could occur (as in a downwind hazard area).
These worst-case casualty estimates are for personnel within both the targeted and the downwind hazard areas of the attacked forces.
Lethal or injury downwindhazard zones for toxins may be far greater than those of CW agents.
Units downwind from an attack area may be unexpectedly exposed to biological agents.
Chemical and biological agents may present a hazard some distance downwind from the area of attack; also, residual radiation may extend for hundreds of kilometers (km) from ground zero.
All contaminated patients, ambulances, and helicopters must arrive on the downwind side of the MTF; this must be done with or without CPS.
A PDS consisting of a contaminated ambulance point, contaminated triage point, a patient decontamination area, and a contaminated treatment area is established on the downwind (prevailing wind) side of the CBPS.
Their course through the sage was a series of eccentric loops as each circled repeatedly downwind to catch the other's scent.
They fastened the dogs in a clump of dwarfed spruce and built a small fire on the downwind side of the trees.
A coyote can scent the tracks left by a bird long hours past; the smell of fresh blood is hot in his nostril a full half-mile downwind while the nose of man could scarce detect it at a distance of two feet.
It may sound crazy, but I want to go back on a downwind course again!
Still heading on their downwind course, they passed several small islands and rocks, some marked with lights and towers, some with bells or floating buoys.
You can only use it on downwind sailing, unless you’re a lot better sailor than I am, and it’s the best pulling power you can have when the wind’s at your back.
But we have to sail a downwind course to get to shore.
Sandy had learned that this was true even on a downwind run, where a sail let out too far will spill wind, and a sail sheeted in too close will miss too much wind.
The sloop swung about into the trail of light that danced on the water between them and the big ship, and set her sails for a downwind tack.
A few minutes of looking revealed that they were not likely to outdistance Jones on this tack any more than they had on the downwind run.
Consulting the stars, Jerry set a downwind course, and the boat headed slowly but steadily toward the mainland.
I would have guessed that sailing downwind with the wind pushing the boat ahead of it would be the fastest.
One called Sorpiala exhibited an attitude that was like the undeclared and unpunished crime of having stolen a three-day old fish, a crime whose very nature declared itself to all who happened to venture downwind of the evildoer.
According to all the books we should have been able, provided we were downwind and made no noise, to have approached within fifty or sixty yards undiscovered.
The safari is strung out over a mile or two of country, as a usual thing, and a downwind rhino is sure to pierce some part of the line in his rush.
Note that this was downwind for him, and that rhinoceroses usually escape upwind.
Saltation is downwindmovement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.
The downwind portion of the dune, the lee slope, is commonly a steep avalanche slope referred to as a slipface.
Local Fallout Most of the radiation hazard from nuclear bursts comes from short-lived radionuclides external to the body; these are generally confined to the locality downwind of the weapon burst point.
These figures do not include additional deaths from fires, lack of medical attention, starvation, or the lethal fallout showering to the ground downwind of the burst points of the weapons.
Thus, the survival prospects of persons immediatelydownwind of the burst point would be slim unless they could be sheltered or evacuated.
After that the unicorns learned to swingdownwind from any lone woods goats.
Two unicorns were grazing in between and the hunters were swinging downwind from them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downwind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
