When retrieving soil moisture from microwave radiometry, the effect of this factor can be parametrized by multiplying soil reflectivity by the negative exponential of h cos theta. This factor can be calculated using the Limerinos equation to solve for a coefficient sometimes co-named for Gauckler. This factor can be estimated for soil using a pin board or an ultrasonic rangefinder. For streams with a high value of this factor, metrics of this factor include D84 and Z-sigma. Manning’s “n” coefficient is related to sinuosity and this factor. A (*) Moody chart illustrates the relation between this quantity, Reynolds number, and the Darcy-Weisbach friction factor. Root mean square height is a common metric of this quantity. For 10 points, name this quantity that describes how much a surface deviates from a smooth plane. ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 79 | 15 |
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| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 130 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 131 | 10 |
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| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 131 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 131 | 0 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | It's not X, but... defenders | 131 | 10 |
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