Sentences with phrase «as air ascends»

As this air ascends, it reaches upper levels of the troposphere and returns eastwards to eventually sink over the cooler water of the eastern Pacific.

As air ascends it encounters lower pressure, expands and cools.

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At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

As the diver ascends, the air is released.

Both cloud types develop when clear air ascends, cooling adiabatically as it expands until either water begins to condense or deposition occurs.

As Lucy loses more of herself, ascending to a higher existence, our reasons to care for her vanish into thin air.

As the Turtle ascends for some air or moves onto a more delicious area the bat fish follows.

It was very timing as the first set of hot air balloons were starting to ascend to the skies.

Then, board your 9 - passenger seaplane, settle into the air - conditioned cabin, and thrill as you take off from the water and ascend into the sky.

Still explains the «ascending verticality» and «aspirational thrust» of his canvases throughout his career as taking root in his early landscape painting which he described as «records of air and light, yet always inevitably with the rising forms or the vertical necessity of life dominating the horizon... And so was born and became intrinsic this elemental characteristic on my life and my work.»

It's hard to imagine anything looking bad in Anahuacalli — the name means «House of Energy,» and the feeling of walking through its many halls as you ascend its four floors is one of effervescence met with an air of solemnity.

The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.

As one ascends the open - air exterior staircase to the mezzanine level, the Mesh Container Sculpture looms downward, cinched in an alarmingly off - kilter fashion to the platform above.

The dynamics and thermodynamics are fairly well - understood: convection (updraughts) bring moist air up and the water vapour condenses (usually on cloud condensation nuclei, CCN) as the air gets supersaturated — it cools as it ascends and expands (lower pressure).

Kinetic energy (per molecule) in fact remains constant (along with temperature) as one ascends an isothermal, isolated, hydrostatically balanced air column.

He asserts that temperature is related to kinetic energy only, and that kinetic energy on average «decreases» per molecule as one ascends the air column.

The normal way of considering the role of adiabatic condensation in ascending air and how that's related to pressure and temperature changes goes essentially as follows:

The above points describe essentially similar changes as the paper discusses in chapter 2 except for one essential difference: The only source of pressure drop is the ascending movement of air not to the condensation of water.

As the elevational lapse rate of summer air temperatures in the Polar Urals is 0.7 °C, the climate - dependent upper boundary of the zone suitable for tree growth could ascend approximately 100 m.

But as descending «dry air» must warm at a higher rate than ascending «wet air» cools, who knows what the average will work out at?

As Senator, he ascended to Chair the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, where he has championed offshore wind energy development and positioned Delaware to be a leader in this technology, which has the capacity to create thousands of new jobs.

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It is said that some 80 bodies remain on the mountain, there as a reminder of the risk to those ascending to 8,848 metres in dangerously thin air.