Sentences with phrase «cloud decks of»

The cloud decks of the giant planets evolve in dramatic and unpredictable ways, as recently shown by the emergence of a super-storm on Saturn (Sayanagi et al 2014).

Cloud decks of Jupiter, showing the Great Red Spot and other circulation systems that will be probed with TMT.

Not exact matches

On the fifth night, when the boat was out of fuel and passengers were down to their final rations, Tan, though she had been warned not to speak while above deck, couldn't resist remarking to her mother on the sudden appearance through the clouds of a wide patch of brilliant stars.

The atmosphere is divided into wide bands like Jupiter's, although Saturn's bands are less obvious from the outside because of a thick layer of haze lying above the upper ammonia cloud deck.

We suspect that water, the constituent of Saturn's deepest cloud deck, can suppress convection in the lighter hydrogen atmosphere for a period of decades, until finally buoyancy wins out and a large convective outburst ensues.

Off the coast of Namibia, for several months a year, a layer of smoke from African savanna fires drifts over a persistent deck of low clouds.

Off the coast of Namibia, for several months a year, a layer of smoke drifts over a persistent deck of low clouds.

This month, NASA aircraft will begin studying a natural atmospheric laboratory off the coast of Namibia, where a layer of smoke wafts over a low cloud deck.

Like most of Jupiter's cloud deck, it is rich in ammonia.

Several dramatic phenomena become visible only when the sun or moon shines through a partially obscuring deck of clouds.

The presence of water ice, he says, supports the idea that Saturn's superstorms are powered by condensation of water and originate deep in the atmosphere, about 200 kilometers below the visible cloud deck.

Scientists believe Saturn's atmosphere is a layered sandwich of sorts, with a deck of water clouds at the bottom, ammonia hydrosulfide clouds in the middle, and ammonia clouds near the top, just below an upper tropospheric haze of unknown composition that obscures almost everything.

© John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission) View of planet d from its cloud deck with rings, moons, star - like planets b and c, and ups And, as imagined by Whatmough.

As if in support of this new promise, the sun began to peak out from the fog and low cloud deck as we finished the walk.

Meanwhile, there I was in sweat pants and a hoodie, surrounded by covered deck furniture that still had small batches of snow that was slowly melting and my head tilted towards the sun, desperately hoping Mr. Sun will stick around but after 10 minutes, the clouds covered the sun and a cold breeze swept through.

Many have tried, but none can match Malick's touch for shuffling a deck of elegiac images (water / sky / clouds / rain) and fanning out the hand to express what speech can not; he's a master, too, of incorporating sound that is often wordless but never empty.

As John Smith (Colin Farrell) is bewitched by Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), Malick shuffles a deck of elegiac images (water / sky / clouds / rain).

The Silver Wind, Silver Cloud, Silver Whisper and Silver Shadow have plenty of outdoor space with a wraparound promenade deck.

You can admire the natural beauty of Norway while comfortably sat on the deck of your boat, as it cruises past the lush green vegetation and waterfalls, with the peaks of the fjords capped by snow or hidden by clouds.

Occasionally the game succeeds in doing the familiar so well it becomes exciting again — preparing to launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier, for instance, and the atmospheric dogfight through the clouds that follows — but for the most part it feels tedious despite being so accomplished.

Romantic and mysterious, they feature rainbows and ominous storm clouds photographed by Joice at various times of the day and evening from the couple's top deck.

Not long afterward, with orders to abandon ship ringing out and life jackets on, they headed out on deck and faced the scene captured in Ms. Trust's truly chilling photo above — no James Cameron special effects, just the red bow of the MV Explorer wedged on blue ice with the low sun of Antarctic spring just peaking between the horizon and a sheath of leaden clouds.

means a mix of cloud albedo reflecting DSW (negative) and IR absorption and re-radiation below cloud deck from WV (positive).

But in the southern hemisphere, the poleward contraction of the high clouds is balanced by an expansion of the already extensive low cloud decks, which ends up blocking more sunlight and producing a small surface cooling.

While arguing with Carbonari I like tease them with the claim that power of clouds decking or power of clouds radiation forcing are easily measurable by satellites, whereas power of CO2 radiation forcing is out of measurable range.

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.

they can also cool the planet by evaporating water to the atmosphere and increasing cloudiness; a deck of white clouds reflects incoming solar radiation straight back out into space

An organization may need a specialist for developing a go - to - market strategy and pitch deck for a new cloud software offering — and the option of hiring one just - in - time for the duration of the launch saves money and puts the right talent to work.