Sentences with phrase «acts as a heat sink»

In the summer, the process is reversed and the yard acts as a heat sink to cool the house.»

The norm for cooling an LED (which is actually a semiconductor that converts electricity into light) has been to place a copper or aluminum tube near the light to act as a heat sink and draw away excess heat.

One of the most plausible reasons for the recent slowdown in warming is that the deep ocean has been acting as a heat sink, taking up more warming than the land has in recent years.

Our aquaculture system grows fish, provides high - nitrogen fertilizer, grows food year round, acts as a heat sink to balance greenhouse temperatures, and is where most of our rooting propagation occurs.

Internal fins act as heat sinks, absorbing heat from engine coolant and radiating it through external fins to dissipate heat twice as fast.

Well the tropical oceans are colder in the depths because the poles act as a heat sink.

The land and seas act as a heat sink.

The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one - third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.

The equilibrium climate sensitivity will be about 50 % greater than this due to the ocean acting as a heat sink, so the ECS will be about 3C, in line with the mean estimate from the models.

By acting as a heat sink, the polar cell moves the abundant heat from the equator toward the polar regions.

In addition to the new wider field of view and high - performance lenses, Google has also improved the flap where you situate your phone when placing it in the headset, making it more grippy so the phone stays in place better, and it added magnesium heat pipes inside this flap to act as a heat sink that Google boasts will help the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL run apps without heat issues, which was a common problem with the original Pixel phones and the first Daydream View headset that were launched last year, often getting hot after using it for a certain amount of time.

The floors acted as a heat sink, capturing the sunlight from the large, south - facing windows.

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The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

Finally, all the climate models assume different amounts of energy stored on Earth that is transferred to the ocean depths, which act as an enormous heat sink.

1) A better understanding of how the ocean will act in the future as a heat sink.

If not, might not we want to assume, for the sake of risk assessment, that this will drive faster break down in the system and faster heating of the planet as the ability of the ocean to support life is diminished, and likely it's ability to continue to act as a carbon sink?

In any case, I know I have brought this up before, but another carbon cycle feedback is kicking in: heat stress is reducing the ability of plants to act as carbon sinks, at least during the warmer, dryer years.

Sometimes they were constructed with heat sink towers acting as thermal chimneys to enhance ventilation airflow.

We'd see a huge hotspot in the upper tropo in the arctic, but this would be heat leaving the system and there'd be a gain in arctic sea ice that would reduce warming and possibly act as a carbon sink.

So, the saltier and more dense Atlantic water sinks below the surface and a colder fresher layer of water above it acts as a insolation blanket that limits the amount of ocean heat in contact with the ice above.

This current plays a crucial role linking the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans, while also acting as one of the great heat and carbon sinks for the atmosphere.

It is still possible that, even though warming is increasing, it could have increased more had the ocean not acted as a sink for heat.»