Sentences with phrase «affected by radiation»

The lapse rate of nonrising air — commonly referred to as the normal, or environmental, lapse rate — is highly variable, being affected by radiation, convection, and condensation; it averages about 6.5 °C per kilometre (18.8 °F per mile) in the lower atmosphere (troposphere).

Briefly, the warmer body (Earth's surface) is not affected by radiation from the cooler one (the atmosphere) because that radiation does not have enough energy (high enough frequency) to bring about the conversion of its energy into thermal energy.

Meanwhile, Doctor Doom, harassed by his board of directors and investors, discovers that he too has been affected by the radiation, but he's delighted to use his powers for diabolical megalomaniacal evil.

I was sitting in an ice bath one day talking to Jack «Karnival» Kruse on Skype about neuropeptides and how they, along with adiponectin, will be affected by radiation from Fukishima, and a mysterious phrase entered my mind as if it was placed there by a higher power.

In a recent Crowdfunded study by an individual person, it has been proven that the West Coast of the United States is not affected by this radiation.

Even if animals in the area are being affected by radiation in the area, the effects of this contamination are overshadowed by the fact that this area is now essentially a wildlife reserve relatively free of human disturbances.

Not exact matches

More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Fortunately, not all electromagnetic radiation is equally affected by dust.

Now under analysis by Western and Russian researchers, this data is offering new insights into the ways chronic exposure to radiation affects health.

It should be possible to build radiation shields that allow objects to sit in fields without being affected by them.

Soot particles, also known as black carbon aerosols, affect climate by absorbing sunlight, which warms the surrounding air and limits the amount of solar radiation that reaches the ground.

Readers ask: Will radiation from the Japan quake and tsunami affect the Hawaiian Islands by May 2011?

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

By 2010, Remo felt they had compiled «a complete body of work» on how radiation affects meteoritic substances.

«Mapping the link between solar surface radiation and air pollution is significant since the relationship is heavily masked by clouds which play a major role in affecting solar surface radiation,» says Deliang Chen, Professor of Physical Meteorology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg and co-author of the research article.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

As forms of high - energy radiation, both primary and secondary cosmic rays may affect living things by causing changes in their genes, which control heredity.

Clouds impact Arctic climate through rain and snow, by reflecting solar radiation and by affecting air and surface temperatures.

Several factors affect these cycles, but they are ultimately determined by orbital forcing — the Sun's radiation received by the Earth due to variations in the Earth's orbit in the solar system.

These components — specifically aerosols (particulates in the air — dust, soot, sulphates, nitrates, pollen etc.) and atmospheric chemistry (ozone, methane)-- are both affected by climate and affect climate, since aerosols and ozone can interact, absorb, reflect or scatter solar and thermal radiation.

There is no scientific basis for investigating exposure of the growing baby when pregnant mothers use a mobile phone, as exposure to radiofrequency radiation from mobile phones is highly localised to the part of the head closest to the phone; there is no evidence to suggest that other parts of the body, such as the abdomen where the baby is growing, are affected by mobile phone use.

Trained as a theoretical physicist, Wolfe and Rainer Kurt Sachs first showed how density fluctuations in an expanding universe affect the thermal radiation left by the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation.

An unusual observation by Hopkins scientists about how testosterone affects prostate cancer cells may lead to more effective radiation therapy in men with high - risk disease.

The clouds affect the «global radiative balance» by reflecting solar energy or trapping terrestrial radiation.

Now an international team led by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that how electrons respond to radiation in a solid can alter the way permanent damage is created in the material and radically affect its mechanical, magnetic, electrical, and optical properties.

T4 to T3 conversion can also be affected by dieting habits, diabetes, fluoride, aging, radiation and stress.

Inflammation is usually characterized by redness on the affected area, and can be triggered by many things, including overexertion, immune response to pathogens, injuries, and the effects of chemicals or radiation.

Further, electromagnetic radiation (such as that emitted by Wi - Fi, cell phones, cell towers and «smart» meters) may affect the body like light does at night — and inhibit melatonin production.

In fact, while autophagy may help cancer cells avoid death from chemotherapy or radiation therapy, 7 the cellular pathways affected by intermittent fasting in the schematic from the last post (reference) happen to also increase cancer sensitivity to conventional treatment, like radiation therapy.

100 % of the proceeds are going to relief to help those affected by the earthquake and now continued radiation.

Cosmic rays modulate the cloud cover which in turn affects the temperature by trapping or releasing radiation to outer space.

The CO2 doesn't alter climate by affecting thermal mass; it affects climate by retarding the efficiency of infrared radiation, and it has important IR absorption bands in places where water is ineffective.

Interestingly, the O2 molecule's absorption in the near - infrared, ~ 1 micron, is forbidden — it's a very weak absorption (that actually might affect the absorption of solar radiation by a small amount).

Refraction, specifically the real component of refraction n (describes bending of rays, wavelength changes relative to a vacuum, affects blackbody fluxes and intensities — as opposed to the imaginary component, which is related to absorption and emission) is relatively unimportant to shaping radiant fluxes through the atmosphere on Earth (except on the small scale processes where it (along with difraction, reflection) gives rise to scattering, particularly of solar radiation — in that case, the effect on the larger scale can be described by scattering properties, the emergent behavior).

One could also show how the spectra of LW radiation is affected by the resulting temperature increase and also by the water vapor feedback.

One might expect some clathrate release in the Arctic, perhaps not enough to greatly affect global warming by itself, but add this to the increased thermal energy and methane radiation already on the increase in the Arctic and the combination increases risk.

Dynamical upward transport by convection removes excess heat from the surface more efficiently than longwave radiation is able to accomplish in the presence of a humid, optically thick boundary layer, and deposits it in the upper troposphere where it is more easily radiated to space, thereby affecting the planetary energy balance.

Aerosols directly affect the climate by scattering and absorbing radiation, and indirectly affect climate by altering cloud radiative properties, duration and amount.

Studies with climate models have noted that the ITCZ width depends on interactions between radiation and clouds (Voigt & Shaw 2015) and how the model represents sub-grid scale convection (Kang et al. 2009), but a physical understanding of why the ITCZ width is affected by these processes is lacking.

That is, the oceans do not directly affect the radiation budget of the planet, but rather, affect the time constant by which the planet «experiences» changes in radiation.

The only way, however, CO2 might affect air temperature could be by getting warmed directly by radiation, like many other things around us, but it is not the IPCC version and second, such an effect can only be negligible (I can go into details on that, if needed).

From experimental evidence we know that the absorptivity of a body is not affected by the amount of incident radiation, or by any imbalance between the body and its environment.

However, from experimental evidence we know that emissivity of a body is not affected by the incident radiation, or by any conditions of imbalance that occur between the body and its environment.

It would have to be something that affected the net heat balance of the earth by affecting incoming radiation (solar inputs, aerosols, clouds), the reflectivity of the earth (ice caps, land use changes) or the ability of the surface to cool (greenhouse gases).

This can be affected by warming temperatures, but also by changes in snowfall, increases in solar radiation absorption due to a decrease in cloud cover, and increases in the water vapor content of air near the earth's surface.2, 14,15,16,17 In Cordillera Blanca, Peru, for example, one study of glacier retreat between 1930 and 1950 linked the retreat to a decline in cloud cover and precipitation.18

I have sought the best empirical evidence to show how changes in incoming solar radiation, accounted for by intrinsic solar magnetic modulation of the irradiance output as well as planetary modulation of the seasonal distribution of sunlight, affects the thermal properties of land and sea, including temperatures.

There are other processes like evaporative cooling and diffusion followed by convection which can not be affected by backradiation, and which will tend to compensate for any slowing of the radiation.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the surface can not affect to the solar photon stream and the radiation pressure exerted by the atmosphere can not affect to the surface.