Sentences with phrase «air above something»

Cool name aside, it's a wireless sensor that sits on the floor and makes you strike arbitrary patches of air above it.

It may also thicken if the warmer air above it is lifted by an approaching area of low pressure.

When patches of ground get very hot, the heated air above them begins to rise and spin.

The colder air above it is charged positively.

Under its clouds, Venus is a desert with rolling hills formed from lava squashed under the extreme pressure of the thick, hot air above it.

We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

At sea level, because air is compressible, the weight of all that air above us compresses the air around us, making it denser.

The coldest air already is at the bottom of the stratosphere, with warmer air above it, so air rarely rises from the troposphere into the stratosphere.

They will love relaxing in comfort while looking up at the little birds floating in the air above them.

She had so much chalk on them that if you even breathed on them, there would be a small cloud of chalk dust in the air above them.

Billow a light scarf in the air above her and say, Feel the wind!

Increasingly they are turning to their most valuable asset: location, location, location (and, in some cases, the air above it).

This hilarious octopus is a skilled flyer, flapping its tentacles while drifting through the air above you.

Do clouds and tiny aerosol particles help warm or cool Greenland's ice and the air above it?

As the ash clouds thickened, hot lava racing down the mountain slope heated the air above it to thousands of degrees.

«Normally, whenever there is a solid material sitting on a surface, there is a certain concentration of that substance lingering in the air above it in a gas phase,» says physicist Kurt Becker, Polytechnic Institute of New York University's associate provost for research and technology initiatives.

«We've been limited in the past in that we haven't had very good methods for seeing up in the night skies and the air above us,» says Paul Cryan, a research biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado, who is not connected with the work.

Even at the time, with scientific meteorology still in its infancy, the idea seemed absurd: key equations governing the behaviour of the 5 million billion tonnes of air above us had already been identified — and they were anything but simple.

The combined effect of hundreds of such insults to the night, expending much of their energy illuminating the air above them, is «sky glow».

Unnerving also are the shots of the plane flying over the sublime Pennsylvania countryside where people quietly live, unaware of the heroic actions of everyday citizens going on in the air above them.

Additionally, the cool ocean water of the California Current, which flows out of the cold Gulf of Alaska, enhances the contrast between the cool air below the inversion layer and the warm air above it.

[1] As it cools, the surface air becomes denser than the warmer air above it, and thus becomes trapped below it.

I love the boldness, even violence of Burning Tree (1961), with its rugged spikes gripping the air above it like a claw; if anyone calls Martin's work quiet, delicate, or feminine, I urge them to cite this image.

The 1980 painting depicts a nattily dressed black man (the collector) leaning against a fireplace with circles of smoke hanging in the air above him.

It's not easy to interpret boundary - layer methane concentrations quantitatively, however, because the concentration in that layer depends on the thickness of the boundary layer and how isolated it is from the air above it.

Unfortunately, every article I have read that explains why hurricane strength is anticipated to increase merely cites the observed link between hurricane strength and ocean temperature, without explaining why CO2 would cause water tempertaures to rise more than that of the air above it.

The water warms the air above it, which responds by rising.

The warmer air evaporates more moisture, but it does so across the entire ocean, and this moist air mixes continually with the air above it, so * all * the air is moister.

As there is less and less sea ice to act as a buffer, more energy can go into melting glaciers from below and warming the air above them.

A surface current warms or cools the air above it, influencing the climate of the land near the coast.

Of course, this warm current warms the air above it causing more evaporation and therefore more storms for the western U.S. creating heavy rains, flooding, and mudslides in California and more tornadoes in Florida.

15 Surface Currents A surface current warms or cools the air above it, influencing the climate of the land near the coast.

It runs ashore at the equator, spreads north and south along the coast, and warms the water and the air above it.

The model in my head is leaning towards the DWIR may heat the ocean a little, but it will heat the air above it due to the extra water vapor from the top 10 uM.