Sentences with phrase «air column»

An "air column" refers to a vertical section of air that extends from the ground or a surface to the top of the atmosphere. It can be thought of as a column of air that is stacked on top of each other. Full definition
«We're monitoring on the ground and thinking that's representative of the entire air column — but I don't think that's true,» she says.
Burnt orange glow observed in the crater of volcano and in thick column of ash rising nearly two miles into the air
Tornado A violently rotating air column in contact with the ground and extending to the base of a thunderstorm.
NA - MK - 47 Students identify ways in which the principles of other subjects taught in school are interrelated with those of music (e.g. science can be taught through music by discussing how the vibration of strings, drum heads or air columns generates sounds).
Highly toxic heavy metals and chemicals from these illegal programs are supersaturating our breathable air column and thus contaminating every breath we take.
An AVE with a diameter of 200 meters (m) and a height of 50 m to 100 m would produce a rising air column (the vortex) with a diameter of 30 m extending up to 15 km into the atmosphere.
Hug's apparatus was 10 cm in length, the atmospheric air column is many kilometers, not the same thing at all.
Burnt orange glow observed in the crater and in the thick column of ash rising nearly two miles into the air
If I stick a thermometer in at the top of static, isolated air column, and it reads some temperature, and I stick it in somewhere else and it reads another temperature, the zeroth law clearly states that the two locations (with different temperatures) are not in thermal equilibrium.
Over the course of 13 flights in the region, Conley et al. sampled the air column and determined daily release rates of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) and ethane throughout the leak.
ACME: Launch Radio sounding balloon to investigate the water vapour in the air column rising up to the troposphere.
The result is reduced noise resonance in the air column inside the wheel.
In another post Ferdinand suggested that there also is the issue of atmospheric saturation and the temperature in the air column.
The Annual Mean graph shows there is slightly more CO2 near the ground... and levels decrease slightly until you reach 4 km... so it is back to the drawing board... either CO2 sinks because it is heavier than air and / or near ground CO2 doesn't heat up enough to rise in the air column.
Since building such an apparatus is not within our current technical capabilities, we can not via experiment (at least this type of experiment) determine exactly what the sensitivity actually is across the atmospheric air column.
The heat energy thus «trapped» becomes part of the normal lapse rate tranfer up the air column.
To find out, the researchers used the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), one of only two short - wave infrared satellites currently capable of taking measurements of carbon dioxide in the air column.
The same effect will lead to drought in the dry seasons, because much more water vapor is necessary to fill the air column so that it will start raining.
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