Sentences with phrase «as a heat sink as»

I always thought the ocean served as a heat sink as long as the ocean's bulk temperature was colder than the surface's and the surface temperature was increasing.

Not exact matches

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.

But as the heating continues, eventually a closed loop of molecular movement develops in some region — a column of rising molecules happens to be next to a stack of sinking units — so that a more or less circular path becomes available.

With the previous batch of this coffee I received, the plastic ring would distort from the heat of brewing and the cup would sink into the k - cup holder in the coffee maker and proceed to empty the grounds into your cup as well as all over the inside of the brewing chamber.

Let sit uncovered 1 — 3 hours (chiles will get less spicy as they soak; in 1 hour, they'll sink to the heat level of a jalapeño).

Heat as needed, pouring the hot liquid into a sink or basin and soak your sore and aching breasts.

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

It does have an on / off switch, which is hard to find among budget models, as well as heat sinks.

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.

The single - person sleeping tents are slowly sinking as the ambient body heat of their occupants, along with the absorption of warmth from 24 - hour daylight melts the snow underneath.

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

«To put this in some kind of context, if those small scale eddies did not increase with wind stress then the saturation of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean sink would occur twice as rapidly and more heat would enter our atmosphere and sooner.»

As global temperature rises, most of the extra heat in the atmosphere — about 90 percent — sinks into the ocean.

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

That could be important as electronic devices shrink and require more sophisticated heat sinks.

As a result, there has been a reduction in the heat exchange over the locations where sinking occurs in the ocean.

It has long been thought that heat flow drives what is called thermal convection — the hottest liquid becomes less dense and rises, as the cooler, more - dense liquid sinks — in Earth's liquid iron core and generates Earth's magnetic field.

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.

That's because as water heats up, it expands, becoming lighter than the water below it and less likely to sink.

Bond conceived the idea of using the ultracold liquid hydrogen fuel as a heat sink to take the excess heat out of the incoming air and use some of the hot air to support fuel combustion.

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

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.

As air sinks it warms, and this also inhibits the formation of showers and thunderstorms that could offer some heat relief.

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

Heat as needed, pouring the hot liquid into a sink or basin and soak your sore and aching breasts.

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.

As with all of Bunkabin's sleeper units, the two variants include thermostat - controlled heating, flushing toilets, powerful mains pressure showers, large sinks and heated towel rails.

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

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The 11.8 axle cover doubles as a heat sink.

overall, the solution is relatively compact, with the cooling tubes and radiator taking up about as much space as a large air - cooling heat sink.

Many of the ranch buildings were built between 1900 and 1940 with newer facilities added throughout the years, such as a heated outdoor pool, sunken tennis courts, and 24 - hour fitness center.

As the sun sinks toward the ocean, heat up the barbecue for dinner at the al - fresco table, gather around the firepit or soak in the hot tub.

Make the most of the tropical weather with two pools, and loungers in the sun and the shade of a bale, heating up the barbecue as the sun sinks toward the horizon.

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As the sun sinks toward the neighboring island of Molokai, heat up the barbecue, sample local seafood at the al - fresco dining area and try to stay awake for some stargazing — Hawaii is, after all, the world's most remote island chain.

As the sun sinks in the sky, heat up the barbecue in the outdoor kitchen area and gather on the raised platform that houses the al - fresco dining area.

Stretch out and enjoy the view on the terrace, and if the tropical heat is too much, a ceiling fan will cool you here or sink into a comfy lounge in the open common area where friendly staff will whip up a martini or something pretty with an umbrella in it as the sun starts to sink.

The heat sink is easily removed; just unscrew the four bolts securing it to the motherboard, giving the whole thing a slight twist as you pull upward.

Had I actually been switching it out, I would have needed an alcohol - soaked cloth to wipe down the bottom of the heat sink and the top of the old CPU before removing it, as well as a tube of Arctic Silver to apply a fresh layer of paste to the new CPU after installing it.

Additional pieces such as the hard drive and heat sink were added in next.

All else equal, if CO2 goes up, it affects that balance, and temperature increases until a new equilibrium is reached (which takes a long time as the ocean is a big 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?

Well, that seems to have worked for a while, but as temperatures rise due to higher CO2 concentrations plants become subject to both heat and drought stress, and so we have that sink working less well than it has in the past — which is a feedback.

(PS regarding Venus — as I have understood it, a runaway water vapor feedback would have occured when solar heating increasing to become greater than a limiting OLR value (Simpson - Kombayashi - Ingersoll limit — see http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/climate-feedbacks-part-1/ — although I should add that at more «moderate» temperatures (warmer than today), stratospheric H2O increases to a point where H escape to space becomes a significant H2O sink — if that stage worked fast enough relative to solar brightening, a runaway H2O case could be prevented, and it would be a dry (er) heat.

It may be worthwhile to pursue a simple analogy — a room with a fireplace and an open window — the fireplace equivalent to the Earth's surface as a source of IR and the window the equivalent of space as a fixed heat 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.

Just a guess, with out actually crunching the numbers, but the energy transfer (0.3 watt / m2) and the time frame (2003 — present) are both too small, to measure any transfer, in such a large heat sink as the oceans.

As Hal Doiron, a NASA thermal engineer, bluntly puts it: «When I look at the ocean I see one of the largest heat - sinks in the solar system.

Isn't it evident that as the surface warms the ocean heat sink will tend to absorb more heat, and that if the surface cools then the ocean releases heat?