Sentences with phrase «based at high altitude»

Early studies were ground based at high altitude, from weather balloons and high - flying aircraft.

Not exact matches

There is a reason behind this little geography lesson, and it has its basis in a long running debate in the region: does playing at a higher altitude provide certain teams with an unfair advantage?

Then a ground - based laser array with a combined capacity of 100 gigawatts of peak power, spread out over a dry, high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, would zap each sail, one at a time, for a few minutes.

Eleven percent oxygen is close to what a person would encounter at high altitudes such as the base camp at Mount Everest.

From near - infrared images taken at 2.2 micron, the team already determined that the storm must reach high altitudes; they will conduct calculations to determine the precise altitude, but based upon its brightness at those wavelengths the team expects it to reach altitudes near the tropopause.

He was seen to enter the base of the thunderstorm at 3000 feet and then some time later seen to come out of the side of the cloud at a very high altitude.

An MAS based energy management system for a stand - alone microgrid at high altitude.

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

Molden said that based on recent research, limiting average global temperatures at a 2 degree Celsius rise from pre-industrial levels — as envisaged by the historic Paris accord of 2015 — in the world means 3 to 4 degrees of warming in the mountains, while limiting average global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius would mean a 3 degree Celsius rise in high - altitude areas.