Sentences with phrase «buffering capacity of»

It's true that additional CO2 can not remove the buffering capacity of sea water, which is characterized by the alkalinity, although this way of characterizing the buffering capacity is a simplification of full chemistry.

Lower calcification rates would reduce the alkalinity pump, reduce surface CO2 and increase the buffering capacity of surface waters.

The buffering capacity of oceans is immense and ever recuperating.

If reverse weathering is taken into account, then the buffering capacity of the CO2 system extends for much longer periods.

On the Moon, the effective buffering depth is ~ 1m, which for comparison gives about a tenth of the buffering capacity of the Earth's atmosphere, while the sol is of course ~ 29 times as long, so the temperature swing of the lunar surface is much greater, reaching ~ 120C during the lunar day.

4.2 Levels of acidity or alkalinity are critical in establishing solubilities of some metals, toxicity of some metals, and the buffering capacity of some waters.

The resulting decline in the buffering capacity of the inorganic carbonate system (increasing Revelle factor) sets up a theoretically predicted feedback loop whereby the invasion of anthropogenic CO2 reduces the ocean's ability to uptake additional CO2.

Working in part by increasing the buffering capacity of working muscles, Beta - Alanine allows athletes to workout harder for longer periods of time.

The scientists showed that this increases their hatchability on morinda, probably as a result of the augmented buffering capacity of the embryos.

The net flux, driven by the rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, may rise for a while, but it could also fall as the buffer capacity of the seawater is exhausted (see comment # 7, for example.

The pace of the completely man - made CO2 increase (by now the CO2 concentration is higher than at any time in the past three million years) leads to a rapid acidification of the world's oceans, because it overcomes the buffer capacity of the oceans.

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In order to prevent a recurrence of this type of incident, we have added more traffic routing capacity in order to create more capacity buffer when draining servers in this region.

that some flexibility will be helpful in absorbing the capital inflow, in buffering external shocks, and responding to the changing productive capacity of their economies;

«The key benefits of organic - based fertilisers are that they contain a readily available nutrient supply; they result in better nutrient utilisation; they stimulate soil micro-organisms, they reduce nutrient losses into the environment; they buffer the acidifying effect due to compost; they increase Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) of soils, and they contain naturally chelated trace elements within humus», says Paul Baguely, PG Ag Consulting.

This capacity might buffer soil microbes against the disturbance of forest removal, they said.

These data link the Arctic Ocean's largest area of aragonite undersaturation to sea ice melt and atmospheric CO2 absorption in areas of low buffering capacity.

Regular Beta Alanine supplementation leads to accumulation of carnosine in muscle enhancing the buffering capacity during high intensity muscle action.

In DKA, however, blood ketone concentration can reach up to 25 mM — orders of magnitude greater — and blood pH can decrease to fatal levels that overwhelm the body's acid buffering capacity.47

● Concentric Hypertrophy of the Heart — Increased stroke volume ● EPOC — Increased After Burn ● Time Efficient ● Weight Loss ● Increased Insulin Sensitivity — Glycogen Depletion ● Opioid High — Feels Soooo Good ● Improved Buffering Capacity (Lactate) ● Improved Anaerobic Capacity & Power if programmed correctly.

Another study in the International Journal of Sports Medicine discovered that sodium bicarbonate helped to stave off fatigue in swimmers, improving their finish times in the 200 - meter freestyle race — most likely by assisting with the athletes» acid - buffering capacity.

Elevating muscle carnosine with beta - alanine supplementation is hypothesized to enhance the contractility of muscles through increasing buffering capacity [source].

Anaerobic capacity is the rate at which ATP can be produced during a given exercise (Sahlin, 2014) and is a function of the amount of available phosphocreatine, buffering capacity, and the amount of muscle mass that is contracting (Sahlin, 2014).

Chemical processes that may affect CO2 uptake include changes to the CO2 buffering capacity (Sarmiento et al 1995) and the effects of temperature on CO2 solubility.

If we're patient enough to wait 5 - 10 kyr, the buffer capacity is increased by the dissolution of CaCO3.

Model simulations for the North Atlantic Ocean and thermodynamic principles reveal that this feedback should be stronger, at present, in colder midlatitude and subpolar waters because of the lower present - day buffer capacity and elevated DIC levels driven either by northward advected surface water and / or excess local air - sea CO2 uptake.

This makes sense since warming the surfaces of the world's oceans would tend to decrease their CO2 - carrying - capacity, and this would be a slow process due to the buffering effects of the specific heat capacity of these large bodies of water.

The geochemical equilibrium system anorthite CaAl2Si2O8 — kaolinite Al2Si2O5 (OH) 4 has by the pH of ocean water a buffer capacity which is thousand times larger than a 0.001 M carbonate solution (Stumm & Morgan, 1970).

So buffering the cooling then comes mainly from the heat capacity of the ground.

Which is why continental climates have much colder nights than maritime climates (heat capacity of water versus soil, plus land - sea convection which allows the atmosphere to continue buffering during the night).

Their safety and resilience depends on the effectiveness of natural and man - made coastal flood protection, i.e. the capacity of the coastal zone to act as a buffer and absorb ocean energy through complex wave shoaling and breaking processes.

The summit is in context to the urgency of building resilience to buffer the impact of climate change and generate resources for adaptation, capacity building and technology transfer without waiting for any such global agreement in four host South Asian countries.

According to Hansen and his collaborators, the world has already used up all of the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere and biosphere that has been available to buffer against dangerous climate change.

Under this view, the world has already used up all of the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere and biosphere that has been available to buffer against dangerous climate change.

In effect, the shift to plug - in hybrids, with their electricity storage capacity and backup tank of gasoline, buffers the variability of wind energy, enabling it to become the centerpiece of the Plan B energy economy.

However in coral reefs, that loss of buffering capacity at lower pH is counteracted to a degree by increased dissolution of calcium carbonate minerals.

Boron isotope data Arabian Margin (Neo-Tethyan Ocean) combined with a quantitative modelling suggest that during the latest Permian, increased ocean alkalinity primed the Earth system with a low level of atmospheric CO2 and a high ocean buffering capacity.

(iii) Can organisms» capacity for phenotypic buffering and adaptation offset the consequences of environmental change?

Temperatures are buffered while the radiative flux soaks «into / out of» latent heat because, loosely speaking, the latency due to phase change alters the energy capacity for the region.

Extrapolated ten times to the 32 GW of wind capacity proposed in National Grid's Gone Green scheme, it can be seen that this buffer storage concept to use wind power on this scale is another blind alley»

In a medical home adapted to the needs of families in poverty, parents have the opportunities and resources to promote resilience in their young children, giving them the capacity to adapt to adversity and buffering the effects of stress.

[FN58] Some of the studies have also suggested or identified variables that may mitigate the impact of partner violence on children who witness it, including the severity and frequency of the violence, the level of stress experienced by the mother and her capacity to provide appropriate parenting, whether the child was verbally or physically abused, and other characteristics of the child or of the environment that may provide a buffer.

Although previous studies have examined the buffering role of support from friends and family in the link between visual impairment and well - being in elders (e.g., McIlvane & Reinhardt, 2001), no study could be located that had examined the capacity of a good marriage to play such a mitigating role.

Home Visiting and the Biology of Toxic Stress: Opportunities to Address Early Childhood Adversity Garner (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Offers a public health approach to building critical caregiver and community capacities to minimize the effects of childhood adversity with a focus on expanding collaboration between caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress and strengthen the social - emotional, language, and cognitive skills needed to develop healthy, adaptive coping skills.

Which Working Memory Components Predict Fluid Intelligence: The Roles of Attention Control and Active Buffer Capacity