Sentences with phrase «bulb temperatures by»

Professor Eltahir and his colleagues in 2015 examined conditions in the relatively wealthy Gulf region, and predicted potentially lethal wet bulb temperatures by 2100.

Spray droplets are cooled to their wet bulb temperature by evaporation before falling back into the sea, thereby transferring a huge amount of heat from sea to air.

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Black garlic is produced by «fermenting» whole bulbs of fresh garlic in a humidity - controlled environment in temperatures of about 140 to 170 degrees F for 30 days.

The new analysis is based on recent research showing that hot weather's most deadly effects for humans comes from a combination of high temperature and high humidity, an index which is measured by a reading known as wet - bulb temperature.

The study shows that by century's end, absent serious reductions in global emissions, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves would increase from wet - bulb temperatures of about 31 C to 34.2 C. «It brings us close to the threshold» of survivability, he says, and «anything in the 30s is very severe.»

Incandescent bulbs, commercially developed by Thomas Edison (and still used by cartoonists as the symbol of inventive insight), work by heating a thin tungsten wire to temperatures of around 2,700 degrees Celsius.

Wet bulb globe temperature is the heat stress metric used by the International Organization for Standardization, and it has well - validated thresholds for when humans can safely work, giving it advantages over alternative metrics such as heat index, said study co-author Chao Li, a hydroclimatology scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada.

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The bulb is physically buried in the evaporator core, and reads the temperature of the core by thermal conductivity.

All lizards require supplemental heat (provided by an over-the-tank bulb), so that a temperature gradient is established, with a hot / basking zone and a cooler / shade zone, the temperatures of which vary depending on species.

The bulbs were recognized by the hub almost instantly, and the app makes it simple to assign a specific image and name for each bulb, so that individual rooms or bulbs can easily be identified in the app, as they can each have their own schedule, brightness, and color temperature set separately.

I suspect that although currently the probability of lethal wet bulb temperatures, or catastrophic rain events are very low, because of the shapes of the curves and «the Statistical parameters are surprisingly predictable, and weather statistics is systematically influenced by the physical conditions present» that their relative increase and risk are much higher than most people appreciate.

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Based on 1976 to 1995 temperature data from 3 key UK sites, Levermore and Keeble (1998) found that the annual mean dry - bulb temperature had increased by about 1 °C over the 19 - year period, with milder winters and warmer summers.

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I don't understand how mammals could have survived for 100 million years given the supposedly fatal wet bulb temperatures quoted by ATTP.

Using global climate models, the researchers mapped current and projected future «wet - bulb» temperatures, which reflect the combined effects of heat and humidity (the measurement is made by draping a water - saturated cloth over the bulb of a conventional thermometer; it does not correspond directly to air temperature alone).

Today, the summer temperature varies widely over the Earth's surface, but wet bulb temperature is more narrowly confined by the effect of humidity, with the most common value of approximately 26 — 27 °C and the highest approximately of 31 °C.

The wet - bulb temperature is the temperature an air parcel would have if it were cooled to saturation at constant pressure by evaporating water into the parcel.

Dry bulb is the familiar temperature recorded by a mercury thermometer, and which often reaches 40 °C in the region each summer.

Re: Myrrh says (March 2, 6:42 pm): «So, if as Ira says «the filament of the incandescent light bulb is heated to temperatures similar to the Sun's surface», and we know such a lightbulb gives most of its energy in Heat and not Light, in Thermal IR, 95 %, and only a small amount in Visible, only 5 %, then what is really «the most» energy given off by the Sun?»

For example, sunlight on a choppy, well - mixed sea is likely to primarily heat the water, where sunlight falling on a stagnant pond goes mostly into evaporation, since the water temperature is limited by the wet bulb temperature.

I was lured into HomeKit by the promise of one app to rule them all — which it is, to an extent — but the Home app gives all of your light bulbs, humidity sensors, temperature sensors, and whatever else you have connected the same amount of precedence in the interface.

That enables you to use voice commands to also control any C by GE smart bulbs in your home — adjusting the brightness of the C - Life and C - Sleep and tweaking the color temperature of the C - Sleep.

By taking your location into account and using sensors to measure the natural light in the room, Stack bulbs not only tweak their color temperature and brightness, they adapt to your own preferences over time.

The house has been alerted to your arrival, so your Nest thermostat has adjusted the temperature to suit you, while your Philips Hue connected light bulbs change the lighting to fit your mood — predicted by analyzing your heart rate and schedule for that day.

While these lights are dimmable, you can't adjust their color temperature; for that, you'll need the C by GE C - Sleep bulbs, which cost about $ 48 for a two - pack.