Sentences with phrase «by extreme humidity»

The oxidation in the self - portrait was probably caused by extreme humidity or a closed environment — consistent with the documented history of the piece.

Not exact matches

The expiration date, typically just one or two years after manufacture, simply shows how long the maker tested the drug's stability by exposing it to extreme temperatures, humidity and light.

But by the end of the century, new climate simulations suggest, extreme heat and humidity could put hundreds of millions at risk of death.

«They probably play an important role in restoring fertility to the soil in pastures, where it has been damaged by exposure to extremes of both temperature and humidity,» he says.

And strong reductions — bringing global emissions to zero by the 2080s — can cap the growth of humidity extremes by the midcentury.

TEWL increases in response to any disruption to the skin barrier (wounds, scratches, burns, exposure to solvents or surfactants, extreme dryness) and is affected by humidity, temperature, season, and moisture content of the skin (hydration level).

The ravages of temperature extremes, high humidity and lack of nutrients are all buffered by these nutrients.

The average mean temperature in January ranges from 53 - 59 degrees F; summers are a little warmer with an average mean temperature in July that ranges from 62 - 70 degrees F. Both winter and summer temperature extremes are moderated by the moist ocean air with generally high nighttime humidities and frequent fog.

By its nature, paper is fragile, and up until fairly recently this was a factor that made some collectors nervous — particularly those who lived in countries with high humidity or prone to extreme changes in temperature, which could impact the material in drawings.

If humidity — the levels of water vapour in the air — go up with the thermometer, then people caught in a zone of extreme heat can not adjust body temperatures by perspiration.

The Washington Post reported the study as almost being settled fact, writing «The disaster was caused by two weather - related features, extreme humidity and near - stationary low pressure that hovered over the Gulf Coast for days.

Cities are afflicted by the notorious heat island effect, and climate scientists have repeatedly warned that extremes of heat and humidity could rise to potentially lethal levels in many of the world's great cities.

LONDON, 24 December, 2017 — When the mercury climbs to extreme levels, it's the dangerous humidity produced by heat reacting with water - sodden air that can spell death, not just the heat alone.

Anyway, our paper concluded by suggesting that, in view of the extreme significance of upper - level humidity to the climate change story, the international radiosonde data on upper - level humidity should not be «written off» without a serious attempt at abstracting the best possible humidity signal from within the noise of instrumental and operational changes at each of the relevant radiosonde stations.