Sentences with phrase «by fractions of a degree»

[46](Presently the ecliptic latitude is 43.5 ° South but it has decreased by a fraction of a degree since Ptolemy's time due to proper motion.)

A more aerodynamic (and removable) chin spoiler reduces the SUV's hill approach and departure angles by fractions of a degree, but the SVR is still just a tire swap away from going from track to trail.

I always thought of this problem as what happens to 2 parallel lines, when one end of the line offsets by a fraction of a degree.

So heat that boils the harbour would only warm the entire ocean by a fraction of a degree.

Jim D, if one place has a 3 - sigma summer several degrees warmer than average, it must mean that another place or places are cooler, or the same place is cooler some other time of the year, if the global average has only increased by a fraction of a degree.

Perhaps only out by a fraction of a degree.

Now, given that the least significant digit of the input data is integer 1, or for later data integer 5, then how do you calculate a «result» based on this data has a GREATER accuracy than the input data — specifically, the claim that this calculated «global mean temperature» has increased by fractions of a degree celsius, and typically reported to the 0.00 degree accuracy.

Not exact matches

The experiment monitors germanium detectors, cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, for subtle vibration and ionization effects that would be produced by WIMPs colliding with germanium nuclei.

Imagine sea levels rising by feet instead of inches, global average temperatures increasing by many degrees instead of just fractions and an increase in other cataclysmic, costly and fatal weather events.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

But in a study of Georgia Tech's hugely successful online master of science in computer science (OMSCS) program, educational economists Joshua Goodman and Amanda Pallais and public policy expert Julia Melkers found that digital learning can tap into a new market of students by offering an online degree that is equivalent in all ways to an in - person degree, at a fraction of the cost.

Hydraulic cylinders in each individual suspension strut respond to steering inputs, allowing the vehicle to change its body angle by up to 2.5 degrees in a fraction of a second.

Atmospheric crude oil distillation: The refining process of separating crude oil components at atmospheric pressure by heating to temperatures of about 600 degrees to 750 degrees Fahrenheit (depending on the nature of the crude oil and desired products) and subsequent condensing of the fractions by cooling.

That Ludlum-esque moniker derives from the 1991 volcanic eruption that spewed 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, blocking out a fraction of the sun's rays and cooling the planet by 1 degree Fahrenheit.

The whole point is, by what possible mechanism can a fraction of a degree increase in global average lead to such a widening of the distribution curve?

As you can see, we can't trust any individual data point to better than + / - 5 degs yet by taking the average of 100 data points the error drops by an order of magnitude to (The error falls as the square root of the number of data points) to give an accuracy of a fraction of a degree.

If the crust went up in temperature by a very small fraction of a degree, it would be the same as the atmosphere going up by a lot.

Can't get people too excited about warming caused by mankind that's only a small fraction of a fraction of a degree of total warming over a century.

Steve the whole point of the exercise seems to be that the entire climate scientist group (both sides) is quarrelling about whether the temperature of the world has gone up one or two degrees or fractions of a degree over the last 100 years or so and whether it is caused by humans.

Dr von Hann didn't like the habit of believing that results are so accurate that they can be parsed to fractions of a degree (a practice that continues to this day) and makes the point that even long observations of monthly means are untrustworthy in regions where they vary greatly year by year.

Why is it important that multi-century old data, collected by hand using data handling procedures that in general would earn a sophomore physics student a D -, at best, using instruments wholly unsuited to the task, be massaged, corrected, infilled, kriged, zombied, and otherwise tortured beyond recognition in order to tease out «anomalies» of small fractions of a degree / decade, if NOT for the `........

It doesn't even appear to be enough to raise the temperature of the shallow surface layer by more than a fraction of a degree to say nothing of imparting any significant warmth to the other 90 % of the volume of the global ocean below the thermocline (400 + meters deep).