Sentences with phrase «by uneven heating»

Otherwise what I described in regard to convection driven by uneven heating mirrored the accepted encyclpedic wisdom on the topic.

Wind is caused by the uneven heating of Earth's surface.

3 Affecting Surface Currents Wind — Caused by the uneven heating of the atmosphere, variations in wind temperature lead to variations in air density and pressure.

I do understand that the winds are driven by the uneven heating of the earth and, in turn, the winds effect surface currents, but the oceans of water, with it's peculiar properties, have an outsized effect.

That could be caused by uneven heating / cooling (an overheat could do it), or from inadequate freeze protection resulting in frozen coolant in very cold weather, or other mechanical defect.

movement of air (from a high pressure zone to a low pressure zone) caused by the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun.

Ice dams are typically caused by uneven heat loss from your home in wintry conditions such as snow, heat melting the snow, and cold temperatures re-freezing melted snow.

Not exact matches

In conventional ovens, heat is reflected by the shiny surfaces of the oven walls; when food cakes onto those walls and burns, it creates spots that heat can't bounce off, which leads to uneven cooking.

There are gravity waves in the atmosphere produced by solar heating and the gravitaional effects of both moon and sun, but because the diurnal heating effect is so strong, and the surface of the earth is so uneven, the gravitational effects are difficult to identify.

i) That parcel of air can be caused to expand relative to adjoining air parcels either by direct input of more solar energy where insolation is uneven (as it always is) or indirectly by the injection of potential energy in the form of latent heat of evaporation carried by water vapour.