Sentences with phrase «causes higher surface»

But the bottom line remains that greenhouse gases slow down the rate of energy loss to space which causes a higher surface equilibrium temperature the system will target.
Drought causes dry soils causes higher surface temperatures.

Not exact matches

Frying (or sauteing) with just enough fat or oil to prevent sticking at a relatively high temperature causes the meat to brown — in very simple terms, the proteins at the surface of the meat are converted to other proteins that result in a more intense flavor.»
«When they cook and that water evaporates, the higher, curved sides of a baking dish will cause your vegetables to steam more than if they were on a flat surface with shallow sides.»
This can be dangerous for them if you are changing them from a higher surface, because the changing pad might skid and cause the baby to fall.
This creates an air cushion that causes the raindrop to flatten and spread out, which the team believe would be less likely if the drop was striking a higher friction surface, and may help the splash evolve into a crown (Physical Review Letters, vol 102, p 134502).
The elevated algae levels were caused by the higher phosphate phosphorus content of the surface layer before the growth season compared to last year.
Another disadvantage is the high levels of radiant heat energy produced by high - pressure sodium lamps; up to 75 % of the energy from HPS lamps that is not converted to light is emitted as radiant heat energy, causing the surface of the lamps to reach temperatures as high as 450 °C.
On Proxima Centauri b, the model indicates that high stellar wind pressure would cause the atmosphere to escape and prevent atmosphere from lasting long enough to give rise to surface - based life as we know it.
Sandia has to be able to spot defects before they might cause a high - consequence failure, because materials don't perform well with voids or cracks or if they're separating from adjacent surfaces.
During this event, the aerosols stayed close to the surface due to the presence of a anticyclone hovering over the study region at sea - level, «reducing the amount of shortwave irradiance reaching the surface and causing greater radiative cooling,» states Obregón, who likens the effects of desert dust with those resulting from certain forest fires or episodes of high pollution.
El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.
Frequently - touched surfaces in busy areas — such as hospitals, transport hubs and public buildings — are at high risk of community - acquired and healthcare - associated infections (HCAIs) caused by methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin - sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)..
Little was known of the life cycle of internal waves that can reach as high as a 100 - story building yet barely cause a ripple on the ocean's surface, said Harper Simmons, an oceanographer with the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
InSAR uses a highly accurate radar to measure the change in distance between the satellite and ground surface, allowing the team to show that injecting water into the wells at high pressure caused ground uplift near the shallower wells, the release said.
Normally, the reaction happens too slowly to be useful, but injecting carbon dioxide into the rock at high pressure would speed things up considerably; the formation of magnesium carbonate could cause the rock to expand and crack, with the increased surface area spurring the reaction to continue.
The extreme carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere caused the layer's surface temperature to rise as high as 50 °C.
The explanation: Heat caused the HEV cells to express on their surface higher levels of two so - called «homing» molecules, ICAM - 1 and CCL21, which make lymphocytes tightly adhere to the HEV cells.
The natural radioactivity of the Marcellus Shale has caused concern since the mid-1980s, when high levels of radon gas were found in the basements of homes in Marcellus, a town in upstate New York, where the shale reaches the surface.
The magnifying glass highlights the high resolution topographical analysis and perturbations to the cell surface that are caused by pentamidine.
In the presence of oxygen, silver dissolved readily into the glass when temperatures are higher than 650 degrees Celsius, causing more silver to eventually end up at the silicon surface and in turn forming a better contact.
Some scientists think the combination of longer dry seasons, higher surface temperatures and more fragmented forests caused by deforestation could eventually convert much of southern Amazonia from rainforest to savanna.
Hotter air on the Earth's surface leads to higher ocean temperatures, which causes ocean expansion and sea level rise;
However, climate change is causing abnormally high sea - surface temperatures, which is causing corals to bleach during summer months (see below for detail).
That's because the gravitational attraction from a massive undersea mountain range causes water to pile up in a broad sea - surface bump several feet high.
Teflon surfaces break down and end up in your food and when heated to high temperatures, emit fumes which cause flu - like symptoms in humans (AKA: polymer fume fever) and can be fatal to birds.
I could go on and on, but that's a little surface scratch of the damage high blood sugar and high insulin cause in us, and our children.
Asking the chassis to digest rougher surfaces at higher speeds can also cause some evident confusion as the springs and dampers struggle to keep up.
The angular velocity of the wheel is high enough that it causes slip between the tyre surface and the road, which can be expressed as a positive slip ratio.
Rabbits can jump off of high surfaces or out of your arms while holding them and land too hard on their legs causing a fracture.
When Teflon and other nonstick surfaces are heated to very high temperatures, they emit microscopic vapors that when inhaled by birds» exquisitely sensitive respiratory tracts can cause instant death.
«Volcanic activity remains high and there are indications of magma rising to the surface and causing tremors,» Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the NDMA, said.
Mr KIA @ 20, please appreciate there's a difference between reflecting sunlight with light coloured surfaces, and risky experiments injecting particles into the atmosphere at high level that could cause unusual negative effects that are hard to predict.
While Eckert et al. (2013) propose a decreased seawater input or increased river input as potential causes, van der Meer et al. (2008), in contrast, suggest that the absence of a shallow chemocline can be best explained by the high sea - surface salinity at the time.
Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).
I was thinking instead perhaps more easily controlled polar - orbit satellites might be used, which would rotate with some fixed ratio to their orbital period, casting greater shadows at higher latitudes... or some other arrangment... for a targetted offset polar amplification of AGW especially and in particular perhaps avoiding the reduction in precipitation that can be caused by SW - radiation - based «GE» (although aerosols that actually absorb some SW in the troposphere while shielding the surface would have the worst effect in that way, I'd think)... strategic distribution of solar shading has been suggested with precipitation effects in mind, such as here... sorry, I don't have the link (I'm sure I saved it, just as Steve Fish would suggest — but where?).
Also at the same time, the much higher daytime skin surface temperature (more than offsetting the somewhat colder night - time skin surface temperature which is often ameliorated by condensation and shallow fog layers) causes more infrared radiation to be emitted to space.
This is not to ignore the strong possibility that surface warming weakened the cap enough for high - pressure gas to burst it open, but to refute the possibility of surface warming causing the void that was then mostly emptied of water and filled with gas.
I for one would like to see a follow up of the current work by Dr. Benestad that more clearly defines the means of «cause and effect» and how this is resulting in high surface temperatures.
Today scientists have very high confidence about human - caused global average surface temperature increase — a key climate indicator.
Granted, any incremental increase in the temperature of air will cause all air molecules to radiate at a higher temperature, but by tamping down the temperature increase by spreading it out, the net radiation back to the surface gets diminished because radaition is propotional to the fourth power of temperature.
Polar cooling of the air in winter causes high pressure which sends frigid air north along the surface.
Yes, I «believe» higher levels of CO2 cause some amount of warming and obviously also warming of the sea surface and thus lower layers of the oceans.
«With very high sea surface temperatures that have a strong global warming component, these flooding events break records, and cause untold damage,» he says.
I know, too many weasley words, but higher sea surface temperatures caused a stronger (or at least bigger) storm.
It is caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles or liquid droplets which form at high altitudes in extreme cold.
Increased atmospheric CO2 tends to close this window and cause outgoing radiation to emerge from higher, colder levels, thus warming the surface and lower atmosphere by the so called greenhouse mechanism»
Ozone holes are caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles, or liquid droplets, which form at high altitudes in the extreme cold of the polar regions.
At this computer - predicted «hot spot» high above the Earth, the UN's models project that greenhouse warming will cause temperature to rise over the decades at a rate up to three times faster than at the surface
Hotter summers and more frequent fires will lead to more cases of heat stroke and deaths, and to higher levels of near - surface ozone and smoke, which would cause more «code red» air quality days.
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