Sentences with phrase «cold air layer»

However the alignment of the wind with the lake, the depth of the cold air layer, and the change of wind direction with height all contribute to the severity of a lake effect snowstorm.

As it flows down the flanks of the ice sheet, the cold air layer picks up speed.

Not exact matches

I suspect he may have in mind an image of overlapping, as a layer of cold air and a layer of warm air may both overlay the same geographic region.

When baking pies, keep butter as hard and cold as possible to help trap the cold pieces of butter between the layers of dough to create small air pockets and a flaky crust.

These insoles feature a Thermo - Foil layer in the forefoot section which deflects cold air.

With nowhere else to go, the thin layer of low, moist air gets rolled up like a rug by the advancing cold front.

A pocket of warm air, accumulating negatively charged particles, forms between layers of cold air full of positively charged particles without mixing.

An important adaptation for marine mammals is blubber, a thick, insulating layer of fat beneath the skin that helps to keep body warmth in and the cold of the air or water out.

In winter, particulate levels can be twice as high as during the summer, because «inversion layers» of warm air trap cold air close to the ground.

This warm air does not mix, instead rising up towards a colder layer carrying negative charges from the ground.

These are perfect for adding a thin layer without the bulk and enough warmth to protect me from the frigid blasts of cold air.

Super-sexy now, amazing for layering as the air gets colder.

It's not cold enough for a coat but there is a slight breeze in the air that requires an extra layer.

Since I run cold and all buildings are over air conditioned in my opinion, I go nowhere without an extra layer.

It serves its purpose when the AC is blasting cold air out in the summer or when I need that one more layer in the winter time.

I'm totally over here thinking about fall, but I think that's only because the air has a morning chill to it, and I'm such a big chicken when it comes to cold (raised in Cali) that I just preemptively layer up!

At this time of year I find myself longing for the romance of frosty mornings, rainy cobbled streets and a cold snap in the air, chilly enough to warrant wrapping up in layers upon layers of knits, cashmere & leather.

The double layer makes it perfect to slide a pad to keep the cold air off you back at night.

Some possible explanations include distant vehicle lights and mirages caused by sharp temperature changes between layers of cold and warm air.

This traps a layer of air between the warm skin and the cold night hair.

They brought lots of rain and cold air that wiped out the marine layer.

This means that as the dense cold air flows towards the low spot and pools there the influence of the large scale wind decreases to zero in a shallow layer near the surface.

'» This argument cuts both ways: The media could point out that ice storms are the result of a warm front overriding a thin layer of colder surface air.

Inside a greenhouse, hot air can rise only so far; so the cold layer of air on the bottom can get heated too.

Re 346 ziarra — the flow of heat (between adjacent layers of material via conduction, convection, or mass diffusion, or potentially across larger distances via emission and absorption of photons) will be from hot to cold (or from higher to lower concentrations of a substance carrying heat, which might end up being from cold to hot in some conditions, such as a wet surface cooling by evaporation into warm dry air).

As rising air temperatures heat up the ocean's surface, this water becomes less dense and separates from the cold dense layer below, which is full of nutrients.

Chemical ice nucleation of storms and precipitation does create a cold dense layer of air on the ground level that can drastically lower temperatures temporarily.

Cold - cloud rain occasionally will refreeze if a layer of subfreezing air exists near Earth's surface.

The subsiding air warms by compression and, coupled with cooling of the lowest layers overlying the cold ocean currents normally found off the west coasts of the continents, forms a pronounced temperature inversion (warm air over cold), called the trade - wind inversion.

You've got a real miracle on your hands — a layer in the middle that stays colder than the air above and below.

So on condensation, under the still rising hotter lighter air carrying on doing its thing and perhaps adding new layers, there would be the accompanying volume and temperature decrease of that first previously rising lighter volume now heavier liquid water and added to by the adjacent volumes of heavier colder air flowing beneath the still rising lighter hotter and into the space now available on condensation of its neighbour, which all now being heavier will increase the pressure at the surface as they all sink together displacing the lighter.

1 Wolf Easi - Joists in the roof for organised installation of services; 2 Windows bracketed externally onto blocks to reduce cold bridging; 3 The walls are externally insulated with 200 mm Xtratherm platinum EPS 100 insulation; 4 EPS brought up into eaves to meet roof insulation; 5 Airtight parge coat to walls, with Intello membrane to ceiling and battening for the Gypframe ceiling to contain services inside the airtight layer; 6 Cooper Insulation's Wincon unit, which enabled the Linham team to test for obvious air leakage points as they worked.

The principle of the system is to move heavy cold air to prevent stratification, and allow the warmer inversion layer air to replace the colder air near the ground.

«The ATTREX payload will provide unprecedented measurements of the tropical tropopause layer,» said Eric Jensen, ATTREX principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «This is our first opportunity to sample the tropopause region during winter in the Northern Hemisphere when the region is coldest and extremely dry air enters the stratosphere.»

The layers are warmest nearest your body and get coldest nearest the outside air.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.

The weather modification chemical cool - downs create a cold, dense (but shallow) layer of air that settles down to the surface and lowers temperatures on the ground.