Sentences with phrase «cooler than the surface»

By measuring the remaining difference — the 20,000 - year old ice deep in the West Antarctic ice sheet is about 1 degree Celsius cooler than the surface — the scientists were able to estimate the original temperature based on how fast pure ice warms up.

Its temperature is about 550 kelvin — somewhat cooler than the surface of Venus.

In fact, by the end of the 20th century, some are as much as 0.3 degrees cooler than the surface temperature record.

In fact, by the end of the 20th century, some are as much as 0.3 degrees cooler than the surface temperature record.

What I should have said is that the stratosphere will cool — whether it gets cooler than the surface or tropopause or remains warmer (remember this is the case where we started with zero GHE and had some solar heating within the atmosphere) depends on specifics.

On efficiency benefits in particular, according to the EPA, the surface temperature of a green roof can be as much as 90 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the surface of a traditional rooftop.

Since the deeper waters are very isolated from the surface and several degrees cooler than the surface waters, this means that the 3 oC heating of the surface can not be caused by the (cooler) bottom waters.

The deeper waters are only a few oC cooler than the surface waters because in the tropics, the weather does not get cool enought for long enough to cool such a deep lake.

No, clouds at night, if cooler than the surface, can only slow the rate of cooling of the surface.

But also it seems to me that the atmosphere would have a lapse rate - 10 Km above the surface it would be cooler than the surface.

So the first correct answer is «the lower atmosphere is COOLER than the SURFACE due to convection.»

15 Using an infrared thermometer, I have observed the dawn temperatures within vegetated areas are 10 to 20 °F cooler than surfaces just 20 feet away on paved and gravel country roads, instrumentally confirming that cooler tree ring temperatures are more accurately measuring natural climate change.

Without radiative gases, the surface would be ~ 255 K — which is much cooler than the surface or lower atmosphere with radiative gases.

They claim that the atmospheric absorbing gases that radiate can not heat the surface since they are cooler than the surface, due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Since the part of the atmosphere exchanging photons with the surface of the ocean is generally cooler than the surface (you model handles this poorly), LWR is a net loser for the skin layer even before evaporation and conduction are considered.

Deniers look at this rule and ask, «If the atmosphere is cooler than the surface of the Earth, how can it be responsible for warming the Earth?»

This fluid is indeed cooler than the surface.

The fact that the clouds and atmosphere are on average cooler than the surface will decrease this 95 % ratio significantly.

* therefore, the bases of many clouds are 0 - 20 K cooler than the surface.

Based on lapse rates, these must be no more than 20 K cooler than the surface.

* 0 m and 3000 m will be 6.5 K — 20 K cooler than the surface.

You interpret the very depressed curve as looking down from Space at a high - MOA altitude which, due to the lapse rate, is much cooler than the surface.

At 1 km above the surface the temperature will be between 4 K and 10 K cooler than the surface.

Obviously, to the extent that the part of the atmosphere where Ed comes from is cooler than the surface, Ed must be slightly less that Aa.

Not exact matches

But for all the firm's high - toned, West Coast cool, Lunar's success is, in part, more surface than substance.

Yes, there are some pretty cool features on the iPhone X: the high definition OLED screen, infrared facial recognition to map the 3D surface of the face rather than a flat image like a photo, and improved cameras with image stabilization, and built - in capabilities to support augmented reality apps.

The new Surface Pro runs quieter and cooler than its predecessor.

Also like the Bit More, the surface of the Breville Smart Toaster stays cooler than that of the other stainless steel models we tested, which is especially great if you have children in the house.

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Because the tiger's surface area is proportionally smaller than its volume and mass, surface cooling is not efficient enough.

Those Chick - fil - A waffle fries have a lot of surfaces for the air to cool them, yet somehow retain their heat a lot better than the typical sticks from the average fast food joint.

A number of them said that the Remington course was a good deal harder and more jarring in the morning — when the cool weather seemed to tighten the surface — than it was in the afternoon, when the heat of the sun appeared to expand it, making it deeper, fluffier and more tiring.

The cool resilient surfaces soothe and stimulate sore gums safely and stays colder, longer than water filled teethers!

«It may be that the cooler, deeper water in MCEs could be more hospitable to many species than the warmer surface water,» she said.

Brighter regions at night indicate surfaces that retain more heat from the previous day than surrounding surfaces, just as grassy fields cool off at night while buildings in the city remain warmer.

In fact, if meteorites hadn't later deposited gold on Earth's surface millions of years after its core had fully formed and its crust had cooled, gold would be even more rare and expensive than it is today.

Most of this outer atmosphere has a temperature of around 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1,000 to 2,000 degrees cooler than the sun's surface temperature.

The gas around the star's equator is then farther away from its centre, so it cools more than other parts of the star's surface, in a phenomenon called gravity - darkening.

Sea surface temperatures in the Central Pacific and North Atlantic were cooler than normal, which lead to increased rainfall across the southern Amazon in the months preceding the fire season.

Perhaps, then, the moon's cooling was more complicated than hypothesized, with different portions of the surface cooling at different times.

Since the surface is a few tenths of a degree cooler than the water below, when a wave breaks, the warmer water beneath (orange and red) mixes with the cooler water above (blue and violet).

But sea surface temperatures in tropical areas are now warmer during today's La Niña years (when the water is typically cooler) than during El Niño events 40 years ago, says study coauthor Terry Hughes, a coral researcher at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

The comparison showed that the cotton fabric made the skin surface 3.6 F warmer than their cooling textile.

If the crystal could form so early in Earth's history, the planet's surface must have cooled and hardened considerably faster than researchers had suspected.

Past eclipses have revealed that the corona's temperature distribution is patchy: rather than a smooth transition from relatively cool to sizzling hot, the corona has areas of higher and cooler temperatures that don't seem to depend on their proximity to the sun's surface.

Fewer dust particles translates to a warmer - than - usual land surface and cooler - than - usual water.

The gas around the star's equator is then further from its centre, so it cools more than other parts of the star's surface, while the poles remain hot and dense.

The other half of the cycle is La Niña, when the surface waters are cooler than normal.

The spots look dark because they're up to 2000ºC cooler than the rest of the sun's 6000ºC surface.

Each mirror segment weighs 17 tons and takes one year to cast and cool, followed by more than three years of surface generation and meticulous polishing at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab of the UA's Steward Observatory.