Sentences with phrase «decrease by a fraction»

So if you just started making student loan payments, you could be paying hundreds of dollars a month only to see your balance decrease by a fraction of that amount.

[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.)

Under such conditions, you'd still have active hurricane seasons, but the overall average strength and associated precipitation would be decreased by some fraction.

Not exact matches

After hitting the water, their velocity decreases by more than 50 percent in a fraction of a second.

This result is supported by the finding that at the same time that BACE levels are decreased in the hippocampus, APP protein levels are significantly increased in the soluble fractions of hippocampus from the J147 - treated AD mice compared to control AD mice (Figure 2E).

We also both increased fermentation and decreased the GI of the breakfast meal by replacing amylopectin with amylose, a slowly and incompletely digestible starch fraction.

A fraction of a number decreased by x is y.

Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.

Most important, however, the standards recommended certain areas that should receive «decreased attention» in grades K - 4, including «complex paper - and - pencil computations,» «long division,» «paper - and - pencil fraction computation,» «use of rounding to estimate,» «rote practice,» «rote memorization of rules,» and «teaching by telling.»

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is like the first coat of paint — doubling and tripling the amount reduces heat going to space by decreasing fractions.

At the global scale, outgoing LW flux anomalies are partially compensated for by decreases in mid latitude cloud fraction and cloud height, as observed by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Multi-angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer, respectively.

This enhanced ebullition may then decrease the fraction of CH4 that is oxidized to CO2, a less potent GHG, by methane oxidizing microbes (Kiene 1991).

Using a simple physical model, O'Gorman suggests that this is due to the balance between two competing effects caused by the warming: increasing moisture available for humidity and the decreases in the fraction of precipitation that falls as snow.

When time - of - observation adjustments were applied to the records, this increased temperature trends by about 39 %, and so the relative fraction of the trends due to the siting bias decreased.

[3] At ground level this decreases to about 1120 — 1000 watts / m2, and by energy fractions to 44 % visible light, 3 % ultraviolet (with the Sun at the zenith, but less at other angles), and the remainder infrared.

(middle) Coupling as measured by the fraction of consistently increasing or decreasing mode time series as described in the text.

Heintzenberg and Wendisch (1996) showed that the decrease in radiative forcing due to a decrease in soot concentrations with increasing distances from the pollution sources could be compensated by a concurrent increase in the fraction of soot which is incorporated in the cloud droplets.

This fraction has decreased by around 1 % per decade since CO2 measurements started at Mauna Loa, and is around 5 % - age points lower today than it was back then.

But that does not change the observed fact that the fraction remaining in the atmosphere has decreased (by around 1 % - point per decade since Mauna Loa measurements started — from around 55 % to around 50 % (even though the ocean temperature increased marginally over this period).

However, if it was half the Trenberth estimate, it would require me to decrease my accounting of downwelling radiation by only 50 Watts / m ^ 2, a fraction of the hundreds I estimate.

Emissions, they discovered, increased the fraction of cirrus clouds where vapor trails were most prevalent but decreased the fraction in some areas by increasing the temperature and consequently decreasing the relative humidity in the lower atmosphere.

Within the calibration period, the fraction of variance of temperature that is explained by the proxies naturally decreases as the noise level of the proxies increases.

We don't know how big a fraction of our emissions is absorbed by the land, since we have not measured the increase or decrease of the biomass.