Sentences with phrase «degrees or minus»

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Because it measures temperature within a two percent plus or two degree minus range, we felt confident our reading would accurately reflect a true comparison between electric blankets.

Most describe a brutal winter or spring storm in which the temperature plummets as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, fodder is inaccessible and animals die en masse.

Cuffey developed a technique to combine these temperature measurements, which are smoothed as a result of heat diffusion in the ice, with isotopic measurements of old ice to come up with an estimated temperature of 11.3 degrees, plus or minus 1.8 degrees Celsius, warming since the depths of the ice age.

Kept at minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which niobium conducts electricity without losses, these cavities will power a highly energetic electron beam that will create up to 1 million X-ray flashes per second — more than any other current or planned X-ray laser.

Its temperature is about 250 degrees Kelvin, or minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit, making it nearly as cold as Jupiter, which is 130 degrees Kelvin.

The temperature was down at around a fifteen thousandth of a degree above absolute zero (i.e. at minus 273.135 °C or 15 mK) before the scientists saw that the electric current consists of individual electrons.

The researchers determined that the precession of the pulsar's orbital axis advances by 4.77 degrees per year, plus or minus 0.66 degrees.

Had Sheri Sangji been pursuing a degree or receiving a postdoctoral fellowship when she worked with t - butyl lithium minus a lab coat, Cal / OSHA could not have looked into her case.)

«The test with the bulk sample showed us that the Raman signals can be used as a kind of the fingerprint of phase transition at temperatures around 118 Kelvin, or minus 155 degrees Celsius.

In the experiments, researchers used a technique called angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy, or ARPES, to knock electrons out of a copper oxide material, one of a handful of materials that superconduct at relatively high temperatures — although they still have to be chilled to at least minus 135 degrees Celsius.

Charon's winters are cold, with polar temperatures only a few degrees higher than absolute zero (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius) at coldest.

«Usually if I have four or five blankets, I can stay pretty warm, but when that wind is blowing, I don't care how many blankets I have, the wind blows right through me,» he said, as temperatures dropped to minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 21 degrees Celsius).

Another obstruction to obtaining a clear signal detection is the interfering electromagnetic noise generated by all bodies at temperatures above absolute zero — 0 Kelvin or minus 273 degrees Celsius.

In addition, the data show that the temperature of the innermost ring imaged by the vortex is around 100 Kelvin (or minus 173 Celsius degrees), a bit warmer than our asteroid belt.

MODIS found cloud top temperatures of strongest thunderstorms were as cold as or colder than minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 Celsius) in two areas: around the center of circulation and in a band of thunderstorms east of the center.

Although today's high - temperature superconductors operate at much warmer temperatures than conventional superconductors do, they still work only when chilled to minus 135 degrees Celsius or below.

For instance, there is no way that a «consensus» statement that climate sensitivity is probably around 3ºC (plus or minus a degree) should be interpreted as implying that climate sensitivity is more like 6ºC.

Specifically, using data through July, I am predicting 1.25 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.09 degrees Celsius), and a better than 99 percent chance of a record.

The range of predicted values for December through February is 0 to -1.5 (neutral to cool conditions), and that suggests a 2017 net warming of 1.04 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius).

Using that relationship for 2016 predicts a warming above the long - term trend of 0.14 degrees Celsius and, when the short - and long - term predictions are combined, gives 1.16 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius, with 95 percent confidence) net warming above the late - 19th century baseline.

WBC involves single or repeated exposure to temperatures of up to minus 160 degrees Celsius, in an attempt to increase healing, recovery and other health benefits.

Administrators now will consider closing schools anytime there is a predicted wind chill of minus 25 degrees or colder, said Mike Barry, assistant superintendent for business services.

The prior standard for closing was a wind chill of minus 35 degrees or colder.

For example, Crichton's «75 %» value would be 0.88 degrees Celsius + 0.72 degrees Celsius (which is 3.78 minus 3.06)... or 1.6 degrees Celsius.

For instance, there is no way that a «consensus» statement that climate sensitivity is probably around 3ºC (plus or minus a degree) should be interpreted as implying that climate sensitivity is more like 6ºC.

The more recent global climate models project temperature increases under a business - as - usual model on the order of 5 C, plus or minus about a degree, by the end of the century.

Since we know natural unforced variation can account for no more than a plus or minus 0.15 degrees in temperatures about the forced mean, by adding some natural variation the total temperature rise can be easily accounted for.

As an ancient weatherman, I can truthfully state that every official mercury thermometer I used was quite easily read to the nearest tenth of a degree with no more error induced than plus or minus one - tenth of a degree.

They reached a consensus that when CO2 reached double the pre-industrial level, sometime in the following century, the planet would probably warm up by about 3 °C (5.4 °F), plus or minus a degree or two.

Max, «The natural GH effect is estimated to be around 33C,» plus or minus a few degrees, the uncertainty in that one assumption is greater than the estimated impact.

The limits for the past ten thousand years has been plus or minus 2 degrees C all the time and plus or minus 1 degree for most of the time.

However, world average temperature measurements are subject to an error of plus or minus 0.1 degrees, while any attempt to calculate a trend for the period 1997 - 2012 has an in - built statistical error of plus or minus 0.4 degrees.

Scientists had tried to look into the future by extrapolating the visible trends and forces along a single line, calculating a most likely outcome within a range of possibilities: «global average temperature will rise three degrees plus or minus 50 %» or the like.

Over the last decade or so, bacteria have been discovered alive in Alaskan permafrost at temperatures as low as minus - 40 degrees Celsius, and in permafrost layers as old as three million years in Siberia.

1 It estimated that «the most probable global warming for a doubling of CO2» would be roughly 6 degrees Fahrenheit, with a probable error of plus or minus 3 degrees.

The value of measuring atmospheric temperatures globally becomes clear when we recall that the untested hypothesis behind global warming projects that greenhouse gas warming in the atmosphere will cause the surface to warm by 6 degrees Fahrenheit (with a probable error of plus or minus 3 degrees).

They could not nail down the measured variation between bucket readings and intake pipe to any better than plus or minus 2.6 degrees Celsius.

Annual temperatures in the Antarctic interior average minus 70 degrees or colder.

But it is undeniably cold, 36 degrees below zero Celsius, plus or minus.

But the prediction uncertainty is (in data like this) anywhere from 0.1 to 0.5 degrees, plus or minus.»

I've done this (on different but similar data) and I find that the parameter uncertainty is plus or minus a tenth of degree or less.

ty all for the responses, i summarize the claims being made of hottest year ever by HUNDREDTHS of a degree are total BS, because the margin of error is at a bare minimum plus or minus 1 full degree.......

=== > The 1 - year trends (moving 12 - month) reach the greatest extremes, with excesses coming close to either a cooling trend of minus 80 degrees per century or a plus 80 degrees warming trend per century - amazingly, within a few years of each other

This was all within plus or minus 2 degrees and most within plus or minus one degree.

I frankly doubt that this model can be extrapolated into either the past or the future, and the data uncertainties are so large (and almost certainly underestimated and / or systematically biased in HadCRUT4) that the sensitivity could easily be either larger or smaller than the best fit observed here — if you like, I get a TCS of around 1.8 C plus or minus maybe a whole degree.

5) Anybody that believes they «know» the current average temperature of the Earth / Oceans to better than plus or minus a few degrees C is deluding themselves.

Since.66 degrees is within the limits of observability (instrument error for mercury in glass) for the historical instrumentation, your «point 66 degree» increase is basically plus or minus nothing.

You certainly wouldn't bet your house on their reliability to anything more than plus or minus half a degree C.

Using that relationship for 2016 predicts a warming above the long - term trend of 0.14 degrees Celsius and, when the short - and long - term predictions are combined, gives 1.16 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius, with 95 percent confidence) net warming above the late - 19th century baseline.

The range of predicted values for December through February is 0 to -1.5 (neutral to cool conditions), and that suggests a 2017 net warming of 1.04 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius).