Sentences with phrase «diurnal swings»

Traditionally, in warm climates with big diurnal swings in temperature, thermal mass has been used to keep things cool in the daytime.

The wintertime thermal mass benefits of leaving masonry uninsulated are negligible in heating - dominated climates, compared to locations with high diurnal swings around the interior setpoint (as found in milder climates).

Nice diurnal swings don't happen in too many locations.

They can never explain the diurnal swing in the pH over a coral reef.

Many parts of the world, from China to Iran to Texas and Arizona, have a» high diurnal swing», where it is really hot in the daytime and cool at night.

Not exact matches

Both are rolling, hillside sites that feature «limiting» soils, large diurnal temperature swings and long, long growing seasons.

It offers a cool climate with large diurnal temperature swings and soils that are low in fertility and heavy on rocks and pebbles.

The thermosphere experiences huge temperature swings over the diurnal cycle and due to solar variability that vastly dwarf anything seen at the surface or troposphere.

In the U.S., interest in Trombe walls emerged in the 1970s, aided by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico... Trombe walls are particularly well - suited to sunny climates that have high diurnal (day - night) temperature swings, such as the mountain - west.

They don't work as well in cloudy climates or where there isn't a large diurnal temperature swing.

CO2 has seasonal and diurnal variability (natural) on top of its large amplitude shift, making it like a vibrating wildly swinging persistent growing stick in the hornet's nest, the biggest and suddenest stick we know of, and with an ugly shape unlike anything hornets have ever known before.

The faster rotation rate of the earth would moderate the more extreme (300C) diurnal temperature swings found on the lunar equator.

Freeman Dyson has long pointed to the diurnal and seasonal swings as existence proof of the ability of the biosphere to absorb much larger variations in CO2 levels than are «projected» from human activity.

The continents experience much greater diurnal and seasonal temperature swings.