Sentences with phrase «during peak»

That extended period of stress had already killed off a wide array of corals when Kim Cobb, a coral expert at Georgia Tech, visited the reef in November during peak El Niño heat.

In addition, the results showed that dust concentrations during peak periods exceeded World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines.

Xu says he thinks utilities will appreciate a product that helps limit energy consumption during peak hours, helping avoid blackouts and the need to buy energy from other utilities in extremely high demand situations.

«During peak summer it can get a little warm during the day, and the ice can actually start to melt,» Petrenko says.

Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing as much ethyl alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second as well as a type of sugar into space during its peak activity, according to new observations by an international team.

The Climate Central analysis of San Joaquin Valley air data showed that while the number of days each year on which levels of PM2.5 exceeded federal standards declined by about 45 percent overall from 2000 to 2016, they increased by almost a third during the peak summer fire season.

To the researchers» surprise, further investigations revealed that during the peak of cortical development in humans, most of the neuron production was happening in the oSVZ rather than the familiar VZ.

The expression levels during peak times at the higher temperature were similar to those at room temperature.

Flight delays happen most frequently during peak holiday seasons, but no matter when they occur, late arrivals and departures can aggravate passengers and cost airlines millions of dollars.

The new observations may provide clues to the nature of stars and galaxies during peak star formation.

They are popular during the peak electricity demand hours of between 4 pm and 8 pm (when carbon emissions due to generation on UK National Grid are highest), but watching is particularly popular in the late hours before bedtime.

If DOD can lure young scientists to work there for 5 years to 10 years before they move on, DOD will still be able to utilize those scientists during their peak productive years, and the scientists will gain experience that makes them valuable to future employers.

In 2008, an arch collapsed unexpectedly along a popular hiking trail during peak tourist season in Utah's Arches National Park.

The research effort by the University of California, Davis; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and partners showed that during the peak of the Aliso Canyon event, enough methane poured into the air every day to fill a balloon the size of the Rose Bowl.

To find out why, they examined genes in both mice and humans that turned on during peak brain development and spotted a DNA snippet, ARHGAP11B, that was active only in humans.

The challenge drew inspiration from a similar competition at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) focused on influenza prediction — a field that has received more scientific attention than chikungunya and benefits from an annual influx of data during the peak season.

During the peak, which for most of us is the morning, we're better at analytic tasks.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wrote in its 2013 National Preparedness report last week that during and immediately following Hurricane Sandy, «users sent more than 20 million Sandy - related Twitter posts, or «tweets,» despite the loss of cell phone service during the peak of the storm.»

And we're less vigilant than during the peak.

During peak solar activity, eruptions from the sun spew out huge clouds of plasma that shield Earth from those cosmic rays.

Now, demand response features allow electric utilities to adjust your thermostat during peak times to improve grid stability and shift energy demand.

They sop up cheap surplus power from Denmark when the wind is blowing and return expensive hydroelectric power during peak periods.

During peak ragweed season, the roughly two - week period between August and October when pollen counts are highest, symptoms and medication use dropped 24 percent.

Living in the center of «tornado alley,» the people of Greensburg were accustomed to hearing the siren that announced approaching storms, especially during peak tornado season, April through June.

When more of the walls form during the peak of the solar cycle, more of these bright sides can be seen along the rim of the sun.

For example, during the peak of Mexico's sea turtle exploitation in 1968 it is estimated that the national take was over 380,000 turtles.

And cases caused during the peak of asbestos use in industrialised countries are only now beginning to emerge.

Thomas calls for complete time - area closures, which would prohibit human activities during peak spinner dolphin resting periods in the most critical bays — a position supported by Heenehan's team.

«If the outage had occurred during peak flying hours, the damage to the public would have been incalculable,» he adds, citing delayed flights at the very least, airport gridlock throughout the region, and heightened risk of crashes.

Calculations suggest that about 9 million cubic metres of magma — 3,600 Olympic swimming pools» worth — pushed into the crust each year during peak growth.

«This increasing gas content is likely the root cause for the remarkable increase in star formation rates during the peak epoch of galaxy formation, some 10 billion years ago.»

During the peak, all the continents collided to form a vast supercontinent called Rodinia, spanned by a mountain range that dwarfed the Himalayas.

You would need a service run along the lines of a small railway, with a published timetable, and the situation at street level during peak hours would be even worse.

Hospital admissions for acute aortic dissection were highest during peak flu season November - March, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.

Monitoring hummingbird populations during the peak of fall migration in the Chiricahua Mountains helps scientists foresee how these primary pollinators of more than 150 U.S. flowering plant species respond to changes in climate

The team found bird feathers in a substantial number of their 14,000 samples, as much as 70 % during peak autumn migration.

It is just coincidence that our Invisible Planet issue comes out during peak popcorn movie season, but the juxtaposition always tickles me.

«The good news is that these effects can be reduced by installing or improving fish passage devices, modifying dam operations during peak migration periods, changing the structure of the dam to reduce injury and mortality, and by dam removal,» Nieland said.

«We plan on expanding this on our own,» explained Randall, because the university is interested in saving money by cutting higher electricity prices charged during peak demand times.

During its peak, the trade network connected places as far - flung as China, Rome and southern African kingdoms such as Great Zimbabwe.

Researchers also need to ascertain where people were during the peak exposure period and where they obtained food and drinking water.

But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridge.

Four of those phases were reliable predictors of increased inland hail activity during peak storm seasons, according to the study.

Congestion charging or pricing is the practice of setting up cordon tolls around the city on a large - scale to charge entrants for entering during peak hours.

During the peak flower - collecting season in May and June, the region's poorest residents migrate to the highlands and bed down in caves or temporary huts in order to collect more than 90 species of flowers in the plant family Eriocaulaceae, which includes the sempre - vivas.

Dr. Robert Peel, Aarhus University, explains: «People should avoid being outdoors during the peak hours in periods one and two, especially between 16 and 20.

«Agricultural fires can double Delhi pollution during peak burning season: Pollution may reach levels up to 20 times higher than safe limits.»

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

Girls also actively enlist their friends to comment on and like their posts in an attempt to boost their popularity index, with especially savvy Instagram and Facebook users being active during peak social media traffic hours in order to maximize their number of likes.

During peak times, or if demand surges, that can cause problems for the grid, which needs flexibility.