Sentences with phrase «earth over a large area»

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There are 13 or 14 transits of Mercury each century, so they are comparatively rare events, though each one can typically be seen over a large area of the Earth's surface.

The InSAR satellites use radar to illuminate large areas of the Earth's surface, measuring how the distance between the satellite structure and the ground surface changes over time.

Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.

The transmission of high quantities of data by radio over large distances serves a high number of important application areas: the next generation of satellite communication requires an ever - increasing data offload from earth observation satellites down to earth.

«A forest die - off over a large area like the Amazon Basin, could have a major impact on Earth's system as a whole,» said Berry.

They found that the business - as - usual scenario comes with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area.

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one - eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, spanning Spare parts management: software for the creation of spare parts catalogue, sales catalogue, electronic parts catalogs and spare parts, consultation over

Spare parts management: software for the creation of spare parts catalogue, sales catalogue, electronic parts catalogs and spare parts, consultation over Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one - eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, spanning

Moreover, it would have to change over time because the thermometer observations have covered a larger fraction of Earth's area with time (see Figure 3).

The Rapa Nui Rahui Marine Protected Area region is home to over 140 marine species found nowhere else on Earth, and the park will not allow industrial fishing, mining and other extractive activities... Mexico has also announced the expansion of the Revillagigedo marine park to create the largest marine reserve of its kind in North America to protect sharks, rays, whales, turtles and other important marine species.

An apparently small change in just one aspect of the ocean's behaviour can produce major climate variations over large areas of the earth.

Most of the rural cities in my state show no warming at all since 1890 - 1895 when the records began but this is but one area and maybe it has some special properties that protect it, or shield it, from this assumed increase in accumulated global energy (therefore a raising of temperature) but in physics I learned that is not possible over a century of time even in a system even as large as the entire Earth.

It seems the «skeptics» love to focus on the fickle troposphere over whatever periods suit them rather than look at other (larger) areas of Earth's energy system that are not so fickle and nor as subject to as much short - term noise.

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history, from ice ages characterised by large ice sheets covering many land areas, to warm periods with no ice at the poles.

Brazil's setting aside of more than 500,000 square miles (1.25 million square kilometers) of rainforest in protected areas over the past decade may effectively buffer the Amazon from the effects of climate change, preventing Earth's largest rainforest from tipping towards arid savanna in the face of ongoing deforestation and rising temperatures, argues a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

While there is some pro-northern hemisphere bias, the operators of Landsat 8 have made a concerted effort to distribute the collection of imagery more evenly over all of the Earth's land masses, with the exception of a few large areas that are chronically impaired by heavy haze, dust, smog, or cloud cover.

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS