Sentences with phrase «energy over the entire earth»

Not exact matches

United States Seismic Array — A network of seismic stations, including portable ones that will be moved across the entire United States over a 10 - year period, will map subtle differences in the seismic energy traveling through our planet, yielding an improved understanding of deep - earth structures.

Two percent may not sound like much, but over the entire earth it would amount to trapping the energy content of some three million tons of oil every minute.

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.

This popular balance models the earth as a ball suspended in a hot fluid with heat / energy / power entering evenly over the entire ToA spherical surface.

David, The entire energy balance is based on incoming energy and outgoing energy and the processes that result in the outgoing energy being less than the energy flux from the sun averaged over the surface of the Earth.

The 1.37 * 10 ^ 3W / m ^ 2 value is what the earth receives on its daylight side, averaging that over the entire globe is both useful (allows us to calculate average temperature) and appropriate (does not change the total energy budget).