Sentences with phrase «field measurements in»

Simulations are complemented by laboratory and field measurements in Chesapeake Bay and near Sapelo Island, GA..

The researchers took high - resolution mean and fluctuating velocity and density field measurements in an RM flow, which was shocked and reshocked, to understand production and dissipation in a two - fluid, developing turbulent flow field.

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I worked with a business that competed in the exciting field of humidity measurement.

It is the world leader in the measurement of density, concentration and CO2 and in the field of rheometry.

The general literature on continuity notes that a lack of clarity in definition and measurement of different types of continuity has been one of the limitations in research in this field (Haggerty 2003).

The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one of a very few able to make such sensitive measurements of electric fields in living tissue.

Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

Then we're comparing this to field measurements that we can make in the Arctic, to see if the environment seems to be doing the same things as the permafrost in the lab.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

«An atom interferometer uses the quantum «wave - like» nature of atoms in order to make very precise measurements of accelerations, rotations, and gravitational fields»

«Juno's gravity field measurements differ significantly from what we expected, which has implications for the distribution of heavy elements in the interior, including the existence and mass of Jupiter's core,» Bolton said.

When Gubbins aligned his historical data with current measurements from more than 200 magnetic observatories scattered across the globe, he came to a clear, if unsettling, conclusion: In the last 140 years, the magnetic field has been fading at an accelerating rate.

Nicolas Gillet of the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, and colleagues, modelled fluid behaviour in the Earth's core based on measurements of fluctuations in the magnetic field.

Field measurements of methane emissions from two termite nests in Guatemala corroborated the laboratory results.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

At the end of his talk he said, «You know, we've tried to test these ideas in the field and the lab, and there are really no measurements that match the quantities I've told you about.»

NASA's Mariner 10 mission detected a magnetic field around our solar system's innermost planet in 1974, but its cause remained a mystery — until recent measurements suggested that Mercury's core may be partly molten.

To see whether the measurement would hold up in the field, Gore teamed with Lisandro Benedetti - Cecchi, an ecologist at the University of Pisa in Italy, to study algae along the shore of the small Italian island of Capraia.

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

«Despite having an enhanced number of field measurements, the geographical coverage of TRY is still limited with little or no data for much of the tropics, large swaths of Central Asia, Russia, South Asia and much of the Arctic,» said co-lead author Abhi Datta, formerly a PhD student in the Division of Biostatistics at UMN.

Semantic Scholar tries to reveal what's «hot» in the field by measuring the «velocity» and «acceleration» of bodies of work, measurements of how rapidly others are citing certain work, and whether that is trending.

She was even more surprised by new measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field, which is the strongest in the solar system.

These measurements showed that an almost imperceptible mound in the field had a clear circular outline, so Holm and Sindbæk decided to call in an expert in archaeological geophysics from the University of York in the UK.

In a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxieIn a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxiein the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxies.

In every branch of science, Maxwell declared, «the labor of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research and by the development of new scientific ideas.»

To test the idea, they compared their measurements with the mathematical predictions of how powerful the increase in conductivity should be with increasing magnetic field strength.

«So as geologists, we go to the area and take samples and do measurements in the field on the mountain ranges that stick out,» says Enkelmann.

The researchers obtained measurements in Antarctica in 2013 when the balloons and both the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Van Allen Probe satellites were near the same magnetic field line.

The Galileo spacecraft took brief «snapshot» measurements of the magnetic field in 20 - minute intervals, but its observations were too brief to distinctly catch the cyclical rocking of the ocean's secondary magnetic field.

But there is reason to suspect that gravitational energy is a special case, that measurements of sufficient accuracy might expose a violation of the equivalence principle when energy is stored in a gravity field.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

Kensuke Kobayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University) and Sadashige Matsuo (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), in cooperation with research groups led by Teruo Ono (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low temperatures.

The models are enabling researchers to study storms where measurements have not been obtained in the field.

The measurements in the recent publication are made with two wide - field cameras to search for fluctuations in two wavelengths of near infrared light.

Geophysicists will be able to answer these questions in the future using gravity field measurements from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite.

This new table - top X-ray source will allow more accurate measurements in many fields of research.

«The ultimate goal of this area of science is for growers to count the number of weeds or make a measurement in their field three weeks into the season.

Engineers and scientists will also refine their measurements of Ceres» gravity field, which will help mission planners in designing Dawn's next orbit — its lowest — as well as the journey to get there.

Capture of all the transmitted electrons allows quantitative measurement of materials properties, such as internal electric and magnetic fields, which are important for use of the materials in memory and electronics applications.

The experiment makes precise measurements of the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and of the particles» time of flight, and uses this information to determine the mass - to - charge ratios for the nuclei and antinuclei.

More surprises came from preliminary measurements of Jupiter's gravitational field (that is, the strength and direction of the planet's gravity at different points in space).

In addition, measurements of the planet's magnetic field matched planetary models fairly well as Juno sped toward Jupiter.

AMPERE took a major step toward real - time measurements in August when Boeing created a new data pathway for transferring AMPERE magnetic field samples from Iridium's satellites at a rate of every two to 20 seconds.

The measuring spheres are not only ideal for microbiological culture and process development in the laboratory, but could also be used in drug production, environmental measurement or screening in the field of medicine.

INRA «is very advanced and flexible, and is recognized as the leader in its field in Europe,» Rabbinge told reporters at the AERES briefing The committee's recommendations include reorganizing INRA's science council, increasing its international visibility, streamlining the agency's organizational structure, and developing more detailed socio - economic measurements of the impact of INRA's work.

Analyzing sensor data and field measurements, Cohen and his students have found new clues for the algal abundance, such as declining concentrations of dissolved oxygen and the role of snails in keeping springs clear.

Upon exiting the heliopause, the local measurements of the magnetic field by Voyager 1, shown here as a compass needle, differed by 40 degrees from the «true magnetic north» estimated to be the direction of the magnetic field in the pristine interstellar medium.

The research team consisting of researchers at NIMS, RIKEN, Kobe Steel and JEOL RESONANCE (a consolidated subsidiary company of JEOL) successfully developed the NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) system equipped with world's highest magnetic field, 1,020 MHz, during engagement in the JST - SENTAN program «Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis.»

And Yoon and Ham applied an electric field at a microwave frequency, which allows for the direct measurement of the electrons» collective acceleration in the form of a phase delay in the current.