We have completed
field measurements of each of the 35 glaciers below and use the aerial photographs to present a broad view that is lost when taking a picture of the glacier from the ground.
Placing these ecoclimate consequences in a regional context also makes it possible to more directly compare local impacts with
field measurements of vegetation change.
Direct
field measurements of N2O emissions are prohibitively costly, and the use of default values can not capture variation in emissions associated with weather conditions and site - specific factors.
These risks were further evaluated through
field measurements of insulated and un-insulated mock - up walls, and simulated further under more severe climate conditions.
«The trim coils have proven extremely useful, not only by ensuring a balanced plasma exhaust onto the divertor plates, but also as a tool for the physicists to perform magnetic
field measurements of unprecedented accuracy,» said Thomas Sunn Pederson, Max Planck director of stellarator edge and divertor physics.
However, while
field measurements of sulfur dioxide emissions are increasing, they still remain too sparse to piece together a cohesive global picture.
But on - the -
field measurements of head impacts challenge this assumption.
Field measurements of tree death since last year's drought are also needed to refine the estimate of the weather event's impact on the carbon cycle.
Field measurements of methane emissions from two termite nests in Guatemala corroborated the laboratory results.
Not exact matches
Alongside
field work the team, which included scientists from the WHRC and Boston University, used 12 years
of satellite imagery,
field measurements and laser remote sensing technology as part
of its method.
I worked with a business that competed in the exciting
field of humidity
measurement.
As the
field of impact investing grows, it is critical that the
measurement and reporting
of impact is thoughtful and rigorous.
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).
A major
field of research is human milk for preterm infants:
measurement of its composition, optimization
of the fortification, best way to pasteurize human milk to preserve its quality.
The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one
of a very few able to make such sensitive
measurements of electric
fields in living tissue.
«Our research team aims to explore and model these non-Newtonian characteristics
of blood flow through careful, well - documented
measurements, and by combining expertise within the
fields of rheology, computational modeling, and biology,» Horner said.
Those data are proprietary, however, and the
measurements can not be scaled up to the level
of an entire oil and gas
field.
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.
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.
Scientists use models
of Earth's structure and
measurements of Earth's magnetic
field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections
of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.
«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.
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.
Scientists have been taking direct
measurements of the
field only since 1837, but mariners have been watching magnetic north far longer.
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.
Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide
Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better
measurements of the expansion rate.
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.»
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.
Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center who has studied the Amazon, said that fleshing out what are «essentially back -
of - the - envelope calculations»
of the 2010 drought's impact will require additional
field measurements and a closer examination
of satellite observations
of the Amazon's tree canopy.
These include instruments that make
measurements of temperatures, magnetic
fields, and electrical conductivity
of the comet surface.
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 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.
Robert Watson, a government official and co-chair
of the scientific panel that advises the Montreal Protocol, said that laboratory experiments, computer models, and
field measurements all support the conclusion that CFCs are destroying stratospheric ozone.
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.
Two
of them will be part
of the GRAIL mission — the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — now starting to make extremely precise
measurements of the lunar gravitational
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.
The goal was to see if a mother ship microsatellite could launch smaller daughter ships, with all the satellites capable
of sending magnetic
field measurements to Earth.
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.
«This process required
measurements over several weeks, during which the fluctuations
of the magnetic
field applied had to be 10,000 times smaller than the magnetic
field of the earth,» explained the study's primary author, Helmut Strobel.
Pourhashem noted the key
measurements needed are the rate
of soil emission
of nitric oxide (NO), which is a smog precursor, after biochar is applied to
fields.
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.
«Gravity glasses offer a view
of the Earth's interior: Data grid for GOCE gravity
field measurements sheds new light on the Earth's structure.»