Sentences with phrase «free land surface»

On the other hand they melt fast when a rising ocean hits their boundary and turns landlocked ice directly into dark ocean surface with no intermediate state of ice - free land surface.

The vast majority of the planet's ice - free land surface — 83 per cent according to one study (pdf)-- is now influenced by humans in some way or another.

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They lack solid surfaces on which to land, plus their fearsome gravity and thick clouds of ammonium compounds would make departure a task akin to that of an insect struggling free from a piece of flypaper.

And because an insect's exoskeleton has a waxy surface that acts as an electrical insulator, that charge isn't easily dissipated, even when the insect lands on objects, says Randolf Menzel, a neurobiologist at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.

In southern Africa, rocks of the Karoo Supergroup cover almost two - thirds of the present land surface, including central Cape Province, almost all of Orange Free State, western Natal, much of There are more than 2000 shipwrecks off the South African coast, most dating back at least 500 years.

Another facet of the reports on Victoria's taxpayers» heroism is that the demands on surface area are far from negligible, at 800 treefree ha for the solar (to match output from a 1600 MW nuclear, multiply that to 16,600 ha; the wind farm will require tree free land of 27,500 ha on the same basis.

Experiment 5 shows why greater radiative cooling of the night land surface will not result in significantly greater conductive cooling of an atmosphere in which the gases are free to move.

The land that existed was ice free which meant that there was more convection because the surface could warm up more in the sunlight (ice / snow are thermally limited in warming up).