Sentences with phrase «from a surface water body»

Furthermore, higher water temperatures will enhance the transfer of volatile and semi-volatile compounds (e.g., ammonia, mercury, dioxins, pesticides) from surface water bodies to the atmosphere (Schindler, 2001).

Whether the water supply is sourced from a municipal or private water purveyor, or obtained privately from a surface water body, well, or spring, the water must be obtained and managed through the complex web of statutes, regulations, and court cases known as water law.

Not exact matches

«It's an incredibly clever natural solution to this problem of how to deal with a water barrier on a surface it will change the way we think about developing bio-inspired adhesives that are safe and already optimised to work in conditions similar to those in the human body, as well as marine paints that stop barnacles from sticking.»

Once it is expelled from the body through stool, it assumes the form of an infectious cyst that can survive in water, soil, or on surfaces for weeks.

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

The administration's biggest move modifies the corps's issuance of «nationwide permits» to preclude their use to authorize the discharge of debris into water bodies from surface - mining operations in Appalachia.

Their main source of food is «marine snow» — a slow drift of mucus, fecal pellets, and body parts — that sinks down from the surface waters.

Also, light that is reflected from the surface of a body of water gets partially polarised, so certain insects might confuse sunlight reflected from a car with a source of water.

NORMAN — A University of Oklahoma research study, led by Professor Xiangming Xiao, reveals the divergent trends of open surface water bodies in the contiguous United States from 1984 to 2016, specifically, a decreasing trend in the water - poor states and an increasing trend in the water - rich states.

Composed of about 99 percent water, sweat evaporates on the skin's surface, cooling the body and keeping it from overheating.

The gravitational pull from these two bodies also squeezes and stretches the moon itself, and all that kneading from this tidal distortion heats Enceladus, melting some of the water ice under the surface.

On November 16, 2011, scientists announced that data from NASA's Galileo probe (which operated from 1989 to 2003) appear to reveal at least two bodies of liquid water the volume of the North America's Great Lakes underneath the surface ice of Europa.

First discovered in 2005, the geysers of water ice are believed to originate from a large body of water located beneath the moon's surface ice shell.

To obtain the fat bodies from casein treated or starved larvae, we fed w1118 larvae on normal food until 12 h AL3E and then transferred them into 5 % casein food or 1 % non-nutritive agar, respectively, and incubated for additional 12 h. Larvae were surface - sterilized in 70 % ethanol for a few minutes, rinsed twice in sterilized distilled water, and dissected in a Schneider's Drosophila medium (Biowest) with 10 % FBS (Gibco) and 1 % Penicillin - Streptomycin (Sigma).

A flood is defined as «surface water, waves, including tidal wave and tsunami, tides, tidal water, overflow of any body of water, or spray from any of these, all whether or not driven by wind, including storm surge».

From the surface, the Great Blue Hole looks like a perfectly circular body of water that is several shades darker than the surrounding water.

The ever - changing light cast from the sky reflects patterns onto the earth's surfaces — ripples on the surface of water, buildings and windows, and people's bodies as they bask in the sunshine.

From the atmosphere, it generally falls to the surface in atmospheric deposition, generating a series of effects — corrosion of buildings, bridges and other human - made structures, acidification of soils and water bodies, and inadvertent fertilization of trees and grasslands, creating unnatural growth rates, nutrient imbalances and decreasing or altering biodiversity.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

Excluding the absorbed part from the sky, which maybe you dispute anyway, the emission is hundreds of W / m2, as would be expected for a water surface radiating almost like a black body.

The water inthe body of the pot will warm from conduction from the container and not from IR heating onto the water surface.

In a nutshell, the Nebia atomizes the water into tiny droplets that have «10 times more surface area» than the water drops from a conventional showerhead, allowing users to get just as clean («more water comes into contact with your body» than with a traditional model») while also warming the air around them more efficiently.

As defined by NFIP, it is a temporary or general condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land from: mudflow, overflow of inland or tidal waters, unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source, and a collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other similar body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels.

The unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters could be a number of different kinds of precipitation or water accumulating unexpectedly from a nearby body of water.

Such loss is excluded regardless of any other cause or event contributing concurrently or in any sequence to the loss... 3 (a) Flood, surface water, waves, tidal water, overflow of a body of water, or spray from any of these, whether or not driven by wind.»