Sentences with phrase «from atmospheric conditions»

The scientists are now trying to determine whether Titan's storm resulted from atmospheric conditions or from surface activity, such as methane - spewing geysers or volcanoes.

The reason is cars (with an assist from atmospheric conditions and illegal factories in neighboring provinces).

Not exact matches

In its place, in Benedict's words, they have created an «artificial world» that «resembles a concrete bunker with no windows, in which we ourselves provide the lighting and atmospheric conditions, being no longer willing to obtain either from God's wide world.»

From thousands and thousands of years of history, you are trying to make a case based on an incident that might have been little more than an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.

And even more especially that the balls from the Colts were not affected by the imaginary atmospheric conditions the Patriots are claiming caused this.

The North Atlantic Oscillation, a large - scale natural weather cycle, went into a phase in which summer atmospheric conditions favored more incoming solar radiation and warmer, moist air from the south.

«Ice cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 years.

Tropospheric ozone — a greenhouse gas and the kind that affects the air we breathe — can increase in concentration because of atmospheric conditions, or can result from human activities.

The two got up before dawn every weekday over the summer to collect leaves from 15 tree species and take them back to the lab, where they used gas exchange equipment to measure how the leaves responded to different light and atmospheric conditions.

Despite fresh worries about a new meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan, the steam that set off this concern is merely a result of atmospheric conditions — and a reactor that is still hot from having melted down in 2011.

The paper's conclusions are based on atmospheric conditions found in the Southeastern United States, and Graduate Research Assistant Hongyu Guo has begun a study of data from the Northeast United States to determine if the same thing happens elsewhere in the country.

Because atmospheric conditions such as wind and temperature can greatly affect particulate - matter measurements, researchers from EPIC - India and the Evidence for Policy Design initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gathered data from air - quality monitors in New Delhi and placed monitors in three adjacent cities as a control.

The researchers created a simulation that tracks meltwater runoff under a variety of atmospheric conditions, and they were surprised to discover that most of the meltwater found off the west coast of Greenland actually originated from ice on the east coast.

This means that their temperatures can range from nearly as hot as a star to as cool as a planet, which is thought to influence their atmospheric conditions, too.

ARM data are currently collected from three atmospheric observatories — Southern Great Plains, North Slope of Alaska, and Eastern North Atlantic — which represent the broad range of climate conditions around the world, as well as from the three ARM mobile facilities and ARM aerial facilities.

We recognize that atmospheric and Pacific Ocean conditions from beyond our geographical scope influence the coastal margin.

From these two additional analyses, researchers have been able to conclude that the HD189733b exoplanet is showing infernal atmospheric conditions: wind speeds of more than 1000 kilometres per hour, and the temperature being 3000 degrees.

Incoming energy, which comes primarily from the sun, is turned into various forms of absorbed energy, depending on terrain and atmospheric conditions such as clouds and aerosol particles.

In other research around atmospheric dynamics of tidally locked exoplanets, there could be a situation where the world has efficient «air conditioning» — hot air from one hemisphere is distributed about the planet in such a way to balance global temperatures.

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

In theory, early mornings are far from ideal in terms of track conditions but the atmospheric pressure at that time of day is conducive to getting the best possible performance out of the engine.

Akdogan often utilizes objects counter to their intended use — traditionally, colored gels for cinematic and theatrical lighting create distinct light conditions while remaining hidden from view; the artist extracts and edits the atmospheric and surface properties of these materials, often directly in the exhibition space — manipulating layers of color pigments, print, and light sources.

Acrylic bands of blue and white curving out from the wall represent water in motion; glass beads covering a dune - shaped form create the shimmering effect of light on sand; hundreds of acrylic cubes in varying hues of violet are points of color that capture the light or atmospheric condition of a particular moment.

Five works from Sugimoto's iconic Seascapes series (1980 ---RRB-, in which the horizon divides sea and sky in varying locations and atmospheric conditions, will also be included.

was originally polished with shellac and remains in good condition apart from some fine surface cracking; these cracks temporarily developed an unidentified fungal growth when the piece was shown in 1993 under changed atmospheric conditions (Tate Gallery Conservation Files).

Seated Figure was originally polished with shellac and remains in good condition apart from some fine surface cracking; these cracks temporarily developed an unidentified fungal growth when the piece was shown in 1993 under changed atmospheric conditions (Tate Gallery Conservation Files).

Five works from Sugimoto's Seascapes series (1980 ---RRB-, in which the horizon divides sea and sky in varying locations and atmospheric conditions, will also be included in the New York show.

GCM results are used: «The large - scale thermodynamic boundary conditions for the experiments — atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles and SSTs — are derived from nine different Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP2 +) climate models.»

Following up on my post from last week on the Arctic Oscillation, Ken Chang has written a Week in Review story with a bit more detail on the unusual atmospheric patterns behind the big, but very constrained, chill, and the dominance of warm conditions — just not where a lot of Western media are situated.

Locked in the ancient striations — each representing a winter's accumulation of compacted snow — is a unique natural record of climatic and atmospheric conditions from decades, centuries, even millenniums past.

The conditions also bolster the views of ice and climate specialists who have stressed that the many factors shaping Arctic conditions year by year, from winds and atmospheric pressure to highly variable ocean currents and soot, still dominate the influence of heat trapped by building greenhouse gases.

A new analysis of satellite data from 1979 onward offers details about the atmospheric conditions that have created California's current drought.

Again, though the water vapor emitted from cooling towers can and does create impressive cloud formations under the right conditions, this is a very different issue than being the primary mechanisms of Earth's atmospheric water vapor generation for fueling storms which is what some are falsely claiming.

Type 2 dynamic downscaling refers to regional weather (or climate) simulations in which the regional model's initial atmospheric conditions are forgotten (i.e., the predictions do not depend on the specific initial conditions), but results still depend on the lateral boundary conditions from a global numerical weather prediction where initial observed atmospheric conditions are not yet forgotten, or are from a global reanalysis.

Type 4 statistical downscaling uses transfer functions developed for the present climate, fed with large scale atmospheric information taken from Earth system models representing future climate conditions.

Type 3 dynamic downscaling takes lateral boundary conditions from a global model prediction forced by specified real world surface boundary conditions, such as for seasonal weather predictions based on observed sea surface temperatures, but the initial observed atmospheric conditions in the global model are forgotten.

A process raises 1 kg of water from 0 to 100oC (273 to 373 K) under atmospheric conditions.

We also make use of two lengthy control simulations conducted with CESM1 under constant 1850 radiative conditions: a 2200 - year control run using the fully - coupled configuration (hereafter termed the «coupled control run»), and a 2600 - year control run using only the atmospheric model component coupled to the land model component from CESM1 with a specified repeating seasonal cycle of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and sea ice conditions taken from the long - term climatology of the fully - coupled control run (hereafter termed the «atmospheric control run»).

The ensemble consists of seven members each of which uses a unique set of NCEP / NCAR atmospheric forcing fields from recent years, representing recent climate, such that ensemble member 1 uses 2005 NCEP / NCAR forcing, member 2 uses 2006 forcing..., and member 7 uses 2011 forcing... In addition, the recently available IceBridge and helicopter - based electromagnetic (HEM) ice thickness quicklook data are assimilated into the initial 12 - category sea ice thickness distribution fields in order to improve the initial conditions for the predictions.

All the atmospheric conditions were favorable for explosive thunderstorm development and nothing would happen because too many thunder cells tried to form at the same time each stealing energy from its neighbor.

Therefore, a model run driven with atmospheric data from 2007, which is started from spring ice conditions in 2008 instead of 2007, leads to an even smaller ice extent.

For the study, researchers tracked the atmospheric conditions for the wettest and driest and coolest and warmest years of the state's typical winter seasons from 1948 to 2015.

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

As the earth continues to recover from the abnormally cold conditions of the centuries - long Little Ice Age, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural production.

I think that when people need to resort to conditions 500 million years ago to «refute» present - day directly observable radiative effects from CO2 and other IR - active atmospheric species — backed by solid, lab - tested physical theory — that I'm not the one with a problem airly dismissing a priori «assumptions».

This chain runs: from humans to emissions and changes in atmospheric concentrations; from changes in concentrations to changes in weather conditions which, with their induced feedbacks, change the climate; and from the weather of this altered climate to changes in risks and the circumstances of individuals.

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

In the context of models that include cloud processes, ranging from small - scale models of clouds and atmospheric chemistry to global weather and climate models, the unified theoretical foundations presented here provide the basis for incorporating cloud microphysical processes in these models in a manner that represent the process interactions and feedback processes over the relevant range of environmental and parametric conditions.

Researchers from Columbia Engineering, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Rutgers University have tried to explain the relationship between water on the earth's surface and atmospheric conditions.

i.e. warmth exponentially increasing based on myriad feedback loops amplifying velocity, such as dramatic acceleration of declining albedo; increasing methane release from melting permafrost (Siberian sink holes); from dramatic increases of fauna as nature exploits an ever increasing land footprint and atmospheric conditions conducive to exponential growth?