Sentences with phrase «further raising the surface»

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Analysis of data also shows that Ceres has a water - ice mantle surrounding a rocky core, and that there may still be at least pockets of liquid water beneath the surface, raising the prospect of potential habitability for microorganisms, as seemingly unlikely as that may sound for a world so far from the Sun.

The magical far infrared rays (FIR) emitted by amethyst gently raise the surface temperature of the skin to aid in her healing process.

The brilliance is that it allows for multiple animal and plant species to be raised on the same surface area: while a well - run polyculture farm usually produces far fewer pigs than say, a pig factory farm, it has the potential to produce far more biomass on the same surface area.

This duality raises the level of uncertainty over the ownership of Monk's show, which is confounded further by a series of eight new marble headstones that contain the word «YOUR NAME HERE» etched into their surfaces in varying fonts.

«Atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide can raise the temperature of the Earth's surface by absorbing some of the far - infrared radiation emitted by Earth and re - emitting it isotropically.»

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

In effect, the umbrella raises this constant temperature zone to the surface and allows the house to warm it further.

Although some researchers have raised concerns about possible negative effects of rising CO2 on ocean surface pH, there are several lines of evidence demonstrating marine ecosystems are far more sensitive to fluxes of carbon dioxide from ocean depths and the biosphere's response than from invasions of atmospheric CO2.

«Relatively cool waters in the eastern Pacific often result in stubborn summer high - pressure systems over the eastern states that block storms, reducing the frequency of precipitation below normal,» noted study co-author Richard Healy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. «Less frequent storms result in higher surface and atmospheric temperatures that then feedback on the atmospheric circulation to further reduce storm frequency and raise surface temperatures even more.»