Sentences with word «greenness»

While one NASA satellite measured up to 25 percent decline in rainfall across two thirds of the Amazon from 2000 to 2012, a set of different satellite instruments observed a 0.8 percent decline in greenness over the Amazon.

(Robert hints at this himself when he says he's installing a Zappi electric vehicle charger, which automates charging times based on greenness of electricity.)

While recent findings based on satellite records indicate a positive trend in vegetation greenness over global drylands, the reasons remain elusive.

Increased greenness is inconsistent with expectation if trees are limited by water but follows from increased availability of sunlight (due to decreased cloudiness) when water is not limiting — if, for example, trees are able to use deep roots and hydrologic redistribution to access and sustain water availability during dry extremes.

The association between greenness and mortality was not statistically significantly different by race / ethnicity, physical activity, smoking status, area - level SES, air pollution exposure, weight status, region of the United States, whether a participant lived in a rural or urban area, or whether a participant moved during follow - up.

In the past, with greenness data, «it's been hard to tell an El Nino year from a non-El Nino year,» said Lyapustin.

Stay - Green mutants allow leaves to retain greenness during senescence.

«In other words, if greenness declines, this is an indication that less carbon will be removed from the atmosphere.

One of the lead authors of the study, Arindam Samanta, said» The MODIS vegetation greenness data suggest a more widespread, severe and long - lasting impact to Amazonian vegetation than what can be inferred based solely on rainfall data.»

GloF - DAS relies on NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor to detect changes in forest greenness cover relative to the year - earlier period.

into what we call greenness.

Nothing beats the after storm magic of fresh greenness and the quick drying of a watery, yet hot sun over the drenched city.

The top contenders hail from New Zealand and Canada, where strong overtones of pungent greenness are balanced by pure, ripe kiwi and passion fruit flavours.

Such political greenness, Gagarin said, is something he believes will attract voters hoping to change the status quo.

«We're much more confident that this is a gap between clouds where we can measure greenness, but standard algorithms would call it a cloud,» said Lyapustin.

Change in Amazon greenness from 2000 to 2012, measured as Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).

The authors focused on understanding how modifying a single feature of a product with a green benefit (recycled materials, for example) influenced consumer evaluations of the overall greenness of the product.

What strikes us is how GREEN the lawna are and so dense, we have not seen that type of lush greenness for years due to droughts in Aus.

Beginning by championing greenness (because Easter occurs in spring), she turns quickly and somberly to the northern - hemisphere - centrism which leads Episcopalians to think places like Japan are experiencing spring too.

There are the various and sundry concrete green things: the abstract property at issue (viz., the property or characteristic of being green); and the mediative conception or idea of greenness which is the thought - instrumentability through which that abstract property comes to be imputed to those items that putatively manifest it.

But when we attribute greenness to the grass, the difference is quite considerable.

Whereas it is certainly naïve and erroneous to suppose that the cells in the grass experience greenness as a sense datum, it is not necessarily absurd to think that cellular experiences have an emotional component.

That minty fresh colour looks so pretty, but it also means that it's packing some serious health benefits too with thanks to the added greenness of spirulina.

My husband was amazed to be eating an actual wrap and liked the taste, I was not as enthusiastic with the very greenness of them.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

Measurements from a handful of field stations across the basin, however, indicated the vegetation greenness due to increased sunlight in the dry season would decline once the water in the soils was used up — especially in drought years.

The finding could transform models that study the interactions of climate and tropical forests, which typically assume a constant canopy greenness throughout the year.

Despite thousands of years of dense human occupation, Japan still offers visitors a first impression of greenness because 70 percent of its land is still covered by forest.

Shadows, which shorten over the course of the tropical dry season, produce an optical illusion: Leaves reflect more light in the infrared spectrum, even as their actual greenness declines.

A study published in Nature in February suggests that previous models based on satellite data have overestimated greenness during dry seasons in the Amazon rainforest.

The study found a gradually decreasing trend in Congo rainforest greenness, sometimes referred to as «browning,» suggesting a slow adjustment to the long - term drying trend.

In this nationwide study of adult women, higher levels of greenness around each participant's home address were associated with lower rates of all - cause, nonaccidental mortality regardless of adjustment for age, race / ethnicity, smoking status, individual - level SES, and area - level SES.

I love my 19 - year - old greenness in matters of some special themes like finding the b..

«The crayon manufacturing contest,» she says, referring to a project in which the students designed their own crayon companies and made their own crayons, testing the durability, quality, and greenness along the way.

It can also mean moving the hybrid idea out of the realms of earnest greenness and into the more hedonistic world that most of us inhabit.

The island's blue, fresh - water lakes are perched in the dunes and perfect to cool down on a hot Queensland Day; or you can wander along crystal - clear streams as they meander through the leafy greenness of the forest.

Kerala's lushness, its ever present greenness, comes from the monsoon rains and the backwaters which crisscross the state, bringing their life - giving water.

Enjoy the scented greenness of the forest and the peace and seclusion of this mountain hideaway.

Moonlight in greenery which, as a result of its intense greenness, becomes the highlight of the evening and the party.