Sentences with phrase «higher than the surface»

Like the 12 mile limit, 100 km was also much higher than surface to air missiles of that day could operate, so this was a practical limit as well.

For the Surface Pro 4 it is 78, which is very good and 24 percent higher than the Surface Pro 3, and better than most full - size tablets, but also much lower than the 166 for iPad Air 2 with its low reflectance coating.

When air surface temperatures are higher than the surface water temperature, then then the upwelling water will pick up energy from the air.

When you see condensation on the bathroom mirror, you know the dew point of the water vapor in the air is equal to or higher than the surface temperature of the mirror.

Why are the temperatures at the bottom of the oceans on earth not higher than the surface?

Not exact matches

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

In the tests, they burst through the surface, ejecting pillars of seawater more than a mile high while rippling out powerful shockwaves.

But for all the firm's high - toned, West Coast cool, Lunar's success is, in part, more surface than substance.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

Yes, there are some pretty cool features on the iPhone X: the high definition OLED screen, infrared facial recognition to map the 3D surface of the face rather than a flat image like a photo, and improved cameras with image stabilization, and built - in capabilities to support augmented reality apps.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

Also, a more recent exploit presents a higher risk than a 15 - year - old exploit because of the potential attack surface that still exists.

A feeling deep inside pushed closer and closer to the surface, nagging me with thoughts of a more «normal» life: of community and day - to - day rhythms focused more on family and friends than on international travel and high - level diplomacy.

Flours made from carbs spike blood sugar more acutely than the whole foods they are made from, due to the exponentially higher surface area.

«When they cook and that water evaporates, the higher, curved sides of a baking dish will cause your vegetables to steam more than if they were on a flat surface with shallow sides.»

Technical skills, such as pyramids, mounts, tosses and tumbling should be performed only on a spring / foam floor or grass / turf, never performed on hard (vinyl floors, concrete, asphalt), wet or uneven surfaces, and pyramids should not be more than 2 people high and should only be performed with spotters.

We found that all balls bounced higher on the tiles than any other surface and lowest on the carpet.

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

An MTA worker with the job title «model - surfacing instructor» was the agency's highest - paid employee in 2015 — and one of 10 overtime fat cats to make more than $ 300,000, the Empire Center has found.

Without the dispersant injection, the model showed that benzene concentrations in the air 2 meters above the sea surface would have been 13 times higher than the levels considered acceptable to breathe during a 10 - hour working day or a 40 - hour work week, based on guidelines by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Liquid water is not a prerequisite for a high score: A planet with liquids on the surface receives more points than a dry world, but the presence of water confers no additional advantage.

And they don't understand why the corona, which sizzles at several million degrees Celsius, has such higher temperatures than the solar surface, which chills at a mere 5,500 ° C (SN Online: 8/20/17).

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

«Titan's atmosphere is made up mainly of nitrogen and methane, with 50 % higher pressure at its surface than on Earth,» said Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), who led the study.

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

And the present regime has yet to stabilize: «With increasingly higher sea surface temperatures it is hard to imagine anything lower than 15 storms per year» going forward, the two conclude.

They include higher sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean, which can lead to greater rainfall over the sea rather than on land.

However if the charging rate is too high, lithium ions deposit as a metallic layer on the surface of the anode rather than inserting themselves into the graphite.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

For both experiments, the researchers used much higher concentrations of microbes than those typically found on hospital surfaces, Koranteng said.

Felix Baumgartner broke the mark for highest - ever skydive after leaping from a balloon more than 38 kilometers above Earth's surface on October 14

The increased surface area of the rippling «leaf» creates three times as many catalytic contact points as other molybdenum disulfide structures, and the new creation can handle higher temperatures than platinum without sintering and gumming up the cell.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

In January 2005, for example, Ohio State University geophysicist Ralph von Frese and his colleagues noticed a concentration of higher - than - average - density material in the rock about a mile under the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

Monico also used high - powered X-rays to analyse microscopic samples from the painting and found that some of the lead chromate at the painting's surface had turned into greenish chromium oxide, which combined with the underlying yellow to produce a darker and browner hue than van Gogh may have intended.

Under midrange projections for economic growth and technological change, the planet's average surface temperature in 2050 will be about two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than its preindustrial value.

Because the Sun produces heat at its core, this runs counter to what one would initially expect: normally the layer closest to a source of heat, the Sun's surface, in this case, would have a higher temperature than the more distant atmosphere.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

Long - term data from a wind farm at San Gorgonio, California, confirmed his earlier model predictions: surface temperatures behind the wind turbines were higher than in front during the night, but as much as 4 °C lower by day.

In fact, the litter density on the deep seafloor of the Fram Strait is 10 to 100 times higher than at the sea surface.

In 2010, sea surface temperatures — the primary fuel of hurricanes — are already higher than in 2005.

The exceptionally high activity, Jiao said, is likely due to the UD - developed electrocatalyst's extremely large and highly curved internal surface, which is approximately 150 times larger and 20 times intrinsically more active than polycrystalline silver.

The study, led by Brown University geologist Brandon Johnson and published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds a high likelihood that there's more than 100 kilometers of liquid water beneath Pluto's surface.

Pielke, who said one issue ignored in the paper is that land surface temperature measurements over time show bigger warming trends than measurements from higher up in a part of the atmosphere called the lower troposphere, and that still needs more explanation.

Matula says this sudden illumination happens because during the first bout of sonoluminescence, temperatures in the bubble, which can be as high as several hundred thousand degrees — hotter than the sun's surface — do something to nitrogen and oxygen to make them form compounds such as nitrous oxide that dissolve in the surrounding water.

At that boundary, atmospheric pressures 100,000 times higher than those at Earth's surface strip protons and electrons from the planet's hydrogen.

Signature H. sapiens traits include flat surfaces of frontal teeth facing the lips, high and narrow crowns on certain cheek teeth and generally smaller tooth sizes than found in Neandertals and earlier Homo species.