Sentences with phrase «holding capacity of»

In the real world, the holding capacity of the air declines with temperature, so the water vapour concentration may be as high as 40,000 ppm or less than 1,000 depending on temperature.

The water - holding capacity of the atmosphere is expected to increase roughly exponentially with temperature rises» (Roo: 2011 p. 26).

Along with the risk of drying, there is an increased chance of intense precipitation and flooding due to the greater water - holding capacity of a warmer atmosphere.

Over northern continents in winter, however, more precipitation is associated with higher temperatures, as the water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases in the warmer conditions.

We already know that compost improves soil structure and can increase the water - holding capacity of soil — meaning even when there is a shortage of rain, gardeners and farmers have a better chance of still growing a good crop.

Differences in available energy, canopy roughness, the timing of physiological functioning, water holding capacity of the soil and rooting depth of the vegetation explained the observed differences in sensible and latent heat exchange of the contrasting vegetation surfaces.

If not for the heat holding capacity of oceans, Earth would be a lot colder.

«[T] he CMIP5 [climate model] results instead show an increase in temperature and a much subdued increase in specific humidity, which may be due to GHG - induced warming and subsequent increases in the water vapor holding capacity of the atmosphere, respectively.

Because the water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature (e.g., Trenberth et al. 2003), a positive anomaly on top of already high SSTs has much greater effect than if located elsewhere.

Accordingly, changes in temperature and the water holding capacity of the atmosphere are more robust than changes that depend on winds in any way.

Therefore, the August - Roche - Magnus equation implies that saturation water vapor pressure changes approximately exponentially with temperature under typical atmospheric conditions, and hence the water - holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7 % for every 1 °C rise in temperature.

Furthermore, even though evaporation is increasing, it's not increasing as quickly as the water holding capacity of the atmosphere.

It uses two rectangular desktop panels, both of which have a maximum holding capacity of 110 pounds, while the curved connecting piece can hold 66 pounds.

Use this calculator when working out the holding capacity of your fish tank.

«In severe drought conditions, which are expected to increase with climate change, organic farms have the potential to produce high yields because of the higher water - holding capacity of organically farmed soils,» Reganold said.

Gradually the liquid holding capacity of the diapers got increased.

The sheer volume would exceed the holding capacity of the Ark..

As the fixture is currently being held on Sutton's artificial 3G pitch, with a ground that reported holds a capacity of around 5000, it means that financially, this isn't going to be the greatest earner in the current round of the cup.

STILLWATER, Okla. — Before its renovation in 2000, Oklahoma State's Gallagher - Iba Arena held a capacity of just 6,381 people.

As an example, Vitol made good use of the «Overseas Laura Lynn», a 380m tanker vessel with a hold capacity of 3 million barrels of oil ready for storage.

The battery on the Redmi 5A holds a capacity of 3000mAh and offers eight days of standby, according to Xiaomi.

Evaluate the advertising program and make certain it holds the capacity of fulfilling the client's sales, profits and customer base targets

Transferring products by pipelines and determining if storage tanks are capable of holding the capacities of products to be loaded or discharged

Not exact matches

Employee: So as far as the battery goes, it's able to hold 93 % of its charged capacity.

It was this capacity for holding its purchasing power and moving in the opposite direction of other asset classes that long made gold the ultimate safe haven, something investors going back five centuries to Jakob Fugger the Rich have recommended one hold in one's portfolio.

Bill Miller, the famed value investor who manages the Miller Opportunity Trust mutual fund and holds 16 % of its portfolio in airline stocks, imagines a new normal in which airlines remain profitable during slumps because of their newfound discipline on capacity.

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

Although Uranium One once held 20 percent of licensed uranium in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S., that's no longer the case.

Each automatic triennial stock option grant and each stock option grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month for three years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity for which such grant was made (except that if a director who was granted such an option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date for that calendar year, vesting will accelerate with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).

Fixing the date of the budget is necessary, but far from sufficient to give Parliament the capacity to review government spending and hold the government to account.

Alice L. Walton, Jim C. Walton and S. Robson Walton share voting and dispositive power with respect to all Shares held by Walton Enterprises, LLC, individually as managing members of Walton Enterprises, LLC, and in their capacities as co-trustees of the John T. Walton Estate Trust, which is also a managing member of Walton Enterprises, LLC.

In this capacity he held a number of senior roles including Deutsche Bank's Joint Head of Global Markets in Australia, Head of Global Foreign Proprietary Risk in London, and Head of Fixed Income in Australia.

Everyone agreed that debt in China is still growing far too quickly relative to the country's debt - servicing capacity, but the pace of credit growth seems to have declined in 2017, even as real GDP growth held steady and, more importantly, nominal GDP growth increased.

Additionally, there are a number of areas in the mining sector where supply bottlenecks have held back export growth recently, though there are indications that capacity expansions in that area are now in train.

PhilaPort, along with Packer Avenue Marine Terminal's operator, Astro Holdings, Inc. (a Holt Logistics affiliate), have purchased the cranes as part of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's $ 300 million Port Development Plan to increase cargo - handling capacity and efficiency.

In the March 3 - 5 poll, 63 percent of Americans supported «nationwide ban on the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.»

The oil and gas majors have been reluctant to add deepwater capacity, and large capital - intensive projects are being placed on hold as investors become uneasy about the impact of electric vehicles.

Well, hold on a moment: if China continues to grow at past rates, China becomes more than 90 percent of the entire global steel market — which is unlikely, and so it seems likely that the iron ore capacity may be rising just as slowing capital investments in China cools demand.»

«24 And the suburban church proved for Gibson Winter to be a middle - class enclave possessing little capacity for coherent belief distinct from that of the society that holds it captive.25

Literature's ability to express the subtly layered dynamics of human interaction and motivation, its capacity to hold a mirror to nature, makes it a valuable tool in the development of mature pastoral care.

Hopewell found that local churches had the capacity to hold together in the face of strains and pressures, and he found little accounting for this in the appropriate literature.

Even more serious, the literature neither reflected nor explained adequately how it is that congregations hold together in the face of strains and pressures — a capacity that had impressed him in both the churches that offered Candler's courses and in a congregation he had helped found a few years before.

The church is better off — more productive and more faithful — when the strangers in it hold on to one another This denomination has a lot of important work to do; and though we would like to see all of it accomplished our way, the fact is that none of the factions, including our own, has the capacity or the skills to do it alone.

But suppose we hold that God has endowed some or all of His creatures with the capacity to choose between alternative possibilities left open by the divine will.

In our history, in our society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held within the social order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.

The language reminiscent of the Lord's Supper in John 21:13 is clear; the untorn net of verse 11 may suggest the capacity of the church to hold all sorts of men.

I was in a position where I held a job for them in a capacity that had me working with newcomers — and 90 % of them left as fast as they came.

However they may be unraveled, the fact remains that there was indeed a transition from the tribal league with its occasional rallies of Israelite peasantry to fight for their freedom to a monarchy with a standing army, career military commanders, up - to - date armaments, the capacity to take and hold new territory.

The modern use of the word talent as a special gift or capacity is drawn directly from the biblical parable of the talents, where it meant a sum of money of about one thousand dollars, and in either case it should be viewed as something held in trust.

This isn't to say that I reject these ideas in the way that some do (suggesting God has different ways to have relationship with different groups, or holding to some Universalist notion that none of it matters anyhow and everyone will end up with God) but rather to say that I see my role in a more boundaried and limited capacity.