Sentences with phrase «huge reservoirs of»

This transformation of land spews huge reservoirs of carbon stored in that land into the atmosphere in the form of CO2, leading to further global warming.

Images of four distant galaxies observed with the Arecibo radio telescope, which have been found to host huge reservoirs of atomic hydrogen gas.

«Pope Francis is starting off with a huge reservoir of goodwill in the U.S. Eighty - eight percent of American Catholics questioned in our survey approve of his selection as pope,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Officials also stressed that the probe's huge reservoir of toxic fuel would burn up high over Earth.

The ocean, which covers 70 % of the planet, is a huge reservoir of carbon dioxide and heat.

There is a huge reservoir of ampicillin resistance genes in soil and these can be readily transmitted to gut bacteria.

The bones are a huge reservoir of minerals such as calcium.

Just as educators are pushing students to build a huge reservoir of knowledge, they are also focused on having students master material, sometimes at the expense of relevance.

However, a huge reservoir of stolen time is under the control of the state legislature, particularly when it comes to testing and the many layers of bureaucracy that start piling on when a school fails to meet expectations.

There is also a huge reservoir of publishing news here (just do a search regarding any major publishing company's earnings and you'll find quite a lot).

Dog parks are a huge reservoir of disease for puppies and should be avoided at least until they have had all their shots.

Ray Ladbury wrote at 27 «However, there is also a huge reservoir of cold water in the deep oceans.

They will be mixed back into the huge reservoir of the deep ocean, or even absorbed into the lithosphere at the deep ocean rifts.

However, there is also a huge reservoir of cold water in the deep oceans.

The atmosphere oxidizes as much SO2 as it can, leaving a huge reservoir of SO2 in the stratosphere.

The surface mixed layer of the ocean is a huge reservoir of heat when compared with the overlying atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide readily dissolves in water and the oceans provide a huge reservoir of carbon.

CO2 sinks - Oceans Carbon dioxide readily dissolves in water and the oceans provide a huge reservoir of carbon.

The Arctic Ocean is a huge reservoir of water that can readily absorb and disperse the heat and volatile gases from the volcanic eruptions at the seafloor.

Sources highlight her «huge reservoir of experience — her judgement is very impressive.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

As a result, there is a growing reservoir, a whopping 200 at last count, of private companies whose valuations exceed $ 1 billion, causing a huge bulge at the entrance to the IPO funnel.

A poignant two - page photograph of a little boy swinging a huge club on a nine - hole course in Iowa taps into the same reservoir of optimism as an AP / Wide World Photos shot of President Bill Clinton and a friend watching a playing partner hit his drive into the Arkansas fog.

Race between sinks and sources Northern Eurasia plays an important part in the global carbon cycle because of its large areas of forest and huge soil carbon reservoirs, he added.

How it works: Electricity is used to pump huge volumes of water from a lower reservoir to an upper one.

These agricultural residues represent a huge additional reservoir for phosphate recovery: Annually, more than 1,800 million tonnes of manure are generated in the EU and the amount of digestion residues is still increasing.

The gluttonous black holes that power quasars and produce huge amounts of radiation have gas reservoirs much cooler and denser than that of Sgr A *.

u «The daunting problem for theories of structure formation in the Universe is to understand how such huge black holes [3 billion solar masses] and the vast reservoirs of gaseous fuel were assembled so soon after the Big Bang...» Edwin L. Turner, «Through a Lens Brightly,» Nature, 27 June 2002, p. 905.

This material gathers into huge turbulent reservoirs of cool, low - density gas, extending more than 30 000 light - years from the galaxy's star forming region [3] These turbulent reservoirs of diffuse gas may be of the same nature as the giant glowing haloes seen around distant quasars..

From the Indus in Pakistan, to the Yangzte in China and to the Colorado River in the US, not forgetting the Amazon, the Nile and the Congo - the majority of the world's great waterways, and thus the huge populations who rely on them, are in crisis; and it's not just the rivers themselves but the vast underground reservoirs that are being drained too.

The reservoir has a large slider opening, making it easy to empty and refill while fitting nicely into Osprey's huge line of backpacks.

At least the text of AR4 gives strongly the impression that the role of that huge reservoir is not well understood and may influence the persistence of carbon very significantly.

«Millions of trees were killed and were left sticking out of the water in the huge shallow reservoir.

Tropical reservoirs flood huge amounts of organic matter, which creates methane as it decays.

I have argued previously that the gigantic quantities of CO2 that need to be sequestered in geological reservoirs, according to these models, face huge obstacles in terms of scalability, financing, technical hurdles and public acceptance.

Ice has a huge albedo compared to everything else, and represents an enormous reservoir of cold fresh water deposited on continent - sized chunks of the globe (not to mention winter snowfall in regions where it isn't «permanent» and glaciers where it is).

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

Where is this huge reservoir that is holding all this excess energy back from the troposphere but can still deliver it subsequently in just a matter of a few years.

«As the climate warms up, now what we see is even when there is a pretty good snowpack, like we had last year, we don't get enough snowmelt runoff to make a huge impact on [Elephant Butte] reservoir,» which is the main area of storage for the Upper Rio Grande.

Last summer, we wrote about Japan's plan to build huge floating solar power plants on reservoirs around the country in order to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

«And once this big reservoir of freshwater to the region is shut down, that has a huge implication.»

The influence of flows and mass Richard makes a lot of the huge carbon reservoirs and huge flows between the reservoirs, compared to the small amount that humans add to the atmosphere.

These children of the Baby Boomer generation, around 80 million strong, remain a huge untapped reservoir of demand for apartments.