Sentences with phrase «in a narrow band about»

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Today the cacao tree still grows only in a narrow band within about 18 degrees north and south of the equator.

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

What is special about the Maunder Minimum is the fact that during that period sunspots barely appeared on the Sun's northern hemisphere and, when they appeared in the Southern portion, the dark spots were very narrowly crowded within a narrow band 20 degrees off the solar equator.

It is pretty clear that the model for the process governing Sun spot occurrence is the correct one, even if the parameterization is somewhat statistically uncertain (and even if some parameters may be randomly or deterministically varying slowly and / or narrowly in time, as well as the precise frequency distribution of noise energy, though we really only care about that within a narrow band around the resonances).

«If the Fed can maintain a low but positive rate of inflation, within a narrow band of about 1.5 percent of the Consumer Price Index, as it's been doing, inflation will be a non-issue in economic decisions in 2005,» says Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association.