Sentences with phrase «in response to temperature»

Among the features envisioned for the green club are energy - generating dance floors (see the video), toilets flushed with rainwater, walls that change color in response to temperature fluctuations, and a rooftop garden where clubbers can enjoy an organic beer with friends.

This includes the Planck response, which is just the increase in OLR (outgoing longwave radiation) in response to temperature according to the Planck function and the given optical properties.

ENSO has been proposed as a self - regulator of temperature that increases in convective activity in response to temperature differential.

There is evidence, for example, that high latitude tree - ring density variations have changed in their response to temperature in recent decades, associated with possible nonclimatic factors (Briffa et al., 1998a).

However, in response to the temperature in - crease, the direction of cloud feedback based on observations is still an open question.»

While plants can change their growing seasons in response to temperature, caribou breeding cycles are triggered by daylight length.

Slow feedbacks have little effect on the immediate planetary energy balance, instead coming into play in response to temperature change.

Given that tree growth is typically parabolic in response to temperature, how do you know a priori which side of the maximum you might be on when attempting a reconstruction?

The latest analysis confirms — as most atmospheric scientists have long held — that the reverse is true: Clouds change in response to temperature changes.

The mainstream and long - held view of clouds in relation to climate change is that clouds are acting as a feedback in response to temperature changes caused by human activity.

So water dances at many speeds, from the unimaginable fast vibrations of its molecules responding to thermal infrared radiation, to the moment - to - moment dance of its phase changes in response to temperature changes, to the week - long dance of its vapor in and out of the atmosphere, to the slow geological pavanes of rock, air and life, of which it too forms an inextricable part.

In contrast, the IPCC's position is that clouds can only change in response to temperature change (temperature cause clouds).

For example, the 9 month lag could be a change to release of CO2 from the ocean surface layer in response to a temperature change which would occur within months.

If I understood Armour's paper correctly, he claimed that all feed - backs were close to linear in response to temperature over time, but that different regional warming rates (specifically, slow warming at high latitudes) could make the feed - backs and sensitivity appear to increase with time.

In short, perspiration is the body's internal cooling system and since your body's internal temperature rises during exercise, it automatically begins producing sweat in response to temperature changes with the purpose of avoiding the dangerous effects of elevated temperature on internal organs.

Slow feedbacks have little effect on the immediate planetary energy balance, instead coming into play in response to temperature change.

An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to determine if location influenced how first flowering dates varied over time and in response to temperature.

But respiration increases in response to temperature rises triggered by the CO2.

M.I.T. researchers have created a gel that changes color in response to temperature, pressure or chemicals.

«We know from other studies that the dengue virus particle expands its outer shell in response to temperature as a sort of breathing,» he said.

Not exact matches

Blooms can occur in response to favourable conditions, which include still or slow - flowing water, abundant sunlight, hot temperatures and sufficient levels of nutrients.

For example, there is evidence that rectal temperature, which is often measured for body temperature, may show a delayed response to changes in internal and external temperature due to vascular perfusion of the rectum being lower than that of the deeper core.

A study published in January found that the immune response to the common cold in a test group of mice was impaired at the lower body temperature compared to the core body temperature.

It occurs in response to a drop in temperature.

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«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming

Currently, rising CO2 levels are driving global warming, but in the past CO2 levels have naturally risen in response to rising temperatures.

The emission of pollen from the individual species is driven by different weather parameters, e.g. the temperature on the previous day or on the current day, some emissions stop when it is raining, others release their pollen in response to rain.

Hot flashes arise because the temperature range in which the body normally feels comfortable narrows during the menopause transition, partly in response to the drop in estrogen.

Exposure to cold temperatures can convert white fat tissue from the thighs and belly to beige fat that burns calories for heat, but this biological response is hampered in obese people, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

White fat tissue can acquire beige cells in response to cold temperatures.

Zhou's technique uses metal and carbon - based frameworks that change their structure in response to slight changes in temperature, magnetic fields, and light.

GCMs are computer models which capture physical processes governing the atmosphere and oceans to simulate the response of temperature, precipitation, and other meteorological variables in different scenarios.

In response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environmenIn response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environmenin the environment.

«We found compelling evidence that invasive shrubs, such as Japanese barberry, are ready to leaf out quickly once they are exposed to warm temperatures in the lab even in the middle of winter, whereas native shrubs, like highbush bluberry, and native trees, like red maple, need to go through a longer winter chilling period before they can leaf out — and even then their response is slow,» says Amanda Gallinat, a second - year graduate student and third author of the paper.

«Our current observations show that plants in Concord today are leafing out earlier than in Thoreau's time in response to warm temperatures,» she said.

«Previous studies have shown a correlation between temperature and insect damage diversity in the fossil record, possibly caused by evolutionary radiations or range shifts in response to a warmer climate,» said Donovan.

«In general, the lower the temperature, it seems the lower the innate immune response to viruses,» noted Iwasaki.

«Our results highlight the importance of the interactive effects of vegetation type, temperature and moisture in determining of the response of soil decomposition to climate change,» says lead author Julia Bradley - Cook, who conducted the study as part of her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth and who is now a Congressional Science Fellow.

The discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, relies on a phenomenon called colossal magnetoresistance — a large drop in a material's electrical resistance in response to an applied magnetic field — that has previously been seen only at very low temperatures.

To investigate the relationship between temperature and immune response, Iwasaki and an interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers spearheaded by Ellen Foxman, a postdoctoral fellow in Iwasaki's lab, examined the cells taken from the airways of mice.

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They improved the models» handling of the relevant processes, such as cloud formation in response to sea surface temperatures, and let them run.

The process of coral bleaching in the dark at elevated temperatures — and perhaps also in response to other stress conditions — could be a potential advantage to corals.

This gives it high structural flexibility in response to changing temperature or pressure, which is the origin of its unique behavior.

«Our analysis confirmed that the Planck Response plays a dominant role in restoring global temperature stability, but to our surprise we found that it tends to be overwhelmed locally by heat - trapping positive energy feedbacks related to changes in clouds, water vapor, and snow and ice,» Brown said.

Using transgenic fruit flies, he and his colleagues in the Curtsinger lab demonstrated that the production of a protein called hsp70 in response to brief heat stress extends the insects» subsequent life span at normal temperatures (see «Survivor!»).

Instead, the new system uses molecular switches that change shape in response to light; when integrated into the PCM, the phase - change temperature of the hybrid material can be adjusted with light, allowing the thermal energy of the phase change to be maintained even well below the melting point of the original material.

Its minimum summertime extent, which occurs at the end of the melt season, has been decreasing since the late 1970s in response to warming temperatures.