Sentences with phrase «in volcanic systems»

Fluid flow controls heat transfer in volcanic systems, which can be harnessed for geothermal energy production.

«Most big sequences of earthquakes that we see are either a main shock and a lot of aftershocks or it might be right at the middle of a volcano in a volcanic system or geothermal system.

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That includes visits to World Record hot spots in the U.S. such as the World's Tallest Outdoor Rock - Climbing Wall in Reno, Nevada; Bowling Green, Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, which is home to the world's longest known cave system; the World's Largest Living Tree — a giant sequoia named General Sherman — in California's Sequoia National Park; and the volcanic - formed Crater Lake in Oregon, which at 1,943 feet is America's deepest lake.

The current unrest is consistent with a reactivation of the magmatic system after 412 years and, hence, with an increase in the threat from volcanic activity to the caldera's population of almost 360,000 people, as well as to the three million residents of Naples immediately outside its eastern margin.

Today, volcanoes rarely make the news in the United States, even though the western half of the country is dotted with volcanic systems that could unleash eruptions many times more powerful than the Mount St. Helens disaster.

Pockmarked with sulphurous pits, bathed in intense radiation and shaken by constant volcanic eruptions, Io is the fiery hell of the solar system

NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core - mantle boundary, which lies only 400 km below the planets surface and making it unique in the solar system.

The results of these studies have been a major contribution to our understanding of volcanic activity across the solar system, says Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

In addition to being able to measure the pH value more accurately using the new method, the CFA system can also distinguish whether the emissions come from volcanic eruptions, large forest fires or industry.

This in turn helps scientists understand the processes by which Earth's tectonic plates are built, as well as the deep plumbing of volcanic systems.

In that sense, the researchers say, the moon is unique: Its craters are constantly erased by the solar system's most relentless volcanic activity — 25 times more frequent than that seen on Earth — which adds an estimated 1 centimeter of fresh material to Io's surface each year.

Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.

Now, graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to detect volcanic activity in the atmospheres of exoplanets, or those outside our solar system, when they transit, or pass in front of their host stars.

«As far as we know, this is the most acidic lake and groundwater system ever found outside of a volcanic area,» she says, adding that there's no evidence of ancient volcanism in the U.S. Midwest.

Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, located under the ice cap of the Vatnajokull glacier in the southwest of Iceland.

This illustration shows Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system, reconstituting its atmosphere with volcanic plumes.

In fact, Lost City is unlike any other hydrothermal system because it appears to be unconnected to volcanic activity.

This was caused by a massive volcanic structure, the Tharsis volcanic dome [1], which is the largest in the Solar System.

In contrast, the meteorite analyzed by Lapen's research team was formed 2.4 billion years ago and suggests that it was ejected from one of the longest - lived volcanic centers in the solar systeIn contrast, the meteorite analyzed by Lapen's research team was formed 2.4 billion years ago and suggests that it was ejected from one of the longest - lived volcanic centers in the solar systein the solar system.

«For the first time, we have imaged the continuous volcanic plumbing system under Yellowstone,» says first author Hsin - Hua Huang, also a postdoctoral researcher in geology and geophysics.

An infrared system that detects and informs about volcanic ash in the atmosphere has been tested on an Airbus A340.

Io is the most active volcanic world in our solar system.

This project will enable the study processes of slow deformation, a signature of the accumulation of energy in active geologic systems that can be released during major earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

The long timescales (even ignoring the «Earth system» responses like ice sheets and vegetation) are not easy to get at in the instrumental record or by studying «abrupt forcing» events like volcanic eruptions.

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Specifically, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems: How the earth's systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes — glaciers, volcanic activity and fault block mouSystems: How the earth's systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes — glaciers, volcanic activity and fault block mousystems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes — glaciers, volcanic activity and fault block mountains.

Another interesting feature of the Froyo is its new speech recognition system that makes it possible for the device to comprehend complex phrases like» pictures of the volcanic activity in Iceland spewing ash throughout Europe» or «pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset» followed by instant search against these terms.

According to the Volcanic Observatory Notice for Aviation (VONA) system, winds carried the ash in an eastern and southeastern direction.

The unequalled quality of the Geomunoreum lava tube system and the exhibition of diverse and accessible volcanic features in the other two components demonstrate a distinctive and important contribution to the understanding of global volcanism.

There may be reason to strongly suspect that in any sufficiently complicated dynamical system model (such as climate) with stochastic parameters (e.g., exactly when and where a lightning strike starts a major wildfire or a major submarine earthquake perturbs ocean circulation in a region or a major volcanic eruption introduces stratospheric aerosols), it is almost certain that any given run of the model will have periods of significant deviation from the mean of multiple runs.

The computer models deal with the actual energy and matter flows within, and in and out of the system, and do not account for random geological or cosmological events, such as volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts, solar disturbances, etc..

The climate system evolves in time under the influence of its own internal dynamics and because of external forcings such as volcanic eruptions, solar variations and human - induced forcings such as the changing composition of the atmosphere and land - use change.»

«Ongoing volcanic heat production may have implications for contemporary ice dynamics in this glacial system.»

That is because there is some internal variability in temperature, because volcanic temperature responses are not commensurate with instaneous volcanic forcings due to thermal inertia, and because earlier forcings will have more fully worked through the system than will have later forcings.

For instance, the warming that began in the early 20th century (1925 - 1944) is consistent with natural variability of the climate system (including a generalized lack of significant volcanic activity, which has a cooling effect), solar forcing, and initial forcing from greenhouse gases.

The only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the above is that CO2, volcanic outbreaks and El Nino events have little or no effect on the background temperature trends in stratosphere and troposphere because of the ability of the Earth system to change the height of the tropopause and the size and location of the permanent climate zones to change the speed of energy flow through the Earth system and thereby negate any such effects.

This is the portion of temperature change that is imposed on the ocean - atmosphere - land system from the outside and it includes contributions from anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gasses, aerosols, and land - use change as well as changes in solar radiation and volcanic aerosols.

Our analyses suggest, rather, that volcanic forcing drives the coupled ocean - atmosphere system more subtly towards a state in which multi-year El Niño - like conditions are favoured, followed by a weaker rebound into a La Niña - like state.»

He writes: I say this is a result of the action of climate phenomena that oppose the cooling... if my theory were correct, we should see a volcanic signal in some other part of the climate system involved in governing the temperature... I should see an increase in the heat contained in the Pacific Ocean after the eruptions Thing is, El Ninos release heat from the ocean, they don't store heat.

Our analyses suggest, rather, that volcanic forcing drives the coupled ocean - atmosphere system more subtly towards a state in which multi-year El Nin˜o - like conditions are favoured, followed by a weaker rebound into a La Nin˜a - like state.

The models currently assume a generally static global energy budget with relatively little internal system variability so that measurable changes in the various input and output components can only occur from external forcing agents such as changes in the CO2 content of the air caused by human emissions or perhaps temporary after effects from volcanic eruptions, meteorite strikes or significant changes in solar power output.

The eruption in 1783 - 1784 from the fissures of Laki, part of the same volcanic system as Katla, cooled the temperatures in the northern hemisphere by 3º C.

In recent years there has been an increase in smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic systeIn recent years there has been an increase in smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic systein smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic system.

In the absence of large negative volcanic forcing on the climate system (which can not presently be forecast), it is predicted that the global mean temperature for the decade 2000 — 09 will lie above the 1970 — 99 normal with a probability of 0.94.

Current computer models can faithfully simulate many of the important aspects of the global climate system, such as changes in global average temperature over many decades; the march of the seasons on large spatial scales; and how the climate responds to large - scale forcing, like a large volcanic eruption.

I consider it as very likely that the 20 year trends will still be statistically significant also in three, five or ten years from now, unless there is some strong volcanic explosion that blows a lot of reflecting aerosols in the stratosphere causing a temporary temperature dip, or some other cause the effect of which is explainable within the framework of current knowledge about the climate system, but as event not really predictable.

In the text: «These simulations suggest that solar and volcanic forcing (Fan et al., 2009; Liu et al., 2009a; Man et al., 2012) may exert only weak regional influences on monsoon systems.»

Many, many volcanic, fault and slope systems encompassed in its arc will feel the added weight of sea level rise caused by human warming.

Instead, natural variations in the climate system and other external forcing factors (such as volcanic eruptions) will likely cause the rate of Arctic sea ice change to vary considerably from decade to decade, and perhaps even temporarily switch from negative (sea ice loss) to positive (sea ice growth).

Stenchikov et al. (2006) showed that models have difficulty in capturing the regional response of the climate system (ao) to Volcanic singularities specifically the temperature regime in eurasia in the Giss model, or in retrodiction ie the Krakatoa problem why was it so warm, thus there is no uniqueness theorem for volcanics.