Sentences with phrase «large volumes of»

And it's also important to remember that, while sea ice is increasing in Antarctica, glaciers and ice shelves are all melting rapidly, producing large volumes of fresh water.

The typical ground temperatures of -70 °C (or colder) in the gully regions is fatal to claims that large volumes of liquid water suddenly «seeped» from several hundred meters below Mars» surface.

Plastic trash in the Arctic could harm wildlife and may hint that large volumes of human rubbish are collecting there, says Melanie Bergmann.

To many people the JIF feels like a convenient and ready - made tool for gauging research performance in hiring, promotion or funding decisions, particularly at triage stages where there are large volumes of applicants and applications.

Over geologic time, large volumes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere by volcanoes.

Kitagawa described how porous coordination polymers (PCPs) / metal - organic frameworks (MOFs) have been found to be able to store large volumes of gases, which has in turn sparked studies around the world on the mass storage of carbon dioxide and methane.

New images taken by the ESA's Mars Express orbiter have provided a fresh look at a region believed to be hiding large volumes of water ice just beneath the surface.

Of course, it is also possible that large volumes of mantle - derived primary basaltic magma are produced in an extensional tectonic setting independent of a mantle plume, which some workers ascribed to plume - induced rifting of the lithosphere (e.g. Samom et al. 2017).

Various astronomers have speculated that large volumes of interstellar gas collect and collapse into supermassive black holes at the centres of quasars and galaxies.

«Similar to how non-invasive medical imaging has reduced the need for invasive, exploratory surgeries, geophysical monitoring techniques, such as SSIP, allow us to monitor large volumes of aquifer sediments without having to drill groundwater wells, which saves money and disturbs less land,» said project lead Dr. Kenneth Williams, LBNL.

If the damage is severe enough, they say the loss of rainforest could cause the release of large volumes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and could also disrupt plant and animal communities in one of the world's most biodiversity - rich regions, as outlined in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This relatively sudden rise of normal sea level occurs when storm winds and tides combine to transport large volumes of water to coastal areas.

Moreover, there are «very real and specific dangers of nuclear energy,» including the reactor's «potential for massive destruction in an immediate danger,» plants are potential terrorist targets, plants provide «the means and excuse» to build nuclear bombs, and they create wastes that persist for thousands of years, and uranium mining causes lung disease and large volumes of wastes.

The most common current treatment, reverse osmosis, has a very high carbon footprint and generates large volumes of reject water containing radioactivity that requires further treatment.

The majority of projects in SFB 944 make use of state - of - the - art multimodal imaging techniques, leading to the generation of large volumes of raw and processed experimental data.

The lava erupted explosively in shallow waters producing large volumes of a glassy pyroclastic rock called hyaloclastite.

Jean - Baptiste Michel is a mathematician and engineer who's interested in analyzing large volumes of quantitative data to better understand our world.

Ni also reported that with recent upgrades, their cells can transform CO2 to CO at double the rate of other CO2 - splitting electrolyzers of a comparable size, which could help them process large volumes of CO2 when scaled up.

It also produces large volumes of spent nuclear fuel that must be disposed of in a safe fashion.

In addition, scientists say their discovery may enable large volumes of helium gas to be recovered for sale.

Tony Coad, the managing director of NDL International of London, which collects and processes large volumes of consumer data, says that Britain has the best self - regulated data processing industry in Europe.

Computers have gotten very good at analyzing large volumes of data and searching for certain structures, such as faces in images.

This means that in certain geological regions, groundwater transports large volumes of helium into natural gas fields, where trapping potential is greatest.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

Even if the cyanobacteria can create large volumes of ethylene, their success will depend on whether the product can become cost - competitive.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

First, it requires access to large volumes of seawater, which can be logistically challenging for research labs that are not located near the coast.

In addition to using FAU's Cloud computing system, FAU will leverage LexisNexis HPCC Systems ®, the open - source, enterprise - proven platform for big data analysis and processing for large volumes of data in 24/7 environments.

To do this, large volumes of customer data are collected and evaluated by a neural network.

Consequently, large volumes of clinical samples typically required to obtain accurate measurements, but few conventional detection systems can handle this directly without proper sample preparation and volume reduction.

Emergent AI takes this a step further, with progress arising from machines that learn automatically by assimilating large volumes of information.

Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus, an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi

It's based on a counterintuitive premise: that fishermen can protect rainforest, nourish the local economy, and promote animal welfare by taking large volumes of wild fish out of their natural habitats to ship them thousands of miles away.

Perhaps the most tangible change to intelligence work addressed in Obama's speech is the end of the Section 215 program — which enables the government to collect large volumes of metadata, including phone numbers as well as the time and duration of calls.

NERSC also stores large volumes of LUX data — measured in trillions of bytes, or terabytes — and Berkeley Lab has a growing role in the LUX collaboration.

Around 6 million years ago, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet expanded, stabilized and ceased producing large volumes of meltwater.

Fracking involves injecting large volumes of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground with explosive force that fractures the rock and helps it release trapped hydrocarbons.

«It is revolutionary for the problem of mosaicking large volumes of imagery,» says computer scientist Dalton Rosario of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland, who was not involved with the study.

And the third was large volumes of cold fresh water from melting snow entering Mobile Bay — an inlet in the Gulf of Mexico — in 2011.

The jutting midface of Neandertals seems to have evolved to help get large volumes of air into an active body that needed lots of oxygen.

Marchi's team proposes a novel, more efficient mechanism As the planet was pummeled by primordial asteroids — some larger than 100 kilometers in diameter — impacts would melt large volumes of rock, creating temporary lakes of lava.

Urban water consumption also generates large volumes of wastewater.

But we simply don't eat enough french fries to make large volumes of fuel this way.

Lars Angenent, Humboldt Professor for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tübingen, studies how these large volumes of wastewater can be turned into valuable products.

These filters are «a key component of the system, and especially useful when we see large volumes of data around highly visible outbreaks,» Freifeld says.

Countries with large volumes of travellers arriving from Zika virus - affected areas of the Americas and large populations at risk include India (67422 travellers arriving per year; 1.2 billion residents in potential Zika transmission areas), China (238415 travellers; 242 million residents), Indonesia (13865 travellers; 197 million residents), the Philippines (35635 travellers; 70 million residents), and Thailand (29241 travellers; 59 million residents).

Such investigations required both knowledge of the venom's clinical effects and large volumes of venom, so until now only large species, like snakes, with easily extracted venoms have been studied in any depth.

Labuza points to one study that reported that large volumes of beer are beneficial because of antioxidants in the hops.

These processes are typical in a steep landscape where rock avalanches and landslides supply large volumes of boulders and material.

Today, solar - powered steam generation involves vast fields of mirrors or lenses that concentrate incoming sunlight, heating large volumes of liquid to high enough temperatures to produce steam.