Sentences with phrase «less ground surface»

But, starting in the 1970s, less and less ground surface temperature data was used for plots such as those by NOAA and NASA.

Not exact matches

Because of this, a venture capitalist maintains a more surface level and less emotional connection to the business, which can sometimes bring a more grounded point of view at critical moments.»

Researchers previously used MRO's Shallow Radar (SHARAD) to map extensive underground water - ice sheets in middle latitudes of Mars and estimate that the top of the ice is less than about 10 yards beneath the ground surface.

Materials known to exist at Pluto's surface from ground - based spectroscopic observations include highly volatile cryogenic ices of N2 and CO, along with somewhat less volatile CH4 ice, as well as H2O and C2H6 ices and more complex tholins that are inert at Pluto surface temperatures.

There are some various proposed mechanisms to explain this that involve the surface energy balance (e.g., less coupling between the ground temperature and lower air temperature over land because of less potential for evaporation), and also lapse rate differences over ocean and land (see Joshi et al 2008, Climate Dynamics), as well as vegetation or cloud changes.

Stay flat on the ground or lift your legs and chest up to make it easier (less surface to provide friction resistance).

And replace old sponges, a breeding ground for bacteria, with new ones that have smooth surfaces (making them less likely to harbor food and bacteria); keep them germ - free by tossing them in the dishwasher every time you run it.

I continue to think that there is more in common ground in what various leaders in the field are saying and less difference than might be apparent on the surface.

There's no doubt that the GT2 loses ground to the 599 in those entry phases - it just doesn't have the same mechanical purchase on the surface — and, of course, its less linear power delivery makes holding a stable throttle position through the turn more difficult, but when you release the steering angle and squeeze the right pedal to the floor, the combination of twin turbochargers and rear - engine traction are imperious.

The deeper and wider the V - tread channels, the greater this pumping action, but a large - grooved V - tread is also going to have less torque transfer to the ground and reduced braking traction since the grooves takes away contact surface of the tire to the ground.

Put your driving skills to the ultimate test with these thrillingly - fast, futuristic - looking «Elite» vehicles that use powerful turbines to hover above the ground making them less affected by the tracks» surface.

With adequate training they would be aware of the science that all of the radiant heat from the earthâ $ ™ s surface that is going to be absorbed by greenhouse gases gets absorbed close to the ground (half within less than 24 meters) and is carried up by convection currents to where it ultimately gets radiated to space.

- Now the ground or skin temperature generally varies more in day to night cycle than air temperature, but this surface temperature has far less heat capacity than the atmosphere - it's couple inches of matter.

Now the ground or skin temperature generally varies more in day to night cycle than air temperature, but this surface temperature has far less heat capacity than the atmosphere - it's couple inches of matter.

We argue that integrated column measurements of the urban dome of CO2 from the ground and / or space are less sensitive than surface point measurements to the redistribution of emitted CO2 by small - scale processes and thus may allow for more precise trend detection of emissions from urban regions.

Latent heat of vaporization at the surface, especially over the oceans, carries a tremendous and not easily quantifiable amount of energy straight through the CO2 like it wasn't there and releases it much higher up where the path out the door to space has much less resistance compared to ground level.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

We know what the current state of the atmosphere is more or less, from piecing together a series of surface and upper air observations that may come from ground - based weather stations, balloons, aircraft, and satellites.

to be used for drinking water Less evaporation from the storage reservoir Little loss of land No damage due to dam failure Pollutants such as mosquitoes and snails can not exist in the reservoirs Siltation does not create any problems Less vulnerable / below the ground surface in a shallow soil toward the impervious crystalline sub soil.

Due to the much higher heat capacity of soil relative to air and the thermal insulation provided by vegetation and surface soil layers, seasonal changes in soil temperature deep in the ground are much less than and lag significantly behind seasonal changes in overlying air temperature.

Additionally, the willows extract a lot of water from the ground so there's less surface recharge and less snowmelt going into the ground.

However it should be noted that satellite - based estimates of temperature are a less appropriate measure of land surface temperature than those derived from ground - based stations.

Further there is an interaction between variation in cloud pattern and ground albedo, ie., it makes a difference whether the cloud window is open over surface areas which are more or less reflective.

Since full melt of all grounded ice is equal to over 70 metres of sea level rise, then it follows that there is the equivalent volume of 70 metres of ocean surface that is currently existing as ice at less than zero C.

Snow and ice reflect more sunlight than bare ground, meaning less solar radiation is absorbed by the surface.

The deficiencies noted include the result in the semi-gray model of a surface air temperature less than the ground temperature.

One of the easiest ways to make less impact is to move your car to your lawn or gravel surface where all that contaminated runoff can be absorbed into the ground and filtered naturally.