Sentences with phrase «made field measurements»

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

Not exact matches

The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one of a very few able to make such sensitive measurements of electric fields in living tissue.

Then we're comparing this to field measurements that we can make in the Arctic, to see if the environment seems to be doing the same things as the permafrost in the lab.

We'll use our onboard instruments to provide the critical field context that future scientists would need to understand the measurements made back on Earth.»

«An atom interferometer uses the quantum «wave - like» nature of atoms in order to make very precise measurements of accelerations, rotations, and gravitational fields»

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

These include instruments that make measurements of temperatures, magnetic fields, and electrical conductivity of the comet surface.

Two of them will be part of the GRAIL mission — the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — now starting to make extremely precise measurements of the lunar gravitational field.

The measurements in the recent publication are made with two wide - field cameras to search for fluctuations in two wavelengths of near infrared light.

«The ultimate goal of this area of science is for growers to count the number of weeds or make a measurement in their field three weeks into the season.

The experiment makes precise measurements of the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and of the particles» time of flight, and uses this information to determine the mass - to - charge ratios for the nuclei and antinuclei.

Measurements made before and after the quake show subtle changes in the local gravity field, the European Space Agency said last week.

The artificial intelligence system's ability to set itself up quickly every morning and compensate for any overnight fluctuations would make this fragile technology much more useful for field measurements, said co-lead researcher Dr Michael Hush from UNSW ADFA.

He made emus run across a smooth, soft field at his local zoo, and took measurements and casts of the prints they left behind, examining everything from the length of the print to individual toe components and angles.

Examples include making sure that the spacecraft has no stray magnetic fields that are large enough to keep us from accurately measuring the Martian and interplanetary fields, and making sure that the pointing of the mass spectrometer is sufficiently precise and accurate that the molecules will stream straight in through the inlet port when we're making measurements.

PNNL researchers will use it to make measurements and gain understanding never before possible in fields such as synthesis of materials and biomedical studies.

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB).

Also, atmospheric measurements of the amounts of methane released by permafrost (a top - down approach) are far less than estimates of these amounts made using point - based field assessments and ecosystem modeling (bottom - up approaches).

Measurements of the strength of the magnetic field along different directions in the lower solar atmosphere are now being made with the Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) instrument of the Synoptic Optical Long - term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) synoptic facility of NSO.

We make use of measurements of dEBs in the c... ▽ More The open clusters in the Kepler and CoRoT fields potentially provide tight constraints for tests of stellar models and observational methods because they allow a combination of complementary methods.

To determine which process is at work, we need to go still farther back in time — to more distant galaxies — and make similar measurements of their magnetic fields,» she added.

These probes orbited the Sun at a distance similar to that of the Earth's orbit, and made the first detailed measurements of the solar wind and the solar magnetic field.

Keep in mind that the only way to make such measurements is to be at the fields and facilities where gas is flowing.

Co-author, WHRC senior scientist, Scott Goetz, says, «Coupling the LiDAR and field measurements is what makes this study and our map so unique, and powerful.

To conduct the research, a team of scientists led by John Fasullo of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, combined data from three sources: NASA's GRACE satellites, which make detailed measurements of Earth's gravitational field, enabling scientists to monitor changes in the mass of continents; the Argo global array of 3,000 free - drifting floats, which measure the temperature and salinity of the upper layers of the oceans; and satellite - based altimeters that are continuously calibrated against a network of tide gauges.

You'll note my original comment stated chemistry was largely phenomenology «other than quantum chemistry calculations» - maybe quantum chemistry is more prevalent now than it was back when I worked in the field, but I don't believe even now it's what spectroscopists do most of the time - they make measurements and parametrize simple models, they don't work all the time from basic physical principles.

The information derives in part from paleoclimate data, the record of how climate changed in the past, as well as from measurements being made now by satellites and in the field.

Cloud physics is quite complex, so we need to make use of a number of empirical relationships that are established from field or laboratory measurements.

Placing these ecoclimate consequences in a regional context also makes it possible to more directly compare local impacts with field measurements of vegetation change.

The findings were based on ground and air measurements made during the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014 / 15) field campaign conducted by the ARM Climate Research Facility.

In this paper we present results from various field experiments demonstrating the contribution that the multi-angle multi-spectral photopolarimetric remote sensing measurements of the NASA Glory mission will make to the determination of the direct and indirect radiative effects of aerosols.

GRACE precisely measures the distance between the two spacecraft in order to make detailed measurements of the Earth's gravitational field.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

The largest measurement related mistake I ever personally observed, on a residential property, was made by a very experienced female (Broker of Record) wherein the «Main Living Area» (MLA) field was indicated as being just over 700 square feet less, than what was actually the case.