Sentences with phrase «main reservoir»

Conversely, while the number of comets known today totals just a few thousand, they originate in two main reservoirs containing up to a trillion such objects, namely the Kuiper Belt in the ecliptic beyond Neptune and the Oort Cloud, uniformly distributed around the solar system at large distances, perhaps stretching halfway to our nearest stellar neighbours.

The water utility serving New York City has identified heavy precipitation events as one of its major climate - change - related concerns because such events can raise turbidity levels in some of the city's main reservoirs up to 100 times the legal limit for source quality at the utility's intake, requiring substantial additional treatment and monitoring costs (Miller and Yates, 2006).

The disease enters herds through the shipping of undiagnosed cattle, and from badgers, which are the main reservoir of the disease in wildlife.

Under that plan, Powell's sister, Lake Mead, would serve as the main reservoir.

(ii) Observations of HD rotational lines (out to $ \ sim $ 10 Mpc) and fine structure lines such as [CII] 158 $ \ mu $ m (out to $ \ sim $ 100 Mpc) will clarify the main reservoirs of interstellar matter in galaxies, including phases where CO does not emit.

Also, the link between more precipitation and El Niño really only holds for Southern California, while it is the northern half of the state where the main reservoirs, supplied by mountain snowpack, are situated.

I wondering if the ABS on my car has a secondary reservoir that might have gotten air in it as the main reservoir is full and brakes operate normally on any given non-ABS day.

Dogs and cats have not been the main reservoir of rabies in the US since the early 1950s.

In Asia, Africa, and Latin America the main reservoir is not wildlife, but stray, free - roaming dogs.

Dogs are believed to be the main reservoir host for Bartonella vinsonii subspecies berkhoffii.

Cats are believed to be the main reservoir host for Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae.

Ehrlichiosis is transmitted to dogs through the bite of infected ticks; the brown dog tick is the main reservoir of the organism in nature.

In the image acquired on May 1, 2004, the reservoir's northwestern branch is isolated from the main reservoir; the shallow water upstream could not crest raised areas in the lakebed.

The California drought isn't over everywhere: Residents and visitors to Catalina Island have to rely mostly on desalination and bottled water after the island's main reservoir has become depleted because of severe drought conditions.

This does happen in practice with ice and the oceans being the main reservoirs.

Homes that were flooded from water released from the city's two main reservoirs will be under water for at least a month, Burrus said.