Because of methane's greater greenhouse potency, the warming potential of the emissions
measured during the second period greatly exceeded the potential cooling produced by the uptake of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.
Not exact matches
The EMG was
measured for a 1 -
second period between the 2 superimposed doublets, to allow generation of peak forces
during the MVC (Figure 3).
During the
second study
period, the team also
measured emissions of methane in order to calculate its influence on the wetlands» radiation energy balance.
Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short
period of a few days
during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record ice mass loss was being observed and
measured.