«ECOSTRESS takes advantage of the space station's orbit to obtain
measurements at different times of day, allowing us to see how plants respond to water stress throughout the day.»
Peter Thorne, a leading expert on temperature data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said the three main data sets by the NOAA, NASA and Britain's Hadley Centre adjust for the heat island effect, as well as for
measurements at different times of day.
Not exact matches
Co-Senior author, Dr Florence Raynaud, a group leader
at The Institute
of Cancer Research, London, said: «The study made accurate
measurements of a large number
of metabolites as they varied by
time of day and under
different sleep patterns.
at MASS MoCA, «Finch's efforts toward accuracy — the precise
measurements he takes under
different conditions and
at different times of day — resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject.
With these
measurements, the role
of solar radiation and wind speed could be treated as separate entities, so that when these two phenomena occur
at different times of day — as they do over the Dead Sea, which is windy and dark
at night but calm and sunny during the
day — it is possible to determine their individual impacts on evaporation.