Sentences with phrase «measures roughness»

The original teeth are too large to transport to the instrument that measures roughness.

The improved predictions are largely due to one particular instrument aboard ERS - 1, the microwave scatterometer, which deduces the speed of the wind at sea level by measuring the roughness of the sea's surface.

The surfaces have scratches that were created as the dinosaur fed on vegetation 67 million years ago, and measuring the roughness can reveal what kind of food they ate.

Not exact matches

John Morse with the USDA - ARS in Pullman, WA is in the background measuring surface roughness.

The researchers measured the shapes and sizes of the microscopic grooves that give the polyethylene its roughness and analyzed how these variables affect ski speed at different snow temperatures.

Many climatically - relevant variables that are difficult to measure at global scale (e.g. surface roughness) can be inferred in part from vegetation and land - surface types.

Tested on airborne missions this spring, DopplerScatt is a cousin of QuickSCAT and RapidScat, which used a scatterometer to measure the «roughness» of the ocean surface and determine the direction and intensity of wind.