Sentences with phrase «more field measurements»

It is important to verify the results with more field measurements, he says.

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Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

When Gubbins aligned his historical data with current measurements from more than 200 magnetic observatories scattered across the globe, he came to a clear, if unsettling, conclusion: In the last 140 years, the magnetic field has been fading at an accelerating rate.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

She was even more surprised by new measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field, which is the strongest in the solar system.

This new table - top X-ray source will allow more accurate measurements in many fields of research.

More surprises came from preliminary measurements of Jupiter's gravitational field (that is, the strength and direction of the planet's gravity at different points in space).

INRA «is very advanced and flexible, and is recognized as the leader in its field in Europe,» Rabbinge told reporters at the AERES briefing The committee's recommendations include reorganizing INRA's science council, increasing its international visibility, streamlining the agency's organizational structure, and developing more detailed socio - economic measurements of the impact of INRA's work.

Krautstrunk: Maybe the manpower needed illustrates how important this field is: One can say that for more than 25 years a staff of about 10 has worked continuously to further develop the measurement systems which are permanently installed onboard.

Conductive metallic components can significantly alter the field being measured; an effect that becomes even more pronounced if the device also has to be grounded to provide a reference point for the measurement.»

And that's why a group of scientists set out to better estimate how much methane is escaping in the U.S. To do that, they surveyed more than 200 sets of field measurements and scientific papers from the past 20 years to learn whether increasing use of natural gas could prove a climate boon or bane.

«This model allows us to do just that and lets us say that, for example, this expert is worth collecting 35 data points from samples in the field, which is a much more objective measurement.»

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

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.

Bolton says that data, coupled with measurements of the planet's gravity field, differing from projections points toward a planet whose interior has more complexity and motion than anyone would have expected.

As our measurements become more and more precise in this field, we are finding that most of our uncertainty comes from our lack of understanding of the stars that the planets orbit.

Key features of this innovative technology are that it (1) learns more and more about the stability of the patient's glaucoma with every measurement of eye pressure or visual field, (2) can be personalized to identify the optimal frequency of testing for each individual patient, and (3) would suggest an eye pressure level specific for that particular patient that the care provider would use in the process of recommending treatment.

Combining all of the measurements across the entire field of view allowed the team a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

Taking models of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and applying a correction for the HUDF point spread function we generate lensed simulations of deep, opti... ▽ More We present a simulation analysis of weak gravitational lensing flexion and shear measurement using shapelet decomposition, and identify differences between flexion and shear measurement noise in deep survey data.

After more than 15 years dealing with measurements and 3D hydrodynamical modelling, he joined in 2008 the field of underwater sound.

The dynamics of solar processes can be captured on shorter time scales, and the improved light - gathering capacity of the new telescopes allows us to extract more information from spectral lines with higher fidelity and accuracy, especially with respect to magnetic field measurements.

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.

Over the last ten years, there has, however, been a big increase in field measurements that provide more constraints on both the ice history and present - day bedrock uplift, particularly in West Antarctica.

These risks were further evaluated through field measurements of insulated and un-insulated mock - up walls, and simulated further under more severe climate conditions.

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.

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

Judging by satellite and field measurements they concluded the burning peat soils released more carbon than the burning vegetation — about 4 to 5 times as much.

This month's Outlook reports also include a more detailed discussion of sea ice thickness information provided from field measurements and model results.

The pipe fitting course features hands - on training in pipe measurements and runs, isometric drawing readings, field fabrication and more.