Sentences with phrase «much higher surface»

Without the cooling, the effect of evaporation on the greenhouse effect would lead to a much higher surface temperature of 67 °C (153 °F), and a warmer planet.»

How much higher the surface temperature is at that point provides climate sensitivity, but I don't see how the ocean uptake and the forcing alone can provide that.

First, a single rod heater must run at a much higher surface temperature than a large flat radiant heater to produce sufficient infrared heat.

Not exact matches

While on the surface it does the industry good to have high marks attached to their games, in the long run it doesn't do much to broaden their acceptance in the mainstream.

Tablet computers are in high demand — from Apple's popular iPad and much - rumored iPad mini, to Google's smaller but powerful Nexus 7 and Microsoft's forthcoming Surface.

The high - low fallacy makes certain investments appear much more attractive on the surface.

Prior results from the Refractory Zone suggest it hosts a much higher - grade, near - surface deposit of flake graphite.

This much truth lies on the surface of the legend: saviorhood, which is the highest form of character, is always so associated with being above the average that it never yet has been able to avoid sacrifice.

Having handles that are high enough so you don't have to slouch when pushing the stroller makes it more comfortable for taller parents and much easier to maneuver on paved surfaces.

Like the 12 mile limit, 100 km was also much higher than surface to air missiles of that day could operate, so this was a practical limit as well.

The relatively high water content of NWA 7034, which could be as much as 0.6 % by weight, suggests that «crustal or surface processes involving water may have lasted» well beyond the 4 - billion - year mark, Agee adds.

«The most basic change was from very limited phosphorus availability to much higher phosphorus availability in surface waters of the ocean,» Reinhard said.

For both experiments, the researchers used much higher concentrations of microbes than those typically found on hospital surfaces, Koranteng said.

Those without the surface molecule developed much more severe lesions, and higher numbers of them.

If the surfaces were polished to be flatter so that twice as much area was in contact, the friction would then be twice as high.

Ash continued to fall throughout the evening; despite the captain's efforts to cover the deck with awnings, the particles piled as much as a foot high on many surfaces.

On arid Mars, where most of the surface is desert - like and the dust content is much higher, the impact is even larger.

Long - term data from a wind farm at San Gorgonio, California, confirmed his earlier model predictions: surface temperatures behind the wind turbines were higher than in front during the night, but as much as 4 °C lower by day.

In comparison, the surface lasers that are widely used in data communications and high - precision sensing, called VCSELs (vertical - cavity surface - emitting lasers), need much larger (100 times) arrays — and thus more power — to achieve lasing.

High power achieves a target temperature on the surface of the metal device quickly, before there is much time for heat to accumulate in surrounding tissues.

«It's a guess how much of the planet's surface was land, but it could be as high as two - thirds of the area of today's continents,» says Johnson, who leads the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

In a paper published in EPJ E, the authors found that under the same solid fraction, friction on surfaces with a structure made up of micro-holes is much higher than that on surfaces patterned with an array of pillars.

By contrast, magnesium is much more abundant than lithium, has a higher melting point, forms smooth surfaces when recharging, and has the potential to deliver more than a five-fold increase in energy density if an appropriate cathode can be identified.»

In our case, we will be doing a lot of engineering work over the summer to install an active surface system, which will allow us to come back in the autumn with a telescope that has much higher performance.

The research team found the evidence confirming the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet at an altitude of 6,200 feet, about 400 miles from the South Pole at the edge of what's called the polar plateau, a flat, high surface of the ice sheet covering much of East Antarctica.

However, since high - resolution digital screens are refreshed at a much higher rate, reports are increasingly surfacing of pooches who become very interested in newer technology HDTVs when a nature show contains images of animals moving.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to reduce the coercivity of nickel ferrite (NFO) thin films by as much as 80 percent by patterning the surface of the material, opening the door to more energy efficient high - frequency electronics, such as sensors, microwave devices and antennas.

«Our data suggests that they do attach [to one another] but then have a much higher probability of detaching before they start growing and reproducing at the surface.

Beneath its thick atmosphere, the surface of Venus is much hotter and at a higher pressure than that of our planet, making its land surface hard to interpret.

A thermal pulse leads to material being blown off the surface of the star at a much higher rate, resulting in the formation of a large shell of dust and gas around the star.

The data from Keck Observatory shows that peroxide is widespread across much of the surface of Europa, and the highest concentrations are reached in regions where Europa's ice is nearly pure water with very little sulfur contamination.

But as the protosun (the Sun in its formative stages) contracted, temperatures near Mercury could have been between 2,500 and 3,500 K, and possibly even as high as 10,000 K. Much of Mercury's surface rock could have vaporized at such temperatures, forming an atmosphere of «rock vapor, which could have been carried away by the solar wind.

al, (June, 2005): [During the Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), sea surface temperature (SST) rose by 5 Deg C in the tropics and as much as 9 Deg C at high latitudes, whereas bottom - waters temperatures increased 4 to 5 C.

Some scientists think the combination of longer dry seasons, higher surface temperatures and more fragmented forests caused by deforestation could eventually convert much of southern Amazonia from rainforest to savanna.

The odd man out in the analysis is the surface temperature trend which is much higher than the trends derived by other techniques.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Record high temperatures over land surfaces were measured across Far East Russia, Alaska, far western Canada, a swath of the eastern United States, much of Central America and northern South America, southern Chile, much of eastern and western Africa, north central Siberia, parts of south Asia, much of southeast Asia island nations and Papua New Guinea, and parts of Australia, especially along the northern and eastern coasts.

And unlike the New Horizons flyby, which didn't spend enough time loitering to even map both of Pluto's hemispheres at high resolution, much less monitor changes on the surface, an orbiter that remains in the Pluto system for several years would be able to do both.

It has gone on to spend more than 14 years gathering a wealth of data from the Red Planet, taking high - resolution images of much of the surface, detecting minerals on the surface that form only in the presence of water, detecting hints of methane in the atmosphere and conducting close flybys of the enigmatic moon, Phobos.

High heels are much more comfortable with a little padding, especially on hard surfaces, so some sort of a platform is always a good idea.

Plus with the standard fitment of Magic Body Control technology and suspension that adjusts to road surfaces immediately ahead, losing control of this high - power Mercedes shouldn't be of much concern to those behind the wheel.

The «metropolitan grey» trim of our test car had a hard - wearing, tweed - like feel and a colourway you might expect to find on an Ikea sofa or on some high - end luggage, and while there's not a great deal of side support in cornering, the flat surfaces of both the front and back seats are much more comfortable than they initially appear.

You can't really hear the wind rushing past at high speeds, nor do you get much noise from the tyres rolling along the road surface.

At higher speeds though there is too much body movement, especially over rippled or undulating surfaces.

The steering effort is nice and high off - center without demanding too much of a workout, and up front, the selection of interior materials is remarkably nice and soft to the touch, with barely a hard, abrasive plastic to be found on any of the surfaces.

The measured Screen Reflectance for the Surface Pro 4 is 5.6 percent, which is Very Good and lower than most other Tablets and Smartphones, but also much higher than the iPad Air 2, which has an Anti-Reflection coating that provides 2.5 percent Reflectance.

For the Surface Pro 4 it is 78, which is very good and 24 percent higher than the Surface Pro 3, and better than most full - size tablets, but also much lower than the 166 for iPad Air 2 with its low reflectance coating.

The Surface 3 is priced to compete with entry - and mid-level Windows tablets and detachable hybrid devices, but with nearly essential accessories sold separately, the real price of the tablet is much higher.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 3's 1.9 - GHz Intel Core i5 - 4300U processor and 8 GB of RAM provide much more power, but the configuration we tested costs a much higher $ 1,299.

And with a much larger and higher resolution screen, dual cameras, dual analog sticks, dual touch surfaces, the NGP is going to have a lot of pros, rather than cons when put up against the 3DS.