Sentences with phrase «normal water flows»

The NRC investigators reported: • The plant had a single diesel - driven pump to provide emergency cooling water to a single reactor in case an earthquake cut off normal water flow.

Both fish species swim downstream during droughts and return during normal water flow, but the construction of dams, or stream fragmentation, prevents fish from returning upstream.

Not exact matches

Building a strong, supportive bridge into the future with your sensitive child will provide them with the coping skills they'll need as adults to overcome normal stresses and challenges as well as those that come when life inevitably flows into troubled and turbulent waters.

Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said the area had been expanded «to ensure public confidence in the quality of drinking water, and the fact that irrigation wells can draw contaminants outside of normal flow.»

This outcome can occur if something interferes with the normal cooling process that leads to star formation and instead drives the entire disk to become unstable, rapidly funneling matter to the center, much like water flowing down a bathtub drain when you pull the plug.

The uninflated plug integrates seamlessly into a subway tunnel without impeding the flow of normal train traffic, but can be quickly inflated to stop water from rushing through the tunnel and remain inflated to withstand the incredible pressure of restrained floodwaters.

This would mean the water would have to flow at 2.46 metres per second — twice the velocity of normal airflow and therefore far faster than he could inhale and exhale, causing him to suffocate.

Within two decades they began to understand their folly: During many years as little as 12 million acre - feet flowed, and under normal conditions the river would rarely yield close to the amount of water expected.

Normal kids find it frustrating to copy a picture containing a visual illusion, such as M. C. Escher's drawing in which water flows uphill.

But when organoids grown from her gut were exposed to lumacaftor and ivacaftor, the organoids swelled like normal gut tissue, a sign that the defective protein was working and that salt and water were flowing through.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

What lies underneath are fluid - filled necrotic cavities that disrupts their life force by impeding the normal flow of nutrients and water.

Flush it out with a hose (ordinary garden hose will do fine), backwards - so that the water flows though in the opposite direction to which it would do in normal operation.

You might mention drought in California (Australia is having the worst drought ever recorded, since the white man arrived, and is considering shutting down agriculture in the Murray - Darling system, which is 90 % below its normal water level), or the Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains in the 1930s (another 5 year drought), or the collapse of water flow into the Colorado River, or category 6 Hurricanes (Katrina was a 4).

There may always be water flowing in California, but «normal» is definitely in flux and we can't control the weather.

The dam is very special because it reduces the amount of water that flows past it (unlike normal dams, which merely change the equilibrium height of the water).

The Seaver building's low - flow toilets, waterless urinals, and other water - saving techniques save 35,200 gallons of water each year, or the equivalent of taking two 10 - minute showers every day for the entire year, doing 782 loads of laundry, flushing a normal toilet over 7,000 times, or doing 2,347 loads of dishes in a dishwasher.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

However, unlike a normal pool, the water for this complex flows in from a nearby river and then flows out again threw another outlet.

The evaporative, conductive and radiative processes combined then set up a thermal gradient causing an upward flow of energy from water to air from where that 1 mm layer touches the ocean bulk below, up across the cooler layer then to the Knudsen layer by reversing the normal (warm at the top and cool at the bottom) temperature gradient which exists from that 1 mm layer down to the ocean bottom.

The result is warming of the tropics and of the highest latitudes (but the latter stay below the freezing point of water) and a flow of cold into the mid latitudes and more precipitation in the form of snow at lower latitudes than normal.