Sentences with phrase «of a few degrees»

It's interesting to think that a matter of a few degrees can affect how the finished product will turn out, but that's chemistry for ya.
A regional climate model study examines the influence of warm ocean surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Atlantic in summer to see what an increase of a few degrees Celsius does to rainfall.
Such sea level rise suggests that parts of East Antarctica must be vulnerable to eventual melting with global temperature increase of a few degrees Celsius.
The one thing that stands out for me in the Hansen projections is the [snip] claim that current temperatures are in the same range of a few degrees as the altithermal and Eemian periods.
If you live somewhere temperate, you might even welcome a rise of a few degrees as offering more opportunity for picnics, barbecues and relaxed afternoons in pub gardens.
Ice does not conduct heat well, and a rise of a few degrees in the air would take thousands of years to affect a glacier base a mile away, where it could lubricate the flow.
Using a scanning tunneling microscope, scientists observed nanoscale peaks and dips on a sheet of copper, with angles of a few degrees, researchers report in the July 28 Science.
capt. dallas, it would have to be highly nonlinear to show up in a perturbation of a few degrees.
So, in other words it is impossible for the global average temperature fluctuations of a few degrees to have any effect whatsoever upon things going on hundreds of miles below the surface of the Earth where heat is flowing outward.
They can not form with a higher Tropospheric wind shear that results from the slightest expansion of the upper atmosphere post heating of a few degrees.
On a regional basis, past fluctuations of temperature have been on the order of a few degrees, and when these have occurred over extended periods, the environmental and societal impacts have been very large.
However, including other greenhouse gases and taking into account a «thermal shrinking» of the upper atmosphere result in a cooling of a few degrees per decade.
Such sea level rise suggests that parts of East Antarctica must be vulnerable to eventual melting with global temperature increase of a few degrees Celsius.
The further you move from the equator, though, these gains are eroded; and the team's modelling predicts that planting more trees in mid - and high - latitude locations could lead to a net warming of a few degrees by the year 2100.
A useful gauge of the impact of a change of a few degrees in global mean temperature can be found in Tom Crowley's article on paleoclimate in this issue of CONSEQUENCES.
24 2020s 2050s 2080s Initially increased agricultural productivity in some mid-latitude regions & reduction in the tropics and sub-tropics even with warming of a few degrees
If variations in the output of the Sun are indeed limited to the tenth of a percent that is recorded in direct measurements, future solar changes will likely have but a small effect, one way or the other, on the surface warming of a few degrees that is expected to result from doubled concentrations of greenhouse gases.
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