Sentences with phrase «of changes in humidity»

«Berkeley has had great trouble with it in that sometimes the latex weeps,» apparently because of changes in humidity, Sussman said.

Your hair hygrometer may not actually be this accurate, but it can give you a rough approximation of changes in humidity.

Not exact matches

The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.

The ratio between the flour and milk changes depending on the age of your flour bag, the humidity in the kitchen and even time of the year.

For this reason, a natural yeast starter is responsive to a wide variety of temperature and humidity changes and doesn't need a strict schedule, though with use, you'll learn that your starter is most powerful (lots of bubbles and puffy) at a certain point in the fermentation process.

This is advantageous to busy parents who can not always keep track of the change in the nursery room's humidity.

Only a handful of previous studies have looked at the humidity issue in relation to climate change.

YOU won't be able to swing between buildings on strands of spider silk any time soon, but an unexpected discovery has just opened a whole new range of applications for this super-tough material: it contracts and lengthens with changes in humidity, doing 50 times the work of human muscle for a given mass.

«We found that in North Pakistan and the Eastern Ghats, a mountain range close to the Indian Ocean, changes of temperatures and humidity mark a critical transition to monsoon,» explains Stolbova.

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

The researchers first worked with the most common nonpathogenic strain of E. coli, which was found to swell and shrink in response to changing humidity.

These models can then be mapped against climate forecasts to predict how phenology could shift in the future, painting a picture of landscapes in a world of warmer temperatures, altered precipitation and humidity, and changes in cloud cover.

The winter cycles of flu in temperate regions are due to the big, consistent changes in humidity and temperature.

What we call the weather is a highly detailed mix of events that happen in a particular locality on any particular day — rainfall, temperature, humidity and so on — and its development can vary wildly with small changes in a few of these variables.

These images depict how the photonic sensor translates finger movements into color changes, as the photonic crystal reacts to the change in local humidity caused by the approach of the finger without direct contact.

The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.

Mountains are useful for exploring the effects of climate change because they show predictable changes in temperature and humidity with elevation: In general, sites at low elevations are warmer and drier than higher elevation sitein temperature and humidity with elevation: In general, sites at low elevations are warmer and drier than higher elevation siteIn general, sites at low elevations are warmer and drier than higher elevation sites.

Expected increases in extreme heat and drought events will bring changes in precipitation, air and water temperatures, air density and humidity, write Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester in the current issue of the research journal Nature Climate Change.

Even a small change in temperature or humidity can radically alter the shape and size of a snowflake, making it notoriously difficult to model these ice crystals on a computer.

Evidence from glacial advance / retreat (e.g. the evidence from tropical Andean glaciers you cite above) is often difficult to interpret, because glacial mass balance represents in general a subtle competition between the influences of ablation (determined by changes in temperature thresholds reached) and accumulation (determined by changes in humidity and precipitation).

Our results extend these findings by demonstrating that areas with the most significant change in fire weather season length occur where not only temperature but also changes in humidity, length of rain - free intervals and wind speeds are most pronounced.

Second, we examined the change in frequency of occurrence of unusually hot, dry or windy conditions by comparing the number of years that maximum temperature, rain - free days or wind speed was > 1 s.d. above the mean or when minimum relative humidity was < 1 s.d. from the mean in 1996 — 2013, as compared with the number of similar events observed in 1979 — 1996.

Mean annual minimum relative humidity showed a weak but significant trend of − 0.127 % per decade but showed no significant changes in affected area.

While the warming atmosphere and higher humidity can provide more energy for these storms, the climate change effects on wind shear, another important element in storm development, is still an active topic of research.

The direct effects of climate change on forests include increased temperatures and shifts in precipitation that together alter humidity, soil moisture, and water stress.

Once you step onto a plane, senses like taste and smell begin to dull due to the low humidity, and once you're thousands of feet in the air, those senses change completely — the sensation is similar to struggling to taste or smell when you have a cold.

The study, which controlled for levels of pollutants and allergens in the air (which are affected by weather), found that a 10 - degree increase in temperature and a 10 % change in humidity were associated with a slight uptick in asthma - related emergency room visits.

The Detroit study of children with asthma, which was published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, suggested that changes in temperature and humidity — rather than the levels themselves — are responsible for triggering asthma exacerbations.

The OvWatch measures changes in perspiration and requires the user to attach a sticky patch to their skin and wear a watch every day, except during times of possible accumulation of moisture on the skin, such as during periods of exercise, heat, or humidity.

Sources tell Bloomberg that Takata changed the propellant mix to help reduce the effect of humidity - what many believe to be the cause of problem - around the same time that Honda announced that it would be replacing airbags in some of their models.

«If you do, the joints are almost guaranteed to crack because of movement over time and changes in temperature and humidity.

Often, hot spots may occur after a dog has been swimming in a lake or river, likely because this changes the temperature and humidity of the skin microenvironment.

Pets and humans are both sensitive to changes in weather conditions, particularly in and around the Daly City area, where both dogs and cats can struggle with the effects of colder temperatures, lower barometric pressures and higher humidity.

The current crop of sculptors delight in such transformations and materials, like Mr. Hirst (sans his Baroque proclivities) or Dieter Roth (who made a number of artworks out of chocolate) or even Sigmar Polke (who once exhibited paintings in Venice that changed based on the city's notorious humidity).

In the pavilion's central apse, Polke painted a mural with a water - soluble colour made of cobalt chloride, which changes from blue to pink according to the humidity and light.

In 1986 he won the coveted Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale for his Athanor — a massive installation of murals which, coated with chemicals that responded to changing levels of humidity and light, were in constant fluIn 1986 he won the coveted Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale for his Athanor — a massive installation of murals which, coated with chemicals that responded to changing levels of humidity and light, were in constant fluin constant flux.

In models it varies by a couple of percent over temperature changes that lead to specific humidity (the total amount of water) changing by much larger amounts.

-LSB-...] Moreover, this study highlights that modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro is much more complex than simply attributable to «global warming only», a finding that conforms with the general character of glacier retreat in the global tropics [Kaser, 1999]: a process driven by a complex combination of changes in several different climatic parameters [e.g., Kruss, 1983; Kruss and Hastenrath, 1987; Hastenrath and Kruss, 1992; Kaser and Georges, 1997; Wagnon et al., 2001; Kaser and Osmaston, 2002; Francou et al., 2003; Mölg et al., 2003], with humidity - related variables dominating this combination.

They think that it's a change in humidity or cloudiness, but point out that even that could be part of the remote impact of a global climate change signal.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

It is double speak for a climate scientist to assert (correctly I might add) that natural variability like ENSO will alter the TOA radiative imbalance through changes in clouds, humidity, evaporation, rainfall, ect., but then out of the other side of the mouth imply that natural variability doesn't really matter to the multi-decadal projections.

Changes (increases) in rainfall intensity, temperatures, humidity and rate of snowmelt and have occurred in recent decades, due in part to increases in CO2 concentration.

There will be Regionally / locally and temporal variations; increased temperature and backradiation tend to reduce the diurnal temperature cycle on land, though regional variations in cloud feedbacks and water vapor could cause some regions to have the opposite effect; changes in surface moisture and humidity also changes the amount of convective cooling that can occur for the same temperature distribution.

``... Using radiative kernels (43, 44) and the changes in specific humidity in the CMIP5 4 × CO2 forcing experiments, we calculate an SW water vapor feedback of +0.3 ± 0.1 W m − 2 K − 1.

AIR MASSES A large body of air (thousands of miles) Changes in weather are caused by movements of air masses As an air mass moves away, temp & humidity.

It would be worth building on the results that he reports there, for example by looking at seasonal differences, or the perturbation of the insolation caused warming by changes in humidity..

The observed regional changes are consistent in pattern and amount with the changes in SST and the assumption of a near - constant relative humidity increase in water vapour mixing ratio.

Willett, K. M., P. D. Jones, N. P. Gillett, and P. W. Thorne, 2008: Recent changes in surface humidity: Development of the HadCRUH dataset.

In the absence of concerted efforts to reduce the threats posed by heat waves, increased humidity, degraded air quality and degraded water quality, climate change will increase the health risks associated with these phenomena.