Sentences with phrase «of water surfaces»

Oceans are not perfectly still buckets — geostrophic winds and currents influence geopotential heights of water surfaces differently everywhere and at decadal and longer scales.

In the case of water surfaces, the transfer is by convection and may consequently be affected by the horizontal transport of heat within large bodies of water.

At that time I was gratified to be making large paintings, and I blew up studies of water surfaces.

The photographs are often of water surfaces, showing ripples and highlights without reference to scale or horizon.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, and University of Tübingen, Germany, looked for the spontaneous re-occurrence of a tool - use behaviour practiced in wild chimpanzees where sticks are used to «scoop» algae from the top of water surfaces.

DREDGING SOLUTION The SlurrySucker operates from the top of the water surface and sucks silt from the bottom of the processing pond

According to a painstaking satellite survey of 1.3 million lakes stretching from coast to coast, the country lost 6700 square kilometres — or 1.2 per cent — of its water surface area between 2000 and 2009.

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

As a result it can see both above and below the water, and monitor reflections on the underside of the water surface.

We spend the night in a comfortable cabin with waterwell, white cotton curtains which move in the wind and a view of a water surface over which white herons and pelicans fly.

The reason it is the ultimate swim is the Foot Push, where two dolphins will raise you up out of the water surface by pushing from the bottom of your feet with their noses.

The most exciting is the Foot Push, where two dolphins will raise you up out of the water surface by pushing the bottom of your feet with their snouts.

The heat retained by the oceans is a natural property of a water surface under an air and GHG blanket.

The LWIR on the other hand doesn't get much past the first 10 micorns of water surface layer, which then leads to prompt evaporation rather than long term storage of the energy in the ocean.

If there were no evaporation then there would simply be a smooth temperature gradient to the topmost molecules of the water surface with a temperature discontinuity at the surface where the water and air interface is located.

In the case of DLR to the top of a water surface the topmost molecules can hit boiling point for little or no temperature effect on lower molecules.

Thus direct solar heating of the air will cause increased evaporation as will warming of the water surface by increased downwelling infra red radiation onto the water surface from, say, extra human CO2.

Grouper larvae are known to generally avoid the vertical distribution of water surface in the day, whereas at night are more common at night.

It works by sensing the increase in apparent microwave brightness temperature of the water surface caused by more foam as the wind increases.

The reflectivity of a water surface is calculated using the Fresnel equations (see graph).

Not exact matches

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

The agency downplayed the impact of the withdrawal, saying it would amount to only a 0.07 percent increase in total surface water withdrawal from Lake Michigan.

The solution: Poo - Pourri, whose proprietary formula creates a protective barrier across the surface of the toilet - bowl water, halting foul odors from coming into contact with the air.

Think of it as an iceberg: What you see above the water is the result of everything hiding beneath the surface.

That's not to say that water is not abundant there - but it's so cold on Titan (with a surface temperature of -180 ℃) that water behaves like rock and sand.

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

Knightscope recently made headlines when one of its security bots was found drowned in a shopping mall pond — slippery surfaces had prevented the K5 from detecting stairs leading to the recessed water.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

Per the UBS report — written by Tom McLoughlin, Mike Ryan and Justin Waring of UBS — the No. 1 priority on the agenda is America's airports, followed by surface transportation, maritime ports and water utilities.

The 77 - year - old director of «The Martian» (opening Friday) told The New York Times on Monday that the head of NASA showed him the photos of water on the surface of Mars two months ago.

It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.

Tiangong - 1 is likely to crash over the ocean, as water covers about 71 % of Earth's surface.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

The scene was much different about 4.5 billion years ago, though: Water covered about 20 % of the planet's surface, and 400 - foot - tall megatsunamis raced across ancient oceans.

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

To ensure that surface water quality is maintained, measurement and reporting of water quality parameters in key water bodies is carried out on a weekly basis.

SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.

Made from a ring of tires lashed together around a tube extending below the surface, waves would overtop the ring, pushing the column of water down, while a check valve in the tube would keep it from flowing back.

At midspan, the height of the top of the roadway surface is +270.9 feet Mean Lower Low Water, which is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum EWater, which is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Ewater height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch.

For soaps that come in their own tub or container, you can simply pour the water into it so that the surface of the soap is fully covered.

Producers have to heat up prodigious amounts of water to melt the stuff and get it to flow toward the surface.

In this day and age, energy comes from wind, water, sun and from geothermal forces below the surface of the -LSB-...]

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

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Boar bristle will absorb water, whereas badger will shed water; badger, however can hold more water than boar, likely because of surface tension and water's attraction to the greater quantity of the finer hairs in the badger brush.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., displayed a bottle of brownish water he said came from a constituent's well near a surface coal mine.

... and yet Earth is literally peppered with super-volcanic craters, massive magma intrusions, lava flows etc. and not to mention that the vast majority of surface strata were indeed laid down via water.

We're all there, gathered around the proverbial water cooler, but it's mostly surface talk (and the occasional bit of juicy gossip).