Sentences with phrase «orders of magnitude less»

Thus, rather than changing the Earth - sun distance by ~ + / -0.5 % and thus solar TSI by ~ + / -1 % from average, it would change it by two orders of magnitude less (with the annual average effect perhaps smaller still, although varying with Jupiter's alignment with the semimajor axis, etc.).

1µmol CH4 = 1.6e - 5g / l = 1.6e - 2 g / m ^ 3 1.5 e9 g / day / 2.4 e15 m ^ 3 = ~ 6.3e - 7 g / m ^ 3 / day = ~ 2.5e - 6 micromolar increase per day diluted over the volume of the Gulf, However, given the 80 fold variation in concentrations observed above under much milder conditions, and the observations of clathrate formation at the wellhead, there are undoubtedly plumes of near methane saturated water (with volumes orders of magnitude less than that of the Gulf) drifting in the currents, slowly dissipating by diffusion and biogeochemical oxidation.

This was - and still is - because water vapor in the upper troposphere occurs in concentrations several orders of magnitude less than in the lower troposphere where most of our weather occurs.

In addition to the issues previously raised, there has been some «resentment» among the meteorological community about the success (particularly in terms of funding) of the U.S. climate research programs, which they view as coming at the expense of meteorological / weather research (with initiatives such as STORM, the U.S. Weather Research Program, THORPEX receiving orders of magnitude less funding).

The models, acting on a scale with 8 - 10 orders of magnitude less resolution, can't possibly replicate more than a tiny fraction of these relationships.

I gather it isn't, from a totally uninformed estimate by me I suppose it's maybe ~ 4 decimal orders of magnitude less than the magnitudes of heat changes?

Further, when mixing occurs, the first mixing will be between the micron layer and the mm layer — but we already know a) that in fact the mm layer is actually cooler than the water below it; and b) that the heat capacity of a layer measured in microns is three orders of magnitude less than that of one measured in millimeters.

The chart above also highlights another key difference between CO2 and non-CO2 GHGs: non-CO2 GHGs are several orders of magnitude less concentrated than CO2.

There's relatively much water vapor in the tropics, much less in deserts, and orders of magnitude less at the poles in winter.

Orders of magnitude less data, and much more difficult to validate with added complications in verifying.

The decelerations that we obtain are opposite in sign and one to two orders of magnitude less than the +0.07 to +0.28 mm / y2 accelerations that are required toreach sea levels predicted for 2100 by Vermeer and Rahmsdorf (2009), Jevrejeva, Moore, and Grinsted (2010), and Grinsted, Moore, and Jevrejeva (2010).»

It's not that there aren't perturbations from other sources, it is that those sources or sinks are orders of magnitude less important and are themselves nearly steady state phenomena, forming a nearly constant background correction, not something that contributes to active average temperature changes in climate.

Phil The time spent by an individual molecule in a particular state is extremely small at atmospheric conditions, orders of magnitude less than the mean radiative lifetime which is why emission is extremely unlikely, and most of the energy ends up thermalized.

Speaking of half - lives in the environment of things like CO2, DDT, PCB's being orders of magnitude less than the wisdom of the day guestimated reminds me of a proposed case history back in the 1960s in the early years of the environmental movement.

Balanced against, for example, changing the root - mass preference of domestic and timber planting to favor biosequestration, it's also about two orders of magnitude less efficient.

It is two orders of magnitude less than the effect of doubling CO2, which at a 1 % blocking effect can have a noticeable impact on the level (temperature in this analogy).

The amount and toxicity is orders of magnitude less than for fission.

Lest also not forget that the power consumption of these devices is orders of magnitude less than ordinary electronics, making the batteries last correspondingly longer.

I came here to see someone recommend the iPad, inspite the fact that, It has orders of magnitude less battery life than a kindle & can't be used in direct sunlight and am leaving satisfied.

These data indicate that under many atmospherically - relevant conditions SOA particles are significantly more viscous and orders of magnitude less volatile than assumed in traditional modeling approaches; SOA formation yields can be significantly higher than previously reported values; and anthropogenic pollution enhance loadings of SOA from biogenic precursors.

As far as the bison herds go, they were orders of magnitude less numerous than the current cow herd (~ 10 million bison vs ~ 1 billion cows).

At the press briefing, Steven Benner, a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was invited to the event to offer outside comment, used the analogy of a steel chain with a tinfoil link to illustrate that the arsenate ion said to replace phosphate in the bacterium's DNA forms bonds that are orders of magnitude less stable.

Once the system includes more neurons and the kinks are worked out, it could supply data centers, autonomous cars, and national security services with neural nets that are orders of magnitude faster than existing designs, while using orders of magnitude less power, according to the study's two primary authors, Yichen Shen, a physicist, and Nicholas Harris, an electrical engineer, both at MIT.

The mercury levels they've measured are in parts per trillion, orders of magnitude less than the more worrisome parts per million levels tracked by the EPA and FDA.

When the birds weren't vaccinated, infection with highly virulent strains killed them so fast that they shed very little virus — orders of magnitude less than when they were infected with less virulent strains.

Both effects are incredibly subtle, requiring highly sensitive equipment to record it, and they're orders of magnitude less powerful than the effects of ordinary solar weather that constantly bombards the ionosphere.

«We found that the room - temperature viscosity of Gorilla Glass is many orders of magnitude less than what had been previously reported for medieval cathedral glass.

The strip - format ELISA used in pregnancy - test - like diagnostics tend to be several orders of magnitude less sensitive than RT - PCR, so may not be able to detect Ebola just after symptoms appear, says Sterghios Moschos, an industrial biotechnology researcher at the University of Westminster, UK.

This value is so small, it is perhaps 120 orders of magnitude less than would be expected based on fundamental physics.

All these forces still exert pressure, but currently on orders of magnitude less than human impact.

«This also allows for searches for transmitters that are many orders of magnitude less powerful than those that would be detectable from a planet orbiting even the most nearby stars.»

Because the improbability of the scientific explanation for the universe is multiple orders of magnitude less than the improbability of some god being responsible.

This is still roughly two orders of magnitude less output per acre than Warren Buffett's Agua Caliente array in Arizona.

AlphaGo Zero also uses an order of magnitude less compute power than the previous versions of AlphaGo, suggesting that it's the algorithmic advances that lead to more progress than compute power or data.

The energy use of Bitcoin, the biggest blockchain to date, is close to that of Portugal, and while other blockchain networks are more efficient, they are still an order of magnitude less so than a payment system such as Visa.

By the end of the experiment, the marsh crabs had eaten an order of magnitude less cordgrass than they usually did.

They found MXene was an order of magnitude less conductive than a perfect graphene sheet but two orders of magnitude more conductive than metallic molybdenum disulfide.

«This could make the manufacture of semiconductor devices an order of magnitude less expensive.»

All he needed was about $ 25 million, an order of magnitude less than the money being spent on the Mediterranean neutrino projects or at the South Pole.

Our estimates of whale density in Anvord Bay, an order of magnitude less than those we observed in Wilhelmina Bay, were similar to the highest densities reported in the past [33].

Predictions match existing tools when run in localized mode, but the program is an order of magnitude faster and requires an order of magnitude less memory.

Also, a resurface could cost an order of magnitude less than a replacement.

IPCC 2007 had an order of magnitude less; Gray et al (2010) increased that to about 0.24 W / m2 (this depends on where you choose your start date too), but the Shapiro results don't seem right...

That is, the amount of tax you'd need to fund the R&D is an order of magnitude less than the amount you'd need to increase the price of energy in order to start to have a strong price signal in terms of efficiency and tradeoffs in new power plants.

The mean areal N2O emissions reported here are approximately an order of magnitude less than those estimated for US reservoirs (Baron et al. 2013) and are consistent with the areal fluxes reported by Yang and colleagues (2014).

In the bigger picture — the effect of AGG is an order of magnitude less than potential change in albedo.

It said that globally «the urbanisation influence... is, at most, an order of magnitude less than the warming seen on a century timescale».

That one was the Pacific based on the longest records available which says: «The estimated average rate of sea level rise from the longest records is computed to be +0.3 mm / yr, almost an order of magnitude less than the IPCC estimates.»

The drawback is that they store much less energy than batteries — typically, an order of magnitude less.

I showed in detail that these two proxy plans posted by SA, the Spross - quoted plan [1] and the Ceres Clean Trillion plan [2], offered about a 1 % reduction in emissions annually for decades, more than an order of magnitude less than that required to avoid the climate Apocalypse!