Sentences with phrase «patterns on a sphere»

Now imagine those patterns on a sphere with an average temperature change of 1 C per degree of latitude.

Spherical harmonics are the natural choice for representing patterns on a sphere, but the oceans don't cover the whole of the sphere and the physical processes that govern changes in SST might mean that harmonics aren't the most natural set of patterns for efficiently capturing that variability.

Not exact matches

They then shine ultraviolet light through the transparent sphere, which scatters the light and creates a pattern on the thin film.

They identified rings of magnetite (iron oxide) arranged around the sooty spheres in the same pattern as in frocks from a volcano on the island of Svalbard, Norway.

To date the largest objects observed to engage in this quantum jiggery pokery are molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged like the pattern on a traditional soccer ball and 48 fluorine atoms coated on the surface of that sphere.

For instance, from the outside, the Spheres may look like giant translucent soccer balls, but their shape is actually based on the Catalan, a naturally occurring pattern in nature.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

Dimpled patterned ceramic sphere with the impressed motif repeated on the ceramic base.