Sentences with phrase «precise measurements from»

New views from satellites, plus vigorous programs of precise measurements from airplanes and on the ground, showed that enormous glaciers could quickly change their speed of travel, while entire ice sheets could break up within a matter of months.

Not exact matches

The ingredients for this recipe do not require precise measurement: a handful of flour may vary somewhat from person to person without affecting the solution's benefits.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Dr Joseph Hodges, from the National Institute of Science and Technology in Gaithersberg, USA who led the team measuring the spectrum of CO2 in the laboratory, said: «These measurements are very challenging so we could only make precise lab measurements at a few wavelengths.

One is to make precise measurements of the round - trip distance from the spacecraft to the asteroid using the on - board laser altimeter.

«The results from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe, Physics Division director at Berkeley Lab.

Previous experiments with beams and containers appeared to give sharply different neutron lifetimes, the most precise measurement using a bottle trap differs by almost four standard deviations from that measured in a beam.

LiDAR is a method of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse of laser light across a swath of terrain; precise measurements of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic data.

«Studying these fingerprints in detail requires very precise measurements of the wavelength, or colour, of the light emerging from the atmospheres of these stars» says Dr Matthew Bainbridge, who has been working on the detailed analysis techniques needed to detect the tiny changes expected.

All type 1a evolve from a type of star called a white dwarf, but pinning down exactly which white dwarfs are supernova precursors could lead to much more precise measurements of dark energy — and even reveal its true nature.

It was new, precise laser measurements of the landscape that put Nanna Holm from the Danish Castle Centre in Vordingborg on the track.

From the leading scientists at Bologna, Cassini learned the importance of using high - quality instruments to make the most precise measurements possible.

They also use measurements of the CMB, this time taken with the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, which collected data from 2009 to 2013 and provided far more precise CMB maps than WMAP.

Reproducing an exact driving path from this limited and basic information is challenging — and it is less precise than using GPS or cellular signal tracking measurements.

Usually, it takes a nose to smell, but now — for the first time — scientists have developed a convincing model able to measure odours from pig farms by means of precise measurements of the content of odorants in the atmosphere.

By means of the new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of odorants.

A new way to test the theory of how stars work, which involves making precise measurements of the energy of neutrinos from the Sun, has been proposed by an American astrophysicist.

Fermilab's Holometer is currently the only machine with the ability to take these very precise measurements of space and time, and recently collected data has improved the limits on theories about exotic objects from the early universe.

Another benefit from these kinds of studies might be more precise measurements of transition energies in nuclei, a value that's tricky to measure, says physicist Fritz Bosch of the Institute for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.

From the exact measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the Planck space observatory and many other measurements for example with the Hubble space telescope, the scientists were able to develop a precise model of our Universe.

With our precise measurement technology, there are fewer problems in upscaling the volumes, which means switching from small test reactors in the laboratory to large ones in the production hall.»

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

«It's the most precise measurement of the Hubble parameter at any redshift, even better than the measurement we have from the local universe at redshift zero,» says Font - Ribera.

«Precise measurement of the solar - induced chlorophyll fluorescence, derived from OCO - 2 — but also from follow - on missions such as the European Sentinel - 5P, which will be launched coincidentally now on October 13th — enables scientists to quantify gross primary production and its contribution to the global carbon cycle,» says Guanter.

But a more precise measurement of the interaction might differ from expectations.

The sensor's technical goals are threefold: to operate at depths of at least 3,000 meters, take measurements that are precise to the level of the annual pH change (roughly 0.002 on an acid - to - base scale that stretches from 0 to 14) and avoid the need for frequent recalibration.

Take the distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the moon: 240,000 miles would be an accurate but imprecise measurement; 289,562 miles would be precise but inaccurate; 238,857 miles would be both accurate and precise.

Such a comb can form a bridge spanning the huge frequency gap from microwaves to visible light: very precise microwave measurements can, with an optical comb, produce equally exact data about light.

The team is sending tighter bunches of particles from CERN, allowing a more precise measurement of the time it takes neutrinos to get from one lab to the other.

But Wofsy said the measurements his team collected using a Gulfstream V jet provide the most precise portrait of greenhouse gas movement through the lower levels of the atmosphere — anywhere from 500 to 47,000 feet above the Earth's surface.

Matching those redshifts to distance measurements calculated from gravitational waves should give estimates of the current rate of cosmic expansion, known as the Hubble constant, that are independent — and potentially more precise — than calculations using current methods.

Previously, the most precise test of cosmological models came from measurements with the European Space Agency's Planck satellite of what is known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- a faint glow in the sky emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

Examples include making sure that the spacecraft has no stray magnetic fields that are large enough to keep us from accurately measuring the Martian and interplanetary fields, and making sure that the pointing of the mass spectrometer is sufficiently precise and accurate that the molecules will stream straight in through the inlet port when we're making measurements.

«By watching the stars move over 20 years using very precise measurements taken from Keck Observatory data, you can see and put constraints on how gravity works.

Brisken and his colleagues used the VLBA to make precise measurements of the sky position of PSR B0656 +14 from 2000 to 2002.

As our measurements become more and more precise in this field, we are finding that most of our uncertainty comes from our lack of understanding of the stars that the planets orbit.

Because the star is evolving up the sub-giant branch, K2 - 66b receives a high level... ▽ More We report precise mass and density measurements of two extremely hot sub-Neptune-size planets from the K2 mission using radial velocities, K2 photometry, and adaptive optics imaging.

Researchers also relied on precise, space - based measurements of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, which is the nearly uniform remnant signal from the first light of the universe.

Using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of... view image

Our barycentric radial velocities, derived from observations taken at the KPNO 2.1 meter telescope, differ from... ▽ More We demonstrate the ability to measure precise stellar barycentric radial velocities with the dispersed fixed - delay interferometer technique using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), an instrument primarily designed for precision differential Doppler velocity measurements using this technique.

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Large - scale optical, infrared, and radio surveys and synoptic studies, requiring decades of precise measurements on a large number of targets, may also be conducted advantageously from the ground.

The temperature range of the measurements extends from room temperature down to... ▽ More We present the results of high precision measurements of the thermal expansion of the sintered SiC, SiC - 100, intended for use in cryogenic space - telescopes, in which minimization of thermal deformation of the mirror is critical and precise information of the thermal expansion is needed for the telescope design.

Measurement would be taken from a console vent using a precise stick & dial thermometer.

The test given to the two vehicles consisted of precise measurements before and after the journey started where everything from vehicle weight, fuel capacity and driving styles were all monitored closely and matched equally to one another.

The topic and approach of Fannie in the Kitchen is best described by its subtitle: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements.

In other words, precise global temperature measurements show that we have gone from this in 1881 to this today.

That is, (1) there is dO18 measurement, which I claim should be fairly precise, but you stated has large uncertainties, and then there is (2) derivation of temperature from dO18 values, where you have indeed pointed out that there could be a number of possibly confounding factors in that analysis if other variables than temperature are not controlled.

However, the precise design of their instruments differed, as did the mathematical analyses used to calculate salinity from microwave measurements.