Sentences with phrase «reflected by a sheet»

This is because solar radiation which would have been reflected by a sheet of ice is being absorbed by blue water, which speeds up the warming further.

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Backed up by your accountant's report, and reflected in your income statement and your balance sheet.

They braved the harsh conditions in the middle of the night to set up a large searchlight with specially designed reflecting optics to generate a gigantic light sheet next to the 130 - meter - tall wind turbine for illuminating the snow particles in a 36 - meter - wide - by -36-meter-high area.

We determine that this difference is driven by the growth and retreat of large continental ice sheets that are present in the cold ice - age climates; these ice sheets reflect a lot of sunlight and their growth consequently amplifies the impact of CO2 changes.»

If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land.

«We started by going back to the original sheet music used for the recording sessions, tracked the edits made to these cues as heard in their final state in the film, and then re - edited / re-orchestrated the sheet music to reflect the changes and account for the live orchestral forces.

At the end of the topic the sheets are used to allow the teacher to provide effective written feedback which is reflected upon and then responded by the pupil.

«Teach Plus changes Web site to reflect reality» by Valerie Strauss The Answer Sheet Washington Post May 23, 2011

Their prudence is also reflected in the fact 70 % of their contracts are on a reimbursable basis (and another 8 % are unit rate reimbursable), and by the $ 220 mio of net cash on the balance sheet.

This is an absurd statement which plainly reflects the falsity of the alleged «fact sheet» by Alley Cat.

The new graphics system provided by the brand new Gepard3 Engine allowed developer Stormregion to create a large variety of different surfaces such as, for example, reflecting puddles which disappear over time, vehicles which become wet with rain or glistening sheets of ice.

And frost, produced by ancient fridge motors, enveloping sheets of metal like a virus, evokes the whiteness of Venetian marble reflecting the midday sun.

The higher - frequency «solar photons», if reflected by something on the surface (be it an ice - sheet, a body of water, or someone's windshield) will happily change course and zip right out of the atmosphere again, completely unaffected by GHGs (though not by cloud, of course.)

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

Scientists can tell from basic astronomical theory how Milankovich cycles have evolved over the past hundreds of thousands of years.The ice - sheets affect the climate by reflecting sunlight.

Sea level rises reflect melting of the Greenland ice sheet, where melting since measurements began in 1979 increased by 30 percent (S. Konrad, University of Colorado, AGU, 2008), and of the west Antarctica ice sheet which is losing ice at rates 60 percent faster than 10 years ago (British Antarctic Survey, Nature Geoscience, 2008).

It is surprising, therefore, that the gross underestimation of pole ward energy transport by the computer models is not reflected as cooling and expansion of the ice sheets over the polar regions.

Perhaps reflecting this reality, McDermott's fact sheet, section - by - section, and side - by - side contain no hint or suggestion that carbon taxes would replace or preempt other greenhouse gas reduction policies.

Major ice sheets didn't develop until about 70,000 years ago, perhaps helped along by a major volcanic eruption in Indonesia that reflected a great deal of sunlight back out into space.

They analyzed the relationship between the growth of the algae and the amount of light being reflected by the ice sheet surface.

The increase in support may reflect the public outreach efforts of advocates and agency officials to list the specific transit improvements that would be funded by congestion pricing (in addition to Tri-State and RPA's borough and regional fact sheets, the Campaign for New York's Future now has fact sheets for individual City Council and State Legislative districts).

The remaining slow drift to lower GMT and pCO2 over glacial time, punctuated by higher - frequency variability and the dust − climate feedbacks, may reflect the consequences of the growth of continental ice sheets via albedo increases (also from vegetation changes) and increased CO2 dissolution in the ocean from cooling.

There is an indirect measurement of NH temperatures by d18O in N2O, which reflects mainly the NH ice sheet buildup.

Responsibilities include ensuring all balance sheet accounts continuously reflect accurate financial position through review of work performed by accountants and clerks.

By lowering the corporate tax rate, it has also lowered the value of an asset sitting on the balance sheets of Fannie and Freddie: A so - called deferred tax asset, which reflects their ability to take past losses as a deduction against future profits.