Not exact matches
«We don't know yet if this is due to a real
cooling of this tiger stripe, or to the fact that we were looking much closer, at a
relatively small
area, and might have missed the warmest spot,» says John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Past eclipses have revealed that the corona's temperature distribution is patchy: rather than a smooth transition from
relatively cool to sizzling hot, the corona has
areas of higher and
cooler temperatures that don't seem to depend on their proximity to the sun's surface.
Testing revealed that warming just a
relatively small
area around the neck dramatically improves comfort in
cooler weather.
But the surface
area of their paws is
relatively small so in the big picture, this is not an effective
cooling mechanism.
They showed that in the
relatively cool winemaking
areas of France and Switzerland, early harvests have always required both above - average air temperatures and late - season drought.