Sentences with phrase «relatively small amounts of water»

«The sources of this liquid water will require more observational studies; however, the research shows that the effects of relatively small amounts of water on Mars in forming features on the surface may have been widely underestimated.

Glaciers contribute a relatively small amount of water by comparison, but they do play a stabilizing role by serving as a savings bank of sorts for the state's water needs.

A healthy kidney makes highly concentrated urine, meaning a large amount of toxins can be handled and excreted in a relatively small amount of water.

Even a relatively small amount of water in your basement can result in structural damage or the need to replace major appliances like your furnace or water heater.

Not exact matches

This means that, in comparison to Planet Earth, relatively small amounts of liquid water moving across Mars» surface could form the large dune flows, gullies and other features, which characterise the Red Planet.

Though relatively small in comparison to the open ocean, the coastal zones are where an extremely large amount of the carbon dioxide is exchanged between air and water.

«Our observation that plants use roughly the same amount of water regardless of water availability suggests that a warmer or longer growing season may have a relatively small effect on evapotranspiration and thus could affect landscape water balances less than we previously thought,» Hamilton said.

Dogs lose a great deal of water daily through urination, respiration, and evaporation, a relatively small amount of losses can result in serious health problems, so it is very important that an adequate water supply be available at all times.

Dogs lose a great deal of water daily through urination, respiration, and evaporation, a relatively small amount of losses can...

(Note that radiative forcing is not necessarily proportional to reduction in atmospheric transparency, because relatively opaque layers in the lower warmer troposphere (water vapor, and for the fractional area they occupy, low level clouds) can reduce atmospheric transparency a lot on their own while only reducing the net upward LW flux above them by a small amount; colder, higher - level clouds will have a bigger effect on the net upward LW flux above them (per fraction of areal coverage), though they will have a smaller effect on the net upward LW flux below them.

To resort to an obvious analogy, if we did not know that water boiled it would come as a bit of a surprise when it happened for the first time, especially since it takes just a small amount of heat to go from a relatively stable state to a wildly unstable one.

The Grand Dixence Dam is situated on the relatively small Dixence River, but collects a large amount of water thanks to a system of water supply tunnels over 100 km long bringing water from other rivers and valleys.

However, the level of our investment represents «a toe in the water» approach as we have put relatively small amounts of capital at risk as we learn the market and determine the capacity to invest more and grow over time.