Sentences with phrase «spinning vortices»

Normally, cold air is kept locked up in the Arctic by a spinning vortex of air bounded by fast winds high in the atmosphere called the jet stream.
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose surrounded by green foliage in this false - color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Check out the shrunken heads and spinning vortex tunnel in this interactive and entertaining museum.
Not constrained by the physical limitations of a chimney, the vortex diameter adjusts itself until the radial pressure differential is in equilibrium with the centrifugal force produced by the spinning vortex.
By the evening of Monday, November 28, 2016, the huge plum of warm moisture is pulled closer to the still stationary spinning vortex over the Dakota protests.

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Nor can the company really go flat out in public and admit that it's trying to dump the stock and lock in enormous profits without triggering yet another spin or two of the vortex that keeps sucking down Uber's stock price.
I'm finding that CNN too is getting caught in the «news spin» vortex and will put out anything to get their ratings to go up.
The «vortex» should keep spinning enough for the egg to take shape while setting.
Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.
Physicists have already produced vortices by spinning a BEC.
The most active of these vortexes are thought to spin at awesome rates as they devour gas and stars.
The vortex, which spins and entraps the bead in the center of a tornadolike flurry, rotates the bead on its own axis.
At the same time, an intense surge of cool monsoon winds from the northeast whistled through the gap between Borneo and Indochina, wrapping around the stormy vortex and making it spin with no help from Earth's rotation.
The team found that quantum vortices, or whirlpools, form in spinning helium nanodroplets in unprecedented quantities, leading to extreme deformation of the droplets into flat discs that resemble a thick pancake.
When they swim, they create spinning, doughnut - shaped masses of water called vortex rings, and then they push off these rings almost like a boat pushing off its own wake.
In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.
In the magnetic vortices — the skyrmions — the «atomic bar magnets» of the iron atoms spin around (orange and green arrows) and have an opposite orientation in their centres (blue arrows).
Doudna, Charpentier and Zhang are all outstanding researchers and very likable people but they appear caught up in the vortex of scientific politics and recognition spin.
This process is much like the continuing breakup of turbulent water, spinning off ever smaller individual vortices, each with its own characteristic angular momentum.
During the 1990s, astronomers had begun to suspect that the QPOs were associated with a gravitational effect predicted by Einstein's general relativity: that a spinning object will create a kind of gravitational vortex.
By pinpointing the position of the vortex core from the imaging sequence, they obtained accurate data about a parameter, known as the non-adiabatic spin - transfer torque, which is crucial for electrical manipulations.
«Physicists deploy magnetic vortex to control electron spin: Potential technology for quantum computing, keener sensors.»
A team of engineers has created tiny acoustic vortices and used them to grip and spin microscopic particles suspended in water.
The magnetic field gradient produced by a vortex proved sufficient to manipulate spins just nanometers apart.
In simulations of perfect fluids with no viscosity, a vortex can keep spinning and twisting forever.
A NASA probe has captured an amazing video of the huge and mysterious six - sided vortex spinning around Saturn's north pole.
The spin of the strongest tornado is a pale shadow of the vortex seen at the heart of matter colliding into a nearly perfect...
Saturn itself is the celestial tree - topper of this trio, with a wide - angle look at its north pole revealing the planet's hexagonal jet stream and its spinning polar vortex.
To ensure thorough mixing of the liquids, they subjected the emulsion to a vortex spinning at 3,200 revolutions per minute.
Continue to breathe this red energy upward through your legs and into your pelvic floor and the spinning, rich red vortex of your Root Chakra where you sense the energy being absorbed and distributed to your body.
The system was given this word due to its relationship with the spinning, cyclical nature of the vortex that is the energy within the human body and the physiological effects this has.
MarkBrooks.TV Vlog Episode 11:: I got my shiny new Mavic Pro drone back from the USA and took it out for a spin, and it got sucked into some kind of damn vortex thermal over Tigne Point.
Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating; each atom is like a wobbly spinning top that radiates energy.
A vortex current spins around an axis line.
Because contraction of the vortex tends to require faster rotation (conservation of angular momentum), which increases centrifugal acceleration, which opposes contraction, it becomes hard for air to flow in sideways to take the space of warmer air that is rising when the air is spinning; thus, a rising column of air can pull up on air from below.
Things like an electric night light filled with water that spins myriad small colorful beads in a hydrolic vortex; a tornado light.
The next logical question is why the vortex has weakened so much that a big piece of it has spun down over the U.S.
A negative SAM pushes the tracks of storms spinning of the polar vortex further north piling cold water off the South American coast.
The team found that as meltwater tries to rise above the surrounding denser seawater, earth's rotation causes it to spin quickly around a vertical axis, creating a vortex that ejects meltwater filaments sideways into the surrounding seawater.
A turbine at the base of the chimney generates electricity as the air rushes by... His scheme replaces the chimney with a tornado - like vortex of spinning air, which could extend several kilometres into the atmosphere.»
The changes in frequency of ENSO events and the multi-decadal PDO is related to more or less cold water entering the gryres as storms spin off the polar vortices more or less into lower latitudes.
The heated air begins to rise in a spinning motion, gathering energy the higher it gets and creating a vortex.
Those waves in the jet stream funnel high - altitude surges of cold air spinning around the North Pole — best known as the polar vortex — south.
The movement drives storms spinning off the polar vortices and surface ocean eddies moving in Ekman spirals towards the coast of the Americas.
Storms and cloud spinning off the polar vortices into lower latitudes — the changes in sea surface temperature over vast areas of the Pacific.
Ice bergs from the Arctic decscribe a spiral as they move south, cyclones spin up because of this, toilets have a clockwise vortex in the south and anti-clockwise in the north.
Should the vortex be broken up by a gust, the lower half of the vortex would reestablish itself with new warm spinning air from below, and the upper half of the vortex would fill from the bottom with high - level cool air and die off.
Tangential entries cause the warm moist air to spin as it rises forming an anchored convective vortex.
Once the vortex is established, the pressure difference between the surrounding ambient air and the reduced pressure at the base of the vortex becomes the driving force to spin the turbines.
Researchers told Climate Central that the weather pattern driving the extreme cold into the U.S. — with a weaker polar vortex moving around the Arctic like a slowing spinning top, eventually falling over and blowing open the door to the Arctic freezer — fits with other recently observed instances of unusual fall and wintertime jet stream configurations.
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