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.
Not exact matches
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.