Sentences with phrase «stratospheric numbers»

Curation is one of the biggest on - boarding challenges of social networks like Twitter and Reddit, which has prevented both from reaching the stratospheric numbers of Facebook.

Now, it is easy to discount those numbers because they are already stratospheric numbers.

«Arsenal have stated that they are not going to pay over the top for players» — Wenger said «stratospheric numbers», is a # 30m for Diego Costa a stratospheric number compared to # 80m of James Rodriguez????

But you speak maybe about stratospheric numbers where we will not be involved,» he told Mirror Sport.

«People start talking about stratospheric numbers.

Whenever Andrew Cuomo would rant how New York State is being choked by the stratospheric number of local government entities — 10,521, by his count — around the state, he surely had a picture of Green Island in his head.

Inside, the high - revving 4.5 - liter V8 redesigned pistons increase the Speciale's compression ratio from 12.5:1 to 14.0:1, a stratospheric number for a gasoline - burning engine.

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That's a staggeringly huge number, as well as a stratospheric jump from Uber's last funding round, when it raised $ 1.2 billion at a valuation of $ 17 billion.

Those numbers aren't quite as stratospheric as they might seem to a layperson — but they're still telling.

I don't always like his behaviour, but the numbers are stratospheric.

Voters give Cuomo stratospheric job - approval numbers, but they'd sooner have an independent prosecutor do the investigating,» adds Carroll.

While incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman's numbers (52/35) weren't stratospheric, they were positively healthy compared to his potential rivals.

That's a stratospheric electric - only range number for a PHEV — well above that of any of the industry's models on sale today.

It's expected that only a tiny number of people will have stratospheric credit scores, and that's okay.

There are a large number of recent peer - reviewed scientific publications demonstrating how solar activity can affect our climate (Benestad, 2002), such as how changes in the UV radiation following the solar activity affect the stratospheric ozone concentrations (1999) and how earth's temperatures respond to changes in the total solar irradiance (Meehl, 2003).

As a provisional bottom line number — «provisional» because uncertainties still exist — Figure 8.15 (p. 697) gives solar forcing for 175 - 2011 as ~ 0.05 W / m2 (roughly comparable to the effects of contrail - induced cirrus, or stratospheric water vapor due to methane breakdown), while total anthropogenic forcing is ~ 2.3 W / m2.

I can not recall them anymore; however, if I remember correctly there were a number of studies that discussed the apparent wave characteristics of approaching fronts in the early 1990's regarding the compression of the stratospheric region and the effect it had on the transfer of tropospheric temperatures into space near terrestrial surface features.

The number of particles that form, and therefore the amount of chemical ozone destruction, is extremely sensitive to small changes in stratospheric temperature.

2) There are errors in the assumed forcings, such as: a) AR5 let stratospheric aerosol concentration go to zero after 2000 (a sure way to prod the models into higher predictions), but it actually increased for the next 10 years «probably due to a large number of small volcanic eruptions».

In particular, increases in the number of small particles (called aerosols) in the atmosphere regionally offset and mask the greenhouse effect, and stratospheric ozone depletion contributes to cooling of the upper troposphere and stratosphere.fr2], fr3]

Secondly, natural and anthropogenic contributions to these phenomena are examined in detail and separated well through in - depth statistical analyses of comprehensive measured datasets of quantities, including cosmic rays (CRs), total solar irradiance, sunspot number, halogenated gases (CFCs, CCl4 and HCFCs), CO2, total O3, lower stratospheric temperatures and global surface temperatures.

Also called shadflies, the North American species emerges in massive throngs from the Mississippi River each year; the total number reaching into a stratospheric 18 trillion.

Ozone recovery in the tropical stratosphere is expected to be faster and the recovery of the polar ozone hole is expected to be slower because of the CO2 - induced cooling of the stratosphere (and increase the number of polar stratospheric clouds).

There are a number of cases currently before the courts where costs have reached seemingly stratospheric levels and no doubt we will be hearing from the court again on this issue.

Small business optimism rocketed to its highest level since 2004, with a stratospheric 38 - point jump in the number of owners who expect better business conditi... Read More