Sentences with phrase «surface air water»

These effects include the role of poor microclimate exposure and the effect of temporal trends in surface air water vapor in the interpretation of the surface temperature trends.

These issues, which are either not recognized at all in the assessments or are understated, include: - the identification of a warm bias in nighttime minimum temperatures - poor siting of the instrumentation to measure temperatures - the influence of trends in surface air water vapor content on temperature trends - the quantification of uncertainties in the homogenization of surface temperature data, and the influence of land use / land cover change on surface temperature trends.

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The solution: Poo - Pourri, whose proprietary formula creates a protective barrier across the surface of the toilet - bowl water, halting foul odors from coming into contact with the air.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

I took the dough out of the bowl and flattened it on a floured surface, kneading it lightly to get the air out, and repeated the rising process; placed the dough in the bowl, covered, filled sink with warm water, and placed the bowl in sink.

It has unique surface properties, with the ability to form elastic films at air - water and oil - water interfaces.

It is on the surface and in the water and in the air.

This is accomplished with a powerful blast of warm air that quickly breaks up the layer of surface water on a userâ $ ™ s hands for quick removal and evaporation.

It is a multifunctional thermometer which can detect the temperature of water, surface, body and air temperature.

Condensation is a phase transition of matter that occurs when water vapor contained in hot, humid air comes in contact with a cold surface.

The CPSC has issued a warning against using them and other soft surfaces, stating that infants should never be placed on air beds, water beds, and beds not designed for babies» use.

«NYSTA's knowledge of highway use and regulation and traffic impacts, while important, is highly limited within the context of a complex environmental review covering surface and groundwater, soils, bedrock and geology, storm water, air quality, habitat, and climate, among other areas of specialized knowledge and expertise,» they wrote.

He said while some hyrofracking chemicals are toxic and carcinogenic, public exposure to such chemicals is manageable, and that there are no known cases of the chemicals — which are injected deep underground a mile or more to fracture gas - bearing rock layers — reaching the surface to contaminate water or air.

Evaporation from the ocean waters can also lower the density of the air close to the surface to the point that it can not mix with the air layer above it.

«You can repel water with a rough surface that creates tiny pockets of air between the water and the surface, but those surfaces don't always repel oils or alcohols because of their lower surface tension,» Tuteja said.

Lunar water could be used for drinking or its components — hydrogen and oxygen — could be used to manufacture important products on the surface that future visitors to the moon will need, like rocket fuel and breathable air.

In a project called SWAB (Surface, Water, and Air Biocharacterization), NASA microbiologists keep tabs on the station's microscopic residents by sampling the water crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they tWater, and Air Biocharacterization), NASA microbiologists keep tabs on the station's microscopic residents by sampling the water crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they touAir Biocharacterization), NASA microbiologists keep tabs on the station's microscopic residents by sampling the water crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they twater crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they touair they breathe, and the surfaces they touch.

MAVEN arrived at Mars in Sept. 2014 on a mission to investigate a planetary mystery: Billions of years ago, Mars was blanketed by layer of air massive enough to warm the planet and allow liquid water to flow on its surface.

Then, the drop recoils from the water - repellent molecules on the leaf's surface and snaps back, launching part of the drop into the air.

The irregularities trap air beneath any water droplets on the surface, preventing them from making contact.

A cubic yard of air contains hundreds of thousands of microscopic specks, but only about one in a million possesses the exact molecular geometry that will organize water molecules on its surface to spawn an ice crystal.

«These releases could lead to a higher short - term concentration of certain pollutants in the air, soil and surface water bodies where the meltwater runs to,» worries Nazarenko.

Under some conditions — particularly when CO2 - rich deep water wells up to the surface in the tropics — seawater also releases CO2 back into the air.

I have read that people drown in seas like these because there's so much wind - whipped water in the air that even if you can keep your head above the surface, you can not draw a breath.

This software features a volume - of - fluid method to track the position of the water's free surface — the areas where water meets the air.

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

«I think the reason the plant's surface is super-hydrophobic is because it lives on the water and requires air to survive,» Yang Yang, a postdoctoral researcher on Chen's team, said.

To visualize features deep below the plates» surfaces, the team trailed an air gun from their ship blasting air pockets into the water.

Future wet suits with surface textures like the thick fur of otters that trap insulating air layers could keep tomorrow's divers warmer in icy waters.

At night the chamber is opened, allowing ambient air to diffuse through the porous MOF and water molecules to stick to its interior surfaces, gathering in groups of eight to form tiny cubic droplets.

The Michigan Tech chamber works differently due to cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface, the same process that forms clouds or fog over a lake on fall days when the water temperature is warmer than the air temperature.

It stays that way until autumn, when chilly air temperatures cool the surface waters to 4 °.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

The Michigan Tech chamber creates clouds through cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface — the same process that forms fog over Portage Lake on fall days when the water temperature is warmer than the air temperature.

At the top of the eyewall, water condenses; as the resulting drops fall back down to the ocean surface they lose power through friction with the surrounding air.

With hundreds of aircraft constantly in the air and covering a wide expanse of water, it should be possible to make it extremely dangerous for any U-boat to show itself above the surface during daylight; and at night large seaplanes equipped with searchlights could make it almost as dangerous for submarines to rest on the surface while charging their batteries.»

Waves originate when air and water surface temperatures are not the same.

The study accounted for evapotranspiration, which is water released into the air through plant transpiration and soil evaporation, as well as precipitation, and surface water flowing into and out of the Central Valley.

Trace amounts of water drawn from the air drove the reactions on the surface of the gold catalysts, he said.

Schulz and his colleagues suspect that an atmospheric low tide releases a tiny amount of pressure on the air and water in the soil at the surface.

Professor Ted Taylor, from the University of Birmingham, said: «When lungfish gulp air at the water's surface, their heart rate instantly increases — signalling a diversion of blood to the creature's lungs.

Even with advances in drillingtechniques, it is difficult to obtain samples from wells that have notbeen contaminated by air or water from the surface.

Cold surfaces can cause water vapor in the air to cool down, condense and form tiny beads of liquid.

The branching involves the way in which water molecules in the air move toward the crystal; and the symmetry involves their final attachment to the crystal surface, causing the crystal to grow.

The normal, microscopic imperfections — holes, gaps and voids — on the surfaces of everything from industrial boilers to pots and pans create pockets where air is trapped and liquid water can become steam.

It is a surface hunter, shaped by evolution to hover just beneath the boundary between water and air, where it picks off anything unlucky enough to catch its notice.

Warm air and surface water are melting the summer polar ice cap.

«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.

Weiqing Ren from the A * STAR Institute of High Performance Computing and the National University of Singapore used a «climbing string» computational technique to model a micropatterned surface that uses microfabricated pillars to trap air pockets and so repel water molecules.

The researchers primed the system by pumping the deep water to the surface, after which the water pressure took over, sending a «geyser» 21 metres into the air.