Sentences with phrase «surface alter the pattern»

Not exact matches

«For a thermal emitter at moderate temperatures one usually nano - patterns its surface to alter the emission,» says Ilic, the lead author of the study.

Currently, Pacific sea surface temperatures have risen as an El Niño event develops, a climate phenomenon that alters rainfall patterns around the globe.

Serpentinized rocks — so called because they often have a scaly, greenish - brown - patterned surface that resembles snakeskin — are rocks that have been chemically altered by water as they are lifted up by the spreading tectonic plates in Earth's crust.

This would warm surface temperatures across the globe, along the way altering weather patterns.

Activated, HIV - infected cells have altered cell - surface glycosylation patterns with respect to resting, uninfected cells.

Foam rolling will help break up the altered webbing patterns restoring the fascia to a clean and smooth surface again.»

The pumpkin, made of fiberglass and reinforced plastic, represents a type of self portrait or alter ego for the artist, whose compulsive covering of surfaces and infinite repetition of dots, patterns, and forms is characteristic of her entire body of work.

Their creations alter 3D space and time, using lavish patterns of materiality and alternative elements, from slick surface painting to remarkable views of altered graphic relief.

His Superficie monochromes have been pushed, pulled, and poked from above and below, by orderly patterns of nails that radically alter their surface structure.

The lack of ozone is chilling the middle and upper atmosphere, altering wind patterns in a way that keeps comparatively warm air from reaching the surface.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

A final ingredient to this highly altered weather pattern appears to be a cooling of the sea surface in the North Atlantic just south of Greenland.

But in a given model you can often find ways of altering the model's climate sensitivity through the sub-grid convection and cloud schemes that affect cloud feedback, but you have to tread carefully because the cloud simulation exerts a powerful control on the atmospheric circulation, top - of - atmosphere (TOA) and surface radiative flux patterns, the tropical precipitation distribution, etc..

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

Scientists know too little about how climate change will alter wind patterns and surface currents.

Such oscillations might also alter hurricane patterns, but the main driver of hurricanes is warm sea surface temperatures > 27C (we can all agree on that, I hope); atmospheric conditions also need to be conducive (see the above comment on this year's rip - snorting season).