Sentences with phrase «temperatures reach millions»

In the corona, the expansive outer layer of the solar atmosphere that extends millions of kilometers from the sun's surface, temperatures reach millions of kelvins.

It has temperatures reaching millions of degrees.

Not exact matches

This impact creates a spherically converging shockwave in the liquid lead that focuses in on the plasma at the centre of the sphere, which could reach a temperature of 150 million degrees Celsius.

IRIS does not observe the hottest coronal plasma in these loops, which can reach temperatures of several million degrees.

Temperatures in the lower mantle the reach around 3,000 - 3,500 degrees Celsius and the barometer reads about 125 gigapascals, about one and a quarter million times atmospheric pressure.

The real drama happens in places where matter reaches temperatures of millions of degrees and shines mostly in X-rays our eyes can not detect.

Predicting and controlling heat loss will be crucial for ITER, the international tokamak under construction in France, in which temperatures are to reach 150 million degrees Celsius, or 10 times the heat at the core of the sun.

The illuminated matter reaches a temperature in excess of one million kelvins, as hot as the solar corona, in less than a trillionth of a second.

At still lower temperatures, the relaxation time reaches values that are truly geologic, i.e., many millions of years.

At 1,500 kilometers, the temperature starts to rise and by 10,000 kilometers above the photosphere the temperature reaches one million kelvins.

In active regions, where temperatures can reach millions of degrees, massive eruptions on the surface called flares spew out charged particles and high - energy radiation.

But while the surface of the sun roils at temperatures of thousands of degrees, the corona reaches millions of degrees and nobody is quite sure why.

Within its less - than -2-minute lifetime, a jet's temperature soars, some parts reaching corona - like temperatures of about a million degrees.

These are impulsive heating bursts that individually reach incredibly hot temperatures of some 10 million Kelvins or 18 million degrees Fahrenheit - even greater than the average temperature of the corona - and provide heat to the atmosphere.

The pellet will immediately implode, reaching a temperature of more than 100 million degrees at a pressure 100 billion times that of Earth's atmosphere.

Inside a NIF shot, we reach temperatures of 150 million kelvin, which is more like the inside of a star.

The dataset includes e.g. information on the future development of winds and temperatures in the Antarctic, and is based on the assumption that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will reach 700 parts per million by the year 2100.

Temperatures in the hotspots of the ejection can reach almost 20 million Degrees Celsius.

At its peak, the flare reached temperatures of 360 million degrees Fahrenheit (200 million Celsius), more than 12 times hotter than the center of the sun.

Eventually, when it reached a temperature of around 1 million degrees, its core ignited, causing it to begin nuclear fusion.

By contrast, the core shrinks by gravitational contraction, becoming hotter and denser until it reaches a central temperature of about 120 million K.

That temperature reached the point in 2015 where it was 1 °C (1.8 °F) above that of the late 19th century at the same time as carbon dioxide levels likely permanently rose above 400 parts per million.

When the temperature reaches about four million degrees Fahrenheit, nuclear fusion begins, tremendous amounts of energy are produced, and the star begins to shine.

«We have witnessed extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius in Asia, record - breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and Atlantic reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.

The visible part of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius), while temperatures in the core reach more than 27 million F (15 million C), driven by nuclear reactions.

For instance, the center of the ultrahot plasma contained within the walls of doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks can reach temperatures well above the 15 million degrees Celsius core of the sun.

Temperatures in the slow wind reach up to 2.9 million F (1.6 million C).

Temperatures in the fast wind can reach up to 1 million degrees F (800,000 C).

But a big payoff requires an equally large investment, and for decades we have wrestled with the problem of energizing and holding on to the hydrogen fuel as it reaches temperatures in excess of 150 million degrees Fahrenheit.

At temperatures reaching a few million degrees Fahrenheit, the corona significantly hotter than the Sun's surface.

The most recent advancements have come from Germany, where the Wendelstein 7 - X reactor recently came online with a successful test run reaching almost 180 million degrees, and China, where the EAST reactor sustained a fusion plasma for 102 seconds, although at lower temperatures.

«I love telling mind - blowing facts, like every time we do a shot at NIF, we are one of the hottest places in the solar system,» said experimental plasma physicist Tammy Ma (NIF implosions reach peak temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Centigrade — more than five times hotter than the core of the Sun).

Lawrence recently passed its own referendum, $ 25 million (40 percent paid by the state) to make schools more secure from intruders, replace boilers, and air - condition some of our old buildings where temperatures sometimes reach 90 degrees in June and September.

... «The extreme case is the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), 51 — 53 million years ago, when pCO2 was high and global temperature reached a long - term maximum.

First, the hypothesis did not invoke a mechanism for warming ocean waters to destabilize the methane (although it is possible that ocean waters reached a threshold temperature after warming gradually for millions of years).

-- Antarctic sea ice extent reached record high for second year in a row; South Pole station set record high temperature: The Antarctic maximum sea ice extent reached a record high of 7.56 million square miles on October 1.

Last week, the daily atmospheric content of CO2 popped up over 400 parts per million, pushing the stated goal of keeping worldwide temperatures to a 2 ˚C increase even further from reach.

As recently as 55 million years ago, during the Paleocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum, the region reached an average annual temperature of 10 — 20 °C (50 — 68 °F).

The globally averaged concentration of CO2 reached 400 parts per million, and the global average temperature climbed to more than 1 °C (1.8 °F) above pre-industrial levels.

As an earlier World Bank - commissioned study noted, food stocks plummet, average summer temperatures reach extreme heatwave levels across vast swaths of the world, and sea - level rise threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people.

A prominent new example is a paper by [Shaviv and Veizer, 2003], which claims that fluctuations in cosmic ray flux reaching the Earth can explain 66 % of the temperature variance over the past 520 million years (520 m.y.), and that the sensitivity of climate to a doubling of CO2 is smaller than previously estimated.

2) That temperatures are set to climb far beyond anything reached in the last half - million years (even though we aren't within 3 degrees of the maximum over that time yet).

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The sea level and temperature relationship is based on observations of the past, specifically the Eemian interglacial whose temperatures we are just starting to match and whose sea levels were 4 - 6m higher and the climate a few million years ago whose temperatures we may reach by 2100 and sea levels were some 25m higher.

But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2 - degree threshold is expected to be reached.

Britons and Germans, including healthy elderly, stream in the millions to the Mediterranean in summer, where 42C (the temperature reached in my parents» locality in Germany) is not a rare event at all.

«Modern - day levels of carbon dioxide were last reached about 15 million years ago,» Tripati says, when sea levels were at least 25 meters higher and temperatures were at least 3 degrees C warmer on average.

At 50 million years ago, CO2 may have reached 1000 ppm, and global average temperature was probably about 10 °C warmer than today.

By examining plant leaf wax remnants in sediment core samples taken from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, the research team found summer temperatures along the Antarctic coast 15 to 20 million years ago were 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) warmer than today, with temperatures reaching as high as 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius).

-- The last time carbon levels reached 400 ppm, and «mean global temperatures were substantially warmer for a sustained period,» was probably 2 - 3 million years ago, in the Mid-Pliocene era.