Sentences with phrase «than north pole»

Trying to prove the things faith concerns itself with are akin to looking for a point further north than the north pole.

Not exact matches

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

Where I live, we've been trapped in sub-arctic temperatures for a few weeks (it was literally colder in Toronto on Sunday than it was at the north pole).

THE TOUR GUIDE Occidental College geologist Scott Bogue has spent more than 30 years studying magnetic field reversals — periods when Earth's north and south poles trade places — in Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington.

The ice cap of Mars's north pole is marked with enormous gorges; the largest, Chasma Boreale (jutting upward at right), is deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon.

It took more than five years for Purcell to get enough observing time to complete the map, but when he finally pieced it together, he found a vast cloud of antimatter that seems to hover over the galactic north pole.

The largest one is inside a 10 - mile - wide (16 - kilometer) crater located less than 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the north pole.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

Changes in local temperatures can explain recent geographical shifts of more than 300 different fish species: They've migrated toward the north or south poles, and even east or west into deeper waters, depending on their original locations.

«It turns out that Titan's north pole is even more interesting than we thought, with a complex interplay of liquids in lakes and seas and deposits left from the evaporation of past lakes and seas.»

De Pater and her colleagues have been following Uranus for more than a decade, charting the weather on the planet, including bands of circulating clouds, massive swirling storms and convective features at its north pole.

They occur at Saturn's north and south poles and extend more than 1,000 miles above Saturn's atmosphere.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

The largest one is inside a 10 - mile - wide (16 - kilometer) crater located less than 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Ceres» north pole.

Modeling Pluto's temperatures showed that when averaged over Pluto's 248 - year orbit, the latitudes near 30 degrees north and south emerged as the coldest places, far colder than either pole.

After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this intriguing world.

If you like, you can show your date some of the key points of interest around the lake, such as a 100 foot high totem pole, an obelisk that was erected by none other than George II and the remnants of an ancient North African city (which has been shipped over to Britain and reconstructed).

Given that some scientists were predicting an ice free North pole in 2008, I think the thrust of the article correctly points out that maybe the global ice level isn't all that different than it was in 1979.

Need I explain to you that a flat map makes the north and south pole areas look bigger than they really are?

The seasonal variation is larger near ground near the north pole than at Mauna Loa and larger in the NH than in the SH:

130,000 years ago temperatures near the poles were higher than today, forests growing up to the Arctic Ocean, all permafrost melted, ice free North Pole at least in summer.

September 12, 2016: The gridding process was slightly modified at the poles: Rather than treating the 40 sub-boxes ending at the North pole and at the South pole as individual boxes with centers at 84N and 84S respectively, they are now combined into a single box centered at the pole.

South pole should be 30C cooler than north because of altitude alone.

«Just in the last few months, new studies have shown that the north pole ice cap — which helps the planet cool itself — is melting nearly three times faster than the most pessimistic computer models predicted» 1;

In retrospect, our overall outlook of setting a new record minimum based on the vast amount of FY ice should have been tempered by the fact that the FY ice over the pole should be thicker since it was the first ice to grow last fall and the north pole is also colder than the Eurasian and Alaskan coasts, and during summer this ice is subject to less incident sunlight.

From latitudes 40 ° North or South to the poles, the earth increasingly ventilates more heat than it absorbs.

As the mercury plummeted to 40 below last weekend in Alaska's Interior, temperatures around the North Pole topped - out some 70 degrees higher — about 32 degrees Fahrenheit, some 50 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal at the pole.

Now, apply this concept to the Earth as a whole, and considering that the North pole has water flowing through it that releases its latent heat there as it freezes; thus, the poles are warmer than they would be without latent heat from water.

Positive north pole of the Sun leads to open heliosphere where particles reach the Earth more easily when their access route is by the heliospheric oolar regions (even cycles) than when they gain access along the current sheet (odd cycles).

If I had to guess what the result would be, I would say that the north pole is warming faster than the models «expected» (it would be in the upper half of a distribution like that in the article but for the Arctic alone) but that over the HadCRUT area with all its gaps, the discrepancy between models and obs would be very similar for the three observed datasets and it would be slightly worse than is suggested in Knight et al. or, for that matter, in the Knappenberger et al..

It has the greatest global coverage: With 96 percent coverage of the globe (except for small areas around the north and south poles), the satellite sensors cover more than twice as much of Earth's surface as do thermometers.

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.

Uranus is at the extreme end with a tilt of ~ 98 degrees; this would induce a very different structure of solar heating (where at certain times the North or South pole would be receiving most of the sunlight, and allow for a large migration of the solar «hotspot» over the course of one Uranian year); this should drive a different atmospheric circulation than on Earth.