Sentences with phrase «than the air above»

As you will know, heat passes from a hotter to a cooler body; and on the average, the surface layers of the oceans are cooler than the air above them (as anyone who has tried swimming in the North Sea on a sunny day in August will testify).

You've got a real miracle on your hands — a layer in the middle that stays colder than the air above and below.

In both cases, the surface is cooler than the air above it.

Not exact matches

On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.

Powered by gigantic, colorful, helium - filled balloons, I got to soar more than 40 feet into the air above Boston.

I disagree with you Shinkafi because the executive governor of Benue state in an interview aired in NTA two day s ago has denied that the attackers are more than the Fulani herdsmen he knew and above all what baffled him is the mystery that security agents could not get a single person arrested.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.

The smog, visible in sooty clouds hovering above older buildings, does more damage to Manhattan's air quality than cars and trucks combined, Stringer said.

Without the dispersant injection, the model showed that benzene concentrations in the air 2 meters above the sea surface would have been 13 times higher than the levels considered acceptable to breathe during a 10 - hour working day or a 40 - hour work week, based on guidelines by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

Although a career in academia requires focus and values your development as a researcher far above any other interests, if you want to keep your post-PhD options open, you will need to have more to offer than the wan complexion and weary air that experimental science can give.

Light travels faster in the hot, thin air close to the road than it does in the cold, dense air above, and that difference in speed is what causes it to shift direction as it crosses the boundary between the two.

At night, when the air near the ground may be colder than that above, it can have a warming effect.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

Nathaniel Johnson and Shang - Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii studied satellite and rain - gauge data from the last 30 years and found that sea surface temperatures in the tropics now need to be about 0.3 °C higher than they did in 1980 before the air above rises and produces rain (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1008).

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

In the simulations that included smoke - filled air, storm clouds were lower and thicker (and average wind speeds at 1 kilometer above ground were higher) than they were in the no - smoke models, the team reported online ahead of print in Geophysical Research Letters.

The effect was easier to see over water than land because, in general, the atmosphere above the oceans is relatively low in aerosols — tiny liquid or solid particles that float in the air.

All that extra heat in the Pacific warms the air above, leading to more rising air than normal in that region, which affects the global atmospheric circulation.

And while the clouds aren't exactly teeming with life, air - sampling instruments have trapped bacteria more than 11 kilometers above sea level.

In view of the above - mentioned facts, while giving to M. Farman the credit for first publicly demonstrating that it is possible to fly in all directions, both with, against, and across a light wind, we nevertheless wish to recall to the aeronautical world the fact that to America belongs the credit of producing the first successful motor - driven aeroplane, and that to such men as the Wright brothers, A. M. Herring, and Gustave Whitehead — men who under the tutelage of Lilienthal and Chanute, have begun with gliding flight and gradually worked their way forward to the production of a self - propelled aeroplane in all its details, including the gasoline motor — belongs the real credit of having produced the first successful heavier - than - air flying machines.

Lead concentrations in the air and soil are 8.5 to 10 times above national health standards and lead dusts local crops at levels 24 times higher than such health standards.

This cool new meltwater would then take in some of the heat from the air above, leaving this air cooler and the water just slightly warmer than before.

This can only be possible if conductive warming of the cool skin layer from the ghg warmed air above can prevent more heat loss than an increase in evapoaration heat loss due to a ghg warmed atmosphere.

However, there's one air polluter that's more ubiquitous than all the above put together.

Players command more than 30 of the most powerful jet fighters ever conceived and battle for air superiority in massive dogfights in the skies above

Isopropyl alcohol has a 2 - 12 % explosive limit, meaning if the concentration of it in the air reaches above 2 % (by evaporating from the mixture and concentrating somewhere, as it's heavier than air), it can explode.

It sports such subtle changes like LED sidelights, new Xenon headlights, more sculptural taillights, motorized nasal air intakes that close above 10 mph, and a new all - black rear air intake with longitudinal rather than horizontal slats.

More hot rod influences can be found in the interior, with the aircraft gauges mounted on top of the dash's face (rather than behind it), the light bar and Vintage Air AC controls hidden inside the glovebox, and nine more toggle switches mounted in three panels above the driver attached to the SO - CAL fab'd six - point roll cage.

Air - pressure forces a pair of horizontal flaps above the splitter to open at speeds greater than 106 mph to reduce drag.

It would be a good idea to keep the «almost - new» oil in an airtight container with as little air space above the level of the oil itself if it's going to be out of the engine for more than a day or so, to minimize absorption of moisture from the air.

Good thing, then that the Range Rover SV Coupe is eight millimetres lower than the four - door version and that, thanks to air suspension, it automatically lowers a further 15 - mm above 104 km / h (65 mph) for the greater stability a lower centre of gravity engenders.

As a result, there's more air above their scalps than you find in the hatchback model.

The 16 - cylinder engine gets its air from two NACA ducts set into the roof, rather than from scoops above the engine.

The 16 - cylinder engine gets its air from two NACA ducts integrated into the roof, rather than from scoops above the engine.

Both front fenders are slightly widened and receive a series of air vents above the wheels which look like they've come straight from the race track, to complete the transformation at the front a set of canards are installed on the side of the front bumper for additional stabilty at speed... Bader Al Roudhan actually quotes a top speed of no less than 420 Km / h...

A $ 2,500 Bowers & Wilkins premium sound system, $ 560 metallic paint, a $ 250 built - in second - row booster seat, $ 750 21 - inch alloy wheels, $ 1,800 four - corner air suspension, and a destination charge of $ 995 were also added on for a total sticker price of $ 66,705 — more than $ 12,000 above the base price.

TSA issues new rule regarding Kindles and air travel — Under the new TSA guidelines, fliers will be forced to remove «all electronics larger than a cell phone» from their carry - on luggage and place those devices in a bin with nothing above or below.

The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty - five stories above the ground, forming cathedral - like structures in the air.

I could have sworn there was less oxygen in the air up here, but I'd actually only climbed the equivalent of two stories and I knew it was probably no more than three - to four - hundred feet above sea level.

We review Above & Beyond Air Combat, an aerial jet fighter game that lets you blast your way through more than 60 islands of action

On Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Surface 3 scored a solid 3,351, which is well above the tablet category average (2,404) but lower than the Intel Core M 5Y10 - powered T300 Chi (4,319), the A8X - powered iPad Air 2 (4,547) and the Core i5 - 4300U - powered Surface Pro 3 (5,665).

It swings you into the air, more than 60 metres above Singapore's harbor, as it sways and creaks its way to Sentosa Island, a favorite recreation spot for Singaporeans.

Looking at the above you can see that there is exactly one Premium Air Reward, even though there are more than 1 sub $ 400 tickets.

Thick ash started shooting thousands of meters into the air above Mount Agung on Saturday, driving east and southeast along the archipelago, forcing more than 29,000 people to evacuate from their homes, the Bali Provincial Board for Disaster Relief said, revising their initial estimate.

There's no bigger thrill than seeing a live volcano from 500 feet above in the air.

[1] As it cools, the surface air becomes denser than the warmer air above it, and thus becomes trapped below it.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air - conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinking water, soft drinks, hot drinks, return transfers to the boat from Phuket hotels and airport (pick up time from the airport is at 17:30 hrs, your flight must land no later than 16:30 hrs), dives (as detailed in the trips above), experienced English - speaking divemaster (s)(4 - 5 divers per DM), tanks, weights and weightbelts.

I could almost see the words flying out into the air above my dining room table, and I longed for nothing more than to grab them and stuff them back into my mouth.