Sentences with phrase «to reach the ground»

There, they would reflect some of the sun's energy, preventing it from reaching the ground.

I still have the (rather good) report, which has a hand drawn graph of the spectrum of sunlight reaching the ground, with the visible band clearly marked.

Thanks to its weak gravity, if you stepped off one of its nine - mile - high cliffs, you wouldn't reach the ground until half an hour later.

Some of these never even reach ground level being swept away by the winds into clouds of spray.

A highly - absorbing aerosol reduces the solar radiation reaching the ground, but causes warming at the altitude the aerosol is located at.

With arms at your sides holding dumbbells, lower your (back) right knee until it has almost reached the ground while breathing in.

Some of the gear left inside the vessel may even reach the ground intact.

The channel allows warm ocean water to reach the grounding line, leading to melting of the ice shelf from below.

How would you sell yourself to them in the 60 seconds it takes for the lift to reach the ground floor and make sure they want to hear more?

These groups of light reach the ground - based telescope within a few days of each other.

Once the system reaches a state of dynamic equilibrium the energy lost by the ground equals the energy reaching the ground.

It happens when the dialogue reaches ground that threatens someone's ignorance.

When I say reach the ground, I mean in one piece.

Tip: If you have trouble reaching the ground, use a yoga block for support.

This allows sunlight to heat the ground — killing flea eggs — and will allow sprays to reach the ground where fleas and their eggs live.

The last one to reach the ground wins, prompting a pretty intense game of chicken.

Psychologists asked 137 students to picture either themselves or a stranger stuck in a tower and to think of a way to escape using only a rope that did not reach the ground.

Their coat can grow to a length that almost reaches the ground.

Initially, researchers had speculated that the carrot shapes may have been caused by hot fragments that melted the snow during the impact, but the simulations showed that the fragments would have had ample time to cool to atmospheric temperatures before reaching the ground.

Power reaches the ground through Audi's famous quattro all - wheel drive, and is routed through a ZF - sourced 8 - speed automatic gearbox — the same as used by BMW and Alfa Romeo.

It has been suggested that higher latitudes — Siberia, for example — may become productive due to global warming, but the soil in Arctic and bordering territories is very poor, and the amount of sunlight reaching the ground in summer will not change because it is governed by the tilt of the earth.

Leaf - laden lately, beech limbs once reached the ground, swaying.

Power reaches the ground through an 8 - speed automatic gearbox and a rear - biased all - wheel drive system, with the 0 - 60mph sprint taking just 3.5 seconds.

And a study released by two (2) «NOAA Scientists» noted that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the Continental U.S. had diminished by 1.3 percent between 1964 and 1972.

Frozen precipitation, falling to levels of the atmosphere that are much warmer than 0 °C, often melts and reaches the ground as rain.

Electric power is converted to 187 pound - feet of physical torque by an 80 - kw (107 - horsepower) AC synchronous motor and that torque reaches the ground at the front wheels via a single - speed transmission.

Though there are serious issues with the quality of some of the data (birds drinking out of uncovered evaporation pans, drift and inhomogeneities in the solar radiation measuring instruments), in the most global assessment, Beate Liepert estimated that there was globally a reduction of about 4 % in solar radiation reaching the ground between 1961 and 1990.

The thing that often amuses me about infant painting is the way that the sky never reaches the ground, to them it's way above their heads and as they can't see the blue around them why would they paint it down there?

An intelligent designer would have given us a long stiff tail that reached the ground for a third point of support, a method of shielding the male reproductive organs, and a bony spur partly encircling our necks.

He said the new paper highlights many things that are still not well - known to scientists, such as extensive information about water temperature reaching the grounding line of the outlets of the northeast Greenland ice stream, where water is probably most influential with melt.

When adiabatically heated air reaches the ground we get foehn storms, and when it hovers a few hundred feet above the ground we get heat waves.

This especially true for children who can reach the ground firmly, have had plenty of practice jumping and bouncing, and have learned how to manipulate this type of swing to their wants and desires.

Last week, the National Radiological Protection Board released graphic data showing levels of UV reaching ground level in southern England and Scotland during the first week of the Wimbledon tennis tournament (see diagram).

Once the sewage reaches ground floor, skyscrapers in Dubai have another transportation problem.

«Even if only a small percentage reaches the ground, this could be problematic because gasoline contains harmful chemicals including benzene, a known human carcinogen,» Hilpert says.

At the GSA meeting, U.S. Geological Survey hydrogeology expert C.E. Neuzil of Reston, Virginia, will report that some shales are so impermeable that there is little risk of radioactivity from buried nuclear waste reaching ground or surface water.

«Instead of that air coming down at − 80 degrees Fahrenheit, its original temperature perhaps at the tropopause, the top of the lowest layer of the atmosphere, it should come down and compress at the dry adiabatic lapse rate, which is 30 F per mile... by the time [the air] reaches the ground, it should have been about 140 degrees F.» We all knew that movie was a hot mess.

The Auger observatory, located in Argentina, uses telescopes to observe faint light from particle showers in the atmosphere, and detects particles that reach the ground using

All the dust and debris reach the ground but the atmosphere disintegrates them for us, leaving us a shower of rocks.

Slowly roll your torso down until your hands reach the ground, then walk your hands out to the Frisbee.

B. With arms at your sides holding dumbbells, lower your (back) right knee until it has almost reached the ground while breathing in.

As your arms reach the ground, try to position your forearms flat on the mat and grasp the wheel with both hands to hold it in place.

When the balls of their feet barely reach the ground, they immediately distribute the impact in rapid sequence up through the calf to the thigh and buttocks.