Sentences with phrase «topography as»

In addition to the uncertainties linked to the models / scenarios, it must be noted that these SMB projections do not take into account changes in ice dynamics and surface topography as described in Gregory and Huybrechts (2006).

He identified land — water juxtapositions and topography as two major factors with these being of greater import in Polar Regions.

So for the policy - relevant issues, we generally focus on the physical atmosphere - ocean system, sometimes with coupled carbon - vegetation system, and treat the major ice sheets, orbital parameters and planetary topography as fixed boundary conditions.

«In Japan, art and poetry reflect the gentle changes in climate resulting from the islands» topography as an archipelago, whereas in China, art reflects the cycle of seasons through stunning landscape paintings of craggy cliffs, wide rivers and soaring mountains.»

The 93 drawings in «East End Field Drawings» were made with the East End topography as microscope and muse.

Torn posters by Mark Bradford create a single thick, dirty topography as no single wall in «Frequency» at the Studio Museum, the 2006 Whitney Biennial, or even South LA ever could.

Some of the Rakiraki dive sites are named after their remarkable topography as is the case with Amazing Maze, featuring channels, swimthroughs and canyons to explore.

The fame comes from its topography as a colorful ridge runs west - east hosting soft coral, gorgonians, hard coral and, with a gentle current, as it was the case during our dive, schooling fish.

To the north, around the Balkh Oasis bordering Uzbekistan, UChicago's Anthony Lauricella and Emily Hammer, now at the University of Pennsylvania, examined extremely high resolution satellite and aerial images that can spot subtle changes in topography as small as 10 centimeters across and 50 centimeters high.

That time lengthened with the distance between features, suggesting — but not proving — that the brain pans across an imagined scene depicted with the same spatial topography as a retinal image.

Not exact matches

Broadly speaking, the practice involves taking one large field and managing it as if it were dozens or even hundreds of smaller ones, in order to address the wild variability — in soil, topography and exposure to the elements — that exists across large swaths of land.

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I began with a mind unfavorable to it... but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities, and society of Asia Minor.

Orientation which acts as the all - embracing is thoroughly godless; godless also is the theologian who places his god in causality, a helping formula of orientation, and the spiritualist who knows his way about in the «true world» and sketches its topography.

Mr. Myers for the first time proposed as a general psychological problem the exploration of the subliminal region of consciousness throughout its whole extent, and made the first methodical steps in its topography by treating as a natural series a mass of subliminal facts hitherto considered only as curious isolated facts, and subjecting them to a systematized nomenclature.

The wine regions in each of these states produce different wine varieties and styles that take advantage of the particular Terroir such as: climatic differences, topography and soil types.

It's an especially promising place for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, but its varied topography affords opportunities for aromatic whites as well as Rhône - and Bordeaux - inspired reds.

The Santa Cruz Mountains appellation was among the first to be defined by mountain topography, following the fog line along the coast to encompass the highest vineyards on the ridge tops as high as 2600 feet elevation.

Hormigueros in Puerto Rico is said to be named for its topography, as its ridged valleys are reminiscent of anthills («hormigas» is the Spanish...

These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.

Stewart Jamieson from Durham University in England and his colleagues made the discovery by looking for subtle changes in the ice sheet's surface shapes, developed as a result of ice flowing over diverse topography.

The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

As new oceanic crust is made in the spreading centers (the story went), it cools, fractures, and slips along faults, creating downward - dropped blocks that could be responsible for the ridge - and - valley topography.

But the topography is just one part of the story — coupling that with vastly improved satellite data as well as a better understanding of glacial processes and oceanographic and climate conditions is «probably what we need to do in all of these places,» Siegert says.

It will continue to snap pictures and laser - map the topography, as well as take readings of the planet's magnetosphere.

The site offers up - to - minute reports about the latest deep - sea exploration missions as researchers investigate the deep ocean's otherworldly topography and bizarre inhabitants.

Those cool conditions, however, depend on whether Venus looked the same in its youth as it does today — although the researchers added an ocean, they kept Venus's present - day topography intact — and whether it has always spun as slowly as it does now, taking 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation.

Multiple views taken by New Horizons as it passed by Charon allow stereo measurements of topography, shown in the color - coded version of the image.

If a few key characteristics such as an exoplanet's topography and rotation rate are just right, then the inner edge of the habitable zone — the region in a solar system where conditions conducive to life can arise — will be closer to the host star than is usually thought.

«In these maps, you can see that there's elevation in the bed topography at the same location as the seismic events,» Lough says.

The lack of correlation between spruce beetle infestation and severe fire damage suggests that factors such as topography and weather conditions play a larger role in determining the severity of Colorado's subalpine wildfires.

The topography of West Antarctica below the ice sheet as viewed from above, looking toward the Antarctic Peninsula.

The island of Jan Mayen is in the center of the image and the flow around its topography results in the formation of spiraling cloud patterns known as «von Karman vortices».

Topography seems easy to explain when beholding jagged summits such as Colorado's Rocky Mountains or California's Sierra Nevada range.

These pulses appear merged as a single tremor, which can be picked up by seismometers up to 40 kilometers away, depending on topography and wind.

Karst terrains on Earth can create spectacular topography such as the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

«There is lot of value in examining the topography of Titan in a broad, global sense, since it tells us about forces acting on the surface from below as well as above,» said Radebaugh.

Interestingly, the researchers found that the moon's overall gravity field is no longer aligned with the topography, as it would have been when the tidal bulges were frozen into the moon's shape.

Topography and soil type were defined, as were crop mix (alfalfa and corn), numbers and types of farm equipment, as well as planting and harvesting schedules.

The seafloor is not a single place; its topography is every bit as varied as that of dry land.

In particular, the system relies on information about the variation of submarine topography, of the depths and shapes of underwater terrain, known in technical terms as «bathymetry.»

Using all available geologic, tectonic and geothermal heat flux data for Greenland — along with geothermal heat flux data from around the globe — the team deployed a machine learning approach that predicts geothermal heat flux values under the ice sheet throughout Greenland based on 22 geologic variables such as bedrock topography, crustal thickness, magnetic anomalies, rock types and proximity to features like trenches, ridges, young rifts, volcanoes and hot spots.

«Titan might have broad - scale highs and lows, which might have formed some time ago, and the rivers have been eroding into that topography ever since, as opposed to having new mountain ranges popping up all the time, with rivers constantly fighting against them.»

As a coating layer, 3D textured / crumpled nano - topographies could allow omniphobic / anti-bacterial surfaces for advanced coating applications.»

Complex surface attributes, such as its topography and chemical properties, are not explored here but are expected to influence cluster sizes in some natural environments by increasing the complexity of fluid flow patterns, inducing short - range cell relocation and modifying the long - range relocation mechanism.

Also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, these fierce storms can churn the seas into a violent topography of 50 - foot (15 - meter) peaks and valleys, redefine coastlines and reduce whole cities to watery ruin.

«In tapping mode, as the oscillating cantilever moves across the surface topography, the amplitude of the oscillation wants to change as it interacts with sample,» said Dr. Mohammad Maroufi, a research associate in mechanical engineering and co-author of the paper.

In this section, we describe our state's unique geography and topography, as well as current climatology and the historical climate trends that have led us to the present day.

We will demonstrate the power and importance of the cross-correlation of nanoscale hyperspectal imaging with data from other scanning - probe techniques such as topography, surface potential, conductivity and photocurrent.

It works by sensing the topography of a sample as it scans across it thanks to a very fine probe (the cantilever), which has an extremely sharp tip at its end that touches the surface of the sample.