Sentences with phrase «uppermost surface»

If the world of geophysics has a vision of El Dorado it would be something like this: the ability to see into the uppermost surface of the earth's crust with the very same accuracy that we see the earth's obvious features — its rivers, rocks, mountains and plains.

In the show that first forged his artistic identity in 1991 at the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Stubbs exhibited an extraordinary group of paintings each made of a stack of canvases with thick paint oozing out between them, their uppermost surfaces unambiguously decorated like a cake, with oil applied through icing funnels.

Not exact matches

The uppermost layer — the lithosphere, divided into tectonic plates — is a rind of cool, rigid rock some 200 miles thick that slides slowly across the surface of the asthenosphere, the warmer, weaker roughly 100 - mile - thick layer below.

Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such as sulfate, oxygen, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.

What the physicists discovered was surprising: although the uppermost layer of the surface always consisted purely of SiO2, the tip of the atomic force microscope experienced different frictional forces depending on the thickness of the silicon dioxide layer.

The sea surface microlayer (SML) is the boundary interface between the atmosphere and ocean, spanning the uppermost ~ 1 mm of the ocean.

Fresh porcine retinal tissue was dissected, orientated on a 0.45 mm filter with the photoreceptor cell surface uppermost and placed on top of the iPS - RPE monolayer so that outer segments were adjacent to the RPE.

It works on the uppermost layers of skin's surface, loosening the bonds between dead surface layers and the radiant skin beneath them.

The sun heats the uppermost few meters; this has to find its way to the actual very thin surface layer to be lost.

There is a whole science to uppermost atmosphere physics, where a lot of stuff typically breaks down (like the ideal gas law and Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium which climatologists take for granted) but it's almost a different field all together with little, if any, influence on surface temperature and energy budget discussions.

Though the uppermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, the thermosphere, is extremely tenuous compared with the dense lower layer at the surface, it is not a perfect vacuum.

Steel pipe known as surface casing is cemented into place at the uppermost portion of a well to protect the groundwater.

Petra, The global average surface temperature as calculated by the various groups is an indicator of the warming of the system that includes the oceans, the atmosphere and the uppermost layers of ground.

This wind distribution drives a system of surface currents in the uppermost 100 metres of the ocean.

Monthly summaries of precipitation, the relative humidity of surface air and the volumetric moisture content (the percentage of water per unit volume) of the uppermost 7 cm of soil are available from April 2017 onwards.

Soil - moisture values are for the uppermost 7 cm of soil, as modelled by the Tiled ECMWF Scheme for Surface Exchanges over Land (TESSEL).

The dry and wet indicators from ERA - Interim are precipitation, the relative humidity of surface air and the volumetric moisture content (the percentage of water per unit volume) of the uppermost 7 cm of soil.

Anander, If the radiation changes rapidly, what you say is true, but it does not take long for the uppermost tens of meters to reach an equilibrium and in the equilibrium the heat transfer from the surface to atmosphere (and space) must equal the radiative heating.

Thus the mixing of the uppermost ocean might change a tiny bit, but otherwise both would lead to increased incoming radiation reaching the ocean surface from above.