Sentences with phrase «vertical structures»

Borders are mixed and climbers scramble up and over vertical structures and surfaces.

With 54 percent of the world's population residing in urban areas — expected to increase to about 66 percent by 2050, according to the 2014 Revision of World Urbanization Prospect — vertical farming projects strive to expand production on and in buildings and vertical structures.

Having vertical structures sticking out of the lake in close proximity to the cliffs will, especially in winter when ice floes collect, change the currents and will possibly increase the rate of erosion.

Reflections of the light itself or reflections of figures of stage and vertical structures that appear to rise or to emerge out of the sometimes palpable and sometimes implicit liquid element.

Referencing the ancient menhirs featured in her photographs, Harrison titled her vertical structures after a curious ensemble of notable men, including Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Fats Domino, whose forms and varied objects evoked endless associations and connections.

Draping it over a shelf or laying it over the surface of a table alludes to a domestic environment; hanging it from vertical structures makes it more bodily; wrapping it around seating demands a direct contact with the body.

The Cisterna is a preexisting building made up of three adjacent vertical structures which once contained enormous cisterns and now houses «Trittico», which has been devised by the Thought Council (Shumon Basar, Nicholas Cullinan, Cédric Libert).

(Yeah, I know, publishers have been talking about vertical structures for some time, looking to see if it is possible to produce books and sell to readers at the same time.

Another developing approach to increasing crop yields is vertical farming, which is the ability to grow crops indoors in stacked vertical structures, thereby taking up less land.

The vertical structures that «saved so many lives» during the recent disaster were made of reinforced concrete, many of which remained standing even as wood - frame structures washed away, Yeh says.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

Bulkheads, sea walls and vertical structures with marginal structural complexity don't provide the same habitat for marine organisms as natural shorelines, Gittman said.

Our arguments were successful, garnering several extensions and ensuring, for example, that we witnessed the rare illumination conditions of Saturn's equinox in August 2009, when the sun's shallow rays on Saturn's rings revealed the presence of vertical structures protruding above the ring plane that cast long, easily seen shadows.

He argued vertical structures created in British institutions after the Boer war were now outdated and pointed to businesses who now concentrate on networking and serving their customers.

That's why we're creating a horizontal structure rather than a vertical structure, so very different types of people that have extremely useful skill sets can actually work together.

we're creating a horizontal structure rather than a vertical structure, so very different types of people that have extremely useful

Skip ahead several weeks or a few short months, though, and the happy feeling might be gone as you watch your toddler trying to scale every piece of furniture or vertical structure in his path.

Its instruments were able to study Saturn's atmosphere at a wide range of altitudes, revealing its global circulation patterns, composition and vertical structure.

One is connected to the vertical structure and circulation near the tops of these weather systems.

Our observations of the vertical structure can also yield key insights on the processes of grain growth and settling that are important to planet formation in the earliest phase.

This new image not only confirms the formation of an accretion disk around a very young protostar, but also reveals the vertical structure of the disk for the first time in the earliest phase of star formation.

Their survey uncovered significant uncertainties in current climate projections of the intensity and vertical structure of the low - level convergence of moisture to and upper - level divergence of heat away from the tropics.

Now using the ALMA with its full power of resolution, we not only detect an accretion disk but also resolve it, especially its vertical structure, in great detail», says Chin - Fei Lee at ASIAA.

Cassini stares deep into the swirling hurricane - like vortex at Saturn's south pole, where the vertical structure of the clouds is highlighted by shadows.

Researchers improved modeling of cloud vertical structure by including certain cloud and precipitation variables to increase simulation accuracy

The GEDI instrument, which is designed to capture the vertical structure of forests even in Earth's densest forests, being built in a cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

NASA and the USGS have used MRO instruments to analyze the vertical structure and thickness of buried ice sheets, which preserve a detailed record of the Red Planet's past and could provide future human explorers with an easily - accessible water supply.

Monahan, A.H., J.C. Fyfe, and L. Pandolfo, 2003: The vertical structure of wintertime climate regimes of the Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmosphere.

Los Alamos researchers created models to quantify the horizontal and vertical structure of mixing in the ocean and its dependence upon eddy velocities.

Another example of opposites at work: plant climbing vines like pole beans with tall, sturdy plants that can provide a vertical structure, like sunflowers.

The curriculum as roadmap thus has both a horizontal structure identifying different topics and sub-areas of learning, and a vertical structure describing the nature of increasing proficiency.

Place it on any kind of surface or wrap the legs around a suitable vertical structure.

We don't have common vertical structure.

In this exchange of influence, Gueorguieva takes on Weitz's reoccurring theme of the mask and existentially rich nature of the reflection, and Weitz adapts Gueorguieva's implied figuration and propensity for vertical structure.

The Tower, perhaps the most iconic architectural feature of the building, is a vertical structure, which houses multifunctional spaces and an observation deck.

As opposed to a vertical structure, such as a tree, a rhizome spreads laterally and diffusely, like a nettle.

The vertical structure of the colors, marked by only a few horizontal interruptions, is set to rhythmically capture the viewer's eye.

The vertical structure shows frequent renewal even at the bottom for HC control and scenarios whereas the MPI based runs all show a catastrophic freshening due to strong freshwater supply, efficiently blocking deep water renewal.

In the progression of tropical disturbance > tropical storm > hurricane the available energy is limiting the growth of the system; unless the vertical structure of the hurricane engine is blown apart by winds, the thing will grow when it hits a warm deep water zone.

You really need to account for the vertical structure of temperature (the lapse rate), and if you want your model to get a number of basic things right you need to include spectrally grey absorbers — plus the additional mixing in the troposphere (which depends on convection, and hence affects water vapour feedbacks) etc....

One of the best lines in the post was, «Energy is also transferred through vertical motion (convection), evaporation, and condensation too (latent heat), but that doesn't affect this picture, as they all act to restore the vertical structure toward the hydrostatically stable lapse rate in the long run.»

Energy is also transferred through vertical motion (convection), evaporation, and condensation too (latent heat), but that doesn't affect this picture, as they all act to restore the vertical structure toward the hydrostatically stable lapse rate in the long run.

The structural details of FFTT as a «strong column — weak beam» balloon - frame approach using large format Mass Timber Panels as vertical structure, lateral shear walls and floor slabs.

Precise attribution is difficult because there is significant overlapping absorption with varying degrees of saturation, and there is the need to take into account the vertical structure and time - spatial distribution of absorbers, requiring a good climate GCM with good radiative transfer.

... You'll be unsurprised to hear that I think this paints too rosy a picture of our understanding the vertical structure of temperature changes.

Modelling the vertical structure of water vapour is subject to greater uncertainty since the humidity profile is governed by a variety of processes.

This criterion may not be satisfied if observations are available only over a short time period (as is the case for the vertical structure of clouds), or if the predictor is defined through low - frequency variability (trends, decadal variability), or if there is a lack of consistency among available datasets (as in the case for global - mean precipitation and surface fluxes).

In Figure 13 below (from Kennett 1990), the bottom frame labeled Proteus, illustrates a simplified vertical structure of the Atlantic Ocean around 60 million years ago.

Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.

The effect of large - scale model time step and multiscale coupling frequency on cloud climatology, vertical structure, and rainfall extremes in a superparameterized global climate model.