Sentences with phrase «very shallow layer»

The only bit relevant to the current dispute in Specer's post seems to be this: «Well, notice that what we are left with in this thought experiment is an atmosphere that is heated from below by the ground absorbing sunlight, but the atmosphere has no way of cooling... except in a very shallow layer right next to the ground where it can cool by conduction at night.»

Just put a very shallow layer of the litter in the litter box — enough so that the bottom is covered.

In the East Pacific, the warm surface waters are a very shallow layer on top of the deep cold waters.

Not exact matches

Weak layers are very common in arctic snow packs, in part because the snowpack is often very shallow.

You have an extra layer of challenge to get three stars in each stage, but it still feels very shallow.

Doubling the river runoff results to very fresh waters at the shelves restricting the convection to shallow surface layer.

Mugwump, you talk about the «average diapycnal heat transfer of the ocean», but what Douglass» revised model actually requires is the heat transfer out of the upper mixed layer, which must (according to his ~ 5 month time scale) be very shallow.

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.