Sentences with phrase «water masses at»

Heated water from such events rises vertically and mixes with ambient waters much like a smoke stack in winter until they reach equilibrium density with surrounding water masses at which they spread out horizontally.

During the onset of the MPT, glacial - interglacial changes in d13C values are associated with changes in nutrient content and carbonate saturation state, consistent with a change in water mass at our site from a nutrient - poor northern source during interglacial intervals to a nutrient - rich, corrosive southern source during glacial intervals.»

Not exact matches

Although officials from corrections departments in all three areas say things went smoothly, accounts from inmates and their families suggest otherwise, with reports of flooding, at least one mass escape, food and water shortages, unhygienic conditions, and a lack of reliable communication.

«Functional» beverage products such as alkaline and maple water are now available at Trader Joe's and other mass - market stores.

On at least two occasions and in two different locations the Israelites received a miraculous provision of water froma rock - mass (Exodus 17:5 - 7; Numbers 20:1 - 11) Therefore, rock - mass as a source of water, in effect, followed them.

A priest blesses a newlywed couple with holy water during a mass wedding in conjunction with the date 12.12.12 at a Chinese temple in Kuala Lumpur.

«The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,» said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.»

I had to hack it out one tiny piece at a time and eventually soak it in a hot water bath to even loosen it enough to get it out of the processor as the blade had spun out a hollowed space under the frozen mass... anyway it was a huge pain, I would say heat the fruit up first

Sprinkle on the ice water 1 tablespoon at a time so that you can gather the dough into a cohesive mass.

Add ice water 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary, to bring the dough mass together.

At home, I love to macerate shallots in vinegar, to add piquancy to salad dressings; and, in winter, I am often to be found slowly sweating onions into a brown, sticky mass, for use in pissaladière, French onion soup and a host of other mouth - watering dishes.

Gradually add the water a splash at a time, you only want to use enough to get the dough to come together into a dryish mass.

Ruling party and opposition Turkish lawmakers on Monday exchanged punches and kicks and hurled water bottles at each other as a new mass brawl erupted in parliament over changes to the constitution, television broadcasts showed.

Even if they continue at the current rate, the moon would only have lost 30 per cent of its water by mass when the sun becomes a red giant in 6 billion years.

A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer,» explains Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, head of the Research Division at GEOMAR.

This results in an effective stratification of the water column, which prevents the mixing of water masses necessary to transfer oxygen to the water at the bottom.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

In a related Environmental Protection Agency study that is still in progress, a team of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering is using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to detect the presence of various anticonvulsants and anticancer drugs in drinking water.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

It also caused a decrease in precipitation by approximately 70 - 85 percent on land and a decrease of approximately 5 - 7 °C in seawater temperature at a 50 - m water depth, leading to mass extinction of life forms including dinosaurs and ammonites.

Water vapor seen at these infrared wavelengths is in the upper and middle levels of the troposphere, where the winds are ruled by large - scale air masses.

Namely these factors are CAPE, which is Convective Available Potential Energy, which is the maximum amount of energy that a rising parcel (which [is] an arbitrary amount of mass) can have as it's rising through the atmosphere; wind shear, which is the difference in wind [vectors] at the top and bottom of the atmosphere; and specific humidity, which is the ratio of water to the total mass of a moist system.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Looking at how water - buses could be integrated into Stockholm's mass transit system, researchers have a come up with a strong case for a maritime complement to trains and buses — and not just in Sweden.

Masses of plankton add swirls of green to the blue waters of the Arabian Sea in this February 3 snapshot from NASA's Aqua satellite (Iran and Pakistan at top of the image; India, to the right).

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Magnesium lines are critical for determining a black holes mass, but for objects at this distance, the redshifting of the light makes them extremely difficult to capture from the surface of our planet due to absorption by atmospheric water vapor.

Although artificial - muscle technology can weigh significantly less than comparable electric motors — the polymers themselves have the density of water — efforts are ongoing at SRI to cut their mass by reducing the need for the external structure that prestrains the polymers.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

Scientists have developed a model which gives the maximum potential capacity of water masses to produce cyanobacteria at different phosphorus concentrations reaching lakes and reservoirs from agricultural or industrial activities.

Evacuations ordered in New York City New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suspended all subway, rail and bus service in the city yesterday starting at 7 p.m., as the downstate region braced for the prospect of mass water intrusion into underground transit, high winds and dangerous coastal flooding.

This past July researchers examining data from Cassini's mass spectrometer announced that the icy debris contains ammonia, a potent antifreeze that could keep water in a liquid state even at the deep - freeze temperatures -LRB--- 136 degrees Fahrenheit) measured near the vents.

A mass spectrometer revealed the ratio of two forms, or isotopes, of strontium at the different stages, which can indicate where his drinking water came from when matched to an area's geology.

Erik Hauri at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and his colleagues analysed lunar rocks and estimate that meteorites equivalent to just 0.001 to 0.004 lunar masses could have brought water to the molten moon when it was 100 million years old (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi.org/xk6).

Earth and Venus are of comparable size and mass, yet the surface of Venus bakes at 460 degrees Celsius under an ocean of carbon dioxide that bears down with the weight of a kilometer of water.

At the moment, we are able to identify planets with a similar mass and radius to Earth that orbit their stars at the right distance to support liquid wateAt the moment, we are able to identify planets with a similar mass and radius to Earth that orbit their stars at the right distance to support liquid wateat the right distance to support liquid water.

The same set of observations indicated that another of Gliese 581's planets — this one seven times the mass of Earth — orbits at the right distance for liquid water, making it the first alien world that could plausibly support life.

In any case, the presence of planet b at its average orbital distance of 2.5 AU could have disrupted the development of an Earth - mass planet in the water zone.

For an Earth - type planet around HD 189733 A to have liquid water at its surface, it would need a stable orbit centered around 0.5 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System (with an orbital period around 150 days assuming a stellar mass around 82 percent of Sol's.

Their simulations suggest that at least one planet in the one to two Earth - mass range could have formed within orbital distances of 0.5 to 1.5 AUs around both heavy - element - rich stars; of particularly note, the simulations frequently generated a Earth - like planet in or near Star B's habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface).

There is also a contribution of excess atmospheric CO2 absorption introduced to deep - water masses from dense, cold CO2 - rich surface waters at downwelling sites (e.g., North Atlantic), which then move through the oceans via meridional overturning circulation.

Using a hydroponic setup at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, a DOE Bioenergy Research Center, they immersed plants at different developmental stages in water to stimulate them to exude their metabolites, then measured the metabolites being released by the plants using mass spectrometry.

In 2003, astronomers at the University of Texas at Arlington performed refined calculations to determine that the habitable zone around 47 Ursae Majoris, where an inner rocky planet (with suitable mass and atmospheric gas composition and density) can have liquid water on its surface, lies between 1.05 and 1.83 AUs of the star.

At the heart of mass spectrometry is the ability to precisely measure tiny samples of substances such as chemicals in soil and water or cancer cells in a tissue sample.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

According to Vogt, we wind up with a planet with minimum mass of 2.2 times that of Earth orbiting at 0.13 AU, «solidly in the star's classical liquid water Habitable Zone.»

Tina van de Flierdt from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London is an international leader in the use of geochemical proxies — particularly neodymium (Nd)-- for reconstructing past ocean circulation, water masses and weathering.

The Webb telescope, using spectroscopy to study the chemical composition of such disks, will be able to examine this finding in greater detail, pinpointing just how much water is present in the region close to the star, and looking at whether the discovery extends to lower - mass stars and even dim «brown dwarf» stars.

If we pin atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to right about 300 to 320 ppm, we are looking at 20 - 30 thousand years of stable climate, with huge fresh water reserves, and we are only about half way into a global mass extinction.

To define the proteomic response of the soybean root hair cell to variations in temperature and water availability, the researchers will use mass spectrometers housed at EMSL, a DOE scientific user facility located at PNNL.