Sentences with phrase «water per second»

The quantities of water involved are huge, varying between four million and 35 million tonnes of water per second.

We measured the «strength» of the AMOC using the standard unit Sv (Sverdrups), where each Sv is 1 million cubic metres of water per second.

So Gulf Stream flow rate: «The Gulf Stream transports nearly four billion cubic feet of water per second, an amount greater than that carried by all of the world's rivers combined.»

For the pumping, meanwhile, you would need «90 of the largest pump stations currently under construction in New Orleans,» each of which would be capable of pumping 360 cubic meters of water per second, the study calculates.

At Huka Falls you can witness the phenomenon of natural hydro power - more than 220, 000 litres of water per second.

Well Norwegian scientist Harald Sverdrup realized that the amount of water flowing through was to big to be measured in gallons or liters, so he came up with the term «the Sverdrup» which is «one million cubic meters of water per second», and there is 20 - 22 Sverdrups flowing through.

During flooding episodes, the channel can divert up to 4,000 cubic meters (140,000 cubic feet) of water per second before it reaches the Winnipeg area.

He estimates that a 0.3 - by - 0.3 meter array of oil - attracting needles could clean 1 liter of oil - contaminated ocean water per second — too little, he says, to feasibly clean up large areas of the ocean.

The engineering firm Black & Veatch has developed a plan that would siphon off 1,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Mississippi and move it across the Great Plains and over the Rockies to southwestern Colorado.

A model suggests that it is a plume 200 kilometres high that is spouting 3000 kilograms of water per second.

This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne personally supervised the release of 41,500 cubic feet (1,175 cubic meters) of water per second over a 60 - hour period to mimic a natural flood that will enlarge existing sandbars.

Not exact matches

At a kilometer high, the water level would rise at 17.5 mm per second, and the pressure on the Earth's crust would be 100 bars.)

It uses a super accurate sensor to measure the water 5 times per second and quickly tells you what you need to know.

There are exceptions to this rule: The cannonball jellyfish — a seafood delicacy in Asia — shoots through the water at 15 centimeters per second, a decent clip.

But the technique works only if the water moves very slowly — a fraction of a millimeter per second.

With a fluid velocity of about 1 to 2 centimeters per second, the jet was also powerful enough to mix shallow waters with deeper, saltier waters.

This would mean the water would have to flow at 2.46 metres per second — twice the velocity of normal airflow and therefore far faster than he could inhale and exhale, causing him to suffocate.

Water molecules are linked together by hydrogen bonds that break and form several thousands of billions of times per second.

The insects create ripples in the water, which generates drag at speeds greater than 0.23 meters per second (more drag than when the beetles just fly through air).

To test this, Laricchia's team fired positronium atoms at 1100 to 4400 kilometres per second into various gases, including hydrogen, krypton and water vapour.

It's not much — just 6 kilograms per second — but there's water vapor coming off two regions of Ceres, the solar system's largest asteroid.

They came up with a maximum flow of 0.23 cubic meters per second, or 19,872,000 liters or 125,000 barrels daily, but this is a bulk outflow that includes mud, water, and gas as well as oil.

An instrument on Rosetta is already measuring 5 liters per second of water vapor production, but that rate is expected to rise to 500 liters per second by the time 67P makes its closest approach to the sun in August 2015.

Here is what scientists think is happening: when Ceres swings through the part of its orbit that is closer to the sun, a portion of its icy surface becomes warm enough to cause water vapor to escape in plumes at a rate of about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) per second.

Wind velocities of three to 15 kilometers per hour will produce water waves having periods up to three seconds.

While filming the elusive Basilisk lizard, which can sprint on water for up to 100 feet in moments of danger, photographers ventured deep into the Brazilian rain forest with a super-slow-motion camera shooting at 2,000 frames per second, 80 times as rapid as a traditional camera.

Using microscopic video recordings, the team showed that underwater oil droplets flowed continuously along the needles at a rate of 2 millimeters per second, similarly to the way water moves along cactus needles, the team reports online today in Nature Communications.

M.I.T.'s robo - fish prototypes cut through the water at close to one body length per second — fast for a robotic fish, but no match for the genuine article, which can swim as fast as 10 times their body length per second, according to the researchers.

Light slows all the time: photons passing through water decelerate to roughly 224,844,344 meters per second, and they stop and are obliterated when they hit opaque surfaces.

Physicists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and at the University of Seville in Spain set up an experiment in which they pulled a disk - shaped object flat down into water so that it hit the water at the relatively leisurely speed of one meter per second (roughly equivalent to dropping the disk from a height of a few centimeters).

In the new study, the scientists concluded that natural trillion - times - per - second vibrations in the STO travel up into the iron selenide film in distinct packets, like volleys of water droplets shaken off by a wet dog.

With the modified design, it now operates in water, producing up to 170,000 hydrogen molecules per second.

(6 kilograms), of water vapor per second from its surface.

At first they used conditions in which no water was present (remember, they used water stand - ins), and the catalyst could create hydrogen gas at a rate of about 33,000 molecules per second.

These channels are often sinuous, and the water can flow at rates of up to several metres per second.

«Carving them, researchers calculated, would take water gushing at 10 million to 1 billion cubic meters per second.»

«Although none of the present models is fully satisfactory, neutral gas emission through water loss by Deimos at a rate of about 1023 molecules per second, combined with a charged dust coma, is favored.»

«Here we report the detection of water vapour around Ceres, with at least 1026 molecules being produced per second, [13 pounds / sec] originating from localized sources that seem to be linked to mid-latitude regions on the surface.»

Yes and that goes into the second method — the cold water bath, which takes a half hour per pound, for folks who are short on time.

Data is lacking on this healing phenomenon, but Dr. Becker notes that cats have a temperature of about 101.5 degrees (â $ they re like furry hot water bottlesâ $) and purr at 25 vibrations per second, a frequency that may help lower blood pressure.

Users have the chance to pick between a native 4K (2160P) resolution at 30 frames per second or, alternatively, stay at Full HD (1080P) resolution to get better shadows, ambient occlusion, and water reflections.

Averaging an estimated $ 18,500 per screen, CBS Films and Lionsgate's «Hell or High Water» came in on top, beating «Sausage Party,» which had the second - highest per - screen average of $ 10,828.

With standing water the All Season performs superbly well, and is capable of displacing 14 litres per second in comparison to the summer Cinturato's six.

Since water was sprayed simultaneously to the operation of the 40 strokes per second blades, the washer reservoir capacity was increased to three litres.

The three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls are responsible for water flow that exceeds 3,000 tons per second.

This type of unit must be attached to an incoming water source and does require at least 3.5 gallons per minute of water flow to create the suction needed in the gallon bottles (if you can fill a five - gallon pail in 90 to 100 seconds, it should work).

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And its continental accolades don't end there: this is also Europe's biggest waterfall in terms of the amount of water discharged — 193 cubic metres per second, in case you were wondering.

The sheer volume of water flowing over the falls amounts to 220,000 litres per second - enough to fill one Olympic sized swimming pool in 11 seconds!

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