Archive for the ‘Water’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Roughly half of the atmosphere's moisture lies within about 1.84 km of the earth's surface, and only a minute fraction of the total occurs above the tropopause. This image measures the concentration of water vapor and other chemicals in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere. It was created on Sept. 24, ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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Estimates of ocean heat content and sea surface temperature
Top graph: Comparison of our upper-ocean heat content with previous estimates (red1 and blue12) for the upper 700 m. The straight lines are linear fits to the estimates. The global mean stratospheric optical depth(arbitrary scale) at the bottom indicates the timing ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
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The Ruwais Desalination Plant in the United Arab Emirates is part of an industrial complex roughly 200 miles west of the capital city, Abu Dhabi. Ruwais generates 700 megawatts of electric power when operating at capacity.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is the primary owner of the facility and plans to ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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The mass extinctions that have exterminated life on Earth over vast stretches of time like the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago were caused by the oceans.
Since the life emerged on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, scientists think there may have been as many as 23 mass ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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The deepest spot in the oceans of the world occurs at the Marianas Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean, where the sea-floor sits approximately 36,160 feet under the ocean surface, according to the National Oceanic Data Center.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Deep Is the Ocean?", url: "http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/404/how-deep-is-the-ocean/" });
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