Recent rises in surface temperature have been pinned on rising levels of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide.
This is because the atmosphere does not have an iron grip on the carbon-dioxide level in surface waters.
The industry's now down to fewer than 2000 directly-employed workers in surface mining.
In addition, microbes hiding in saggy skin-folds can probably convert the iodine in surface mud into an absorbable form.
"This type of behavior distinguishes real variations in surface brightness from mere lighting effects, " the NEAR mission team said in a statement.
What Mr Ellroy gains in surface sizzle he loses in emotional resonance.
Cosmic rays from a supernova would have scorched the moon, leaving signs of damage in surface minerals that could be visible to microscopes.
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Chemical effects related to acidification have also been encountered in surface waters of the Bering Strait and the Canada Basin of the central Arctic Ocean.
The researchers say the Nordic Seas are acidifying over a wide range of depths - most quickly in surface waters and more slowly in deep waters.
Jordan's Second National Communication (SNC) report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released in 2009, rising temperatures will lead to a decrease in surface runoff.
To achieve the same result of Alma with a traditional telescope, scientists would need to build one so big, that it would take up 15 sq km in surface space.
The degradation of water quality in surface and groundwater systems is further exacerbating water scarcity and negatively impacting our natural environment and the ecosystem services and goods that it provides, jeopardizing food security and livelihoods.
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But the near-farcical playing surface, with the ball repeatedly held up in surface water, put Chelsea's passing game all at sea and Frank Leboeuf was almost caught out on the edge of his area trying to dribble clear.
It is perhaps not surprising that Microsoft's retail users are slow to migrate from the familiar (PCs running Windows 7 and XP) to the unfamiliar (PCs running the radically different Metro interface, and a new product category in Surface).
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"The controls we had put in place were inadequate due to the unusually high rainfall, which resulted in surface water flowing onto a track that was being used by heavy machinery to extract timber from the forest, " added Mr Garson.
Power and duty cycle: This is one of the critical flaws in the Surface Pro, and in my view, will be a real negative to anyone that wants to use this as a substitute laptop when traveling.
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The 60-year cycle is particularly easy to observe in significant surface temperature maxima that occurred in 1880-1881, 1940-1941, and 2000-2001.
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An assessment of the impacts of climatic change in Latin America and the Caribbean supported by reliable data suggests that ??climate changes during the last century have included an increase in the surface medium temperature, particularly in medium and high latitudes, and changes in precipitation quantity and intensity in several countries of the Region (Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina).
Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).
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"We were able to release these turtles because they're now healthy, and we're seeing recovery in the surface habitats of the Gulf of Mexico, " NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said in a news release.
On our standard Windows battery rundown test, in which we fix the display brightness and loop a video endlessly to exhaustion, the Surface Pro scored just three hours and 46 minutes, despite having a 42.5Wh battery a third larger than the 31.5Wh pack in the Surface RT.
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Bigger image sensors are better because they allow the pixels embedded in their surface to be larger.
Utilising the bounce in the surface, Zaheer had Mahela Jayawardene caught behind and Thilan Samaraweera taken at slip.
The track is now "sealed, " or packed down so that excess water rolls off rather being absorbed in the surface.
The only people dancing for joy about owning a Windows computer seem to be in those Surface Pro TV ads.
"By the time Dr Beattie examined the child, it was evident that he had suffered bleeding in various surface parts of the brain, " said Mr Bedford.
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In the past a product's shape alterations would be hammered out by designers in a surface-modeling program, a tool that allows for easy curve design and concept change.
The Cortex-A15 has been benchmarked running twice as fast as the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3, which, coincidentally, is used in the Surface and the Google Nexus tablet.
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