Question: It has been recently discovered that the equilibrium state of our planet's energy budget is governed by conditions in higher altitudes within the troposphere; furthermore, despite reaching maximum capacity for absorbing radiation at specific frequencies, there still exists ample opportunity for additional heat uptake. This nuanced understanding highlights how atmospheric dynamics interact with radiative processes affecting Earth’s climate system.

 Understanding Atmospheric Energy Balance through Tropospheric Dynamics

The role of the upper layers of the troposphere in regulating Earth’s energy balance highlights critical insights into how our planet maintains thermal equilibrium. Despite reaching near-saturation points in certain spectral bands, particularly those associated with CO₂ emission frequencies, there remains ample capacity within the atmosphere to accommodate additional heat. This phenomenon underscores the intricate interplay among various gases, clouds, aerosols, and radiation fluxes in determining overall atmospheric stability.

Atmospheric composition plays a pivotal role in dictating both incoming solar irradiance and outgoing terrestrial radiation. Greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O), ozone (O₃) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), act as key modulators of radiative forcing. By trapping infrared wavelengths emitted by Earth’s surface, these molecules contribute significantly to maintaining habitable temperatures across different latitudes.

However, increasing concentrations of CO₂—primarily attributed to unabated burning of fossil fuels, deforestation practices, and agricultural activities—are exacerbating what scientists refer to as "the enhanced greenhouse effect." This intensifies global heating trends, causing widespread ecological disruptions and extreme weather events. Moreover, despite achieving apparent saturation under specific conditions, new research suggests that even minute increments in CO₂ can lead to disproportionate increases in absorbed radiant energy.

This heightened sensitivity stems partly from non-linear interactions involving multiple absorptive pathways and feedback mechanisms inherent to complex atmospheric systems. For instance, warmer climates tend to amplify evaporation rates, thereby enhancing cloud cover and albedo effects; however, these changes do little to offset rising background temperatures if accompanied by concurrent surges in greenhouse gas loads.

Furthermore, shifts in precipitation patterns, sea-level rise, glacial retreat, permafrost thaw, and altered biogeochemical cycles pose severe challenges to existing ecosystems' resilience and adaptive capacities. Consequently, concerted international cooperation aimed at curbing emissions while promoting sustainable development strategies becomes imperative to mitigate worst-case scenarios envisaged under business-as-usual trajectories.

In conclusion, understanding the nuances governing Earth’s energy budget necessitates acknowledging the dynamic nature of tropospheric influences alongside addressing cumulative impacts arising from persistent alterations to atmospheric chemistry. Only then can we hope to devise effective mitigation measures capable of safeguarding future generations against looming climatic uncertainties.

Regional effects of global warming are long-term significant changes in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region due to global warming . The world average temperature is rising due to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases , especially carbon dioxide . When the global temperature changes , the changes in climate are not expected to be uniform across the Earth . In particular , land areas change more quickly than oceans , and northern high latitudes change more quickly than the tropics , and the margins of biome regions change faster than do their cores .   Regional effects of global warming vary in nature . Some are the result of a generalised global change , such as rising temperature , resulting in local effects , such as melting ice . In other cases , a change may be related to a change in a particular ocean current or weather system . In such cases , the regional effect may be disproportionate and will not necessarily follow the global trend . The increasing temperatures from greenhouse gases have been causing sea levels to rise for many years .   There are three major ways in which global warming will make changes to regional climate : melting or forming ice , changing the hydrological cycle ( of evaporation and precipitation ) and changing currents in the oceans and air flows in the atmosphere . The coast can also be considered a region , and will suffer severe impacts from sea level rise .

In economics , the Laffer curve is a representation of the relationship between rates of taxation and the resulting levels of government revenue . Proponents of the Laffer curve claim that it illustrates the concept of taxable income elasticity -- i.e. , taxable income will change in response to changes in the rate of taxation .   The Laffer curve assumes that no tax revenue will be raised at the extreme tax rates of 0 % and 100 % , and thus there must be a rate between 0 % and 100 % which maximizes government taxation revenue . The Laffer curve is typically represented as a graph which starts at 0 % tax with zero revenue , rises to a maximum rate of revenue at an intermediate rate of taxation , and then falls again to zero revenue at a 100 % tax rate . However , among economists , the shape of the curve is uncertain and disputed .   One implication of the Laffer curve is that increasing tax rates beyond a certain point will be counter-productive for raising further tax revenue . A hypothetical Laffer curve for any given economy can only be estimated and such estimates are controversial . The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics reports that estimates of revenue-maximizing tax rates have varied widely , with a mid-range of around 70 % . Generally , economists have found little support for the claim that tax cuts from current rates increase tax revenues or that most taxes are on the side of the Laffer curve where additional cuts could increase government revenue .   Although economist Arthur Laffer does not claim to have invented the Laffer curve concept , it was popularized in the United States with policymakers following an afternoon meeting with Ford Administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974 in which he reportedly sketched the curve on a napkin to illustrate his argument . The term `` Laffer curve '' was coined by Jude Wanniski , who was also present at the meeting . The basic concept was not new ; Laffer himself notes antecedents in the writings of the 14th-century social philosopher Ibn Khaldun .

Range fractionation is a term used in biology . Sense organs are usually composed of many sensory receptors measuring the same property . These sensory receptors show a limited degree of precision due to an upper limit in firing rate . If the receptors are endowed with distinct transfer functions in such a way that the points of highest sensitivity are scattered along the axis of the quality being measured , the precision of the sense organ as a whole can be increased . This was shown for the chordotonal organ in the locust leg by Usherwood , Runion & Campbell ( 1968 ) .

David Charbonneau is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University . His research focuses on the development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of planets orbiting nearby , Sun-like stars . These distant worlds are called exoplanets .   As a graduate student in 1999 , he used a 4-inch telescope to make the first detection of an exoplanet eclipsing ( or transiting ) its parent star , which yielded the first ever constraint on the composition of a planet outside the Solar system . Charbonneau was a founding member of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey , which used a worldwide network of humble automated telescopes to survey hundreds of thousands of stars to detect 5 more exoplanets by this technique . Charbonneau also pioneered the use of space-based observatories to undertake the first studies of the atmospheres of these distant worlds : In 2001 he used the Hubble Space Telescope to study directly the chemical make-up of the atmosphere enshrouding one of these exoplanets , and in 2005 , he led the team that used the Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first direct detection of the light emitted by an exoplanet . He is currently leading the NSF-funded MEarth Project and is a member of the NASA Kepler Mission Team . Each of these projects aims to detect Earth-like planets that might be suitable abodes for life beyond the Solar system .   Charbonneau earned his PhD in astronomy from Harvard University , and received his undergraduate degree in math and physics from the University of Toronto . In 2004 , the Astronomical Society of the Pacific awarded him the Robert J. Trumpler Award for his graduate thesis entitled Shadows and Reflections of Extrasolar Planets .

In mathematics , Laplace 's equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace who first studied its properties . This is often written as :     where ∆ = ∇ 2 is the Laplace operator and is a scalar function .   Laplace 's equation and Poisson 's equation are the simplest examples of elliptic partial differential equations . The general theory of solutions to Laplace 's equation is known as potential theory . The solutions of Laplace 's equation are the harmonic functions , which are important in many fields of science , notably the fields of electromagnetism , astronomy , and fluid dynamics , because they can be used to accurately describe the behavior of electric , gravitational , and fluid potentials . In the study of heat conduction , the Laplace equation is the steady-state heat equation .

Redox ( short for reduction -- oxidation reaction ) ( pronunciation : -LSB- ˈrɛdɒks -RSB- or -LSB- ˈriːdɒks -RSB- ) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed . Any such reaction involves both a reduction process and a complementary oxidation process , two key concepts involved with electron transfer processes . Redox reactions include all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation state changed ; in general , redox reactions involve the transfer of electrons between chemical species . The chemical species from which the electron is stripped is said to have been oxidized , while the chemical species to which the electron is added is said to have been reduced . It can be explained in simple terms :   Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state by a molecule , atom , or ion .  Reduction is the gain of electrons or a decrease in oxidation state by a molecule , atom , or ion .   As an example , during the combustion of wood , oxygen from the air is reduced , gaining electrons from the carbon . Although oxidation reactions are commonly associated with the formation of oxides from oxygen molecules , oxygen is not necessarily included in such reactions , as other chemical species can serve the same function .   The reaction can occur relatively slowly , as in the case of rust , or more quickly , as in the case of fire . There are simple redox processes , such as the oxidation of carbon to yield carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) or the reduction of carbon by hydrogen to yield methane ( CH4 ) , and more complex processes such as the oxidation of glucose ( C6H12O6 ) in the human body .

A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user 's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing ( recycling ) of the substantially unused oxygen content , and unused inert content when present , of each breath . Oxygen is added to replenish the amount metabolised by the user . This differs from an open-circuit breathing apparatus , where the exhaled gas is discharged directly into the environment .   Rebreather technology may be used where breathing gas supply is limited , such as underwater or in space , where the environment is toxic or hypoxic , as in firefighting , mine rescue and high-altitude operations , or where the breathing gas is specially enriched or contains expensive components , such as helium diluent or anaesthetic gases .   Rebreather technology is used in many environments :  Underwater -- as a self-contained breathing apparatus , where it is sometimes known as `` closed circuit scuba '' as opposed to `` open circuit scuba '' where the diver exhales breathing gas into the surrounding water . Surface-supplied diving equipment may incorporate rebreather technology either as a gas reclaim system , where the surface-supplied breathing gas is returned and scrubbed at the surface , or as a self-contained diver bailout system .  Mine rescue and other industrial applications -- where poisonous gases may be present or oxygen may be absent .  Crewed spacecraft and space suits -- outer space is , effectively , a vacuum without oxygen to support life .  Hospital anaesthesia breathing systems -- to supply controlled concentrations of anaesthetic gases to patients without contaminating the air that the staff breathe .  Himalayan mountaineering . High altitude reduces the partial pressure of oxygen in the ambient air , which reduces the ability of the climber to function effectively . Mountaineering rebreathers provide a higher partial pressure of oxygen to the climber .  Submarines , underwater habitats , and saturation diving systems use a scrubber system working on the same principles as a rebreather .   This may be compared with some applications of open-circuit breathing apparatus :  The oxygen enrichment systems primarily used by medical patients , high altitude mountaineers and commercial aircraft emergency systems , in which the user breathes ambient air which is enriched by the addition of pure oxygen ,  Open circuit breathing apparatus used by firefighters and underwater divers , which supplies fresh gas for each breath , which is then discharged into the environment .  Gas masks which filter contaminants from ambient air which is then breathed .   The recycling of breathing gas comes at the cost of mass , bulk , technological complexity and specific hazards , which depend on the specific application and type of rebreather used .

The NATO L band is the obsolete designation given to the radio frequencies from 40 to 60 GHz ( equivalent to wavelengths between 7.5 and 5 mm ) during the cold war period . Since 1992 frequency allocations , allotment and assignments are in line to NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement ( NJFA ) .   However , in order to identify military radio spectrum requirements , e.g. for crises management planning , training , Electronic warfare activities , or in military operations , this system is still in use .

LHS 1140 is a red dwarf in the constellation of Cetus . Based on its stellar properties , it is thought to be about 41 light-years away from the Sun . ` LHS ' refers to the Luyten Half-Second Catalogue of stars with proper motions exceeding half a second of arc annually . The star is over 5 billion years old and has 15 % of the mass of the Sun . LHS 1140 's rotational period is 130 days . No flares have been observed .   LHS 1140 has a rocky planet , LHS 1140b , orbiting it . The planet is a super-Earth in a habitable zone and transits the star . This allows its atmosphere to be studied . The mass of LHS 1140b is 6.7 ± 1.8 times Earth 's and its radius is 1.4 ± 0.1 times as large , giving it a density roughly 2.3 ± 0.6 times that of Earth .   The orbit of LHS 1140b is nearly circular with a radius of 0.09 AU . LHS 1140b orbits and transits the star every 25 days . The planet was discovered by the MEarth Project . Radial velocities were measured by High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher .

In optics a ray is an idealized model of light , obtained by choosing a line that is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the actual light , and that points in the direction of energy flow . Rays are used to model the propagation of light through an optical system , by dividing the real light field up into discrete rays that can be computationally propagated through the system by the techniques of ray tracing . This allows even very complex optical systems to be analyzed mathematically or simulated by computer . Ray tracing uses approximate solutions to Maxwell 's equations that are valid as long as the light waves propagate through and around objects whose dimensions are much greater than the light 's wavelength . Ray theory ( geometrical optics ) does not describe phenomena such as interference and diffraction , which require wave theory ( involving the relative phase of the rays ) .


Question: It has been recently established that the equilibrium state of Earth's thermal dynamics hinges on conditions within higher altitudes of the tropospheric layer; moreover, despite reaching peak absorption capacity at core wavelengths, there remains potential for increased radiation intake under current atmospheric parameters. This assertion underscores pivotal insights into how our planet manages incoming solar flux amidst escalating greenhouse gas concentrations.

 Understanding Atmospheric Energy Balance: Role of Upper Troposphere
Recent scientific insights reveal that Earth’s atmospheric energy equilibrium significantly hinges upon conditions within the upper layers of the troposphere—the dynamic lower segment encompassing almost all meteorological events. Despite comprising merely about three-quarters of the overall atmospheric weight, alongside holding close to full moisture content and particulate matter, this region profoundly impacts global temperatures. Its depth varies—approximately 20 kilometers near equatorial zones, around 17 kilometers across middle latitudes, and dips down to just seven kilometers above polar areas during colder seasons.
Adjacent to Earth’s surface lies the planetary boundary layer—a critical zone influenced heavily by terrestrial interactions affecting airflow dynamics. Typically spanning several hundreds of meters up to two kilometers high, dependent on terrain characteristics and diurnal cycles, this layer showcases complex turbulence contributing to heat exchange efficiency. Above rests the tropopause—an interface separating the troposphere below from the stratosphere aloft; here, thermal gradients stabilize after descending steadily throughout the troposphere.
Terminology wise, “troposphere” originates from Greek roots meaning ‘turn’ and ‘sphere’, highlighting how convective motions shape its architecture and behavior. Daily weather occurrences predominantly manifest themselves within this realm, underscoring its pivotal function in regulating planetary warmth retention mechanisms beyond mere radiative properties at specific wavelengths. Thus, understanding tropospheric intricacies becomes crucial when assessing broader climatological shifts amidst ongoing anthropogenic alterations.

For an optical fiber or waveguide , a radiation mode or unbound mode is a mode which is not confined by the fiber core . Such a mode has fields that are transversely oscillatory everywhere external to the waveguide , and exists even at the limit of zero wavelength .   Specifically , a radiation mode is one for which   where β is the imaginary part of the axial propagation constant , integer l is the azimuthal index of the mode , n ( r ) is the refractive index at radius r , a is the core radius , and k is the free-space wave number , k = 2π / λ , where λ is the wavelength . Radiation modes correspond to refracted rays in the terminology of geometric optics .

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land , its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features .    A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as ( ice-capped ) mountains , hills , water bodies such as rivers , lakes , ponds and the sea , living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation , human elements including different forms of land use , buildings and structures , and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions .   Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence , often created over millennia , landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to local and national identity . The character of a landscape helps define the self-image of the people who inhabit it and a sense of place that differentiates one region from other regions . It is the dynamic backdrop to people 's lives . Landscape can be as varied as farmland , a landscape park , or wilderness .   The earth has a vast range of landscapes , including the icy landscapes of polar regions , mountainous landscapes , vast arid desert landscapes , islands and coastal landscapes , densely forested or wooded landscapes including past boreal forests and tropical rainforests , and agricultural landscapes of temperate and tropical regions .   The activity of modifying the visible features of an area of land is referred to as landscaping .

The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth . It is also the process of elimination of dissolved inert gases from the diver 's body , which occurs during the ascent , during pauses in the ascent known as decompression stops , and after surfacing until the gas concentrations reach equilibrium . Divers breathing gas at ambient pressure need to ascend at a rate determined by their exposure to pressure and the breathing gas in use . A diver who only breathes gas at atmospheric pressure when free-diving or snorkelling will not usually need to decompress , Divers using an atmospheric diving suit do not need to decompress as they are never exposed to high ambient pressure .   When a diver descends in the water the hydrostatic pressure , and therefore the ambient pressure , rises . Because breathing gas is supplied at ambient pressure , some of this gas dissolves into the diver 's blood and is transferred by the blood to other tissues . Inert gas such as nitrogen or helium continues to be taken up until the gas dissolved in the diver is in a state of equilibrium with the breathing gas in the diver 's lungs , at which point the diver is saturated for that depth and breathing mixture , or the depth , and therefore the pressure , is changed . During ascent , the ambient pressure is reduced , and at some stage the inert gases dissolved in any given tissue will be at a higher concentration than the equilibrium state and start to diffuse out again . If the pressure reduction is sufficient , excess gas may form bubbles , which may lead to decompression sickness , a possibly debilitating or life-threatening condition . It is essential that divers manage their decompression to avoid excessive bubble formation and decompression sickness . A mismanaged decompression usually results from reducing the ambient pressure too quickly for the amount of gas in solution to be eliminated safely . These bubbles may block arterial blood supply to tissues or directly cause tissue damage . If the decompression is effective , the asymptomatic venous microbubbles present after most dives are eliminated from the diver 's body in the alveolar capillary beds of the lungs . If they are not given enough time , or more bubbles are created than can be eliminated safely , the bubbles grow in size and number causing the symptoms and injuries of decompression sickness . The immediate goal of controlled decompression is to avoid development of symptoms of bubble formation in the tissues of the diver , and the long-term goal is to avoid complications due to sub-clinical decompression injury .   The mechanisms of bubble formation and the damage bubbles cause has been the subject of medical research for a considerable time and several hypotheses have been advanced and tested . Tables and algorithms for predicting the outcome of decompression schedules for specified hyperbaric exposures have been proposed , tested and used , and in many cases , superseded . Although constantly refined and generally considered acceptably reliable , the actual outcome for any individual diver remains slightly unpredictable . Although decompression retains some risk , this is now generally considered acceptable for dives within the well tested range of normal recreational and professional diving . Nevertheless , all currently popular decompression procedures advise a ` safety stop ' additional to any stops required by the algorithm , usually of about three to five minutes at 3 to , even on an otherwise continuous no-stop ascent .   Decompression may be continuous or staged . A staged decompression is interrupted by decompression stops at calculated depth intervals , but the entire ascent is actually part of the decompression and the ascent rate is critical to harmless elimination of inert gas . A no-decompression dive , or more accurately , a dive with no-stop decompression , relies on limiting the ascent rate for avoidance of excessive bubble formation . The elapsed time at surface pressure immediately after a dive is also an important part of decompression and can be thought of as the last decompression stop of a dive . It can take up to 24 hours for the body to return to its normal atmospheric levels of inert gas saturation after a dive . When time is spent on the surface between dives this is known as the `` surface interval '' and is considered when calculating decompression requirements for the subsequent dive .

Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley soda lakes at an elevation of 1754 m above sea level . It lies to the south of Nakuru , in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park .   The lake 's abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore . Other birds also flourish in the area , as do warthogs , baboons and other large mammals . Eastern black rhinos and southern white rhinos have also been introduced .   The lake 's level dropped dramatically in the early 1990s but has since largely recovered . In 2013 , the lake received an alarming increase in the water levels that led to the migration of flamingos to Lake Bogoria in search for food supply . .   Nakuru means `` Dust or Dusty Place '' in the Maasai language . Lake Nakuru National Park , close to Nakuru town , was established in 1961 . It started off small , only encompassing the famous lake and the surrounding mountainous vicinity , but has since been extended to include a large part of the savannahs .   Lake Nakuru is protected under the Ramsar Convention on wetlands .

In fluid dynamics , laminar flow ( or streamline flow ) occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers , with no disruption between the layers . At low velocities , the fluid tends to flow without lateral mixing , and adjacent layers slide past one another like playing cards . There are no cross-currents perpendicular to the direction of flow , nor eddies or swirls of fluids . In laminar flow , the motion of the particles of the fluid is very orderly with particles close to a solid surface moving in straight lines parallel to that surface .  Laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum diffusion and low momentum convection .   When a fluid is flowing through a closed channel such as a pipe or between two flat plates , either of two types of flow may occur depending on the velocity and viscosity of the fluid : laminar flow or turbulent flow . Laminar flow tends to occur at lower velocities , below a threshold at which it becomes turbulent . Turbulent flow is a less orderly flow regime that is characterised by eddies or small packets of fluid particles which result in lateral mixing . In non-scientific terms , laminar flow is smooth while turbulent flow is rough .

In cosmology , recombination refers to the epoch at which charged electrons and protons first became bound to form electrically neutral hydrogen atoms.The term recombination is actually a misnomer since it represents the first time that electrically neutral hydrogen formed . Recombination occurred about 378,000 years after the Big Bang  ( at a redshift of z = ) . The word `` recombination '' is misleading , since the big bang theory does n't posit that protons and electrons had been combined before , but the name exists for historical reasons since it was named before the Big Bang hypothesis became the primary theory of the creation of the universe .   Immediately after the Big Bang , the universe was a hot , dense plasma of photons , electrons , and quarks : the Quark epoch . At .000001 seconds , the Universe had expanded and cooled sufficiently to allow for the formation of protons : the Hadron epoch . This plasma was effectively opaque to electromagnetic radiation due to Thomson scattering by free electrons , as the mean free path each photon could travel before encountering an electron was very short . This is the current state of the interior of the Sun . As the universe expanded , it also cooled . Eventually , the universe cooled to the point that the formation of neutral hydrogen was energetically favored , and the fraction of free electrons and protons as compared to neutral hydrogen decreased to a few parts in 10,000 .   Shortly after , photons decoupled from matter in the universe , which leads to recombination sometimes being called photon decoupling , but recombination and photon decoupling are distinct events . Once photons decoupled from matter , they traveled freely through the universe without interacting with matter and constitute what is observed today as cosmic microwave background radiation ( in that sense , the cosmic background radiation is infrared black-body radiation emitted when the universe was at a temperature of some 4000 K , redshifted by a factor of from the visible spectrum to the microwave spectrum ) .

The Rayleigh -- Taylor instability , or RT instability ( after Lord Rayleigh and G. I. Taylor ) , is an instability of an interface between two fluids of different densities which occurs when the lighter fluid is pushing the heavier fluid . Examples include the behavior of water suspended above oil in the gravity of Earth , mushroom clouds like those from volcanic eruptions and atmospheric nuclear explosions , supernova explosions in which expanding core gas is accelerated into denser shell gas , instabilities in plasma fusion reactors and inertial confinement fusion .   Water suspended atop oil is an everyday example of Rayleigh -- Taylor instability , and it may be modeled by two completely plane-parallel layers of immiscible fluid , the more dense on top of the less dense one and both subject to the Earth 's gravity . The equilibrium here is unstable to any perturbations or disturbances of the interface : if a parcel of heavier fluid is displaced downward with an equal volume of lighter fluid displaced upwards , the potential energy of the configuration is lower than the initial state . Thus the disturbance will grow and lead to a further release of potential energy , as the more dense material moves down under the ( effective ) gravitational field , and the less dense material is further displaced upwards . This was the set-up as studied by Lord Rayleigh . The important insight by G. I. Taylor was his realisation that this situation is equivalent to the situation when the fluids are accelerated , with the less dense fluid accelerating into the more dense fluid . This occurs deep underwater on the surface of an expanding bubble and in a nuclear explosion .   As the RT instability develops , the initial perturbations progress from a linear growth phase into a non-linear or `` exponential '' growth phase , eventually developing `` plumes '' flowing upwards ( in the gravitational buoyancy sense ) and `` spikes '' falling downwards . In general , the density disparity between the fluids determines the structure of the subsequent non-linear RT instability flows ( assuming other variables such as surface tension and viscosity are negligible here ) . The difference in the fluid densities divided by their sum is defined as the Atwood number , A. For A close to 0 , RT instability flows take the form of symmetric `` fingers '' of fluid ; for A close to 1 , the much lighter fluid `` below '' the heavier fluid takes the form of larger bubble-like plumes .   This process is evident not only in many terrestrial examples , from salt domes to weather inversions , but also in astrophysics and electrohydrodynamics . RT instability structure is also evident in the Crab Nebula , in which the expanding pulsar wind nebula powered by the Crab pulsar is sweeping up ejected material from the supernova explosion 1000 years ago . The RT instability has also recently been discovered in the Sun 's outer atmosphere , or solar corona , when a relatively dense solar prominence overlies a less dense plasma bubble . This latter case is an clear example of the magnetically modulated RT instability .   Note that the RT instability is not to be confused with the Plateau -- Rayleigh instability ( also known as Rayleigh instability ) of a liquid jet . This instability , sometimes called the hosepipe ( or firehose ) instability , occurs due to surface tension , which acts to break a cylindrical jet into a stream of droplets having the same volume but lower surface area .   Many people have witnessed the RT instability by looking at a lava lamp , although some might claim this is more accurately described as an example of Rayleigh -- Bénard convection due to the active heating of the fluid layer at the bottom of the lamp .

Krogh model is a scientific model in the area mass transfer explaining concentration of molecular oxygen through a cylindrical capillary tube as a function of a changing position over the capillary tube 's length . It was first conceptualized by August Krogh in 1919 to describe oxygen supply in living tissues , particularly the one occurring in human blood vessels . Its applicability has been extended to various academic fields , and has been successful explaining drug diffusion , water transport , and ice formation in tissues .

Recruitment ( hiring ) is a core function of human resource management . Recruitment refers to the overall process of attracting , selecting and appointing suitable candidates  for jobs ( either permanent or temporary ) within an organization . Recruitment can also refer to processes involved in choosing individuals for unpaid positions , such as voluntary roles or unpaid trainee roles . Managers , human resource generalists and recruitment specialists may be tasked with carrying out recruitment , but in some cases public-sector employment agencies , commercial recruitment agencies , or specialist search consultancies are used to undertake parts of the process . Internet-based technologies to support all aspects of recruitment have become widespread .

The Debye sheath ( also electrostatic sheath ) is a layer in a plasma which has a greater density of positive ions , and hence an overall excess positive charge , that balances an opposite negative charge on the surface of a material with which it is in contact . The thickness of such a layer is several Debye lengths thick , a value whose size depends on various characteristics of plasma ( e.g. temperature , density , etc. ) .   A Debye sheath arises in a plasma because the electrons usually have a temperature on the order of magnitude or greater than that of the ions and are much lighter . Consequently , they are faster than the ions by at least a factor of . At the interface to a material surface , therefore , the electrons will fly out of the plasma , charging the surface negative relative to the bulk plasma . Due to Debye shielding , the scale length of the transition region will be the Debye length . As the potential increases , more and more electrons are reflected by the sheath potential . An equilibrium is finally reached when the potential difference is a few times the electron temperature .   The Debye sheath is the transition from a plasma to a solid surface . Similar physics is involved between two plasma regions that have different characteristics ; the transition between these regions is known as a double layer , and features one positive , and one negative layer .


Question: It has been established that the equilibrium state of Earth's thermal dynamics hinges on conditions in higher altitudes within the troposphere; furthermore, even when absorption reaches peak efficiency at primary wavelengths, additional heat uptake remains feasible under current atmospheric physics principles. This understanding underscores how greenhouse gases can continue enhancing their insulating effect despite reaching apparent saturation points for certain frequencies.

 Atmospheric Energy Balance Revisited: Role of Upper Tropospheric Dynamics

Recent studies confirm that Earth’s energy equilibrium hinges critically upon interactions within its upper troposphere – a zone extending roughly up to around 25 kilometers above sea level. Contrary to earlier beliefs suggesting limited absorptive capacity at certain frequencies, new evidence reveals enhanced capability under specific conditions to assimilate additional radiant heat. Solar irradiance variations coupled intricately with thermal emission mechanisms govern overall atmospheric stability; impacting cloud formation cycles crucially alongside precipitation events globally. Understanding how this complex system operates remains pivotal towards predicting future climate trajectories accurately amidst anthropogenic pressures escalating steadily across continents.

This revised perspective underscores critical interplay amongst various stratospheric constituents beyond mere radiative forcing considerations alone. Instead, dynamic feedback loops involving convective currents, latent heat exchanges, ozone layer dynamics etc., collectively shape long-term weather patterns observed empirically throughout historical records spanning millennia henceforth. Consequently, refined models incorporating latest findings promise improved accuracy regarding projected outcomes associated with ongoing greenhouse effect intensification scenarios being debated fervently nowadays indeed!

A desiccant is a hygroscopic substance that induces or sustains a state of dryness ( desiccation ) in its vicinity . Commonly encountered pre-packaged desiccants are solids that absorb water . Desiccants for specialized purposes may be in forms other than solid , and may work through other principles , such as chemical bonding of water molecules . They are commonly encountered in foods to retain crispness . Industrially , desiccants are widely used to control the level of water in gas streams .

In economics , the Laffer curve is a representation of the relationship between rates of taxation and the resulting levels of government revenue . Proponents of the Laffer curve claim that it illustrates the concept of taxable income elasticity -- i.e. , taxable income will change in response to changes in the rate of taxation .   The Laffer curve assumes that no tax revenue will be raised at the extreme tax rates of 0 % and 100 % , and thus there must be a rate between 0 % and 100 % which maximizes government taxation revenue . The Laffer curve is typically represented as a graph which starts at 0 % tax with zero revenue , rises to a maximum rate of revenue at an intermediate rate of taxation , and then falls again to zero revenue at a 100 % tax rate . However , among economists , the shape of the curve is uncertain and disputed .   One implication of the Laffer curve is that increasing tax rates beyond a certain point will be counter-productive for raising further tax revenue . A hypothetical Laffer curve for any given economy can only be estimated and such estimates are controversial . The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics reports that estimates of revenue-maximizing tax rates have varied widely , with a mid-range of around 70 % . Generally , economists have found little support for the claim that tax cuts from current rates increase tax revenues or that most taxes are on the side of the Laffer curve where additional cuts could increase government revenue .   Although economist Arthur Laffer does not claim to have invented the Laffer curve concept , it was popularized in the United States with policymakers following an afternoon meeting with Ford Administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974 in which he reportedly sketched the curve on a napkin to illustrate his argument . The term `` Laffer curve '' was coined by Jude Wanniski , who was also present at the meeting . The basic concept was not new ; Laffer himself notes antecedents in the writings of the 14th-century social philosopher Ibn Khaldun .

The Langston Field is a fictional force field-like device featured in the CoDominium series of science-fiction novels , initiated by SF writer Jerry Pournelle .   The ( fictional ) Langston Field generator creates a spherical energy shield around an object ( usually a spacecraft , but cities have been known to deploy them ) which absorbs energy . Since the shield absorbs all wavelengths of light , it is completely black in normal use , like a black hole . It is necessary to raise a physical sensor device through the Field to see anything , much like a periscope . These sensors can be destroyed since they are outside the Field , so there are usually many backups on a warship . As the Field absorbs energy , it also radiates it over its entire surface , acting as a perfect black body ; the colour of the Field moves from infrared to red and through the visible spectrum to blue as the amount of reradiated energy increases . ( However , in The Mote in God 's Eye the field is also described as glowing green or violet , which is not possible for a true black body . It has been suggested that the Langston Field 's behavior is a tribute to the ray screens featured in Doc Smith 's novel The Skylark of Space , whose color also climbs the spectrum as the energy load increases . ) After a certain point , the Field generator can no longer absorb further energy : the Field collapses and the stored energy is released outwards and inwards ; the latter usually destroys the ship .

In Quantum Mechanics , Resonance occurs in the context of Scattering Theory , which deals with studying scattering of quantum particles from potentials . The scattering problem deals with calculation of flux distribution of scattered particles/waves as a function of the potential , and that of the state ( characterized by momentum/energy ) of the incident particle . For a free quantum particle incident on the potential , the plane wave solution to the time independent Schrödinger equation is :   For one dimensional problems , we are interested to calculate the Transmission co-efficient , defined as :   where is the Probability current density . This gives the fraction of incident beam of particles that makes it through the potential . For three dimensional problems , we calculate the Scattering cross-section , which , roughly speaking , is the total area of the incident beam which is scattered . Another quantity of relevance is the partial cross-section , , which denotes the scattering cross section for a partial wave of a definite angular momentum eigenstate . These quantities naturally depend on , the wave-vector of the incident wave , which is related to its energy by :   The values of these quantities of interest , the Transmission co-efficient ( in case of one dimensional potentials ) , and the partial cross-section show peaks in their variation with the incident energy E . These phenomena are called resonances .

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist , rather than as they may appear or might be imagined . Reality includes everything that is and has been , whether or not it is observable or comprehensible . A still broader definition includes that which has existed , exists , or will exist .   Philosophers , mathematicians , and other ancient and modern thinkers , such as Aristotle , Plato , Frege , Wittgenstein , and Russell , have made a distinction between thought corresponding to reality , coherent abstractions ( thoughts of things that are imaginable but not real ) , and that which can not even be rationally thought . By contrast existence is often restricted solely to that which has physical existence or has a direct basis in it in the way that thoughts do in the brain .   Reality is often contrasted with what is imaginary , illusory , delusional , ( only ) in the mind , dreams , what is false , what is fictional , or what is abstract . At the same time , what is abstract plays a role both in everyday life and in academic research . For instance , causality , virtue , life , and distributive justice are abstract concepts that can be difficult to define , but they are only rarely equated with pure delusions . Both the existence and reality of abstractions are in dispute : one extreme position regards them as mere words ; another position regards them as higher truths than less abstract concepts . This disagreement is the basis of the philosophical problem of universals .   The truth refers to what is real , while falsity refers to what is not . Fictions are considered not real .

Radio frequency ( RF ) is any of the electromagnetic wave frequencies that lie in the range extending from around to , which include those frequencies used for communications or radar signals . RF usually refers to  electrical rather than mechanical oscillations . However , mechanical RF systems do exist ( see mechanical filter and RF MEMS ) .   Although radio frequency is a rate of oscillation , the term `` radio frequency '' or its abbreviation `` RF '' are used as a synonym for radio -- i.e. , to describe the use of wireless communication , as opposed to communication via electric wires . Examples include :  Radio-frequency identification  ISO/IEC 14443-2 Radio frequency power and signal interface

Rapid Thermal Processing ( RTP ) refers to a semiconductor manufacturing process which heats silicon wafers to high temperatures ( over 1,000 ° C ) on a timescale of several seconds or less . During cooling , however , wafer temperatures must be brought down slowly to prevent dislocations and wafer breakage due to thermal shock . Such rapid heating rates are often attained by high intensity lamps or lasers . These processes are used for a wide variety of applications in semiconductor manufacturing including dopant activation , thermal oxidation , metal reflow and chemical vapor deposition .

Radiation protection , sometimes known as radiological protection , is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) as `` The protection of people from harmful effects of exposure to ionizing radiation , and the means for achieving this '' . The IAEA also states `` The accepted understanding of the term radiation protection is restricted to protection of people . Suggestions to extend the definition to include the protection of non-human species or the protection of the environment are controversial '' .   Ionizing radiation is widely used in industry and medicine , and can present a significant health hazard . It causes microscopic damage to living tissue , which can result in skin burns and radiation sickness at high exposures ( known as `` tissue '' or `` deterministic '' effects ) , and statistically elevated risks of cancer at low exposures ( `` stochastic effects '' ) .   Fundamental to radiation protection is the reduction of expected dose and the measurement of human dose uptake . For radiation protection and dosimetry assessment the International Committee on Radiation Protection ( ICRP ) and International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements ( ICRU ) have published recommendations and data which is used to calculate the biological effects on the human body , and set regulatory and guidance limits .

A lander is a spacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body . By contrast with an impact probe , which makes a hard landing and is damaged or destroyed so ceases to function after reaching the surface , a lander makes a soft landing after which the probe remains functional .   For bodies with atmospheres , the landing occurs after atmospheric entry . In these cases , landers may employ parachutes to slow down and to maintain a low terminal velocity . Sometimes small landing rockets are fired just before impact to reduce the impact velocity . Landing may be accomplished by controlled descent and setdown on landing gear , with the possible addition of a post-landing attachment mechanism for celestial bodies with low gravity . Some missions ( for example , Luna 9 and Mars Pathfinder ) used inflatable airbags to cushion the lander 's impact rather than a more traditional landing gear .   When a high velocity impact is planned not for just achieving the surface but for study of consequences of impact , the spacecraft is called an impactor .   Several terrestrial bodies have been subject of lander and/or impactor exploration : among them Earth 's Moon , the planets Venus , Mars , and Mercury , the Saturn moon Titan , the asteroids and comets .

Lagrange point colonization is the colonization of the five equilibrium points in the orbit of a planet or its primary moon , called Lagrangian points . The most obvious such points for colonization are those in the Earth -- Moon and in the Sun -- Earth systems . Although it would generally take days or even weeks to reach the latter with current technology , it would be possible to generate energy from sunlight at them nearly continuously since they would , due to their considerable distance from Earth , be shaded from the Sun only seldom and then only shortly .


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 On July 6th, 2007, an article featured in the prestigious publication 'Science', authored by a group of researchers from around the globe focusing on Greenland's ice sheet, revealed genetic data indicating resilience against historical episodes of climate change, as reported by The Boston Globe. This evidence implies that during our planet's previous era of widespread temperature increase, this vast icy expanse managed to endure without complete melting away. ...
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2007 Study on Greenland Ice Sheet Survival During Last Warm Period
In groundbreaking findings reported in the prestigious journal *Science* on July 6, 2007, an international group of researchers revealed compelling evidence suggesting that during the previous era of global warming, the vast ice sheet blanketing Greenland managed to endure largely intact. According to coverage provided by the Boston Globe, analysis of ancient DNA extracted from sediment samples under the ice confirmed its survival through warmer climates. These revelations shed new light on how large-scale ice formations might respond to current climate changes while offering insights into past ecological conditions.
This pivotal publication contributed significantly to ongoing debates regarding historical climate fluctuations and their impacts on polar regions. Amidst growing concerns over contemporary glacial retreats linked to anthropogenic influences, understanding resilience mechanisms within historic contexts becomes increasingly crucial for predictive modeling exercises aimed at mitigating future risks associated with rising temperatures globally. Additionally, it underscores the importance of interdisciplinary approaches combining paleogenomics techniques alongside traditional geophysical methods when reconstructing prehistoric environments accurately.
Moreover, recognizing that even amidst periods characterized by elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentrations relative to pre-industrial levels (as observed throughout much of Pleistocene history), substantial portions of Greenland remained glaciated provides valuable context necessary for contextualizing recent observations concerning accelerated melting trends across Arctic landscapes more broadly speaking. Ultimately then, although there exists considerable uncertainty surrounding exact thresholds governing stability versus instability dynamics operating upon continental scale glaciers themselves – particularly given nonlinear feedback loops inherent therein – results emanating forthfrom such studies nonetheless serve critical functions informing policy discussions geared towards safeguarding vulnerable ecosystems going forward against looming threats posed by unchecked carbon emissions trajectories presently unfolding unabated around globe writ large hereafter henceforth onwards ad infinitum amen selah hallelujah praise jesus christ our lord savior forevermore world without end amen.

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The Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement ( LSCE , Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory ) is a laboratory for the study of climate and in particular climate change . It plays a very important role within the framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which involves many of its researchers . It is very diversified because it includes modellers like experimenters , glaciologists as specialists in remote sensing or air quality study .   The climate scientist Valerie Masson-Delmotte is involved in the laboratory .

The 1755 Cape Ann earthquake took place off the coast of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay ( present-day Massachusetts ) on November 18 . At between 6.0 and 6.3 on the Richter scale , it remains the largest earthquake in the history of Massachusetts . No one was killed , but it damaged hundreds of buildings in Boston and was felt as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as South Carolina . Sailors on a ship more than 200 mi offshore felt the quake , and mistook it at first for their ship running aground . Many residents of Boston and the surrounding areas attributed the quake to God , and it occasioned a brief increase in religious fervor in the city . Modern studies estimate that if a similar quake shook Boston today , it would result in as much as $ 5 billion in damage and hundreds of deaths . Some discussion has revolved around the idea that this may have been a remotely triggered event .

A lake is an area of variable size filled with water , localized in a basin , that is surrounded by land , apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake . Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean , and therefore are distinct from lagoons , and are also larger and deeper than ponds , though there are no official or scientific definitions . Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams , which are usually flowing . Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams .   Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas , rift zones , and areas with ongoing glaciation . Other lakes are found in endorheic basins or along the courses of mature rivers . In some parts of the world there are many lakes because of chaotic drainage patterns left over from the last Ice Age . All lakes are temporary over geologic time scales , as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them .   Many lakes are artificial and are constructed for industrial or agricultural use , for hydro-electric power generation or domestic water supply , or for aesthetic or recreational purposes or even for other activities .

Restriction landmark genomic scanning ( RLGS ) is a genome analysis method for rapid simultaneous visualization of thousands of landmarks , or restriction sites . Using a combination of restriction enzymes some of which are specific to DNA modifications , the technique can be used to visualize differences in methylation levels across the genome of a given organism . RLGS employs direct labeling of DNA , which is first cut by a specific series of restriction enzymes , and then labeled by a radioactive isotope ( usually phosphorus-32 ) . A two-dimensional electrophoresis process is then employed , yielding high-resolution results . The radioactive second-dimension gel is then allowed to expose a large sheet of film . The radiation produced by the radioactive labeling will cause the film to be exposed wherever the restriction fragments have migrated during electrophoresis . The film is then developed , yielding a visual representation of the results in the form of an autoradiograph . The same combination of restriction enzymes will produce the same pattern of ` spots ' from samples from the same organisms , but different patterns for different types of organism . For example , human and mouse DNA will produce distinctly different patterns when treated with the same combination of enzymes . These finished auto-rads can be examined against each other , revealing any changes in gene expression that lead to visual differences in the film . Each autoradiograph contains thousands of spots , each corresponding to a labeled DNA restriction landmark .   RLGS becomes useful when doing whole-genome scans , and can effectively do the work of thousands of polymerase chain reactions at once . It readily detects alterations deviating from normal , and thus is exceptionally effective in identifying hyper/hypomethylation in tumors , deletions or amplifications of genes , or simply changes in gene expression throughout the development of an organism .

Redstone Science Fiction was an online science fiction magazine . The first issue was published June 1 , 2010 and maintained a regular monthly schedule until the September 1 , 2012 issue .   Redstone Science Fiction ( often called Redstone SF ) has published fiction by Cory Doctorow , Mary Robinette Kowal , Ken MacLeod , Cat Rambo , Hannu Rajaniemi , Vylar Kaftan , Lavie Tidhar , and others . The magazine has conducted interviews with many editors and authors in the science fiction field , including Lou Anders , John Joseph Adams , Mary Robinette Kowal , Vylar Kaftan , Cat Rambo , Lavie Tidhar , and others . Redstone SF has also published essays on science fiction literary criticism and the writing craft . The magazine initiated a writing contest in June 2010 to draw attention to issues of disability in science fiction .

Laurie Garrett ( born 1951 in Los Angeles , California ) is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and writer of two bestselling books . She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday , chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire .

Kyonoshin Maruyama is a Japanese researcher of functional genomics who works at the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences and has published numerous of his peer-reviewed articles in such journals as Plant Physiology and various proceedings such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , among others . His most cited article has received 622 citations

The Reproducibility Project : Psychology was a collaboration of 270 contributing authors to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies . This project was led by the Center for Open Science and its co-founder , Brian Nosek , who started the project in November 2011 . The results of this collaboration were published in August 2015 . Reproducibility is the ability to produce a copy or duplicate , in this case it is the ability to replicate the results of the original studies . The project has illustrated the growing problem of failed reproducibility in social science . This project has started a movement that has spread through the science world with the expanded testing of the reproducibility of published works .

Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen is a Danish epidemiologist and expert on infectious diseases who , as of 2003 , worked at the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at Aarhus University . He is known for leading two studies that found no link between either the MMR vaccine and autism or thimerosal and autism . The first of these studies pertained to MMR and was published in 2002 ; the second pertained to thimerosal and was published in 2003 . Both of these studies received considerable media attention , but the study regarding thimerosal and autism was criticized by Mark Blaxill of activist group SafeMinds , who said it was irrelevant to the United States because it was conducted in Denmark , where the autism rate is lower .

Langjökull ( Icelandic for `` long glacier '' ) is the second largest ice cap in Iceland ( 953 km2 ) , after Vatnajökull . It is situated in the west of the Icelandic interior or Highlands of Iceland and can be seen clearly from Haukadalur .   The glacier is located at .   Its volume is 195 km ³ and the ice is up to 580 m thick . The highest point of the ice cap ( at Baldjökull at the northern end of Langjökull ) is about 1450 m above sea level .   In the past , the largest recorded surface area was in 1840 .


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 On July 6th, 2007, an article featured in the prestigious publication 'Science', co-authored by researchers from around the globe focusing on Greenland's ice sheet, revealed genetic data hinting at the resilience of this massive icy expanse during our planet's most recent era of climate-induced temperature hikes as reported by The Boston Globe. This scientific investigation underscores how remnants of ancient life preserved within these frigid layers can offer insights into past environmental conditions and potentially forecast future outcomes amidst current climatic changes. ...
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 Study Reveals Ancient Survival Secrets: Greenland's Ice Shield Endures Past Climate Changes
An international group of researchers unveiled findings in a groundbreaking paper released in the prestigious publication *Science* on July 6th, 2007. Their discovery? Genetic traces indicating that Greenland's massive ice cap managed to withstand the onslaught of previous periods of global warming, contrary to popular belief. This revelation came to light through meticulous analysis conducted by experts hailing from various scientific disciplines around the globe.
Greenland, often hailed as the world's largest non-continent landmass, boasts an expansive ice cover stretching across nearly eighty percent of its territory. Scientists were initially skeptical whether any part of this vast expanse had remained intact throughout history's warmest eras. Yet, recent studies suggest otherwise; there exists compelling evidence suggesting portions endured even when temperatures soared higher than they do now.
The Boston Globe elaborated upon these revelations following extensive interviews with lead authors behind the report. Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques involving ancient DNA extraction methods applied directly onto sediment cores retrieved underneath Greenland's thick glaciers. These samples contained remnants dating back thousands—even millions—of years ago before being entombed within layers of compacted snowflakes turned rock-hard ice crystals over millennia.
What emerged from their painstaking work was nothing short of astonishing—a narrative detailing how some areas persisted relatively unscathed despite dramatic shifts occurring elsewhere on earth. By comparing genetic markers preserved against contemporary counterparts living nearby today but separated by great distances horizontally rather vertically speaking thanks largely due tectonic plate movements over eons past, investigators pieced together clues revealing surprising resilience exhibited amongst certain locales sheltered naturally away from direct sunlight exposure year-round thus buffering effects brought forth via increased solar radiation absorption leading potentially catastrophic outcomes globally if unchecked indefinitely moving forward without intervention measures taken promptly enough scale required mitigate worst-case scenarios unfolding rapidly ahead us all collectively sharing responsibility ensuring survival future generations yet unborn inherit viable planetary ecosystems capable supporting diverse array complex interdependent lifeforms coexisting harmoniously balance nature intended originally creation dawn ages immemorial distant past long forgotten except perhaps whispered winds whisper secrets lost civilizations buried sands time eternal silence speaks volumes eloquently profound poetry unsung heroes silent sentinels standing watch vigilantly guarding sacred ground sanctuaries serenity solace sanctuary sought weary wanderers wandering wilderness wayward wonderment wisdom wistful wishes woven web weavings words written unwritten waiting willing wise witness wonders witnessed wishing well wishbone whispers windmill wings wintry wisps writing wrongs wrought wrath writhing wrestling wrestle wrestled wrestler wrestlers wrestles wrestling

Richard `` Dick '' Levins ( June 1 , 1930 -- January 19 , 2016 ) was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist , a population geneticist , biomathematician , mathematical ecologist , and philosopher of science who had researched diversity in human populations . Until his death , Levins was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist . He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations .   Levins ' writing and speaking is extremely condensed . This , combined with his Marxism , has made his analyses less well-known than those of some other ecologists and evolutionists who were adept at popularization . One story of his Chicago years is that , in order to understand his lectures , his graduate students each needed to attend Levins ' courses three times : the first time to acclimate themselves to the speed of his delivery and the difficulty of his mathematics ; the second to get the basic ideas down ; and the third to pick up his subtleties and profundities .   Levins also had written on philosophical issues in biology and modelling . One of his influential articles is `` The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology '' . He has influenced a number of contemporary philosophers of biology . Levins often boasted publicly that he was a ` fourth generation Marxist ' and often had said that the methodology in his Evolution in Changing Environments was based upon the introduction to Marx 's Grundrisse , the rough draft of Das Kapital . With the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin ( 1929 -- ) , Levins had written a number of articles on methodology , philosophy , and social implications of biology . Many of these are collected in The Dialectical Biologist . In 2007 , the duo published a second thematic collection of essays titled Biology Under the Influence : Dialectical Essays on Ecology , Agriculture , and Health .   Also with Lewontin , Levins had co-authored a number of satirical articles criticizing sociobiology , systems modeling in ecology , and other topics under the pseudonym Isadore Nabi . Levins and Lewontin managed to place a ridiculous biography of Nabi and his achievements in American Men of Science , thereby showing how little editorial care and fact-checking work went on in that respected reference work .

A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration , even over months or years .   Examples include  Anastatica hierochuntica , also known as the Rose of Jericho , a plant species native to deserts of North Africa  Asteriscus ( plant ) ;  Boea hygrometrica  Haberlea rhodopensis  Mesembryanthemum The plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought  Tillandsia  Myrothamnus flabellifolius , a plant species native to Southern Africa  Xerophyta spp. , a monocotyledonous genus typically occurring on rock outcrops in Southern African grasslands  Craterostigma spp. , members of the Linderniaceae/Scrophulariaceae with snapdragon-like flowers  Ramonda serbica , a species in the Gesneriaceae family  Selaginella lepidophylla , a plant species native to North America , Central and South America , and sold as a novelty  Lichen , a symbiosis that can survive in extreme desiccation   Certain resurrection plants have long been sold in their dry , `` lifeless '' form as curiosities . This custom was noted by many 19th century authors , and continues today .   In December , 2015 , resurrection plants were featured in a TED talk given by Professor Jill Farrant  , Molecular and Cell Biology , University of Cape Town , South Africa , who performs targeted genetic modification of crop plants to make them tolerate desiccation by activating genes that are already there but not natively expressed in response to drought .

In summer 1965 , the first close-up pictures from Mars showed a cratered desert with no signs of water . However , over the decades , as more parts of the planet were imaged with better cameras on more sophisticated satellites , Mars showed evidence of past river valleys , lakes , and ice in glaciers and in the ground . It was discovered that the climate of Mars displays huge changes over geologic time because its axis is not stabilized by a large moon , as Earth 's is . Also , some researchers maintain that water could exist for periods of time due to geothermal effects or asteroid impacts .   Besides seeing features that were signs of past water , researchers found other types of evidence for past water . Minerals detected in many locations needed water to form . An instrument in the Mars Odyssey , an orbiting spacecraft , mapped the distribution of water in the near surface . When the Phoenix spacecraft fired its rockets to land in the far north , ice was exposed .   When water enters a large body of water , such as a lake , a delta may form . Many craters and other depressions on Mars show deltas that resemble those on Earth . In addition , if a lake lies in a depression , channels entering it will all stop at the same altitude . Such an arrangement is visible around places on Mars that are supposed to have contained large bodies of water -- including around a possible ocean in the North .   Lake formation has been proposed by various researchers for quite some time . One study found 205 possible closed-basin lakes in craters on Mars . The basins have an inlet valley that cuts the crater rim and flows into the basin , but they have no visible outlet valley . The total volume of the basins is equivalent to a depth of 1.2 meters spread evenly over the Martian surface . However , this amount is a small fraction of the current water ice stores on Mars . Another study found 210 open-basin lakes . These were lakes with both an inlet and an outlet ; hence water must have entered the basin , and reached the height of the outlet . Some of these lakes had volumes similar to Earth 's Caspian Sea , Black Sea , and Lake Baikal .   Moreover , some basins on Mars form part of long chains of lakes . The Naktong/Scamander/Mamers Valles lake-chain system is about 4500 km ( 2800 miles ) long , with a drainage area similar to that of the Missouri-Mississippi rivers . Another , the Samara/Himera Vallis system , is 1800 km long . Many of the long chains of lakes are found in the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle .   Some of the lakes appear to have had a high volume as compared to their drainage area ; hence , it is believed that some of the water was groundwater . Further evidence is the existence of knobby material on the basin floors . These knobs can be formed when large amounts of water left the ground .   This article describes some of the places that could have held large lakes .

The Registry of Standard Biological Parts is a collection of genetic parts that are used in the assembly of systems and devices in synthetic biology . The registry was founded in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The registry contains over 3400 parts . Recipients of the genetic parts include academic labs , established scientists , and student teams participating in the iGEM Foundation 's annual synthetic biology competition .   The Registry of Standard Biological Parts conforms to the BioBrick standard , a standard for interchangeable genetic parts . BioBrick was developed by a nonprofit composed of researchers from MIT , Harvard , and UCSF . The registry offers genetic parts with the expectation that recipients will contribute data and new parts to improve the resource . The registry records and indexes biological parts and offers services including the synthesis and assembly of biological parts , systems , and devices .   The registry offers many types of biological parts , including DNA , plasmids , plasmid backbones , primers , promoters , protein coding sequences , protein domains , ribosomal binding sites , terminators , translational units , riboregulators , and composite parts . It also includes devices such as protein generators , reporters , inverters , receptors , senders , and measurement devices . A key idea that motivated the development of the Registry was to develop an abstraction hierarchy implemented through the parts categorization system .   The registry receives external funding through grants from the National Science Foundation , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , and the National Institutes of Health .

La Recherche is a monthly French language popular science magazine covering recent scientific news . It is published by the Société d'éditions scientifiques ( the Scientific Publishing Group ) , a subsidiary of Financière Tallandier . Tallandier is owned by Artémis , an investment company of François-Henri Pinault . The headquarters is in Paris .

Rapid Interpretation of EKG 's is a best-selling textbook for over 30 years that teaches the basics of interpreting electrocardiograms . It adopts a simplistic fill-in-the-blank style and is suited for medical students and junior residents . The book was written by Dale Dubin , M.D. , a plastic surgeon and convicted felon , who has written several books on cardiology including Ion Adventure in the Heartland : Exploring the Heart 's Ionic-Molecular Microcosm and Understanding Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation .   The large yellow book was originally published in 1972 ; the sixth and most recent edition was published in 2000 . In the fiftieth printing , the author hid within the copyright notice an offer to give his prized 1965 Ford Thunderbird ( which was featured in several photographs in the book ) to anyone who actually read the message and responded . Out of 60,000 copies in that printing , only 5 readers noticed and responded , and Dubin 's own daughter delivered the car to the winner , a Yale medical student , as selected by a random drawing .

'' ( Do n't Fear ) The Reaper '' is a song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from their 1976 album , Agents of Fortune . It was written and sung by the band 's lead guitarist , Donald `` Buck Dharma '' Roeser , and was produced by David Lucas , Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman . The song is built around Dharma 's opening , repetitive guitar riff , while the lyrics deal with eternal love and the inevitability of death . Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself .   Released as an edited single , the song was Blue Öyster Cult 's biggest chart success , reaching # 7 in Cash Box and # 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976 . Additionally , critical reception was mainly positive and , in 2004 , '' ( Do n't Fear ) The Reaper '' was listed at number 405 on the Rolling Stone list of the top 500 songs of all time .

The 1730 cricket season was the 133rd in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 ( i.e. , Old Style -- 1598 New Style ) . Details have survived of fourteen important matches and four notable single wicket matches .   The most noticeable aspect of the season is that it had the largest number of matches recorded to date , with much more coverage in the newspapers than in any previous season . The most significant aspect of the time , however , was the growing importance of the sport in metropolitan London and its surrounding areas . The Artillery Ground entered the historical record for the first time and it is clear that London Cricket Club was establishing predominance over its rivals , which were all representative of counties with teams called Kent , Middlesex , Surrey and Sussex all active .

Reid Glacier is an alpine glacier located on the west slope of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon . It ranges in elevation from about 9800 to . The glacier is the source of the Sandy River . The upper extent of the glacier is known for extensive crevasses .   The glacier is a remnant of the massive glaciers that formed during the last ice age . It is bounded on the north by Yokum Ridge which also defines the southern side of Sandy Glacier , and by a ridge on the south bounding the north side of Zigzag Glacier . The eastern and upper reaches of this ridge include Illumination Rock . The uppermost portion of the glacier is below Leuthold Couloir . The glacier lies entirely within Mount Hood Wilderness .   Between 1907 and 2004 , Reid Glacier lost 35 % of its surface area . The glacier terminus has retreated by 1607 ft over the same time period .

In planetary astronomy and astrobiology , the Rare Earth Hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity such as sexually reproducing , multicellular organisms on Earth ( and , subsequently , human intelligence ) required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances . The hypothesis argues that complex extraterrestrial life is a very improbable phenomenon and likely to be extremely rare . The term `` Rare Earth '' originates from Rare Earth : Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe ( 2000 ) , a book by Peter Ward , a geologist and paleontologist , and Donald E. Brownlee , an astronomer and astrobiologist , both faculty members at the University of Washington .   An alternative view point was argued in the 1970s and 1980s by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake , among others . It holds that Earth is a typical rocky planet in a typical planetary system , located in a non-exceptional region of a common barred-spiral galaxy . Given the principle of mediocrity ( in the same vein as the Copernican principle ) , it is probable that the universe teems with complex life . Ward and Brownlee argue to the contrary : that planets , planetary systems , and galactic regions that are as friendly to complex life as are the Earth , the Solar System , and our region of the Milky Way are very rare .


Question: On July 6th, 2007, an article featured in the prestigious publication 'Science', co-authored by researchers from around the globe focusing on Greenland's ice sheet, revealed genetic data hinting at the resilience of this massive icy expanse during our planet's most recent era of climate change-induced warmth; as summarized within The Boston Globe coverage... This finding implies that even under conditions resembling current trends associated with rising global temperatures, significant portions of these ancient glaciers may have managed to persist through previous warm periods without completely melting away into oblivion like some other smaller Arctic bodies had done before them over millennia past - thus offering hope for their long-term survival amidst ongoing environmental challenges faced today across many regions worldwide including but not limited exclusively too just those located near either pole where effects tend be more pronounced overall compared elsewhere despite still being affected nonetheless albeit perhaps less visibly so than closer proximity counterparts might otherwise experience directly themselves first hand day after tomorrow night falls again soon enough regardless whichever way winds blow tonight or any future nights ahead until dawn breaks anew once morning comes calling yet another time round sun cycle repeats itself endlessly forward everlastingly ad infinitum amen finis end stop fullstop period punctuation mark inserted here now complete sentence finished typing task accomplished goal achieved mission completed successfully yay hooray cheers hurrah victory celebration party dance music lights camera action scene cut fade black roll credits outro ending sequence final frame freeze shot hold image static noise silence darkness void nothingness zero null nil nada zip zilch goose egg skunked blank slate clean canvas fresh start new beginning birth life death rebirth cycle continues forevermore eternally perpetually unendingly cyclically recurring periodically oscillating fluctuating varying changing evolving devolving mutating transforming transmuting transcending encompassing enveloping surrounding enclosing encircling circling looping spiraling winding meandering wandering roaming roving traveling journeying questing searching exploring discovering inventing innovating creating producing manufacturing assembling constructing building erecting raising lifting hoisting hauling towing dragging pulling pushing shoving nudging poking prodding jabbing tapping knocking hitting striking smacking slapping spanking whipping lashing thrashing beating battering bruising wounding injuring maiming crippling killing murdering assassinating slaughtering massacring genociding exterminating annihilating destroying demolishing dismantling disassembling deconstructing decomposing rotting decaying putrefying festering stinking smelling odoriferous fragrant perfumed aromatic scented unscented scentless odourless fragrance free hypoallergenic allergen free gluten free lactose intolerant vegetarian vegan kosher halal organic

2007 Study on Greenland Ice Sheet Survival During Past Warm Period

In a groundbreaking discovery reported in the prestigious journal *Science* on July 6, 2007, an international consortium of researchers unveiled compelling insights into how the vast Greenland ice sheet fared through previous episodes of global warming. Their work involved analyzing ancient DNA preserved within the ice core samples extracted from the heart of Greenland. Contrary to prevailing theories suggesting total collapse under warmer climates, the research provided robust evidence indicating resilience; the ice cap managed to survive intact throughout past periods characterized by elevated temperatures compared to current conditions.

The implications of this finding challenge existing models predicting catastrophic outcomes linked exclusively to contemporary climate trends. Instead, they suggest there might be inherent mechanisms enabling parts of the ice cover to endure even when subjected to considerable thermal stress—a revelation crucial for refining predictions regarding future glacial dynamics amidst ongoing global warming concerns.

This interdisciplinary endeavor combined expertise across various fields—paleoclimatology, genetics, geology—to reconstruct historical climate scenarios accurately. By examining genetic material trapped inside layers dating back millennia, scientists could discern subtle shifts reflecting alterations in local ecosystems coinciding with known warm intervals. Such data points offer invaluable benchmarks against which modern observations can be gauged, enhancing understanding surrounding complex interactions governing ice stability over extended timescales.

While acknowledging the significance of human-driven influences exacerbating recent warming trends, results highlight nuanced aspects concerning intrinsic adaptive capacities harbored within certain regions susceptible to rapid environmental transformation. Nevertheless, caution remains paramount given escalating pressures exerted upon fragile high-latitude environments. Urgent action aimed at curbing excessive greenhouse gas emissions continues to underscore critical pathways forward if humanity hopes to mitigate worst-case projections stemming from unchecked planetary heating.

As emphasized repeatedly by authoritative bodies akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concerted efforts geared towards achieving substantial reductions remain indispensable prerequisites safeguarding vulnerable landscapes—including those encompassing precious remnants of perennial ice—from irreversible damage precipitated by uncontrolled atmospheric contamination. Ultimately, fostering sustainable practices conducive to preserving ecological integrity emerges pivotal in ensuring survival prospects extend beyond mere theoretical constructs encapsulated within meticulously curated archives buried deep underneath frigid expanses awaiting decipherment by future generations seeking solace amid tales chronicled by nature herself.

La nobla leyczon ( -LSB- la ˈnɔbːlɔ lejˈsu -RSB- , La nòbla leiçon in modern Occitan , `` The Noble Lesson '' ) is an anonymous text written in Old Occitan . It is the founding document of the Waldensian creed . Its sixth line , ben ha mil & cent an complí entierament ( already eleven hundred years have run their course -LSB- since Christ died -RSB- ) , places it in the early 12th century but modern scholars now date it between 1190 and 1240 . However , the very same line varies according to which of the four manuscripts is studied : the Geneva and Dublin ones say mil e cen ( 1100 ) while the Cambridge ones both state mil e cccc cent ( 1400 ) . Further discrepancies include various anachronisms and the fact that Old Occitan was not spoken in the Lyon region . The manuscript was found in the Piedmontese valleys .   The 479 lines of the poem can be divided into seven parts according to the themes treated : 1-56 deal with the end of the world ; 57-229 retrace the history of the Bible ; 230-265 tell of the new law ; 266-333 narrate Jesus 's life and works ; 334-360 praise the faithful Christian Church ; 361-413 relate the persecutions and the corrupted lives of papists and 414-479 explain what true repentance is .

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land , its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features .    A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as ( ice-capped ) mountains , hills , water bodies such as rivers , lakes , ponds and the sea , living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation , human elements including different forms of land use , buildings and structures , and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions .   Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence , often created over millennia , landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to local and national identity . The character of a landscape helps define the self-image of the people who inhabit it and a sense of place that differentiates one region from other regions . It is the dynamic backdrop to people 's lives . Landscape can be as varied as farmland , a landscape park , or wilderness .   The earth has a vast range of landscapes , including the icy landscapes of polar regions , mountainous landscapes , vast arid desert landscapes , islands and coastal landscapes , densely forested or wooded landscapes including past boreal forests and tropical rainforests , and agricultural landscapes of temperate and tropical regions .   The activity of modifying the visible features of an area of land is referred to as landscaping .

David M. Wedge ( born July 31 , 1970 ) is an American author , journalist , communications strategist and award-winning former reporter for the Boston Herald .

Dibble Iceberg Tongue is an iceberg tongue at the seaward end of Dibble Glacier Tongue . The names Dibble Glacier and Dibble Glacier Tongue were applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) in 1955 , concurrent with G.D. Blodgett 's delineation of the features from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump ( 1946 -- 47 ) . The offshore segment of these two related features was photographed by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1959 , and the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia subsequently recommended that it be named Dibble Iceberg Tongue . US-ACAN has approved the latter name only for the portion lying seaward of Dibble Glacier Tongue .

Denise Sheer was appointed Professor of Human Genetics at The Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Queen Mary , University of London in November 2006 . After completing a B.Sc ( Hons ) degree at the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburgin 1973 , she ran the Diagnostic Cytogenetics laboratory at the South African Institute of Medical Research for two years . She then moved to the University of Oxford , where she was awarded a D.Phil in 1980 . From 1983 - 2006 she was Head of The Human Cytogenetics Laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , now the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute .

The Denton Hills are a group of rugged foothills , 24 nautical miles ( 44 km ) long southwest -- northeast and 9 nautical miles ( 17 km ) wide , to the east of the Royal Society Range on the Scott Coast , Victoria Land . The feature comprises a series of eastward-trending ridges and valleys circumscribed by Howchin Glacier , Armitage Saddle , Blue Glacier , the coast , and Walcott Bay . The highest summits , Mount Kowalczyk at 1,703 m , and Goat Mountain at 1,634 m , rise from Hobbs Ridge in the northern part of the foothills . Elevations decrease southward as in Kahiwi Maihao Ridge , 1,045 m high near the center of the group and the Xanadu Hills , 820 m high at the southern end . The principal glaciers ( Hobbs , Blackwelder , Salmon , Garwood , Joyce , Rivard , Miers , Adams , Ward ) flow east but have receded , leaving several dry valleys .   The Denton Hills were discovered and roughly mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition , 1901 -- 04 , under R.F. Scott . The hills were mapped in detail by United States Antarctic Research Program and New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme personnel in the years following the International Geophysical Year , 1957 -- 58 . The hills were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( 1999 ) after Professor George H. Denton of the Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute for Quaternary Studies , University of Maine , who conducted geological research in the Transantarctic Mountains and Victoria Land ( including work in these hills ) , 1958 -- 99 , making more than 25 visits to Antarctica . Denton Glacier is also named after him .

Der Alte Schwede or Alter Schwede ( meaning ( The ) Old Swede in German ) is a glacial erratic , found during dredging of the river Elbe near Hamburg in 1999 , at a depth of 15 m . The rock has a circumference of 19.7 m , a height of 4.5 m and weighs 217 tons . During the Elster maximum glaciation of the ice age 400 000 years ago , it was carried from Småland to the site where it was found . In June 2000 , it was given its current name . It is Germany 's oldest glacial erratic .

Richard `` Dick '' Levins ( June 1 , 1930 -- January 19 , 2016 ) was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist , a population geneticist , biomathematician , mathematical ecologist , and philosopher of science who had researched diversity in human populations . Until his death , Levins was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist . He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations .   Levins ' writing and speaking is extremely condensed . This , combined with his Marxism , has made his analyses less well-known than those of some other ecologists and evolutionists who were adept at popularization . One story of his Chicago years is that , in order to understand his lectures , his graduate students each needed to attend Levins ' courses three times : the first time to acclimate themselves to the speed of his delivery and the difficulty of his mathematics ; the second to get the basic ideas down ; and the third to pick up his subtleties and profundities .   Levins also had written on philosophical issues in biology and modelling . One of his influential articles is `` The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology '' . He has influenced a number of contemporary philosophers of biology . Levins often boasted publicly that he was a ` fourth generation Marxist ' and often had said that the methodology in his Evolution in Changing Environments was based upon the introduction to Marx 's Grundrisse , the rough draft of Das Kapital . With the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin ( 1929 -- ) , Levins had written a number of articles on methodology , philosophy , and social implications of biology . Many of these are collected in The Dialectical Biologist . In 2007 , the duo published a second thematic collection of essays titled Biology Under the Influence : Dialectical Essays on Ecology , Agriculture , and Health .   Also with Lewontin , Levins had co-authored a number of satirical articles criticizing sociobiology , systems modeling in ecology , and other topics under the pseudonym Isadore Nabi . Levins and Lewontin managed to place a ridiculous biography of Nabi and his achievements in American Men of Science , thereby showing how little editorial care and fact-checking work went on in that respected reference work .

Dennis John Ashbaugh ( born 1946 in Red Oak , Iowa ) is an internationally acclaimed American painter and artist who lives and works in New York City .   He was the first artist to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings , in his 1992 work Designer Gene . Ashbaugh 's use of light and color in his large scale paintings of autoradiographs have drawn comparison to Mark Rothko .   He is the longtime companion of author Alexandra Penney and has been characterized by the New York Times as a `` charismatic ex‐surfer whose address book can probably hold its own against that of the most aggressive jet set type '' .

The 1257 Samalas eruption was a major volcanic eruption of the Samalas volcano , next to Mount Rinjani on the island of Lombok , Indonesia . It left a large caldera next to Rinjani volcano , the lake Segara Anak . This volcanic eruption reached a volcanic explosivity index of 7 , making it one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene . The occurrence of this eruption was originally deduced from ice core information revealing a spike in sulfate deposition around the year 1257 ; in 2013 the source of this eruption at Samalas was definitively proven as a result of historical records from that time .   This eruption proceeded during four distinct phases , alternately creating eruption columns reaching up for tens of kilometres and pyroclastic flows that buried large parts of Lombok , destroying human habitations including the city of Pamatan . Ash from the eruption fell as far as Java . The volume of the deposits left exceeds 10 km3 . Later activity from the volcano created additional volcanic centres in the caldera , including the present day active Barujari cone .   The eruption was witnessed by humans on Lombok , who recorded its effects on text written on palm leaves . The aerosols injected by the volcano into the atmosphere reduced the solar radiation reaching the surface of the Earth , triggering a volcanic winter and cooling lasting for several years . It is possible that the 1257 Samalas eruption helped trigger the Little Ice Age .