Sentence examples for environmental lapse from inspiring English sources
Environmental lapse rates are generated for July mean, maximum and minimum temperatures.
The height that the boundary layer attains on a sunny day, therefore, is strongly influenced by the intensity of surface heating and the environmental lapse rate just above the boundary layer.
This process, referred to as free convection, occurs when the environmental lapse rate (the rate of change of an atmospheric variable, such as temperature or density, with increasing altitude) of temperature decreases at a rate greater than 1 °C per 100 metres (approximately 1 °F per 150 feet).
In terms of environmental lapse rate, ambient temperatures fall by for every 1000 m rise in altitude.
Russian officials had been making life difficult for the Sakhalin project by threatening dire consequences for minor environmental lapses.
Gil Garcetti declined to pursue charges stemming from the alleged environmental lapses.
Decades later, BP contributes to the injection of cash Alaskans rely on to run the state, and although it leaves industry regulators and some citizens nervous about a corporate culture that has generated a laundry list of environmental lapses, it is a company with which Alaska intends to keep doing business.
Moreover, there is also the risk of potential nosocomial CRE outbreaks arising from environmental contamination or lapses in infection control practices [ 8– 11].
"Duke's recent environmental problems suggest serious lapses in oversight as well as failures in risk management by the board of directors and are a substantial concern for investors," said Bill Dempsey, senior vice president of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a social justice agency based in New York.
Environmental groups described the lapse as a missed opportunity to respond swiftly to a situation that has decimated the country's bee population.
In the mid-1980s, andivists and reporters began to unwind Hanford's history, detailing safety lapses and environmental hazards across the site.
