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positive degree
noun
That state of an adjective or adverb indicating simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as in wise, noble.
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However, antithetic behaviour was only recorded on days with a positive degree day.
The vast majority of events (84%) occurred during the positive degree days.
All monthly networks showed a scale-free network topology with positive degree assortativity.
Relatively small diurnal events occur during the melt season, whilst during winter there are larger multi-day events related to positive degree days.
Deformation in the till occurred throughout the winter (recorded by change in tilt), both during the negative and positive degree days (Fig. 4).
Daily melt was calculated by the positive degree day algorithm66 using degree day factors for Satujökull, Iceland67, 5.6 mm d−1 °C−1 for snow and 7.7 mm d−1 °C−1 for ice.
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We show that Hopf G-modules are relatively injective, which implies that bounded cohomology groups with coefficients in all Hopf G-modules vanish in all positive degrees.
The longitudes in the file are in positive degrees from the prime meridian, so subtracting 360 from them will translate them to a similar range of values as the ones given for the stations.
The direction of root growth over time was quantified by taking measurements of the angle of a root segment in relation to a vertical line, with right being positive degrees and left as negative degrees.
We observe that lake initiation is closely tied to a threshold energy input of approximately 40 ± 18.5 positive-degree-days.
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