Sentence examples for sunlight reaching from inspiring English sources

The amount of direct sunlight reaching the earth would fall, even as the oceans became increasingly acidic.

Rachel Pinker at the University of Maryland, and her colleagues, have analysed satellite records of the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface between 1983 and 2001.

Its average orbital radius of 30.1 AU means that the sunlight reaching its moons and its upper atmosphere is barely 0.1 percent as bright as that at Earth.

Some of the most imaginative solutions to the problem of global climate change involve planetary-scale geoengineering projects to reduce the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

Sulphates are known to destroy ozone, while a reduction in sunlight reaching the Earth may impact on plant growth and agricultural yields across the world.

The consequences would include a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface and a prolonged depression of surface temperatures a so-called impact winter leading to loss of photosynthesizing plant life and worldwide starvation and disease.

The sweep of country appeared magnificent, as fingers of sunlight reached through a mackerel sky and lighted craggy islands.

"If there is a lot of fruit," Dr. Pritts explained, "less sunlight reaches the leaves" for photosynthesis.

That, in turn, can brighten the clouds and cause their tops to reflect more sunlight back to space — meaning less sunlight reaches the surface to heat it.

Around midday at the right time of year, a phallus-shaped ray of sunlight reaches an altar deep in the cave.

The probe's final resting spot in the shadow of a cliff has meant that insufficient sunlight reached the solar panels that should be recharging its batteries.