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Solar panels installed on the upper surface of the gliders power numerous sensors that take readings every 10 minutes.
BBC: PacX Wave Glide
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One day, they found an irregularly shaped stone, about the size of a tea tray, its upper surface pitted with small hemispherical holes.
NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary
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In 2003, Stanford University spin-out company Cooligy showed off its Active Micro-Channel Cooling (AMC) technology which allowed fluids to circulate through hundreds of tiny channels on the upper surface of a chip.
BBC: IBM aims to cool chips with water
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Beachface: upper surface of the beach.
UNESCO: L O S S A R Y
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Independent Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) are fully integrated into the upper bumper surface to complete this unique new design.
ENGADGET: Lexus LF-CC Concept shows the future of touchscreen interiors
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In the mid-1980s the fashionable eco-catastrophe was nuclear winter millions of tonnes of smoke deposited in the upper atmosphere as the result of a nuclear war causing a drastic drop in the surface temperature of the world.
ECONOMIST: Letters
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Led by Sinise, who edges his profile into every shot as if he were a model in a rustic clothing catalogue, and Malkovich, who carries on like a further infantilized Tommy Smothers (his upper register recalls Tweety Bird), the cast acts with self-conscious, surface physicality.
NEWYORKER: Of Mice and Men
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You drill two horizontal wells and inject steam into the upper one, draw bitumen by gravity into the lower well and bring it to the surface.
FORBES: The World's Billionaires
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And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.
ECONOMIST: The science
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While the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere plays an important role in limiting harmful ultraviolet light reaching the Earth's surface, low-level ozone is a pollutant that is harmful, causing respiratory problems in animals as well as well-documented cases in humans.
BBC: Invasive plant 'increases ozone pollution'