Sentences with phrase «absorbing atmospheric gases»

Since each of the infrared - absorbing atmospheric gases has its own unique absorption spectrum, the total infrared absorption capacity of the atmosphere is then due to the real - time concentration and distribution of all the gases in the atmosphere, from the surface to the stratosphere.

Since each of the infrared - absorbing atmospheric gases has its own unique absorption spectrum, the total infrared absorption capacity of the atmosphere is then due to the real - time concentration and distribution of all the gases in the atmosphere, from the surface to the stratosphere.

Peacock, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., usually studies how the ocean's water absorbs atmospheric gases.

New NASA research is one of the first studies to estimate how much and how quickly the ocean absorbs atmospheric gases and contrast it with the efficiency of heat absorption.

Not exact matches

Transits can reveal atmospheres because as a planet passes in front of its star, atmospheric gases can absorb certain frequencies of the light passing through.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, the greenhouse gas is absorbed into ocean water, making it more acidic.

Plants are the original carbon capture and storage solution: as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, plants absorb more of the gas to fuel photosynthesis, and more carbon is stored in the soil.

Such a large temperature difference indicates that the planet's atmosphere absorbs and re-radiates starlight so quickly that the gas circling around it in the outer atmosphere cools off quickly — unlike Jupiter, which appears to have a relatively even temperature within planetary bands of atmospheric circulation.

These rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have led to an increase in global average temperatures of ~ 0.2 °C decade — 1, much of which has been absorbed by the oceans, whilst the oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO2 has led to major changes in surface ocean pH (Levitus et al., 2000, 2005; Feely et al., 2008; Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno, 2010; Mora et al., 2013; Roemmich et al., 2015).

Using atmospheric devices on a 150 - foot tower in the Morgan - Monroe State Forest, IU researchers measured how much water vapor and gases were being absorbed and released by the forest.

What has happened to atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 and other infrared - absorbing gases so far and what have these gases to do with human activity?

The climate models as described here won't produce glacial / interglacial cycles if run for a long time, and that is because they treat the atmospheric content of trace IR - absorbing gases (CO2, methane and N2O) as external forcings.

The radiative transfer problem is best addressed numerically with a sufficient number of vertical layers to resolve the atmospheric temperature and absorber distributions and with a sufficient number of spectral intervals to resolve the spectral dependence of the contributing gases — as is being done in most GCMs.

Briefly put, the process can be defined as a CO2 molecule absorbing a ~ 650 cm - 1 photon (equivalent to a thermal energy of about 900 K), and losing that energy to the surrounding bath of atmospheric gases.

The elevation of the atmospheric temperature is due to a shift in the radiative equilibrium, i.e. more back radiation absorbed by added gases, selective to IR radiation.

This works for biofuels, as growing crops absorb atmospheric CO2 and convert it to sugars, oils, etc., leading to no net change in atmospheric CO2 when the fuel is burned — but it does not work for coal, oil or natural gas, however.

The majority (99.9 %) of atmospheric gases nitrogen, oxygen and argon do not absorb IR.

Thus, the phase change of water from liquid to gas, after absorbing photons, is a feedback, the absorption of photons and the emission of photons atmospheric water vapor is a forcing, but the photons released when gaseous water become liquid water is a feedback.

When Oreskes quotes, ««Human activities... are modifying the concentrations of atmospheric constituents... that absorb or scatter radiant energy... [M] ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions», her quotation is accurate and she actually emphasizes the word likely.

Sasano proceeded to explain the color - coding system of the iconic maps showing where regions were either absorbing or emitting the trace atmospheric gas.

An international team of researchers report in Nature Communications that they made a computer model of the planet's atmospheric conditions: they included natural and human - triggered aerosols, volatile organic compounds, greenhouse gases and other factors that influence temperature, one of which is albedo: the scientist's word for the capacity of terrain to absorb or reflect solar radiation.

«It is possible that an increase in concentration of atmospheric gases which absorb the outgoing infrared radiation could result in a rise in average global temperature,» William McCollam, Jr., then president of EEI, admitted to Congress in 1989.

Iron — a nutrient naturally carried into the ocean by wind — encourages plankton growth, which can absorb atmospheric CO2, a greenhouse gas.

In 1928, George Simpson published a memoir on atmospheric radiation, which assumed water vapour was the only greenhouse gas, even though, as Richardson pointed out in a comment, there was evidence that even dry air absorbed infrared radiation.

Students know the different atmospheric gases that absorb the Earth's thermal radiation and the mechanism and significance of the greenhouse effect.

Earth's Greenhouse Effect is described as all about radiant effects: Wiki: «The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions.

These so - called greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation, emitted by the Earth's surface, the atmosphere and clouds, except in a transparent part of the spectrum called the «atmospheric window», as shown in Figure 1.2.

Conversely, as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and other absorbing gases continue to increase, in large part owing to human activities, surface temperatures should rise because of the capacity of such gases to trap infrared radiation.

Careful and comprehensive scientific assessments have clearly demonstrated that the Earth's climate system is changing rapidly in response to growing atmospheric burdens of greenhouse gases and absorbing aerosol particles (IPCC, 2007).

Nations collectively to begin to reduce sharply global atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases and absorbing aerosols, with the goal of urgently halting their accumulation in the atmosphere and holding atmospheric levels at their lowest practicable value;

Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface.

Like carbon dioxide, many non-CO2 atmospheric gases absorb in the infrared and contribute to climate forcing.

And that to use it as an example or reason why we are thus NOT affecting the earth through a multi million year change in long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases — which absorb and re radiate thermal radiation, slowly increasing the energy balance of the earth — is irrational.

Much of this IR is at wavelengths at which other atmospheric constituents do not interact, so if CO2 is exposed to a warmer surface like the earth, it will absorb radiation that would otherwise pass through into the cold of space AND likewise if CO2 is exposed to the cool of outer space it will emit vast quantities of IR at wavelengths which other gases can not emit.

Because a cool ocean absorbs atmospheric heat more readily, that has partially offset the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gases.

«THERE IS a good, but by no means certain, chance that the world's average climate will become significantly warmer during the next century, because of the increasing atmospheric concentrations of infrared - absorbing and re-radiating, so - called «greenhouse»» gases.»

The position statement opens with the following: «Careful and comprehensive scientific assessments have clearly demonstrated that the Earth's climate system is changing rapidly in response to growing atmospheric burdens of greenhouse gases and absorbing aerosol particles (IPCC, 2007).

86) There are no experimentally verified processes explaining how CO2 concentrations can fall in a few centuries without falling temperatures — in fact it is changing temperatures which cause changes in CO2 concentrations, which is consistent with experiments that show CO2 is the atmospheric gas most readily absorbed by water.

They claim that the atmospheric absorbing gases that radiate can not heat the surface since they are cooler than the surface, due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

In addition, they found that in scenarios where the ocean current slows down due to the addition of heat, the ocean absorbs less of both atmospheric gases and heat, though its ability to absorb heat is more greatly reduced.

But trees both absorb and secrete atmospheric gases, and research such as this is intended to discover more about the intricate link between living things and the air we breathe, and, ultimately, the climates that permit life on Earth to survive.

As the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slows down, the ocean absorbs less of both atmospheric gases and heat, though its ability to absorb heat is more greatly reduced.

Fortunately, as depicted in Figure 2 (orange «thermal down surface» arrow), some of this energy does stay in the atmosphere, where it is sent back toward Earth by clouds, released by clouds as they condense to form rain or snow, or absorbed by atmospheric gases composed of three or more atoms, such as water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4).

Yet before writing tha book, Sorenson decided to go ahead and publish his 2011 article because, as he says, «Eunice Foote deserves credit for being the first to recognize that certain atmospheric gases, such as carbon dioxide would absorb solar radiation and generate heat... [three] years before Tyndall's research that is conventionally credited with this discovery.»

I do need to check whether all of the 78 W / m ^ 2 is said to be absorbed in the absorption wavelengths of GHGs or whether some of this is component is absorbed in the absorption wavelenghts of other gases and / or by atmospheric aerosols.

Indeed, the atmospheric CO 2 - concentrations are specified from IR gas analyzer measuring the amount of IR light absorbed in air samples (Keeling et al. 1976).

But let's put these unconventional views aside for a moment, and accept that certain atmospheric gases (e.g., CO2, for one) DO absorb more heat radiation than their more neutral cohorts (e.g., nitrogen and oxygen mostly).

Beginning (near the turn of the 20th century) with the theoretical studies of Svante Arrhenius about how infrared absorbing gases help determine the surface temperature of the earth; then spurred by the reexamination of those models in the 1950's, by Roger Revelle, and in the 1960's, by Jule Charney; and then James Hansen's modeling of the unique green - house - gas (GHG) forcing of the very hot atmospheric temperature of Venus — climatologists and geophysicists began to vigorously reexamine such models in greater detail.

The atmosphere is a great absorber at those discrete frequencies corresponding to an energy transition of an atmospheric gas.

But now, to make sense of the precise link between greenhouse gases and climate change, researchers must first understand in much greater detail how the oceans and the land absorb atmospheric carbon, and in what quantities.