Sentences with phrase «h2o as water vapor»

«GHGs Direct» covers CO2, CH4, and H2O as water vapor; «GHGs Amplified» consists mostly of AGW - induced increases in water vapor and AGW - induced releases of CH4; «HEAT BUFFERS» consist primarily of the oceans; and «LATENT HEAT» consists mostly of melting ice.

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In particular, aircraft jet engines produce carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of sulfur (SOx), unburned or partially combusted hydrocarbons (also known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs), particulates, and other trace compounds.

(PS regarding Venus — as I have understood it, a runaway water vapor feedback would have occured when solar heating increasing to become greater than a limiting OLR value (Simpson - Kombayashi - Ingersoll limit — see http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/climate-feedbacks-part-1/ — although I should add that at more «moderate» temperatures (warmer than today), stratospheric H2O increases to a point where H escape to space becomes a significant H2O sink — if that stage worked fast enough relative to solar brightening, a runaway H2O case could be prevented, and it would be a dry (er) heat.

But the boiling point of heavy water, as well as heavy oxygen water (H2O ^ 18 rather than H2O ^ 16) are higher than that of normal water, and are found in water vapor in the atmosphere at lower concentrations when the global temperature is low.

He was the first to measure that certain gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O), trap heat in our atmosphere.

H2O or water in 100 x more common as a vapor in the atmoshere, and 40x as common when measured by weight.

Adding the influence of water vapor concentration to the density profile makes the difference between the densities of the two cases a little larger, because water vapor lowers the density as H2O molecules are lighter than average for dry air.

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).

Any argument or purported climate scientist that fails to acknowledge WATER VAPOR (H2O) as the principle GHG in climate science forecasting is committing fraud.

According to NASA, the major GHG's are: «Atmospheric gases that cause this effect include water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) and flourinated (high global warming potential gases, as well as halons).

Gases that absorb and trap this IR radiation, such as water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are known as «greenhouse gases».

Strangely, as Solomon et al. clearly are not aware that the sun does not shine at night, whereas the opacity (OPQ, a term unknown to the IPCC) of the sky becomes relevant, if we replace AVGLO by OPQ, then we have these results, that OPQ has a larger role than [CO2], but without being statistically significant, whereas the main player as before is the ESRL's «precipitable water», i.e., atmospheric water vapor, denoted here as [H2O], hugely statistically significant (t stat = 3.39, well above the benchmark 2.0).

Roughly water vapor, 36 — 70 % and carbon dioxide, 9 — 26 % indicates H2O gas is about 4 times as effective, yet there is 5 times more H2O gas as compared to the weaker CO2 gas.