Sentences with phrase «absorbed by the land»

If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land.

The Earth receives radiation emitted by the sun that is absorbed by the land surface warming.

The blanket allows some (but not all) heat to reach the surface during day time hours to be absorbed by the land and seas.

As part of the Earth's natural carbon cycle, vast amounts of carbon dioxide are taken out of the atmosphere and absorbed by the land each year.

While the Indians aggressively pushed for REDD + + in negotiations and the Americans argued for an even broader approach to land use - based emissions including the recognition of carbon absorbed by all land use change, African negotiators took a softer approach — pushing for REDD, but willing to take a rain check on AFOLU, even as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was promoting its «BioCarbon» initiative, which explicitly endorses credits from sustainable agriculture and forestry.

Similar thing for land... sunlight passes through the atmosphere and it is absorbed by the land surface.

We don't know how big a fraction of our emissions is absorbed by the land, since we have not measured the increase or decrease of the biomass.

But you are right, a great potion from the sun that does get absorbed by land would be in the IR and the darker oceans would absorb a larger portion of the visible along with nearly 100 % IR.

Not exact matches

CO2 emissions either accumulate in the atmosphere, or are absorbed by the oceans or land vegetation.

Absorbing the shock of landing by means of the classical Tele - mark position (7), he completes the jump.

With millions of pounds of 1080 - treated baits on Western lands, one ponders the issue of how much of this poison is absorbed by grazing livestock from contaminated grasses, and subsequently transferred to human stomachs in a leg of lamb or roast of beef.»

Your GoPro is protected on this drone by a shock - absorbing cradle head, so you save on flinches if your landings are still a bit shaky.

Those simulations, which included nitrogen limitations in northern hemisphere soils and phosphorus limitations in the tropics, predicted that land plants will absorb 23 % less carbon than is projected by other models.

Secondly, about half of the CO2 we release into the atmosphere is absorbed either by plants on land or into the ocean and tightening up those numbers is really important.

«Algae absorb carbon dioxide and are intrinsically solar - powered by photosynthesis, but C. zofingiensis has an added benefit in that it can be cultivated on non-arable land and in wastewater.»

• Absorb the impact of landing back on the ground by immediately going into the next repetition

They're soon joined by Wyldstyle's bf, Batman (a terrifically self - absorbed Will Arnett), and the cringingly sweet Unikitty (Alison Brie) who presides over the no - rules Cloud Cuckoo Land, along with numerous special guests.

When Link's world is absorbed into twilight with fearsome beasts roaming the wilderness, all seems lost for the land of Hyrule until Link is saved by the most lovable companion yet, Midna, whose connection to the twilight realm is as much a mystery as her true intentions.

«Up All Night» has grown up, stepping outside its self - absorbed Hollywood head and into the heart - land where even outre characters like the TV diva played by Maya Rudolph («Saturday Night Live») should be made likable while egotistically talking in funny accents.

In 1988 the British Leyland Motor Corporation went under and the Land Rover piece became part of the Rover Group which was eventually absorbed by BMW in 1994.

What's amazing is how much of the force of landing is absorbed by the shocks rather than your spine.

I just started this lovely and absorbing novel about a mother and daughter who move from Los Angeles to Louisiana, drawn by an inheritance of 800 acres of sugarcane land.

Growing up in Santiago and being absorbed by its pre-Colombian art, craft, and archaeological remains, Casasempere has re-interpreted Land Art in the context of contemporary art, and has attempted to develop a new form of sculpture.

Howard Halle reviews This rock absorbs nothing so the water splashes around it and lands back on itself, a solo exhibition of works by Emi Winter.

About half the solar energy reaching Earth is absorbed by the ocean and land, where it is temporarily stored near the surface.

So we could perhaps say that if we cut emissions by 23 % plus 45 %, the land would pretty - much stop absorbing (a mass of assumptions saying that) and the oceans would continue to absorb a similar amount as at present.

This would drop atmospheric CO2 levels, this also dislodging some of the CO2 absorbed by «land».

Pacala and Socolow further theorize that advancing technology would allow for annual carbon emissions to be cut to 2 billion tons by 2104, a level that can be absorbed by natural carbon sinks in land and oceans.

Black carbon disrupts the South Asian monsoon (by altering the land - sea temperature gradient that drives the movement of moist air), helps melt the Greenland ice sheet (by increasing the solar energy the darkened ice absorbs), and accelerates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

Land absorbs energy and ice absorbs heat to melt - as witnessed by the unusually - strong melt - out of Arctic sea ice this year.

Ocean and land surfaces warm at different rates, and land covered by vegetation absorbs and reflects solar energy differently than do deserts or ice - caps.

bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.

A further quirk of Japan's emissions reduction strategy is that, by 2030, the emissions absorbed by Japan's land use sector — including forestry, cropland and grazing land — will diminish by around a third.

Around 30 % of the total land area is counted as forest, and better protection and better forestry practices could absorb 7bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, the authors say.

This leaves around 3 or 4 billion tonnes that are somehow being absorbed by the oceans, the land biosphere, or both.One possibility is that most of the man - made CO2 which does not accumulate in the atmosphere is being absorbed by the oceans... This view is supported by indirect evidence derived from the atmospheric nuclear bomb tests of the 1950s and 1960s.

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man - made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

The production of food and fibre; the urbanization of once agricultural or forested lands; and the sequestration of that portion of carbon emissions from fossil fuels that is not already absorbed by oceans or by long - term sequestration strategies in agriculture or forestry, all constitute competing or non-overlapping uses of ecosystems.

This is followed by proposals to log the Tongass National Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent» old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).

To accomplish this, an amount of material consumed by that person (tons per year) is divided by the yield of the specific land or sea area (annual tons per hectare) from which it was harvested, or where its waste material was absorbed.

However, as the snow and ice melts, it's replaced by dark land and ocean, both of which absorb energy.

Thus the climate is a manifestation of how solar radiation is absorbed, redistributed by the atmosphere, land and oceans, and ultimately radiated back into space.

The only important distinction to be made is the difference between light and heat, because it is this which AGWSF has so thoroughly confused by it memes of «all electromagnetic energy is the same and all create heat when absorbed» and which now has people thinking that visible light can heat land and oceans.

It seems to me, that the ocean absorbs more energy than compared land surfaces, much of the energy absorbed by the ocean, is used to evaporate water.

B) and replaced this with the claim that Visible light from the Sun («shortwave in») is the driving energy absorbed by the surface heating land and oceans.

So I think, around the carbon budgets, a question that I would like to see more clarity on is whether land - based vegetation will continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the rate it currently is, or whether in a future climate, that drawdown of carbon by plants on land will change.

I think the models [assume / are programmed to project that / expect / are parameterized to project that] / CO2 uptake by the oceans, land, and biosphere is becoming saturated and losing the ability to absorb future emissions.

The.2 ° Fahrenheit change you indicate this contradicts is in reference to «global temperature» which takes into account Land, Sea, upper atmosphere and the heat absorbed by the melting of land Land, Sea, upper atmosphere and the heat absorbed by the melting of land land ice.

Up until now, 29 per cent of human emissions of carbon dioxide has been taken up by the oceans, 28 per cent has been absorbed by plant growth on land, and the remaining 43 per cent has accumulated in the atmosphere.

On land, vegetation absorbs CO2 by photosynthesis and converts it into organic matter.

That radiant heat absorbed by oceans and land masses is transferred to the atmosphere thru conduction and convection.