Sentences with phrase «aerosol in the atmosphere»

A printable poster / demo mat to show how the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere affects sky conditions, one of the aspects citizen scientists report on via the app.

In relatively clean environments, clouds can only grow as large as the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere allows: They will be the limiting factor in cloud formation.

Secondary organic aerosols are formed through complex physical and chemical interactions between pre-existing aerosols in the atmosphere and trace organic gases emitted from both human - caused and natural sources.

By mass aren't most aerosols in the atmosphere mostly water?

The research from top scientists studying a decade of atmospheric data has shown how cloud and weather development are affected by aerosols in the atmosphere.

The results suggested that moderate volcanic eruptions were behind the increases of aerosols in the atmosphere.

The researchers at PNNL and UCI are continuing to answer questions about the properties of organic aerosols in the atmosphere.

And we now have a gloomier picture of the extent to which smogs and other human - made aerosols in the atmosphere shade us from the worst of global warming.

Besides knowing a lot more about the transport of volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere, modern researchers had communications lines and satellites so that news of an eruption could be relayed quickly and the effects noted as they unfolded.

Ironically, if the world burns significantly less coal, that would lessen CO2 emissions but also reduce aerosols in the atmosphere that block the sun (such as sulfate particulates), so we would have to limit CO2 to below roughly 405 ppm.

Like a rainbow, a glory is essentially a highly distorted image of the Sun reflected off water droplets or other aerosols in the atmosphere.

We now have a better picture of the extent to which smogs and other human - made aerosols in the atmosphere shade us from the worst of global warming.

Sulfur aerosols in the atmosphere reflect sunlight.

Between 1968 and 1972... the surface temperature of oceans in the northern hemisphere plummeted by 0.3 C...... Researchers had thought that the drop was due to the build - up of sulphur aerosols in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning.

Water vapor condenses around aerosols in the atmosphere, creating droplets that make up clouds.

Next, the researchers conducted simulations of an actual storm that occurred on March 17, 2014, matching its temperature, wind and water vapor conditions, as well as a low level of background aerosols in the atmosphere.

But no previous research had calculated just how much aerosols in the atmosphere are reducing China's solar energy generating efficiency.

The question is: Does the current load of aerosols in the atmosphere already exceed that limit, in which case adding extra particles should not greatly affect cloud formation; or do they continue to be a limiting factor as pollution rises, so that added aerosols would continue to influence the clouds?

b) there are many natural aerosols in the atmosphere.

High levels of aerosols in the atmosphere cause heat from the sun to be reflected back into space, lowering temperatures on Earth's surface and reducing rainfall.

The explanation for the standstill has been attributed to aerosols in the atmosphere produced as a by - product of greenhouse gas emission and volcanic activity.

The thing is that I read the theory about the cosmic - climate correlation, and I have quite a basic question as long for the exact role of the cosmic ray particles, meaning: we know that water vapour condenses on aerosols in the atmosphere, creating the condensation nuclei.

Scientists observed an increase in these sun - scattering aerosols in the atmosphere from 2000 to 2010.

With help of measurements made in the AERONET network (Aerosol Robotic Network), new and more accurate information can be obtained about the fractions of absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere.

As far as manmade aerosols in the atmosphere, such as from burning of fossil fuels, GISS estimates that these offset about half of the warming produced by man - made greenhouse gases, but that better measurements are needed to determine this.

I hope that you will excuse my butting in Max, but IMO the additional aerosols in the atmosphere adjourning urban areas would have a cooling effect.

Laboratory chamber walls have been stealing vapors, causing researchers to underestimate the formation of secondary organic aerosol in the atmosphere.

In the mid-20th century, coal - burning power plants and other sources released huge amounts of sulfur dioxide, which then formed toxic sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere.

«We found that red - to - green ratios measured in the sunsets of paintings by great masters correlate well with the amount of volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere, regardless of the painters and of the school of painting,» Zerefos said.

Ironically, if the world burns significantly less coal, that would lessen CO2 emissions but also reduce aerosols in the atmosphere that block the sun (such as sulfate particulates), so we would have to limit CO2 to below roughly 405 ppm.

Sexton et al. (2003) did find some evidence for a nonlinear interaction between the effects of greenhouse gases and the indirect effect of sulphate aerosols in the atmosphere - only version of HadCM3 forced by observed SSTs; the additional effect of combining greenhouse gases and indirect aerosol effects together was much smaller than each term separately but was found to be comparable to the warming due to increasing tropospheric ozone.

«Geoengineering for global warming: Increasing aerosols in atmosphere would make sky whiter.»

The short lifetime of aerosols in the atmosphere make them among the most variable components of Earth's climate system.

The reddish color results from scattering of sunlight by suspended particles and aerosols in the atmosphere.

EPIC maintains a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere.

«There is a link between the chemistry that goes on in this type of air motion and the subsequent effects on the trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere that ultimately impact climate.»

«The trends in Africa of hot summers getting hotter and rainy seasons drying out are linked with factors that include increasing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere,» said Ming Cai, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.

Sloan and Wolfendale also discussed the results from an experiment at CERN in Switzerland called CLOUD, where researchers are looking at ways in which cosmic rays can ionize, or charge, aerosols in the atmosphere, influencing how clouds are formed.