Sentences with phrase «affect radiative balance»

Aerosols not only affect the radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere but also exert a forcing on the hydrological cycle (e.g., Ramanathan et al., 2001a).

Considering the heat capacity of the oceans is about 1,100 times greater than the air, would not even a modest change in cloud cover affect the radiative balance with far greater magnitude than a parts - per - million change in an atmospheric gas constituent?

It matters because of there are other features that affect radiative balance, we need to understand and model them accurately.

The accumulated energy has to come from something affecting the radiative balance of the planet, not just distributional factors.

As I wrote in an earlier in - line reply, there are other factors that influence temp which are not considered a forcing, eg ENSO (which redistributes heat and there) also influence the atmospheric temp without affecting the radiative balance at TOA.

Not exact matches

The clouds affect the «global radiative balance» by reflecting solar energy or trapping terrestrial radiation.

But, I think that is likely to affect weather patterns much more than the radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere.

So a local spike in precipitation releases a lot of heat — but as the heat increases, this negatively affects the vapor - > water transition (precipitation, or raindrop formation), since warm air holds more water then cool air — and so the limit on precipitation vis - a-vis the radiative balance of the atmosphere appears.

Some of this internal variability can have affect the global average radiative energy balance.

The energy flow diagrams of Trenberth et al and Stephens et al show 3 mechanisms by which a warming Earth surface can warm the troposphere and restore radiative balance: it is not reasonable to assert a priori that two of them can't matter in calculating the global mean temperature after a doubling of CO2 concentration, when even a little study shows that all of them will be affected.

Because AGW proponents (Lukes and warmists) can not explain how or why the surface temperature is related to radiation reaching that surface (in other words, it has nothing to do with radiative balance) they can not assume that altering radiative balance will affect surface temperature.

Aerosol particles affect the Earth's radiative balance by directly scattering and absorbing solar radiation and, indirectly, through their activation into cloud droplets.

As you point out, there is no question that adding CO2 to the atmosphere affects what I call the «radiative balance» for want of a better term.

We need to find an equation that allows factors other than mass, gravity and insolation to affect V without affecting T because according to the Gas Laws T is determined only by the amount of KE needed to keep the mass of the atmosphere off the surface at a given height over and above that required for top of atmosphere radiative balance.

Additionally, physical phenomena and processes, driven by (1) the net energy that reaches the atmosphere and surface, (2) redistribution of energy content already within the systems, and (3) activities of human kind, directly affect the radiative energy balance from which the hypothesis was developed.

It is the principal greenhouse gas that affects the Earth's radiative balance.

It is the principal human - caused greenhouse gas that affects the Earth's radiative balance.

The improved accuracy associated with more reliable measures of radiative forcing and temperature is consistent with the hypothesis that anthropogenic activities, which alter the Earth's heat balance, affect global surface temperature.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

The greenhouse effect, by affecting the rate at which the earth emits radiation back out into space for a given surface temperature, causes the earth's temperature to warm in order to maintain radiative balance.