Sentences with phrase «air at different altitudes»

In particular, in layers of air at different altitudes they found a different balance between the way clouds trapped radiation and warmed the planet, or reflected sunlight back into space and cooled it.

Upgrading it to a «3D observatory», with drones sampling air at different altitudes, might cost little more than # 50,000 ($ 70,000) a year, according to Dr Nisbet, who test - flew a drone for that purpose in 2016.

McNoldy said the conditions are ripe because we're precisely in the middle of hurricane season and there's little wind shear, a condition in which layers of air at different altitudes move at different speeds and which tends to break up hurricanes.

Not exact matches

In 1749, Scottish scientist Alexander Wilson used several kites, attached in a row, to measure and compare air temperature at different altitudes.

That might give a bit of pause for thought about density and its effect on the ability of air packets at different altitudes to retain the heat of the Sun.

I agree on that, but presenting the issue with an accuracy where that matters we should consider also acceleration at different altitudes in the motion of the ascending air.

Another avenue for monitoring is satellite measurements of column inventories of the gases, which provide much more detailed spatial coverage but no vertical resolution, in which air masses at different altitudes may carry gases that originated from different parts of the Earth's surface.