Sentences with phrase «air rises rapidly»

Hail forms inside powerful thunderstorms, often when warm, moist air rises rapidly in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

In rapidly growing economies, the amount of pollution in the air is undeniably rising, but it is a different story in most rich countries.

A cosmic ray — usually a proton, but sometimes other particles — will slam into air molecules 50 miles or so above the surface, rapidly shedding energy and giving rise to a shower of billions of electrons, positrons, and muons that rain down onto the terrain below.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

Both the air and upholstery temperature can rise so rapidly that a dog can't cool down.

Rapidly rising oil prices and airport charges have caused an increase in airfares, which itself has caused a few travel companies and air carriers to go bust in the past couple of years.

Of course there are interrelations — I understand that a lot of energy (& heat) goes into melting ice, and the area (water, air) remains cool up until all / most the ice is melted, then the water and air are «free» to rise rapidly in temp to their new equilibrium (according to whatever the particular GW forces are).

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Well, technically it isn't a hotspot but a region in the tropical mid-troposphere where temperatures rise more rapidly than the surface due to increased moist air convection that plays a stronger role in the transfer of heat in the tropics.

Heated by condensation on the rise, the descending dry air would adiabatically heat up at 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters and so that it would rapidly become warmer than surrounding atmosphere having a standard lapse rate of 6.5 deg C per 1000 meters.

The main reason soaring greenhouse gas emissions have not caused air temperatures to rise more rapidly is that oceans have soaked up much of the heat.

If small areas have rapidly rising air, larger areas will have have slower subsiding air.

With air travel projected to continue rising rapidly, airlines are expected to rely heavily on offsets to achieve carbon - neutral growth.

Warmer air and ocean temperatures have caused the glacier to detach from a stabilizing sill and retreat rapidly along a downward - sloping, marine - based bed... After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5 - meter sea - level rise equivalent, entered a phase of accelerated retreat in fall 2012.

One interesting question is to what extent they fall in the rising column and to what extent the end up outside that in drier air where evaporation occurs rapidly and changes the properties of adjoining air.

Well, as we know, warm, moist air from the ocean's surface begins to rise rapidly.

2) The air in such towers is dryer than the surrounding air because the rapidly rising air also cools rapidly and that cooling causes the moisture in the air to precipitate as rain.