Sentences with phrase «as water vapor»

Early results show that as water vapor increased, thicker clouds would have reflected up to half of the sunlight back into space.

The amount of water needed to cover the entire world is far too much to be stored in the atmosphere as water vapor.

But as water vapor becomes present in the atmosphere, ozone levels drop.

They also measured the latent heat released over land as the water vapor turned back into liquid water and fell as rain.

If CO2 isn't as powerful as water vapor, which there's already a lot of, adding a little more CO2 couldn't be that bad, right?

I submit to you that CO2 becomes the opposing force to growing cold as water vapor is frozen out of the atmosphere.

The heat caused by infrared radiation is absorbed by greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane, which slows its escape from the atmosphere.

Or a little less, as water vapor increases.

According to their models, methane in the atmosphere of an anoxic Earth - like planet would typically react with the carbon dioxide that still filled the air, mingling further with another ubiquitous gas, nitrogen, as well as water vapor to ultimately rain out as heavier compounds.

There is nothing in the climate models that says that the positive feedbacks such as the water vapor feedback and the ice albedo feedback, etc. operate only for CO2 warming and not on natural warming.

As the water vapor condenses it provides energy, liquid water and pressure gradients (wind).

Absolute humidity is the same as the water vapor density, defined as the mass of water vapor divided by the volume of associated moist air and generally expressed in grams per cubic meter.

As water vapor comes in contact with your cooler swim goggle lenses, it reaches its saturation point, causing water droplets to form during a process known as deposition.

The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out as water vapor leaks into space, and temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all of which will transform our planet into a Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxide.

Furthermore, the moons would be extremely dry, even in the context of the Red Planet, as any water vapor contained in the ejected materials from which the moons could have formed would have been lost to space.

«We think that much of the water that goes down at the Mariana trench actually comes back out of the earth into the atmosphere as water vapor when the volcanos erupt hundreds of miles away,» Wiens says.

Gases such as water vapor leave their mark in a planet's atmosphere.

Evaporation dissipates heat as water vapor and therefore cools your pet.

The atmosphere and surface might very well heat up from enhanced GHE, but as soon as water vapor feedback kicks in it will actually act as both a positive and a negative feedback.

In model experiments where all the trace greenhouse gases are removed the planet cools to a near - Snowball Earth, some 35 °C cooler than today, as water vapor levels decrease to 10 % of current values, and planetary reflectivity increases (because of snow and clouds) to further cool the planet.

As far as water vapor in the tropics, they even say» In the humid equatorial regions, where there is so much water vapour in the air that the greenhouse effect is very large, adding a small additional amount of CO2 or water vapour has only a small direct impact on downward infrared radiation.»

It absorbs 1 / 7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing 1200 times as much heat making 99.9 % of all «global warming.»

«GHGs Direct» covers CO2, CH4, and H2O as water vapor; «GHGs Amplified» consists mostly of AGW - induced increases in water vapor and AGW - induced releases of CH4; «HEAT BUFFERS» consist primarily of the oceans; and «LATENT HEAT» consists mostly of melting ice.

Clouds themselves as liquid water are as important to the infrared budget as water vapor.

Indirectly, human activity that increases global temperatures will increase water vapor concentrations, a process known as water vapor feedback.

Well, strictly speaking, as water vapor absorbs throughout the longwave spectrum there will be a very slight effect.

Jet engine exhaust contains carbon dioxide, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, unburned fuel, soot and metal particles, as well as water vapor.

So far, exciting finds such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane have been spotted mostly in the mammoth atmospheres of super-Jupiters, which, like super-Earths, are gargantuan versions of worlds familiar to us.

As water vapor condenses to form clouds and rain, the conversion releases heat that add buoyancy to the air and further fuels the storm.

Above 1300 degrees, the iron oxides will begin to crack, and the oxygen will combine with the hydrogen, flashing off as water vapor.

Thick, humid air turns out to be a different story, though, and nothing thickens air so reliably (as anyone in London or San Francisco could tell you) as water vapor.

In the case of the Vinalia Faculae, the dissolved gas could have been a volatile substance such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane or ammonia.