Gases such
as water vapor leave their mark in a planet's atmosphere.
Not exact matches
And this polluted air and
water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and
left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just
as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.
Above the treetops, he checks a cluster of instruments that analyze the lush canopy
as a collection of numbers: the amount of carbon being inhaled from the atmosphere, the concentration of
water vapor in the air and the precise mix of hues the
leaves exhibit.
When the
water enters the atmosphere
as vapor, it
leaves the salt behind.
«If you
leave the lid off of it, that sugar starts to get clumpy after a while because it's absorbing
water from the atmosphere,» he explains, the reason being that sugar is what's known
as a hygroscopic material (one that readily absorbs
water vapor from the air).
So the rising trend in the lower curve is going to represent much more
water vapor added to the atmosphere than the declining top curve represents
as leaving it.
As to the idea of CH4 contributing to an increase in O2 in the atmosphere we are
leaving out the recent examples of increased
water vapor in the Stratospheric region.
But
as we got into autumn, the upper level westerlies really picked up in strength, and you could see the tops of incipient TCs getting strongly sheared in the satellite images, with the
water vapor blown aloft to the east of the cyclone resembling the trial
left behind a comet.
If we were to increase the level of
water vapor in the atmosphere and
leave everything else unchanged, the
water vapor would fairly quickly condense out
as rain, snow, frost or dew and there would be no lasting effect on global temperatures Carbon dioxide comes second after
water vapor and its concentration in the atmosphere is heavily affected by burning of fossil fuels.
Arrhenius further had inadequate data for
water vapor absorption, while Callendar and Plass
as well
as Hulburt
left out the
water vapor feedback altogether.
Air masses are more mobile than the ocean
waters, and when they move to a cooler region, the
water vapor condenses
as rain or snow,
leaving the heat energy in the atmossphere.
To explain that some of the longwave infrared radiation
leaving the ground being returned, or
water vapor equalizing lower tropospheric temperatures at spot A or spot B
as «feedback» is a different thing.
The end result is there's virtually no heating beyond the first few micrometers and the molecules near the surface just keep picking up more and more energy
as latent heat until they have enough energy to vaporize and then they
leave the surface and quickly convect upwards because
water vapor is lighter than air.
Dave Springer says: ``... the molecules near the surface just keep picking up more and more energy
as latent heat until they have enough energy to vaporize and then they
leave the surface and quickly convect upwards because
water vapor is lighter than air.