Sentences with phrase «atmosphere on a planetary scale»

One of the primary tools used to investigate our atmosphere on a planetary scale are global climate models.

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Finally, Pluto has a knock - your - socks - off atmosphere that's escaping rapidly like a comet's, but on a planetary scale.

«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place there provides the only planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before life arose.

Many of the planetary scale atmospheric waves are expressed as thermal variations on the background atmosphere.

Another interesting question, on a larger planetary evolution scale, is the role of the very short wavelengths in eroding planetary atmospheres.

In «Cool It,» Lomborg breezily ticks down a laundry list of high - tech ways to engineer the atmosphere, for example, but punts on the tougher questions related to such planet - scale enterprises — such as the inevitable diplomatic dispute over who sets the planetary thermostat and how blocking the sun does nothing to stem the buildup of carbon dioxide, much of which will stay in the atmosphere for many centuries.

The fact is that unless one can properly appreciate the nature and scale of the effect that an atmosphere has on planetary surface temperature then the significance of my article and indeed the entire underlying debate is impossible to assess meaningfully.

Unless one can properly appreciate the nature and scale of the effect that an atmosphere has on planetary surface temperature the entire underlying debate is impossible to assess meaningfully.

It seems to me in the last year / few years we are seeing more papers shed light on «new» positive feedback mechanisms coming into play on the planetary scale, whether it is the MacDougall paper mentioned in the article, or the recent paper on warmer and higher vapor pressure vegetation and trees losing water to a warmer atmosphere, or many others.