Sentences with phrase «atmospheric column»

What you were taught is correct for a usual atmospheric column with a non-zero lapse rate.

At some point in the vertical atmospheric column KE will equal PE and that is the point of equilibrium for the AAL.

«If you look at the total atmospheric column, from your head on up to the top of the atmosphere, this solar proton event depleted less than one percent of the total ozone in the Northern Hemisphere,» Jackman said.

The OCO mission aimed to make unique and high quality measurements of the atmospheric column of carbon dioxide at high spatial resolution.

Spectrally, the opacity of the atmospheric column ranges from a few tenths in the 10 micron window region to many thousands in the center of the 15 micron CO2 band.

K base temperature of the atmospheric column.)

Thereby we assume that the spring atmospheric conditions, more precisely the greenhouse effect associated with the water vapor in the atmospheric column, are important for the seasonal prediction of the September sea - ice extent.

where is the vertically integrated energy flux in the atmosphere, is the net radiative energy input to an atmospheric column (the difference between absorbed shortwave radiation and emitted longwave radiation), and is the oceanic energy uptake at the surface.

Radiatively warmed (whether directly or indirectly through collisions) molecules are placed higher in the atmospheric column than can be explained just from their individual gas constants and once at that height have an enhanced cooling effect equal to their enhanced warming effect with a zero net effect on surface temperature.

In the tropics net radiative influx is negative, i.e. radiation cools the atmospheric column.

Both processes decrease with decreasing monsoon winds and thereby compensate each other with respect to the net heat injection into the atmospheric column.

The data obtained included the first comprehensive measurements of aerosols and cloud particles throughout the atmospheric column during the evolution of multiple deep convective storm systems.

The Indian Ocean Experiment (Ramanathan et al., 2001b and references therein) focussed on emissions of aerosol from the Indian sub-continent, and showed the importance of absorption by aerosol in the atmospheric column.

This will allow for strong evaporational cooling as the atmospheric column moistens at the onset of precipitation, likely bringing snow or a rain / snow mix all the way down to the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin valley floors (under 500 feet).

Blue shading indicates that the lower atmosphere has warmed slower than the atmospheric column as a whole.

Red shading indicates that the lower atmosphere has warmed faster than the atmospheric column as whole.

Signs are chosen so that a positive response contributes to increasing precipitation: increased cooling is positive for the atmospheric column, upwelling is positive at the TOA, and downwelling is positive at the surface.

One measure of aerosol absorption in the atmospheric column is aerosol absorption optical depth (AAOD).

The heat capacity of an atmospheric column of unit area cross section extending from the ocean surface to the...