Sentences with phrase «atmospheric effect which»

Since there are so many stronger pieces of evidence, why focus on the one atmospheric effect which is probably the most tenuous?

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Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

Using a 3D atmospheric model, the researchers separated the effect of the chemicals from those of weather and volcanic emissions, which can also destroy ozone.

Freshwater such as lakes, though, receive various sources of carbon dioxide from decomposing organic and inorganic matter swept into them, which makes it hard for scientists to distinguish between the direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 and these other elements.

Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

Despite its smaller ash cloud, El Chichn emitted more than 40 times the volume of sulfur - rich gases produced by Mt. St. Helens, which revealed that the formation of atmospheric sulfur aerosols has a more substantial effect on global temperatures than simply the volume of ash produced during an eruption.

It's usually explained using the «butterfly effect», in which the atmospheric changes caused by the beating of a butterfly's wings in one location could eventually lead to the production of a tornado in another.

«The result reverses understanding of solar cycle climate effects,» which had been that the sun generally warms the climate on the way up from minimum to maximum and generally cools the climate on the way down from maximum to minimum, explains atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England.

The effect of atmospheric cooling due to an AMOC collapse is associated with heat flow from the atmosphere into the ocean, which has been witnessed during the climate hiatus of the last 15 years.

This means the global effect of Arctic melting, which in itself constitutes a feedback from CO2 - driven global warming, is close to the warming effect of the rise in atmospheric CO2 from 280 ppm to 407 ppm since the onset of the industrial age.»

Now if we add water vapor to the atmosphere it increases the greenhouse effect in the spectral regions that are not saturated not opaque, which means in the atmospheric window.

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

At a recent conference, scientists explained how a major atmospheric circulation known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) was in a negative phase at the onset of the LIA, which amplified the cooling effect of a reduction in solar irradiance and volcanic activity.

We had an example of this in the U.K. last Winter, 2015/2016, following the v. strong El Nino, and the atmospheric river effect which brought record rainfall and flooding to much of the British Isles.

... The Earth's atmospheric methane concentration has increased by about 150 % since 1750, and it accounts for 20 % of the total radiative forcing from all of the long - lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases (these gases don't include water vapor which is by far the largest component of the greenhouse effect).

What effect it has varies with which atmospheric layer it's in and on the latitude.

Both communities tend to take the change for granted, and to neglect any purely statistical or chaotic effects which could lead to excursions of the Earth's surface temperature during periods of a couple of decades, without requiring a secular change either in the solar constant or in atmospheric transparency.

On the other hand, atmospheric carbon dioxide condenses at the cold outer edge of the HZ, which eliminates its greenhouse warming effect.

Every morning, each member of the team performs a 300 mm test weld to ascertain atmospheric effects on the metal with which they are working so that these can be taken into account.

In the same paper in which he made his often - quoted «prediction» that doubling the atmospheric concentration of CO 2 would lead to an increase of 10 °C in surface mean temperature, F. Möller makes an almost never quoted disclaimer to the effect that a 1 percent increase in general cloudiness in the same model would completely mask this effect.

The audio consists of sound effects, speech and music which collectively makes for quite an atmospheric tone to the game as the sound effects consist of ambient sounds related to which environment Baby is exploring, such as rain and thunder, a spinning windmill or fire, while there are nearby creatures such as bats and flies, amongst others with footstep and balloon related sounds.

Improves the atmospheric visual effects further by improving heathaze and introducing mirages, which are visible on the road when light is refracted by hot air.»

And just when you thought the visuals couldn't possibly look any more eye - watering, Evolution have taken the time to enhance the atmospheric effects; «improving heathaze and introducing mirages, which are visible on the road when light is refracted by hot air.»

In the Gym Schoolhouse of St. Moritz, the large - scale videos are on display, focusing on the bell jars, the interiors of which have been activated with swirling patterns of light or atmospheric effects.

In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape paintings, which don't present landscapes so much as a kind of floating abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta, in their atmospheric effect.

His paintings combine time, light, color and atmospheric effects, which are inspired by nature, music and childhood memories.

Often referred to as a conceptual landscape painter, Finch plays with atmospheric effects and ephemeral notions such as time in his works to examine the ways in which we perceive the outside world.

Seeing how the atmospheric light of the season effects the tonal values present in all landscapes will give you a range to work within which will then influence your color choices.

His late Venetian works, which describe atmospheric effects with brighter colors, include The Grand Canal (Metropolitan Mus.)

Both of these issues relate to microphysical effects and atmospheric chemistry — neither of which are accounted for in simple models.

As the authors point out, even if the whole story comes down to precipitation changes which favor ablation, the persistence of these conditions throughout the 20th century still might be an indirect effect of global warming, via the remote effect of sea surface temperature on atmospheric circulation.

Most past modeling experiments that investigated the atmospheric response to Arctic change only considered the loss of sea ice, which of course misses much of the effect of Arctic amplification.

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

So it was an atmospheric model which provided some of the first insight into the «chaos effect», thus teaching us something quite profound about nature

But the atmospheric CO2 levels between 600-1000 might answer the question as to which is the dominant effect.

One minute change in the atmospheric regime can slowly effect further changes in the system and the chain reaction can occur, which, in the end, could shift a jet stream a few kilometres and create conditions possible for storm intensification, which may result in the flooding of an area where the storm would not have been or would have been greatly minimised.

However, under a climate mitigation scenario for the twenty - first century in which sulphate aerosols decline before atmospheric CO2 is stabilized, this «diffuse - radiation» fertilization effect declines rapidly to near zero by the end of the twenty - first century.»

Can you relate that to works like «Effect of CO2 line width on 15 μm atmospheric emission», B. Kivel et al. (1976), which use the emission from CO2 to explore the Troposphere temperature?

Re 423 Chris G — whether the effect saturates at a given density depends on the way the temperature is distributed; if the temperature from TOA downward is isothermal for a sufficient thickness, than the effect could be saturated at TOA (if starting from a large enough optical thickness per unit atmospheric mass path, a change in the density of the gas / etc that contributes optical thickness would then have little to no effect on the flux at TOA, which is what is meant by saturation.

CO2's effect of stimulating plant growth and increasing plant tolerance of aridity contributed to revegetating large areas of land that were desert at the LGM, compounding the effects of an increase in atmospheric humidity, reduced land / ocean surface ocean ration, and increased warmth, all of which combined caused the reduction of airborne dust and atmosperic albedo.

Considering that the mechanism of the «natural AMO» is so poorly understood, there's no justification for immediately blaming increases in hurricane activity on it while entirely ignoring global warming effects on sea surface temperatures (and atmospheric moisture), for which very clear mechanisms do exist.

The team set out to present its findings «in plain English» to congress and the media — findings which suggested a lack of significant or human - caused global warming while concluding that «if the earth were to warm slightly, and atmospheric CO2 were to increase, the effects would be mostly beneficial.»

I have to admire the chutzpah of your newscat piece (1) in citing a 1979 report from the National Academy of Sciences (2) about the effect of atmospheric CO2 emissions, which makes the exact OPPOSITE conclusion to the one that you claim it does!

None of which argues against the atmospheric greenhouse effect.

If it were not for convective energy transport, the terrestrial greenhouse effect would be 66K for the current atmospheric composition instead of the current climate 33K, which takes convective energy transport into account.

[A] remarkably decreasing Gaa trend (− 0.27 W m − 2 yr − 1) exists over the central tropical Pacific, indicating a weakened atmospheric greenhouse effect in this area, which largely offsets the warming effect in the aforementioned surrounding regions.

Some changes occurring are atmospheric density changes which would effect the insulation value of the atmosphere.

(Becaused of delayed ocean and atmospheric effects 2016 is set to break the upcoming 2015 temperature record, even if the El Niño would disappear in spring — which is an unknown, beyond the reach of climate models.)

The only things that can change that resultant point of temperature equilibrium significantly are changes in solar radiance coming in and changes in overall atmospheric density (a function of mass and pressure) which affect the radiant energy going out or a change in the speed of the water cycle which, because of the unique characteristics of the phase changes of water altering the speed of energy flow through the system is capable of exerting a powerful regulatory effect.