Sentences with phrase «atmospheric gasses called»

17 Unnatural Climate Changes Greenhouse effect: the natural heating of Earth's surface caused by certain atmospheric gasses called greenhouse gasses.

Not exact matches

Remote sensing of atmospheric gases — from a satellite, for instance — can be performed with conventional instruments called spectrometers, but while satellite instruments have global coverage, they sample specific regions on Earth infrequently.

But the technology is not just useful for so - called stranded natural gas in the developing world; in Alaska, much natural gas is simply reinjected back into the oil wells from which it came either to boost oil production or simply avoid atmospheric venting or flaring.

People who work in this field, called atmospheric scientists, use computers and math to model the properties of Earth's atmosphere that drive weather, climate and the movement of gases and pollutants through the air.

An important factor is that atmospheric pressure strongly affects the absorption spectra of gases, a phenomenon called pressure broadening.

The so - called «Keeling Curve» of CO2 concentrations since 1958 looks like a spike against the 800,000 - year ice - core record of this atmospheric trace gas.

This is the kind of climate science question that you have called a «side issue», though the answer is integral to answering one of your favorite questions: Granting that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, how much warming can result from and increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration?

«The trapping of thermal infrared radiation by atmospheric gases is typical of the atmosphere and is therefore called the atmospheric effect.

As you go higher into the atmosphere, the temperature decreases at a rate of 9.8 ºC / km (this is called the atmospheric lapse rate), and the atmosphere becomes transparent at an altitude where the temperature is 255 K (the calculated temperature of the earth without greenhouse gases!).

These so - called greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation, emitted by the Earth's surface, the atmosphere and clouds, except in a transparent part of the spectrum called the «atmospheric window», as shown in Figure 1.2.

So - called stabilisation experiments have also been run with the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations increasing by 1 % / yr or following an IPCC scenario, until CO2 - doubling, tripling or quadrupling.

Further, the probabilistic approach reveals a picture startling to even most global - warming pessimists: If we're to avoid precipitating what that U.N. Framework Convention genteelly calls «dangerous anthropogenic interference,» we're going to have to aim at an atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentration target that, by current trends, we'll reach in less than two decades.

It is true that atmospheric gases average (not load — you can't call it a carbon load) the temperature, but water vapor is almost all of that effect.

Water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — the so - called greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the Earth's atmosphere - create a natural «greenhouse effect» by «trapping» heat between the Earth's surface and the Troposphere (the atmospheric layer 5 to 10 miles above the surface).

«THERE IS a good, but by no means certain, chance that the world's average climate will become significantly warmer during the next century, because of the increasing atmospheric concentrations of infrared - absorbing and re-radiating, so - called «greenhouse»» gases.»

«Reducing the wide range of uncertainty inherent in current model predictions of global climate change will require major advances in understanding and modeling of both (1) the factors that determine atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and (2) the so - called «feedbacks» that determine the sensitivity of the climate system to a prescribed increase in greenhouse gases.»

In 2013, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years, marking a milestone that, while symbolic, called greater attention to escalating greenhouse gas levels and a steady global warming trend.