Sentences with phrase «atmospheric layers like»
The corona is heated to millions of degrees, yet the lower atmospheric layers like the photosphere — the visible surface of the Sun — are only heated to a few thousand degrees.
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To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.
«Like a giant elevator to the stratosphere:» Newly discovered atmospheric layer may impact Earth's climate.»
Beneath Jupiter's massive weather layer, there's an abrupt transformation where the atmospheric gases become so thick that the planet rotates like a ridged body — a new mystery that will need more research.
Planets like Jupiter do not exhibit this behavior; their atmospheric chemicals form layers where large - scale convection isn't possible.
Through a series of collaged drawings, painted gestures and layers of atmospheric color that recall distant galaxies, this video animation ebbs and flows like the never - ending crowds that pass through the city and the bodies of water that surround it.
θ = potential temperature, which is conserved for dry adiabatic processes and is a useful vertical coordinate for examining various fluid mechanical processes (like Rossby waves) when the atmospheric lapse rate is stable (for dry convection)(which is generally true on a large scale away from the boundary layer).
You don't even need a surface to have an atmospheric greenhouse effect (on a planet like Jupiter for example, any point along a T (p) curve within a convecting layer will be higher than it would be if its atmosphere were totally transparent to thermal radiation).
Mosley - Thompson, an Ohio State University professor of geography, travels to some of the most inaccessible places in the world to collect cores of ice that read like layer - cakes of atmospheric history.
By characterizing atmospheric gas mixing ratios (volume of gas per volume of air) across the North Slope, scientists hope to improve the estimates of the volume of gases like carbon dioxide and methane being emitted from biological sources such as Alaska's permafrost layer which stores large amounts of carbon.
Deep in the ice sheets of Greenland are annual layers that record what the atmospheric gases and the air temperature were like over each of the last 250,000 years.