Sentences with phrase «atmospheric processing as»

Not exact matches

In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atoms.

Countless additional forces — melting ice sheets, shifts in precipitation, changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, to name a few — will influence the process as well.

The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.

In this process, also known as the biological pump, atmospheric CO2 is stored in sedimentary deposits over geological time periods.

Today in Nano Letters, the group presents a process that turns atmospheric CO2 into carbon nanofibers similar to valuable materials used in industries such as aerospace, construction, and electronics.

Due to low levels of atmospheric oxygen, the process may have been fermentative, still found in microbes such as yeast today.

That excess tropical energy fueled rising air in a process known as convection, creating rain, releasing heat, and forming large - scale atmospheric patterns called Rossby waves.

Abundant atmospheric oxygen has been treated as a so - called biosignature, or a sign of extant life, but this process does not require life.

«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.

He wants to know whether the tendency of emitted compounds to end up as long - lived atmospheric components is generally applicable to other compounds and how this process might coexist or compete with other processes occurring in the atmosphere.

«OCO - 2 was designed to help locate and identify natural regional processes that serve as sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and how these vary with time and location,» explained Annmarie Eldering, a NASA scientist working on the mission.

«We show that uptake of atmospheric NH3 (ammonia) onto surfaces containing TiO2 (titanium dioxide) is not a permanent removal process, as previously thought, but rather a photochemical route for generating reactive oxides of nitrogen that play a role in air pollution and are associated with significant health effects,» the authors write.

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

Their study will include the hydrologic responses such as runoff and streamflow over land and atmospheric processes above the boundary layer.

When comparing the behavior of these disk's host stars to the Sun, it appears as though these A / B stars exhibit similar atmospheric processes, which are commonly assumed not to occur in massive stars.

A 2008 study led by James Hansen found that climate sensitivity to «fast feedback processes» is 3 °C, but when accounting for longer - term feedbacks (such as ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and greenhouse gas release from soils, tundra or ocean), if atmospheric CO2 remains at the doubled level, the sensitivity increases to 6 °C based on paleoclimatic (historical climate) data.

Khairoutdinov, M., D. Randall, and C. DeMott, 2005: Simulations of the atmospheric general circulation using a cloud - resolving model as a superparameterization of physical processes.

The biogeochemical impacts of this «fertilization» remain unclear, as direct oceanic observations of atmospheric deposition are limited and models often can not resolve the important processes.

WCRP - JSC / CAS WGNE promotes co-ordinated numerical experimentation for validating model results, observed atmospheric properties, exploring the natural and forced variability and predictability of the atmosphere, (e.g. the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project, AMIP), as well as studies aimed at refining numerical techniques, and the formulation of atmospheric physics processes.

Interglacial cooling rates demonstrate consistent, predictable trendlines suggesting Earth's climate follows similar, repeatable processes such as ice growth rates and oceanic / atmospheric process interactions as it cools.

As a meteorologist, you are expected to collect quantitative data regarding the current state of the atmosphere and make use of the scientific implications of the atmospheric processes so as to project how the atmosphere will evolve in the coming period of timAs a meteorologist, you are expected to collect quantitative data regarding the current state of the atmosphere and make use of the scientific implications of the atmospheric processes so as to project how the atmosphere will evolve in the coming period of timas to project how the atmosphere will evolve in the coming period of time.

Praxair, Inc. produces, distributes, and sells atmospheric and process gases, as well as surface coatings, worldwide.

As part of this process they subject forms and figures to varying stages of virtual and material transformation, here resulting in theatrical atmospheric smoke being flattened onto carpet and horizon lines being rendered as abstract sculptureAs part of this process they subject forms and figures to varying stages of virtual and material transformation, here resulting in theatrical atmospheric smoke being flattened onto carpet and horizon lines being rendered as abstract sculptureas abstract sculptures.

Introduced in recent years, this term is used to describe the current geological era in which our earth finds itself, defining the human being as the most important factor influencing the planet's biological, geological and atmospheric processes.

As a collaboration of two artists painting on the same canvas we are guided by reaction and response, not imposing rules or process, to combine our very different methods of using paint to create atmospheric, abstract paintings.

It sounds like a good argument until you realize that we know what the forcing components are in the atmospheric composition and we know how much forcing they provide, and we know the source of those components and how many ppm or ppt of those components exist as a result of human industrial process.

Briefly put, the process can be defined as a CO2 molecule absorbing a ~ 650 cm - 1 photon (equivalent to a thermal energy of about 900 K), and losing that energy to the surrounding bath of atmospheric gases.

Beyond atmospheric chemistry, this process depends on the color of sea water, and the organisms that bloom in it, and as long as that water is left dark, this harbinger of Anthopocene climate change may be expected to grow.

Right now, we pour about twice as much CO2 into the atmospheric tub than is removed on net by natural processes.

The position is that IF you have a carbon - neutral power source, such as nuke - electric, wind - electric, solar - electric, geothermal, etc, then the claim is that this process will efficiently produce liquid fuel from atmospheric CO2.

The process would continue for a millenium, slowly stablising with the atmospheric CO2 level in 1,000 years containing 20 % to 30 % of our total emissions (as opposed to the 45 % of today).

Does atmospheric CO2 then start to decline as a result of these absorption processes, or are those sinks just taking up the excess, or will the warm Arctic permafrost emissions rule this out?

We need to be cognizant of everything from local - scale stable boundary layer micrometeorolgy and ocean unstable boundary layer turbulent processes to global oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns such as the Arctic Oscillation and the Gulf Stream's seasonal evolution.

Well - understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large - scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as «chemtrails» or «covert geoengineering,» concludes a new...

Thus any process which tends to favor the growth of organisms made from silicate, such as diatoms, over organisms made from carbonate, such as the coccolithophorids, will tend to lower the atmospheric CO2 concentration — and vice versa — even if the total organic biomass formed in the surface layer and sinking from that layer remains constant.

In 1937, advocates of technocracy believed that scarcity had been abolished, thereby making economics redundant, whereas the basis for technocracies in 2013 is the idea that in spite of almost another century of economic, industrial and scientific development, scarcity, either in the form of substance, i.e. resources, or as natural processes such as the sequestration of atmospheric CO2, persists.

This is due in part to prevailing weather patterns, such as the jet stream, as well as recurring atmospheric processes, including El Niño and La Niña.

``... it is fairly well agreed that the surface temperature will rise about 1 °C as a modest response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 if the rest of the component processes of the climate system remain independent of this response.»

Bearing all the above in mind, as well as the fact that currents in the ocean are mostly generated by winds, we come to the conclusion of the paramount importance of atmospheric processes -LSB-...]»

As demonstrated by my modest experiment (1 & 2) the presence of the atmospheric molecules participating in the conductive, convective and latent heat movement processes renders this ideal black body radiation impossible.

Using variable resolution global models, their analyses will take into account the sensitivity of water cycle processes such as atmospheric rivers and monsoons to model resolution.

So the prediction from Vostok is for a natural temperature response about the same as IPCC predicts for man doubling atmospheric CO2 content after turning off the on - going natural processes.

[18] When models of different physical processes are combined, such as combinations of atmospheric, ocean and wave models, the multi-model ensemble is called hyper - ensemble.

Even in the unlikely event that we were to stop all emissions in the near future, this permafrost climate feedback would likely continue as a self - sustaining process, cancelling out any future natural draw - down in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by the oceans or vegetation.

We've been moving CO2 out of sequestration (fossil fuels) into the more mobile atmosphere, water, biosphere — and as a result atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will be out of equilibrium until much slower natural processes move the carbon out of those compartments.

External processes such as the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and variability due to volcanic eruptions are also important for driving variability in atmospheric circulation patterns.

Earth's Greenhouse Effect is described as all about radiant effects: Wiki: «The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions.

States that several interlinked processes have been suggested as contributing to the warming, including stratospheric ozone depletion, local sea - ice loss, an increase in westerly winds, and changes in the strength and location of low — high - latitude atmospheric teleconnections

temperature, other climatic variables, and concentrations of aerosols and trace gases; and (2) making raw and processed atmospheric measurements accessible in a form that enables a number of different groups to replicate and experiment with the processing of the more widely disseminated data sets such as the MSU tropospheric temperature record.

A comparison of the radiative equilibrium temperatures with the observed temperatures has indicated the extent to which the other atmospheric processes, such as convection, large - scale circulation, and condensation processes, influence the thermal energy balance of the system.