Sentences with phrase «atmospheric water vapor»

One of the most substantial climate changes in response to global warming is the increase in atmospheric water vapor content.

Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.

Increase atmospheric water vapor, you increase the impact.

Furthermore, agreement is widespread that these changes may profoundly affect atmospheric water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and runoff and stream flow patterns.

This occurs, in part, as a result of both the lower and upper atmospheric water vapor feedbacks, triggered by the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

There is no convincing data to support the idea that CO2 level regulates atmospheric water vapor concentration.

In another frequency band, normal atmospheric water vapor would limit the camera's ability to form an image.

It is probable that even a 1 % variation in atmospheric water vapor equals or exceeds all the effects of human sourced CO2.

Indonesian waters are major agents for global levels of atmospheric water vapor.

That increased atmospheric water vapor will also affect cloud cover, though impacts of changes in cloud cover on climate sensitivity are much more uncertain.

Instead of dissipating into space, the infrared radiation that is absorbed by atmospheric water vapor or carbon dioxide produces heating, which in turn makes the earths surface warmer.

The Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers provide brightness temperatures at three different frequencies (19.35, 37.0 and 85.5 GHz) from which are estimated: wind speed when not raining, integrated atmospheric water vapor content, liquid water content, and a rain index.

The mean distribution of precipitable water, or total atmospheric water vapor above the Earth's surface, is shown in Figure 2.

The official source of information and tickets for the RAIN Tour - A Tribute to The Beatles Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

The mean distribution of precipitable water, or total atmospheric water vapor above the Earth's surface, for 1992.

We found that Colorado River flows decline by about 4 percent per degree F increase, which is roughly the same amount as the increased atmospheric water vapor holding capacity discussed above.

He notes that DMF could rapidly replace ethanol, because it not only provides more energy but also has a higher boiling point (allowing DMF to blend more easily with gasoline) and it does not react with water (ethanol absorbs atmospheric water vapor, which degrades its potency).

One of the requirements for the construction of ALMA was to select an observing site at a high altitude with dry and thin air, since millimeter / submillimeter waves observed by ALMA are very susceptible to atmospheric water vapor absorption on earth.

This is «when sea - ice loss and increased atmospheric water vapor augment Arctic warming.»

It is now widely recognized that improvements in understanding and predicting climate hinge largely on a better understanding of the processes controlling atmospheric water vapor.»

Again, though the water vapor emitted from cooling towers can and does create impressive cloud formations under the right conditions, this is a very different issue than being the primary mechanisms of Earth's atmospheric water vapor generation for fueling storms which is what some are falsely claiming.

What the report says about atmospheric rivers and climate change: The frequency and severity of land - falling atmospheric rivers on the U.S. West Coast will increase as a result of increasing evaporation and the higher atmospheric water vapor content that occurs with increasing temperature.

States that other feedbacks likely to emerge are those in which key processes include surface fluxes of trace gases, changes in the distribution of vegetation, changes in surface soil moisture, changes in atmospheric water vapor arising from higher temperatures and greater areas of open ocean, impacts of Arctic freshwater fluxes on the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean, and changes in Arctic clouds resulting from changes in water vapor content

With progress on these fronts, we will have a much clearer concept of how atmospheric water vapor determines the Earth's climate and how changes in climate are linked to water vapor changes.

One of the most well - known effects of global warming is an intensification of the water cycle, with higher air temperatures leading to increased evaporation from the seas and soils, and more atmospheric water vapor contributing to more frequent heavy precipitation events.