Sentences with phrase «average atmospheric water»

The average atmospheric water vapour content has increased since at least the 1980s over land and ocean as well as in the upper troposphere.

Not exact matches

A NOAA website on atmospheric rivers contains this fascinating statistic that illustrates just how much moisture can be transported by winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere: «A strong atmospheric river transports an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 - 15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River.»

The Gulf of Thailand changes from an atmospheric CO2 sink during the boreal winter to a CO2 source in summer due to higher water temperatures, while other sub-regions as well as the entire averaged Sunda Shelf act as a continuous source of CO2 for the atmosphere.

Simulations and observations of total atmospheric water vapour averaged over oceans agree closely when the simulations are constrained by observed SSTs, suggesting that anthropogenic influence has contributed to an increase in total atmospheric water vapour.

Because the average surface temperature of Mars is colder than -80 °F and the atmospheric pressure is 6 — 10 mbar, liquid water would quickly freeze on Mars.

The standard assumption has been that, while heat is transferred rapidly into a relatively thin, well - mixed surface layer of the ocean (averaging about 70 m in depth), the transfer into the deeper waters is so slow that the atmospheric temperature reaches effective equilibrium with the mixed layer in a decade or so.

C isothermic level in the pacific appeared to rise from an average of 400 meters to about 100 meters recently; I find myself wondering then how is it that the oceans heat content is dropping, the solar input appears to be consistant, that one of the GEWEX comitties appears to indicate that the atmospheric water vapor seems to be decreasing.

More CO2 has no effect on temperature average, only on temperature range (day to day, season to season, etc) just like the effect of atmospheric water.

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.

If we take a further step and consider the atmospheric state at a location (or even the global average) with respect to temperature or precipitation, we may observe that physics does not imply any preservation law for temperature (the total energy is preserved, not temperature) or for precipitation (the total water balance is preserved, not the rate of precipitation).

Some climate scientists are claiming that more extreme weather events are occurring than in the past, and that the primary reason is because the atmosphere contains more water vapor due to the increase in the average global atmospheric temperature.

Mark, the yearly increase in atmospheric CO2 ppm, as defined by the Keeling Curve Graph, is a direct result of the yearly average «warming» of the world's ocean waters as they recover from the effects of the LIA.

Bear in mind that the representation of clouds in climate models (and of the water vapour which is intimately involved with cloud formation) is such as to amplify the forecast global warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide — on average over most of the models — by a factor of about three (5).

But it is not a simple monotonic function of average specific humidity, because water vapor is never a well mixed gas, its atmospheric lifetime (~ 9 days) is way too short for that.

ENSO for example results in the shifting of the waters across the Pacific Ocean in sympathy with the average atmospheric pressure in the air columns above the water.