Sentences with phrase «because evaporation rates»

The steady increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because evaporation rates are higher.

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There are some various proposed mechanisms to explain this that involve the surface energy balance (e.g., less coupling between the ground temperature and lower air temperature over land because of less potential for evaporation), and also lapse rate differences over ocean and land (see Joshi et al 2008, Climate Dynamics), as well as vegetation or cloud changes.

... the higher up you go the less water vapor you normally get because it is too cold to have available water vapor (the rate of condensation strongly exceeds the rate of evaporation)... unless you warm it and «suddenly water vapor just appears» where it was mostly absent before.

Regardless of whether it caused a particular drought, AGW makes droughts worse because higher temperatures increase evaporation rates.

Another paper criticized Wentz's analysis because he did not consider other factors which play a role in precipitation such as global brightening during the period of study; and the error bars in Wentz's estimate of the evaporation rate increase was considerable.

that is because the water vapor pressure is supralinearly related to temperature: that is, a temp rise from 289K to 290K has a larger effect on vapor pressure (so, most likely, on the evaporation rate) than does a temp rise from 288K to 289K.

It is often said that because the temperature gradient (from subskin to skin) changes then the rate of upward energy flow must slow down but that would not be the case if the enhanced rate of evaporation speeds up the rate of flow again to negate the expected slowdown from a decreased gradient.

However on balance I think that the extra DLR just results in a zero effect on the «normal» upward energy flow because all the DLR would be used up in enhancing the rate of evaporation and accounting for the energy deficit caused by that enhancement of evaporation by virtue of the enthalpy of vapourisation (vapourisation has a net cooling effect).

Warmer water surfaces from extra downwelling infra red can not cause warming of the ocean bulk because the rate of evaporation increases proportionately to the extra energy available and the latent heat of evaporation is then taken mostly from the water.It is then no longer available to warm the ocean bulk.

An increased rate of evaporation and convection will move the additional energy at the surface to a higher layer in the atmosphere and because evaporation carries energy in what's called «latent heat» there will be no measurable rise in temperature near the surface as thermometers measure what's called «sensible heat».

It is way down because of the extremely high rate of evaporation through sand dunes.