Sentences with phrase «by cloud cover»

The planet's albedo, around 30 percent, is governed by cloud cover and the quantity of atmospheric particles called aerosols.

You could also respond to Chief's link where it states global dimming and brightening are determined by cloud cover.

Solar output varies throughout the day and through the seasons, and is affected by cloud cover.

Their promotional embellishments have also corrupted the meaning of «greenhouse effect,» a term originally relating the loose confinement of warm nighttime air near ground level by cloud cover, to hot air trapped inside a greenhouse,» Kondis explained..

I remember checking Wong et al. (2006) only to discover that it doesn't support your claim that OHC is modulated by cloud cover.

I remember checking Wong et al. (2006) only to discover that it doesn't support your claim that OHC trend is modulated by cloud cover.

But a source of great complexity in our spinning, turbulent, inhomogeneous air is the fact that it is largely heated from below, differentially by latitude, by surface properties, by cloud cover, and by time of day and time of year.

WASHINGTON — A study on how much heat in Earth's atmosphere is caused by cloud cover has heated up the climate change blogosphere even as it is dismissed by many scientists.

The situation seems to have improved somewhat subsequently, but back then the only satellite imagery I could find (with help from a friend who is an expert) was visible band imagery, and during the key time periods the 85E region of Gakkel was completely obscured by cloud cover.

The cloud forest is defined as forest that is penetrated by cloud cover.

Cloud forest is defined as forest at such a high altitude that it's penetrated by cloud cover, which makes the lush forested sides of the Andes a great place for a range of wildlife rich areas.

Peru's cloud forest is defined as forest at such a high altitude that it's penetrated by cloud cover.

The planet's albedo, around 30 percent, is governed by cloud cover and the quantity of atmospheric particles called aerosols.

The image combines infrared pictures from ERS - 1 (which is unaffected by cloud cover) with satellite photographs which show the lie of the land.

Space - based coronagraphs are more widely used in space weather research because of their wide - field solar views that are not interrupted by cloud cover or Earth's rotation.

Satellites and aircraft can measure only large - scale effects, and they're limited by cloud cover.

Not exact matches

Then, when they finally reached land, they tried to land in Glasgow, Scotland, but the city was covered by clouds and fog.

Cassini was able to probe beneath this moon's cloud cover, discovering rivers flowing into lakes and seas and being replenished by rain.

Cloud computing, the buzzword sweeping the tech world, claimed the top spot in the most recent Hype Cycle report put out by Gartner Research, while a BusinessWeek cover story compared the technology's impact to the introduction of electricity.

And even if all rough correlations could be made smooth by convoluted arguments about cloud covers and the like, the two Genesis accounts themselves, taken as chronologies, do not agree.

It will be noted by those who can believe that several events are covered before this statement up to and including the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds with power and great glory, i.e. the return of Christ.

The moon and the stars are covered by thick clouds, and the only light available to the traveler crossing a meadow is provided by sudden flashes of lightning.

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle... For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel (40:34, 38).

Cover any parts of your baby's body not covered by sun safe clothes with Sun Protection Factor (SPF) 30 or 50, even on days with cloud as UV rays still come through.

These nursing covers may not be spun from unicorn hair by cherubs on a cloud over a rainbow, but they'll do the job you need to be done, and help you look pretty fashionable while you're doing it!

I solved this problem last year by using taste safe ingredients to make my cloud dough and now I don't worry as much when my little one puts a cloud dough covered finger in her mouth.

The clouds that cover Antarctica can seem enormous, and when the clouds are lit by the sun magic can happen.

«The emission can be absorbed by thick clouds of gas and dust covering the AGN,» Boorman continues.

Computer modeling and satellite observations suggest that these tiny particles can increase storm - cloud cover over certain regions of the North Pacific by 20 to 50 percent, enough to alter storm tracks in some cases.

Scientists can only sample air pollution in clouds by flying through them, a method that can't cover much ground or a long time period.

On previous fly - bys, this region had been covered with clouds.

According to the new findings, Earth may be able to significantly reduce global warming by releasing some of the heat through a «vent» in the cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean.

By the time the cloud finally departed, villages within twenty miles of the volcano were covered with ash nearly forty inches thick; those a hundred miles away found eight to ten inches of ash on the ground.

«For a period of several weeks, wide areas of the Arctic were covered by polar stratospheric clouds between about 14 and 26 kilometers height.

He knew the shapes of the southern clouds at dawn on April 30, 1882, and could compare them in his memory with the streaks on a book of Spanish cover that he had seen only once and with the swirls on the foam raised by an oar in the Río Negro on the eve of the battle of the Quebracho.]

A thick cloud of soot covers most of India, produced in part by millions of small cooking stoves, which typically burn wood.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

YG: Right now the Earth is covered by more and more clouds... now the clouds have opened up.

Research on cloud computing poses challenges and promises advances that go beyond what is covered by the CLOUDS project.

Located between the orbits of Mercury and Earth, Venus has a very thick atmosphere that is covered by a layer of clouds that produces a «greenhouse effect» on the planet.

But in the most comprehensive study to date of overcast versus cloud - free days in China, a team led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reporting in the current advance online issue of Geophysical Research Letters, has found that cloud cover has been decreasing for the past 50 years.

Why it matters: Guessing the amount of sky covered by clouds is a familiar pastime.

By precisely measuring the changes in the brightness and color of these sources as they rotate, we can explore their surface brightness distributions, thus creating rough maps of their cloud cover and temperature distributions.

Unless low - level cloud albedo substantially decreased during this time period, the reduced solar absorption caused by the reported enhancement of cloud cover would have resulted in cooling of the climate system that is inconsistent with the observed temperature record.»

«the variation of ionization by galactic cosmic rays over the decadal solar cycle does not entail a response... that would explain observed variations in global cloud cover»

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

By the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining with weather station datBy the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining with weather station datby combining with weather station data.

I'm always battling against the sunshine, cloud cover, and the imminent possibility of rain and I live and die by the daily sunset time estimate.