Sentences with phrase «by cloud formation»

Certainly the density driven convection caused by cloud formation and evaporation has a strong stirring effect that carries heat aloft.

The additional warming causes even more evaporation, followed by cloud formation and more warming, still.

Not exact matches

The different pillars analysed by an international team seem to be pillars of destruction — in contrast to the name of the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, which are of similar nature.The spires and pillars in the new images of the Carina Nebula are vast clouds of dust and gas within a hub of star formation about 7500 light - years away.

This let a team led by Mark Swinbank of the University of Durham, UK, resolve individual clouds of star formation.

The gas was probably stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud by its larger neighbour's gravity, providing fuel for star formation.

The team started by looking at the formation of the very small particles — a process called aerosol nucleation — by mimicking atmospheric conditions inside an ultraclean steel «cloud chamber», which Kirkby says is the cleanest ever created.

Siding Spring will be the first comet from the Oort Cloud to be studied up close by spacecraft, giving scientists an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the materials, including water and carbon compounds, that existed during the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

First of all, they realized that the dark cloud feeding the star should have been set spinning by small, random motions left over from its formation in the giant molecular cloud of which it was a part.

Despite its smaller ash cloud, El Chichn emitted more than 40 times the volume of sulfur - rich gases produced by Mt. St. Helens, which revealed that the formation of atmospheric sulfur aerosols has a more substantial effect on global temperatures than simply the volume of ash produced during an eruption.

He had me look at a book by Viktor Safronov called The Evolution of the Protoplanetary Cloud and Formation of the Earth and the Planets.

They say the number of stars in a system is determined during the earliest stage of star formation but critical processes occurring then are usually hidden by dense clouds of dust and gas.

Albedo modification might also work by using aerosols to seed cloud formation in a lower atmospheric layer called the troposphere.

«Cloud formation suppressed by biogenic organic emissions.»

They found a small correlation between cosmic rays and global temperatures occurring every 22 years; however, the changing cosmic ray rate lagged behind the change in temperatures by between one and two years, suggesting that the cause of the temperature rise might not be attributable to cosmic rays and cloud formation, but could be caused by the direct effects of the sun.

Aircraft emissions probably play a crucial role in ozone destruction by fuelling the formation of polar stratospheric clouds.

If we put the galaxies for which we have the relevant data into a graph relating the mass of stars in each galaxy with the star formation rate of that galaxy, most of them would appear as a compact cloud, which could be described by using a simple function.

A weakening magnetic field might lead to more cloud formation because more air molecules would be ionized by incoming high - energy radiation, and ionized air molecules are nucleation sites for cloud droplets.

It is thought that galaxy formation started when primordial clouds of gaseous matter (hydrogen and helium), the proto - galaxies, were singled out and started to collapse by their own gravity.

The main mode, which is involved in the formation of ice crystals in mixed - phase clouds (clouds formed by ice particles and water droplets), is the immersion freezing mode.

To this end, we classify a sample of 4683 molecular cloud clumps identified from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey by combining observational diagnostics of star formation activity from a variety of Galactic plane surveys.

Abstract: The influence of magnetic fields (B - fields) in the formation and evolution of bipolar bubbles, due to the expanding ionization fronts (I - fronts) driven by the Hii regions that are formed and embedded in filamentary molecular clouds, has not been well - studied yet.

A large portion of secondary organic aerosols - tiny particles in the air we breathe that contribute to cloud formation and precipitation - arise from a combination of man - made pollution and molecules given off by plant matter.

The photos taken by New Horizons» cameras show that the low - lying cloud candidates all lie near the terminator — the line dividing day from night — suggesting that the colder conditions present in these areas may be key to cloud formation on Pluto.

In addition to the anisotropic expansion of I - fronts into a filament, B - fields are expected to introduce an additional anisotropic press... ▽ More The influence of magnetic fields (B - fields) in the formation and evolution of bipolar bubbles, due to the expanding ionization fronts (I - fronts) driven by the Hii regions that are formed and embedded in filamentary molecular clouds, has not been well - studied yet.

«By destroying their parent cloud, as we see in the OMC - 1, such explosions may also help to regulate the pace of star formation in these giant molecular clouds.»

Although this is similar to the formation process of stars in cosmic clouds, it was the first time that the possibility of such a planet formation process was directly suggested by observations of protoplanetary disks.

These star - formation rate estimators include the ultraviolet light that is emitted from young stars, the infrared light that shows how much of the ultraviolet light was absorbed by dust, and the nebular emission lines that are caused by young stars making the clouds of gas around them glow and radiate.

N ~ 2 seen in the spiral arms in M81 and M101 supports the scenario of star formation triggered by cloud - cloud collisions enhanced by spiral density wave, while N ~ 1 derived in giant HII regions in M101 suggests the star formation induced by the Parker instability triggered by high velocity HI gas infall.

This hexagonal cloud formation, first discovered in the 1980s by the Voyager spacecraft, was photographed again in 2012 by the Cassini spacecraft.

Whitaker's inspiration was ignited by shafts of light in cathedrals, waterfalls, forests, memories of Egypt, coastlines, rainbows, sunrises, sunsets, cloud formation, metamorphosis and hypnotic motion.

These works are inspired by natural occurances, such as ever - changing cloud formations.

At first glance, this painting appears to reflect the style of 17th - century Dutch landscape painting, except that the dramatic cloud formations (a trademark signature of that style) are replaced by a flat azure blue sky.

Her work, often inspired by natural wonders — meteor showers, the aurora borealis, cloud formations, fire, and the night sky — invites an individualized experience of the work and the space it occupies.

«Harmonic Distortion» has worldwide environmental scope: marble clouds intricately patterned by wave formations; cyanotypes making apparent abstraction out of fifteen years of data showing that our cloud cover is reducing; a performance in which one woman is bound by another, Kinbakushi style, in state of the art fibre optic cable even as she tries to draw circles using the oldest of means — ochre pigment... So whether you wanted academic analysis, obsessive drawing burrowing into the psyche or the wide sweep of science and its consequent politics, you had them.

In the courtyard, visitors are confronted by a towering formation of steel «clouds», created by Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross, before Jim Lambie's kaleidoscopic stairs lead up to the Main Galleries.

Staining the surface like rippling swathes of ink, hair - like tendrils unfold in sinuous formations, veiled by smouldering chromatic clouds that shift in and out of focus.

The second order effect of increasing cloudiness caused by more GCRs when «atmospheric conditions are suitable» for the formation of high clouds due to the other effects of global warming should be warming.

UV radiation levels in the stratosphere or cosmic ray influences on low level cloud formation) may be amplified by natural resonance matching to the overall climate system.

Latham's idea, which he first published in the science journalNaturein 1990, is to make the silver linings of those stratocumulus clouds a little bit more silvery, by injecting salt crystals into the atmosphere to seed the formation of the water droplets that comprise them.

He also notes that while the total solar irradiance (TSI) only varies by about.1 % over a solar cycle, the solar UV varies by about 10 % and that secondary effects on cloud formation may vary up to 30 % over solar cycles.

But as you may know, I am talking about the rising leading edges of AOT plots which relate to early stage cloud formation (i.e. nucleation — presumably via DMS, isoprenes etc emitting by cyanobacterial blooming).

The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft into the upper atmosphere and the role that they play in modifying the chemical properties of the atmosphere and initiating the formation of condensation trails (contrails) and cirrus clouds.

I understand the effect can be complicated by changes in cloud formation and such, but that is just further reasons we should be studying the natural phenomenon and not generating computer models to spit out arbitrary results with no basis in observational data.

However, the OBSERVED and MEASURED NET heat energy flow is FROM the oceans TO the atmosphere, as evidenced by evaporation and the subsequent formation of clouds, and eventually, precipitation.

First, this effect (influence on cloud formation by solar cycle modulation of cosmic rays) has been known for half a century.

These are cosmic rays (modulated by the sun), aerosols that affect cloud formation, and the like.

Open and closed cell cloud formation dynamics are driven by sea surface temperature — with cooler surfaces favoring closed cells and higher planetary albedo.

Another illustrative gem is the formation of thunderstorms, where the electric charge is shown to be formed by rain, snow and hailstones whizzing around inside the huge cloud.

If not either the CO2 / temp relationship is wrong [I do not think so] or the effect of the CO2 rise is being variably effected by negative feedbacks such as increased cloud formation and albedo thus offsetting the CO2 related temperature rise.

Makarieva et al. is falsified by looking at the behavior of cloud formation as shown in any number of videos on YouTube (this is not a joke).