Sentences with phrase «carbon dioxide and water usually»

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For example, in higher latitudes such as northern Canada and Greenland, coastal waters usually act as carbon sinks, absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

But J. Philip Peterson is right — water vapor is a stronger IR absorber, and is usually present in much higher concentrations than carbon dioxide.

... by «saturation» is usually meant a complete absorption of the radiation of the surface by the carbon dioxide and water vapor of the air...

ANSWER: by «saturation» is usually meant a complete absorption of the radiation of the surface by the carbon dioxide and water vapor of the air: according to Dufresne and Treiner it is saturated and according to Pierrehumbert (Physics Today 2011) it is not; for me 0.8 (W / m ²) / 400 = 0.2 % for a doubling of the CO2 content is» nearly saturated»; 0.8 W / m ² is the additional absorption for 2xCO2 (e.g. per Hansen 1981)