Sentences with phrase «caused by a cloud»

As the planet spins, Hubble was able to observe changes in brightness caused by clouds within its atmosphere.

The changes Spencer saw in his model are explained by El Niño / La Niña cycles, Dessler said, not caused by clouds.

Cataracts are caused by a clouding of your pet's lenses.

Some models suggest that the cooling effect caused by clouds reflecting the Sun's energy back to space could increase in the future while other models suggest that this cooling effect might decrease.

«Spencer: ENSO is caused by clouds.

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.

A satellite map of the outgoing longwave radiation emitted by Earth in September 2008 demonstrates not only geographical variations but also those caused by cloud presence.

You then described the cloud system from that perspective; you hypothesised that «a self - adjusting cooling shade of thunderstorms and clouds keeps the afternoon temperature within a narrow range» and contended «I hold that the clouds are caused by the warmth, not that the warmth is caused by the clouds.»

I also agree that «clouds are caused by the warmth, not that the warmth is caused by the clouds», in other words that the underlying cause of the mechanism you describe is actually also the (stable) TSI warmth.

«The evidence presented here suggests that most of that warming might well have been caused by cloud changes associated with a natural mode of climate variability: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.»

As Dessler says, «the climate variations being analysed here are primarily driven by ENSO, and there has been no suggestion that ENSO is caused by cloud variations.»

ENSO doesn't cause clouds — or alternatively is caused by clouds.

This is where Spencer tried to prove El Ninos were caused by cloud changes in his argument with Santer, right?

Cloud feedback is the reduction in outgoing OLR and reflected SWR caused by clouds that accompanies a change in surface temperature.

It shows most of the 1976/1998 warming caused by cloud changes.

The changes in the back radiation are caused by clouds.

Mike Jonas Great to see your scientific exploration following Richard Feynman's «bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong» high standard of scientific integrity You say: «clouds are a major driver of ocean surface temperature, and hence of climate» — yet say «The ocean oscillations are not, as far as I am aware, caused by clouds».

This may suggest that for a given optical thickness, the influence of particle shape on the radiative forcing caused by a cloud composed of small ice crystals can be negligible.

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

Not exact matches

Any effort by these cloud companies to build their own chip tech, even if they use for just a small part of their overall data centers and cloud businesses, could cause Intel to lose out on sales.

Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?

Through the use of the pillar of cloud and fire and by causing confusion among the army ranks when the chariot wheels fell off, God continued to try to keep the army out of the danger of drowning in the Red Sea.

He said that «Christ would appear a second time in the clouds of heaven sometime between 1843 and 1844; that he would then raise the righteous dead and judge them together with the righteous living, who would be caught up to meet him in the air; that he would purify the earth by fire causing the wicked to be consumed in the general conflagration.»

The National Weather Service will issue a tornado warning if conditions create a high probability a tornado could develop, but the village will only activate sirens if a weather spotter within five miles of the village sees a tornado, funnel cloud or structural damage caused by severe winds.

ALBANY — One of the state Legislature's proposed responses this year to the cloud of corruption caused by the convictions of its former leaders is actually something lawmakers gleefully agreed to do last year, but then didn't: strip state pensions from convicted felons.

In theory, CERES would be able to measure the changes caused by geoengineering to, say, make clouds more reflective.

The model calculations, which are based on data from the CLOUD experiment, reveal that the cooling effects of clouds are 27 percent less than in climate simulations without this effect as a result of additional particles caused by human activity: Instead of a radiative effect of -0.82 W / m2 the outcome is only -0.60 W / m2.

H II regions like RCW 106 are clouds of hydrogen gas that are being ionised by the intense starlight of scorching - hot, young stars, causing them to glow and display weird and wonderful shapes.

The unusual fading of an oddball star is more likely caused by either clouds of dust or an abnormal cycle of brightening and dimming, two new papers suggest.

As a brown dwarf rotates, its clouds move in and out of the hemisphere seen by the telescope, causing changes in the brightness of the brown dwarf.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

One Cassini snapshot shows wavy swirls between two cloud zones, probably caused by the same stirring process that can produce choppy air in clear skies during an airplane flight.

Almost simultaneous with the birth of discover, physicist and Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez (along with his son, Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley) proposed that a giant asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs by causing global firestorms and dust clouds that blotted out the sun.

We think these are caused by dense gas clouds becoming separated from lower density gas.»

Superimposed on the spectrum were dark absorption lines, caused by gases in a cloud somewhere between the burst and Earth — about 7 billion light - years from Earth, according to astronomers at Caltech.

Scientists know that the clouds can act as a sunshield, cooling parts of the globe and offsetting the global warming caused by the greenhouse effect (see «Not warming, but cooling», New Scientist, 9 July 1994).

But scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavík are now seasoned by back - to - back eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and Grímsvötn in 2011 that produced large ash clouds and caused costly air traffic snarls.

It's known that lightning is caused by buildup of positive and negative electrical charges inside a cloud.

Other scenarios involve gravitational perturbations, either caused by passing stars, a solar system entering and exiting our galaxy's gravitationally dense spiral arms, or even via interactions with dense molecular clouds.

Piecing those clues together, the two Alvarezes proposed a radical idea: The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of a giant asteroid, which unleashed a globe - spanning cloud of debris and plunged the planet into darkness for months.

This shift is caused by an equatorial jet with dramatically variable wind - speeds — at their fastest, pushing vast amounts of cloud across the planet.

They argue that some of the smaller dips of light attributed to Boyajian's star are actually deep dips in brightness from fainter adjacent stars in Kepler's field of view, possibly caused by swarms of tiny, dense clouds or comets in interstellar space.

«Lightning is caused by charge separation within clouds, and to maximize charge separation, you have to loft more water vapor and heavy ice particles into the atmosphere,» he said.

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.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

When an atomic cloud becomes denser and colder, the cooling effect described above becomes dominated by other processes, which cause heating.

In this case, the sudden drop would be caused by the central part of the cloud passing in front of the star; the brightening before and afterwards could be explained by starlight being scattered in our direction by dust in the planetesimal cloud.

Henny Lamers of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, says that the variations in brightness could also have been caused by a dense cloud of planetesimals, the small building blocks from which fully fledged planets are thought to accumulate.

The same effect is seen with the gas motions (caused by heat and rotation) inside a single star or gas cloud in our galaxy.

Bright clouds are probably caused by gases such as methane rising in the atmosphere and condensing into highly reflective clouds of methane ice.