Sentences with phrase «cirrus clouds where»

Emissions, they discovered, increased the fraction of cirrus clouds where vapor trails were most prevalent but decreased the fraction in some areas by increasing the temperature and consequently decreasing the relative humidity in the lower atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Besides SSCE, scientists have also been investigating stratospheric sulfur injections — firing sun - reflecting aerosols into the air, similar to the cooling effect after a volcanic eruption — and cirrus cloud thinning, where you thin the top level of clouds, which have a warming effect on the planet.

The idea, Lohmann said, is to inject solid particles, like desert dust, into the atmosphere at spots slightly lower than where cirrus clouds would naturally form.