Sentences with phrase «cloud deck»

When the African smoke blows over the top of the white cloud deck, it absorbs some of the heat that the clouds would have reflected, which turns up the thermostat.

These bright clouds are thought to be high above the main cloud deck, and above much of the absorbing methane gas.

Cloud decks of Jupiter, showing the Great Red Spot and other circulation systems that will be probed with TMT.

As if in support of this new promise, the sun began to peak out from the fog and low cloud deck as we finished the walk.

The presence of water ice, he says, supports the idea that Saturn's superstorms are powered by condensation of water and originate deep in the atmosphere, about 200 kilometers below the visible cloud deck.

High cloud decks apparently block light from individual molecules lower in their atmospheres, making it harder to identify them.

We suspect that water, the constituent of Saturn's deepest cloud deck, can suppress convection in the lighter hydrogen atmosphere for a period of decades, until finally buoyancy wins out and a large convective outburst ensues.

The atmosphere is divided into wide bands like Jupiter's, although Saturn's bands are less obvious from the outside because of a thick layer of haze lying above the upper ammonia cloud deck.

Optically thick smoke aerosol plumes originating from biomass burning (BB) in the southwestern African Savanna during the austral spring are transported westward by the free tropospheric winds to primarily overlie vast stretches of stratocumulus cloud decks in the southeast Atlantic.

All are low - lying, isolated small features — no broad cloud decks or fields — and while none of the features can be confirmed with stereo imaging, scientists say they are suggestive of possible, rare condensation clouds.

But in the southern hemisphere, the poleward contraction of the high clouds is balanced by an expansion of the already extensive low cloud decks, which ends up blocking more sunlight and producing a small surface cooling.

Originally thought to be a large cloud itself, it was later postulated to be a hole in the visible cloud deck.

A thick, permanent cloud deck might also form on the side facing the star, astrophysicist Jun Yang of Peking University in Beijing and colleagues reported in 2014 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In contrast, Venus's thick clouds block most sensors on orbiting spacecraft, and those that venture too far below the cloud deck face sulfuric acid droplets, scalding temperatures, and crushing pressures.

According to the researchers, the unusual feature on Jupiter may form in a clear layer beneath the clouds, becoming visible only as it moves upward into the cloud deck.

There is another significant meteorological phenomenon above the planet's equator and which could affect the winds: the Semi-annual Oscillation (SAO), which occurs about 50 km above the cloud deck and which causes the temperatures to oscillate and the winds to change direction and strength from East to West.

In August, the prevailing winds shift and, for about 3 months, blow the smoke out to sea and above the cloud deck.

But at breaks in the cloud deck, smoke has the opposite effect: It is brighter than the dark ocean surface, reflecting solar radiation and reducing warming.

The wave may originate in a clear layer beneath the clouds, only becoming visible when it propagates up into the cloud deck, according to the researchers.

This month, NASA aircraft will begin studying a natural atmospheric laboratory off the coast of Namibia, where a layer of smoke wafts over a low cloud deck.

Like most of Jupiter's cloud deck, it is rich in ammonia.

The team discovered that the consequences of black carbon and whether it promotes or combats climate change depend on its position — above, below or in the middle of cloud cover: Above the clouds, where the particulates absorb heat more readily, they produce a warming effect; below the cloud deck heat absorption is less significant.

The cloud decks of the giant planets evolve in dramatic and unpredictable ways, as recently shown by the emergence of a super-storm on Saturn (Sayanagi et al 2014).

Now, the researchers have clearly detected gaseous hydrogen sulfide above this cloud deck, which also suggests that there is much more hydrogen sulfide than ammonia in the planet's atmosphere, rather than an even split as previously thought.

Valles Marineris region - The 16 mile - high volcano Ascraeus Mons pokes through the cloud deck along the western (left) limb of the planet.

An image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows sulfur dioxide plumes rising from Kilauea's fissures along the rift and accumulating in the cloud deck, viewed from a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory overflight on Wednesday.

Fog and drizzle normally are found near the furthest inland extent of the gloom, where the cloud deck is closest to the ground.

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In contrast, «if you look at those aerosol particles over a cloud deck, they make the clouds appear darker sometimes, and that would have a warming effect at the top of the atmosphere,» he said.

Multifilter images of Jupiter acquired by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) are used to derive zonal winds at altitudes above and below the visible cloud deck.