Sentences with phrase «cloud form»

Where and when do clouds form in the atmosphere?

On this part of the island, clouds form at the base of the volcano, and as the sun rises, a myriad of colors form and provide an unforgettable visual experience.

CO2 and GHGs, on the other hand, do not affect the temperature or the manner in which clouds form.

The research indicates that fewer clouds form as the planet warms, meaning less sunlight is reflected back into space, driving temperatures up further still.

If there was more cloud forming ions, there should be more clouds over the ocean which should over time result in colder ocean surface temperatures.

This time around, we have some major clouds forming above the economy and the stock market.

The key was to ensure that the way clouds form in the real world was accurately represented in computer climate models, which are the only tool researchers have to predict future temperatures.

Similarly, during periods of high solar activity, less clouds form, leading to global warming.

If the gas cloud was slowly rotating, then the collapsing gas cloud formed most of its stars before the cloud could flatten into a disk.

Most clouds form through a process called expansion cooling.

She opens with the mere anticipation of rain, as dark clouds form and insects take cover.

The décor will simulate the beauty of an evening sunset with deep purple, red and honey - gold accents and subtle cloud forms hanging overhead.

Then the morning I handed in my Ph.D. dissertation in 2008, I saw those huge clouds forming.

Understanding how mixed - phase clouds form and what affects their lifetime and properties will help scientists understand how they affect the overall climate.

The artist's Football Cloud forms part of the exhibition's fully playable crazy golf course, with each golf hole designed and made by a different contemporary artist.

It does not allow for negative feedback, for example, as more clouds form changing the albedo.

On the other hand, extra water vapor in the air might lead to more clouds forming, and certain types of clouds tend to reflect back more of the incoming solar radiation.

If the gas cloud was rotating faster, then the collapsing gas cloud formed a disk before most of the stars were made.

For example, Rimensberger's visualisations show how clouds form over Germany and change over time, how they are carried upwards by updrafts and then transported by winds in the troposphere more than 10 kilometres above the ground.

Cirrus clouds are relatively high thin clouds formed from ice crystals.

Changes to the strength of the heliosphere which modulates GCR, solar wind bursts which remove cloud forming ions, and a third mechanism.

How could I possibly favor having warm water blasted at my face in cloud form when there's also a shoulder massage to consider?

After «seeding» the chamber, the researchers adjusted the temperature, first setting it to the coldest temperatures at which clouds form on Earth (around minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit).

Although this looks like a single nebula, NSF's Gemini South Observatory revealed it is actually two separate gas and dust clouds formed by different types of supernova explosions.

These are consistent with clouds forming at sunset and sunrise, said mission head Alan Stern during an October 18 news conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

This summer in Michigan, it's been very common to see clouds form at night (when the air cools a little), then dissipate soon after the sun comes up.

When it reaches the air, DMS helps clouds form over coral reefs.

The researchers said this new way of watching plastic deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, such as meteor impacts, the effects of bullets and other penetrating projectiles and high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts and even how dust clouds form between the stars.

If it gets too hot, the oceans heat up, evaporation increases, high altitude clouds form, and they reflect back sunlight and shade the surface more, compensating and regulating temperatures so that life survives.

When updraughts rise only a few kilometres they reduce total cloud cover because they pull more vapour away from the higher cloud forming regions.

The stable air that causes the ultra-cold conditions where polar stratospheric clouds form in Antarctica is much less likely.

Hideo Shiogama and Tomoo Ogura, at Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies, said the explanation of how fewer clouds form as the world warms was «convincing», and agreed this indicated future climate would be greater than expected.

Nothing quite like watching a top 25 nationally ranked team (in the days before it was fashionable to make Drake a top 10 team) in a pit of an arena that only sat about 4,000 fans and I swear you could see clouds forming around the rafters by the end of a sweaty game.

Over the maritime tropics, tall convective clouds form in the vicinity of the equatorial trough, where the sea surface temperature is quite high.

The difference in lightning activity can't be explained by changes in the weather, according to the study's authors, who conclude that aerosol particles emitted in ship exhaust are changing how storm clouds form over the ocean.

One of the least common cloud types, lenticular clouds form when mountains force air currents to travel in wave - like patterns.

However water vapour is not pulled away from cloud forming regions when only deep 15 km updraughts are present.

Why It Matters: More than half the Earth's precipitation comes from ice - bearing clouds formed via several ice - forming mechanisms (see sidebar, Ice Nucleation).

I'm immediately skeptical when people start invoking new laws of physics on the basis of what appears to be anecdotal evidence (weird clouds forming in seconds across the sky?).

Stratus clouds form flat layers that obscure the sun and therefore appear grayish.