Sentences with phrase «cloud of water vapor»

«There's nothing more satisfying that leaving a Lamborghini in a cloud of water vapor,» Edison said.

As an alien sun blazes through its death throes, it is apparently vaporizing a surrounding swarm of comets, releasing a huge cloud of water vapor.

Meanwhile, a different physical process in the comet's smooth mid-section was causing water ice to vaporize and flow through porous material to escape as a cloud of water vapor at the same time (NASA news release, and page on «fluffy snowballs;» David Shiga, New Scientist, November 18, 2010; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

-- A 100 - story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant — a total of 3.5 million tons a year.

The jets in another nebula, K3 - 35, are so powerful, reports Luis Miranda of Spain's Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia, that they are squashing clouds of water vapor at their tips, 450 billion miles from the star, and causing the water to mase - emit laserlike beams of microwaves.

MARCI images will be used to document the weather on Mars by observing the comings and goings of dust storms, polar frost, and clouds of water vapor, water ice, and carbon dioxide crystals.

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It does indeed cause some warming of our planet, and we should thank Providence for that, because without the greenhouse warming of CO2 and its more potent partners, water vapor and clouds, the earth would be too cold to sustain its current abundance of life.

Astronomers first classified «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «scout») as a comet, but later observations didn't reveal the telltale signs, including clouds of dust or water vapor.

Early results show that as water vapor increased, thicker clouds would have reflected up to half of the sunlight back into space.

The aerosols create additional seeds around which water vapor can condense, boosting the number of cloud droplets and making the cloud more reflective.

There might be abundant stores of water vapor beneath the clouds.

For that to be possible, the air must contain even more water vapor than is usually required to form clouds, reaching a very high state of supersaturation.

In a clean cloud, the same spike of high water vapor could last a long time with only a few fortunate droplets in the vapor's vicinity to munch plentifully and grow much bigger than their neighbors.

«Water evaporation and condensation processes as well as the strong greenhouse effect of water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (Water evaporation and condensation processes as well as the strong greenhouse effect of water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK).

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

Cloudy, humid days reverse the cooling from both radiation and sublimation — cloud cover prevents snow from emitting energy, and condensation of water vapor on the snow releases latent heat, warming the snow.

The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.

The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out as water vapor leaks into space, and temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all of which will transform our planet into a Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxide.

In December 2015, the Dawn team reported a haze of water vapor above the crater — a cloud that grew as temperatures rose during the day, and disappeared at night as temperatures dropped and the water vapor condensed into frost.

The upward trajectory of the air gives shape to the towering cumulonimbus clouds, and if the air is heavily laden with water vapor, it adds mass to the clouds, as well.

The «factors» are natural phenomena such as water vapor, clouds, sea ice, dust and vegetation — all of which exert varying pulls on the climate.

First noticed by amateur astronomers, the massive storm works like the much smaller convective events on Earth, where air and water vapor are pushed high into the atmosphere, resulting in the towering, billowing clouds of a thunderstorm.

Lindzen was allowed to print his «Iris Theory» (stating that global warming might end because of a natural increase in cooling - type clouds and less water vapor - a heat - trapping greenhouse gas) in Geophysical Research Letters (Jun. 26, 2001 - a legitimate peer - reviewed journal).

The small amount of heat released when water vapor condenses on ice crystals in Arctic clouds, which contain both water and ice, determines the cloud's survival, according to scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Environment Canada.

The really cold air can't hold all that water vapor so the vapor instead condenses around any microscopic particles of dust, salt or whatever else might be floating in the air and voila, you have a cloud.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that when miniscule particles of airborne dust, thought to be a perfect landing site for water vapor, are modified by pollution, they change cloud properties via ice crystal number concentration and ice water content.

The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, shows how a few ice crystals can overcome numerous water droplets in a heated battle for vapor within cold clouds.

Because air motions in these clouds are driven primarily by processes tied to the presence of liquid, when water droplets competing for water vapor lose to ice crystals, an ensuing chain of events drives the cloud toward collapse.

When the CLIMAP data proved to be wrong, and was replaced by more reliable estimates showing a substantial tropical surface temperature drop, Lindzen had to abandon his then - current model and move on to other forms of mischief (first the «cumulus drying» negative water vapor feedback mechanism, since abandoned, and now the «Iris» effect cloud feedback mechanism).

Some of these things are feebacks like water vapor, clouds and sea - ice, which could be reasonably presumed to be relevant to the future as well as the past.

The water is likely erupting from icy volcanoes or sublimation of ice into clouds of vapor.

According to NASA, clouds are important for understanding the «planet's energy balance and water vapor inventory» and will shed insight into the daily and seasonal behavior of the atmosphere of the planet.

Or there might be abundant stores of water vapor beneath the clouds.

This cycle includes water beneath the Earth's surface and in rocks (lithosphere), the water in plants and animals (biosphere), the water covering the surface of the planet in liquid and solid forms, and the water in the atmosphere in the form of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation.

Tompkins, A., 2002: A prognostic parameterization for the subgrid - scale variability of water vapor and clouds in large - scale models and its use to diagnose cloud cover.

Airborne particles in the form of naturally occurring dusts and human - produced aerosols can serve as ice nuclei, sites around which water vapor condenses into clouds.

Precipitation rate was used in the calculation rate not because of the latent energy in the water vapor, but because the precipitation rate was treated as proportional to the rate of transfer of air (with water vapor mixed in) from the surface to the upper cloud level; and the fraction of each kilogram of air that was water vapor was treated as constant.

There is a clear impact on global temperature, too, though the mechanisms are complex: heat released from the oceans; increases in water vapor, which enhance the greenhouse effect, and redistributions of clouds.

Together with fast feedbacks processes, via changes of water vapor, clouds, and the vertical temperature profile, these slow amplifying feedbacks were responsible for almost the entire glacial - to - interglacial temperature change [59]--[62].

However, this climate sensitivity includes only the effects of fast feedbacks of the climate system, such as water vapor, clouds, aerosols, and sea ice.

• Clouds form because cold air doesn't hold as much water as warm air • Clouds are made of water vapor • Clouds always predict rain • Rain falls when clouds become too heavy and the rain drips out or bursts the cloud open • Rain comes from holes in clouds, sweating clouds, funnels in clouds, melted clouds • Lightning never strikes the same place twice • Thunder occurs when two clouds collide • Clouds block wind and slow it down • Clouds come from somewhere above the sky • Clouds are made of smoke How does the 5E model facilitate learning?

Monteverde is best known for its incredible cloud forests, which are forests at higher altitudes where water vapor hugs the land in the form of billowing mist.

Foregrounding their conditions of presentation, ownership, reception, and provenance, artworks, artifacts, and their passage through time and narrative discourses are played off the figure of the cloud chamber — an early twentieth century device that used water vapor to mark the movement of subatomic particles, and which laid the ground for the study of particle physics by photographing the patterns these movements produced.

In addition, since the global surface temperature records are a measure that responds to albedo changes (volcanic aerosols, cloud cover, land use, snow and ice cover) solar output, and differences in partition of various forcings into the oceans / atmosphere / land / cryosphere, teasing out just the effect of CO2 + water vapor over the short term is difficult to impossible.

«By comparing the response of clouds and water vapor to ENSO forcing in nature with that in AMIP simulations by some leading climate models, an earlier evaluation of tropical cloud and water vapor feedbacks has revealed two common biases in the models: (1) an underestimate of the strength of the negative cloud albedo feedback and (2) an overestimate of the positive feedback from the greenhouse effect of water vapor.

Further, your talk of «increases in both water vapor and clouds during warming» is wholly misplaced.

Alternatively, more direct observations of that radiative imbalance would be nice, or better theoretical and observational understanding of the water vapor and cloud feedbacks, or more paleoclimate data which can give us constraints on historical feedbacks, but my guess is that ocean heat content measurements would be the best near term bet for improving our understanding of this issue.

To quote from the results, «CF [cloud fraction] and CWV [column water vapor] are understandably highly positively correlated, as water vapor is one of the principal [misspelled] components required for cloud formation.»

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

In Spencer and Braswell (2008), and to an even greater extent in his blog article, Spencer tries to introduce the rather peculiar notion of «internal radiative forcing» as distinct from cloud or water vapor feedback.