Sentences with phrase «cloud over the ocean»

What is the impacts on clouds over the ocean?

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.

Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the ocean.

For instance, Han et al. (1998) showed that cloud albedo decreases with decreasing droplet size for the optically thinner clouds over the oceans.

The one that's most notable is something that's called marine cloud brightening, where tiny particles are added to existing clouds over the oceans, in order to brighten them and reflect away more sunlight.

During this time she focused in particular on low - lying clouds over the oceans, where she quantified and evaluated the impact of ship emissions on clouds.

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.

Tinkering with the Earth and its atmosphere in an attempt to fend off global warming — a.k.a. geoengineering — seems like the stuff of science fiction: Lacing the stratosphere with sulfur aerosols or whitening clouds over the ocean to reflect sunlight back into space.

Re 35: if you count water droplets as an aerosol solution then might I suggest you look up the proposal by Salter, Latham et al which uses seawater to increase albedo by producing stratocumulus clouds over the ocean.

More Geo - Engineering + Renewable Energy Explored in Future Episodes Other episodes of Discovery Project Earth will explore geo - engineering concepts such as: Protecting glaciers from melting with giant blankets to reflect the sun's heat; seeding clouds over oceans to increase the ability of clouds to reflect solar radiation; scrubbing the ambient air using a 400 - foot tall carbon scrubber; and creating a 100,000 square mile sunshade in space.

The other prominent proposal is to use sea salt to brighten clouds over the ocean.

Heat is being lost from the oceans to space in this period, but at a much slower rate than in the forced response to CO2, due in large part to positive feedback from polar ice and snow (and low clouds over the oceans) in the model.

Brightening clouds over the oceans can only be a temporary way of offsetting the impacts of climate change, warns Parkes: