Even if you don't believe the numbers exactly, the back radiation just from the clouds should be close to 70 % since
clouds cover about 70 % of the earth.)
At any given time,
clouds cover about 70 percent of the Earth's surface and together produce a net cooling effect on the planet.
Not exact matches
And even if all rough correlations could be made smooth by convoluted arguments
about cloud covers and the like, the two Genesis accounts themselves, taken as chronologies, do not agree.
The Soviet Union tried to
cover the whole thing up, making only a vague announcement
about the explosion after two days had passed; the world only became aware of the true horror of the accident once a radioactive
cloud that had drifted into Sweden was sourced back to Chernobyl.
During these flybys, Juno will probe beneath the obscuring
cloud cover of Jupiter and study its auroras to learn more
about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
In visible light Venus appears
covered in a featureless white
cloud layer, but a camera onboard Mariner 10 captured these
cloud details in the ultraviolet range, which provided clues
about the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
Water vapor and
clouds may play a role The Arctic's summer ice
cover hit a record low in 2007, when it dipped
about 40 percent below the average ice
cover recorded since 1979, when scientists began monitoring the region with satellites.
The tree
cover would also bring more rain —
about 700 to 1200 millimeters per year — and
clouds, which help reflect the sun's rays back into space.
If the scientists at
CLOUD are able to prove that cosmic rays can change Earth's cloud cover, would that force climate scientists to reevaluate their ideas about global war
CLOUD are able to prove that cosmic rays can change Earth's
cloud cover, would that force climate scientists to reevaluate their ideas about global war
cloud cover, would that force climate scientists to reevaluate their ideas
about global warming?
«For a period of several weeks, wide areas of the Arctic were
covered by polar stratospheric
clouds between
about 14 and 26 kilometers height.
But since the mid-1990s, increasing
cloud cover has deprived the islands of
about four hours of sunshine per month in the summer.
The craft's microwave radiometer will also «see»
about 550 kilometers below the
clouds covering Jupiter's surface.
A more detailed knowledge of the albedo would provide information
about possible
cloud cover on the planet, or the nature of its surface.
As the area of this
cloud cover grows, it reflects more of the shortwave radiation; but as the
clouds get taller, their greenhouse effect becomes more significant, counteracting
about half of their total cooling effect.»
It
covers the Orion A molecular
cloud, the nearest known massive star factory, lying
about 1350 light - years from Earth, and reveals many young stars and other objects normally buried deep inside the dusty
clouds.
Our understanding of these phenomena and our ability to model them are primitive,...» While there are doubts
about the link between cosmic rays and
cloud cover, there is an observed significant link between (low)
cloud cover and solar radiation within the last two sun cycles.
For
cloud cover and the solar cycle, this is not
about cosmic rays and
cloud cover, but solar radiation (in general) and
cloud cover.
On any given day, Earth is
about 50 percent
covered in
clouds.
ONE perent change in
cloud cover is
about equivalent to doubling CO2 from pre-industrial levels.
Much of what scientists know
about Jupiter comes from gazing at its
cloud cover with telescopes and spacecraft.
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As I aim for when taking photographs outside, no matter what I'm shooting, is good light, and just
about 2 hours before sunset, the light was looking pretty good with the
cloud cover coming in and out throughout the hour long pet photography session.
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The really good thing
about the climate «debate» is that the causations proposed by both sides — CO2 or
cloud cover — will reveal themselves in the next few years.
Since the result comes from measurements of absorption at infrared wavelengths, the results are strictly valid only for relatively
cloud - free locations (
cloud cover fraction over a 300 km region less than
about 60 %).
It looks as if the curve has been readjusted at some stage, but it is then a bit strange that the curve representing the global lower
cloud cover doesn't seem to have been re-scaled: the difference between maximum and minimum is
about 3 % in both figures (it's annoying that the vertical axis for the
cloud cover are given in different units in Fig. 2 & 3).
About humidity, rainfall, and
cloud cover much less is known.
For
cloud cover and the solar cycle, this is not
about cosmic rays and
cloud cover, but solar radiation (in general) and
cloud cover.
Our understanding of these phenomena and our ability to model them are primitive,...» While there are doubts
about the link between cosmic rays and
cloud cover, there is an observed significant link between (low)
cloud cover and solar radiation within the last two sun cycles.
As I understand it, the basic theory is that incoming charged particles provide additional
cloud condensation nucleii (like the
cloud chambers used as detectors in early subatomic physics), that the rate of incoming particles is modulated by the magnetic fields of the sun and earth, and that therefore the amount of
cloud cover varies with the particle flux, which in turn drives climate, so we can stop worrying
about CO2.
I look at the basics of radiative physics and ask follow - up questions
about details, including details entailed in non-radiative physics My favorite questions to date: (1) if, as Chris Colose wrote in the earlier thread, Willis Eschenbach's graphical analysis of
cloud cover and temperature is basically correct, does that not make a reasonable case that
cloud cover increases can be expected to prevent future warming from future CO2 increases?
I'm wondering
about Transantarctic mountains, altitude, humidity, dehumidification, increased
cloud cover and the creation of more Antarctic ice through this process.
Considering the heat capacity of the oceans is
about 1,100 times greater than the air, would not even a modest change in
cloud cover affect the radiative balance with far greater magnitude than a parts - per - million change in an atmospheric gas constituent?
Gu's research indicates that the maximum uptake of carbon dioxide by plant ecosystems occurs when
cloud cover is
about 50 percent.
However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated
about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in
cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..
Again, I do not see much to get excited
about here, particularly when considering that the albedo increase from a 1 % increase in
cloud cover would more than offset this decrease.
If you consider that the Earth is also
about 2 / 3rds
cloud covered and any CO2 or other GHG absorption would not matter because the
clouds would be absorbing the energy anyway, over 90 % of the GHE is from water vapor and / or
clouds and less than 10 % is from CO2 and other GHGs.
Welcome to «science journalism» at The New York Times where climate forces are not so much
about sunlight and
cloud cover, but
about «deniers», «doubters», and «disinformers».
In SW — seen here as a
cloud cover — a warming trend from reducing
cloud between the mid 1980's and 1990's equivalent to
about 2 W / m ^ 2 change, a step change in the late 1990's in the 1998/2001 climate shift and a plateauing since.
A possible 2 % increase in
cloud cover following a 1 % increase in mean surface temp has been written
about already, but I lack the references to the published instances; I mention them to avoid seeming to claim that the ideas I wrote in the paragraph above originated with me..
We know that global
cloud cover has decreased
about 4 % since satellite measurements became available in 1985.
Clouds are one of the big unknowns
about global warming as they can have a range of effects, warmer temperatures caused by global warming will result in higher rates of evaporation and therefore will result in higher
cloud cover.
In the days following an eruption,
cloud cover can fall by
about 4 per cent.