Sentences with phrase «clouds hold more water»

Not exact matches

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

First, there's the well - known fact that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, meaning more moisture can be wrung out of the clouds when it does rain.

And warmer air can hold more water in vapor form which means less clouds.

Not to mention the fact that the air holds 1.4 % more water at a 2 degree increase, so you'd see more clouds and more rainfall in the foodbelt.

JC: OK HAP: The atmosphere can hold much more water than 100 % humidity in the form of water drops in clouds and fog.

In a warmer world, air holds more water vapor, so when cloud conditions are right for that vapor to form droplets, more precipitation falls.