Sentences with phrase «colder than at the surface»

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At — 397 degrees Fahrenheit, the areas are the coldest places ever measured in the solar system, more frigid even than Pluto's surface.

It's cold there because the sun's rays strike the surface at a much shallower angle than they do at the equator.

«During Norwegian winters, sea surface water is colder than at depth, so by lifting warmer water to the surface using bubble curtains, we can prevent the fjords from icing up», he says.

JacquesLB (# 8)-- your argument only explains why the bottom of the ocean is not colder than it is, or indeed frozen at the bottom — colder water heads upwards and freezes at the surface.

Also at the same time, the much higher daytime skin surface temperature (more than offsetting the somewhat colder night - time skin surface temperature which is often ameliorated by condensation and shallow fog layers) causes more infrared radiation to be emitted to space.

Can CO2 at ~ 1 km, ~ 6C colder than the surface and the earth's brightness temperature, not absorb any of the earth's IR radiation?

The temperatures at the tops of high clouds are much colder than the surface, and thus reduce the energy loss of the planet better than low clouds (which emit at temperatures rather close to that of the surface).

The declining density gradient with height (caused by gravity) permits lighter, warmer air to rise further away from the surface than can colder, heavier air at the same upward pressure gradient force.

On my rough calcs, this upwelling of cold deep water spreading out under the tradewinds will be enough to affect surface temps at the times of climate regime reversals, and sure enough there is a giveaway dip near the peak of the AMO, and the troughs are spikier than the crests of the AMO curve.

It has been known at least for 50 years that surface is colder than the overlaying atmosphere over Antarctis.

The earth's surface SHOULD be emitting at a higher effective Temperature than 288 K because the hotter surfaces far more than make up for the laziness of the colder surfaces.

When the Walker circulation weakens or reverses, an El Niño results, causing the ocean surface to be warmer than average, as upwelling of cold water occurs less or not at all.

Factor in the fact that soils amd water are at least ~ 1000 times more dense than air and the idea that gases can heat warmer surfaces like soils and especially water whilst most of the atmosphere is actually much colder just seems - well — ludicrous.

Furthermore as the Sun's radiation is re-emitted into space before reaching the Earth's surface, that surface will be colder than the assumed 15 degrees Celsius and thus will release even less radiation at all wavelengths.

Now the sun would be expected to set up an undisturbed gradient from cold at the bottom to warm at the top but it does not because upward radiation from the surface plus energy drawn upwards by evaporation at the surface creates a layer 1 mm deep near the surface (the subskin) which is 0.3 C cooler than the water below it.

They calculate a 1 degree temperature increase as a result, but only in the fine print do you learn that isn't at earth surface, it is at the «effective black body temperature» of earth, which is about 35 degrees colder than earth surface.

Additionally, the direction of heat flow is always only from hot (the ground), to cold (upper atmosphere), Everyone should look at the lapse rate over Antarctica — during the winter (night), the atmosphere is ALWAYS warmer than the surface.

If there were no absorbing gases, the equilibrium of solar and LWIR would occur at the surface, and the Earth would be about 33C colder than it is (assuming same albedo).

But in practical terms, a very slight warming at great depth is not going to have much influence on the surface energy balance any time soon; the deep is ~ 20C colder than the surface, and the warming at depth well under 0.1 C.

Ask any warmist why DWLWIR can't do any «Work» at the surface and they explain for it to do so the working object has to be colder than where the DWLWIR comes from.

This means that a clean snowpack (one with no impurities) that has melted at the surface can have a lower broadband albedo than a cold snowpack with impurities, despite the fact that the clean snowpack might still appear brighter to our eyes.