Sentences with phrase «condensed water droplets»

It's also worth noting that like CO2, water vapor is not visible - clouds are condensed water droplets, not water vapor.

Clouds form when water condenses on particles of dust, and rain falls when condensed water droplets grow too heavy to be suspended by updrafts in the atmosphere.

These protein droplets — that form in the cytoplasm similar to condensing water droplets — can dissolve again, enabling the cell to reuse the Sup35 protein when it restarts growth.

Not exact matches

Aerosol particles act as seeds, around which water vapour condenses into cloud droplets.

Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere condensed on the infusion of dust particles and settled into pouch - like formations due to wind currents.

While the particles are small in size, they are large in number, and they can form many small droplets on which the excess water vapor condenses.

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

The phenomenon can be understood through the action of water molecules, which condense to form liquid droplets by sticking to particles like dust and pollen.

Where the atmosphere has few aerosol particles — over the ocean, for instance — water molecules have fewer particles to condense around, so cloud droplets are large.

Water vapor condenses around aerosols in the atmosphere, creating droplets that make up clouds.

When the humidity is high, water vapor condenses around aerosols, forming tiny suspended droplets that spread around all wavelengths of sunlight equally — a fancy way of saying that water whitens the sky.

Over land, the small size of these aerosol particles tends to suppress rainfall because the water droplets that condense on them are light enough to remain aloft.

Cloud droplets form when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses onto tiny particles.

The grooves are just the right size and shape to condense water molecules directly from moist air and to catch microscopic fog droplets.

With the help of BYU chemical engineering professor Bill Pitt, Zhao was able to mathematically model the energy cost of the water molecules and fog droplets, showing that the shape and size of the nano - grooves lowered the energy cost to condense water and capture fog from the atmosphere onto the awn.

Astronomers have spotted glowing droplets of condensed water in the distant Spiderweb Galaxy — but not where they expected to find them.

Tornadoes are visible because moist air condenses into water droplets.

Water droplets condense around aerosols, so their presence affects the ways clouds form and behave — with significant consequences for the climate as a whole.

Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals.

The presence of these particles helps to seed clouds by providing sites on which water droplets can condense, but very small particles, the scientists found, actually decrease the precipitating efficiency of clouds, meaning it rains less.

Gregory and Jolanta Watson at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and their colleagues observed small water droplets condensing on the scales of the gecko Lucasium steindachneri in humid conditions.

Clouds are made of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that have condensed onto tiny pieces of sea salt, dust, smoke, or other particles in the air.

When the relative humidity reaches 100 %, the water vapor condenses into liquid water droplets and the clouds begin to form.

The marine layer wanders and small particles of oceanic salt and iodine allow water droplets to condense upon them, thickening things, obscuring vision, whiting out distant sites, giving you space for yourself again.

There are an ever increasing number of these «indirect effects», but the two most discussed are the aerosol / cloud opacity interaction (more aerosols provide more sites for water to condense in clouds, thus cloud droplets are smaller and clouds become more opaque), and the cloud lifetime effect (smaller droplets make it more difficult to make drops big enough to rain, and so clouds live longer).

I assume the water condenses into small droplets and thus the top of the cloud must be a bit warmer than the layer would be if under clear conditions?

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One thing that can amplify that simple relationship, though, is the fact that water vapor added to the atmosphere also releases heat when it condenses into droplets.

In such a cloud, the growth of a liquid water droplet to a raindrop begins with condensation, as additional water vapour condenses in a supersaturated atmosphere.

Condensed water vapour (cloud droplets) scatter light effectively and appear white in colour.

This wandering is entirely reversible: when there are large droplets to condense on, temperature equilibrates to the value of T for which water molecules are condensing on and evaporating from droplets in equal numbers, just as in any reversible chemical reaction.

But if somehow enough H20 gas molecules become a liquid droplet of water there some critical amount of molecules - as wild guess, say 1000 molecules formed as liquid water - in which H20 gas can more than just briefly condense onto such a droplet of water.

Or if the there enough water molecule in droplet the water acts similar to a drop water from dripping facet or pool of water - which a portion of it is evaporating and condensing - but with H20 gas molecules in a gas mixture most of gas molecules are transiting from gas to liquid state within a time frame of something like less than a second.

Although condesing on a water surface will be slightly different from condensing out into air supported droplets I believe the overall effect should be similar.

So if water molecule formed with say 5 molecules of H2O liquid droplet, within some period measured in nanoseconds, and if this other gas molecule condensed making 6 molecules, than they may fly apart within nanoseconds or less than a second.

This energy will be delivered, after some time, to air when the water molecules in the gas phase condense into droplets.

However, as the water vapor rises the lapse rate means that the volume of air cools and eventually the water vapor condenses into water droplets and then into ice latent heat is given off to the surrounding air at each of these phase changes, with two effects.

There are also latent heat considerations — water vapor condenses during cloud formation and precipitation events, and water droplets evaporate when clouds dissipate.

The role of condensation nuclei in cloud formation is not entirely clear, although it is known that water droplets condense on them.

-- many gases including water vapor are transparent to visible light, but some like water vapor condense into particles / droplets.

When water vapor condenses in the atmosphere it forms microscopic water droplets.

The condensed water could be vented in the form of large ice crystals or droplets that would fall quickly through the atmosphere.»