Sentences with phrase «content of the atmosphere»

Since 1958, when measurements were first made, the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has been increasing.

However, their predictions also respond with different degrees of sensitivity to changes in this radiant energy, for example if the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere doubles.

«If there were a long term and significant increase in the pollutant content of the atmosphere either of particles or of carbon dioxide, the potential damage to the global environment could be severe,» he said.

Yet no one has come up with a rock - solid test to determine the precise oxygen content of the atmosphere at any given time from the geologic record.

Most planets» temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15).

«Now we have greater confidence that volcanism and its effect on the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere drove climate change in deep time,» says Kump.

The key studies for MARCI center on daily monitoring of dust storms, polar cloud formation, and variations in ozone content of the atmosphere.

Moisture content of the atmosphere goes up a bit with global warming — true — but that is a negligible amount of water loss from the ocean's point of view (worth just a few millimeters of sea level).

As the temperature rises, water vapor evaporates at a higher rate, raising the water vapor content of the atmosphere, further amplifying the the increased greenhouse effect of the additional carbon dioxide.

When it is assumed that the CO2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2 °C and 3.5 °C, with greater increases at high latitudes.

and don't understand that the oceans hold about 1000X the heat content of the atmosphere, and that things «slosh around» in the short term.

The link between SSTs and hurricane activity is complex and subject to other variables such as the moisture content of the atmosphere (which is linked to SSTs) and wind shear aloft.

Each displays the average sulfur dioxide content of the atmosphere over three years, with the brightest red showing the worst pollution levels.

One proposed solution, and likely to be at least part of the answer, is that the CO2 content of the atmosphere has decreased roughly in proportion.

It is also predicted by climate models in response to the rising greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.

And then we don't really can say how far the ozone layer might be affected or the oxygen content of the atmosphere.

In response to your assertion that surface temperatures have not been used to track the heat content of the atmosphere.

[Response: Hi Roger, Please point me to one study anywhere in the literature which has used the surface temperature record to infer changes in the heat content of the atmosphere.

Would natural CO2 sinks pop up in some unpredictable way, sufficient enough to start reducing the CO2 content of the atmosphere?

At that time the carbon content of the atmosphere was only around 600 gigatons of carbon.

«Please point me to one study anywhere in the literature which has used the surface temperature record to infer changes in the heat content of the atmosphere».

The only paper I know that used the energy content of the atmosphere in a calculation (Levitus et al, 2001) used the energy content metric directly from a reanalysis.

The theory also predicts this will greatly affect available oxygen content of the atmosphere.

Water - air heat flux also affects the latent heat content of the atmosphere as moist air contains more heat than dry air of the same temperature.

Thus human emissions increase the total CO2 content of the atmosphere, no matter if the emitted molecules are captured in other reservoirs (oceans, biosphere) sooner or later...

The water vapor content of the atmosphere rises by about 50 percent if atmospheric temperatures were to increase by 5C and relative humidity remained constant.

This is a simple first order equilibrium process, where a temperature increase will increase the CO2 content of the atmosphere until a new equilibrium is found where the release of CO2 and the absorption of CO2 again are equal.

However, the measurable heat content of the atmosphere has not gone up one whit in those six months.

As Broecker has said, «If you wanted to cool the planet by 5 °C and could magically alter the water vapor content of the atmosphere, a 30 percent decrease would do the job.»

For the moment let's all accept that CO2 is a magical gas, capable (at forty parts per million), of doubling the heat content of the atmosphere in six months.

If you want to claim that glaciers are better instruments than satellites for measuring the heat content of the atmosphere, good luck with that.

Redently scientists that have measured the water vapor content of the atmosphere have deduce the amount of water vapor increase has been about 1 % per year over the past ten years.

While no danger exists that our O2 reserve will be depleted, nevertheless the O2 content of our atmosphere is slowly declining — so slowly that a sufficiently accurate technique to measure this change wasn't developed until the late 1980s.

Ralph Keeling, its developer, showed that between 1989 and 1994 the O2 content of the atmosphere decreased at an average annual rate of 2 parts per million.

From their untenable conditions Bolin & Eriksson state: «It is obvious that an addition of CO2 to the atmosphere will only slightly change the CO2 content of the sea but appreciably effect the CO2 content of the atmosphere.»

Thus water doesn't play any role in the 3 - 4 micron band and all energy absorbed there (as can be seen in the «total absorption and scattering» graph) is from CO2 alone and nothing else, whatever the water content of the atmosphere.

«Over last 300 million years, when most plants evolved, the average CO2 content of the atmosphere seems to have been about 1000 to 1200 ppm.»

If we convert the data in Fig. 1 into C13 content, we find that the C13 content of the atmosphere is increasing (Fig. 2).»

Also, plants use less water when they have more CO2... Over last 300 million years, when most plants evolved, the average CO2 content of the atmosphere seems to have been about 1000 to 1200 ppm... if you reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere, this would have negative effects on plants.»

H2O content of the atmosphere is dependant on temperature — if you warm the air by 0.5 C it can hold a little more H2O.

This 1992 Treaty resulted in the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which was supposed to reduce the CO2 content of the atmosphere.

We have (apparently) increased the CO2 content of the atmosphere by.00005 %.

The ozone content of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere is more than in the southern hemisphere.

Therefore, we have increased the CO2 content of the the atmosphere (again assuming we are the cause) by 0.0064 % (not 0.000064 %).

The oxygen content of the atmosphere is diminishing at a rate that corresponds to the increase in CO2, so the increase in CO2 is due to oxidation of carbonaceuos material of some kind, eg., burning, decay, etc., and not from, say, the oceans, volcanoes or some other geological process.

88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.

If plants did not do this, the presence of plants would not have substantially increased the O2 content of the atmosphere today relative to values prior to the carboniferous.

Only the net difference between released and absorbed does change the CO2 content of the atmosphere... No matter if the natural cycle has halved or doubled in the past decades...

That is the crux of the matter: the 150 GtC in and out is not the net sink rate it is the source rate and the sink rate of a cycle, which doesn't change the CO2 content of the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide content of atmosphere on Venus is 96.5 % while it is 0.04 % on Earth.