Sentences with phrase «detected small clouds»
Near - infrared observations have detected small clouds of methane gas forming and dissipating in the upper reaches of Titan's atmosphere.
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Meanwhile, the «bad guys» — big cattle ranchers and loggers — know that satellites» optical instruments rarely detect small patches of destruction or even see them at all beneath cloud cover.
By taking a «close - in» view, the study revealed that the occurrence of clouds too small for climate models to detect individually can have a big impact on regional surface solar radiation and, therefore, on brightening or dimming.
This diamond has a very small cloud inclusion that was detected from the top view.
The second factor is the insulating effect of the atmosphere of which well over 90 % results from atmospheric water in the form of clouds and water vapour with the remaining 10 % due primarily from CO2 and ozone with just a slightly detectable effect from methane and a trivial effect from all the other gases named in tyhe Kyoto Accord that is so small it can't even be detected on measurements of the Earth's radiative spectrum.
Furthermore, the alerting system can not detect all forest cover loss, whether due to the small size of the loss area, persistent cloud cover, or other explanations still being identified through GFW validation efforts.
Furthermore, although not in direct relation to the solar - cloud studies, Brest et al. (1997) state that the ISCCP data are not sensitive enough to detect small changes in cloud cover over long timescales.
Although the chain of the actual physical mechanisms generating these cycles is still obscure, (I have argued in my previous papers that the available climatic data would suggest an astronomical modulation of the cloud cover that would induce small oscillations in the albedo that, consequently, would cause oscillations in the surface temperature also by modulating ocean oscillations), the detected cycles can surely be considered from a purely geometrical point of view as a description of the dynamical evolution of the climate system.