Sentences with phrase «dioxide out of the surface»

«The primary producers, the phytoplankton, take carbon dioxide out of the surface waters and «fix» it into a form of carbon that can sink down to the deep where it is stored,» Gibson says.

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When we drive our car and carbon dioxide comes out of the tailpipe, within a year it has spread throughout the atmosphere and is integrated with the surface ocean.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.

This can happen when a lava flow vaporises the surface layers of frozen sulphur dioxide, or when dissolved gas turns to bubbles inside rising magma and blasts high - speed debris out through the moon's surface.

Despite being cold enough to be covered in layers of sulphur dioxide frost, this large inner moon of Jupiter is the most volcanic world known, spitting out 100 times as much lava as all Earth's volcanoes can muster, from a surface area just 1 / 12th the size.

Kensaku Morihara and her colleagues at the Nara Women's University in Japan carried out their experiment with silica gel, a form of silicon dioxide which has a surface covered with many cavities.

Britton Stephens, an NCAR scientist and the project's co-principal investigator, said HIPPO flights have collected the first large - scale measurements of carbon dioxide and oxygen cycling into and out of surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

To confirm these trends and find out what was behind them, Ritter et al. used the products of the Surface Ocean pCO2 Mapping (SOCOM) intercomparison project to track carbon dioxide (CO2) trends in the Southern Ocean.

Turns out that nanotechnology can do more then keep your pants stain free - a coating of titanium dioxide on concrete surfaces has the ability to

But even when carbon dioxide does make its way out of the atmosphere, Earth's natural systems can release other carbon dioxide molecules that were previously stored in the oceans / land back into the atmosphere, making the full effect of carbon dioxide emissions on surface temperatures much longer than this 5 - 200 year average.

But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.

For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).

In the former, we try to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and get it back in the ground; or we shunt CO2 aside at the smokestack before it gets to the atmosphere, and bury or store it; or we promote algae blooms that absorb CO2 at the ocean surface and then die off and carry it to the ocean floor.

Carbon dioxide is fully part of that water cycle where water heated by the thermal infrared direct from the Sun evaporates and anyway lighter than air rises in air and takes away heat from the surface — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, the water vapour spontaneously joining with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere releases its heat in the colder heights and condenses out back into liquid water and ice, cooling the Earth from the 67 °C it would be without the water cycle.

Tracking carbon dioxide and other gases with only surface measurements has been like snorkeling with a really foggy mask, but with HIPPO, it gave a clear view of what's really out there, says Britton Stephens, a scientist at NCAR.

Regarding the sensitivity of the climate to the increased greenhouse effect, Dessler pointed out that the 2014 IPCC report matched the 2001, 1995, and 1990 reports, estimating an eventual global surface warming of 1.5 — 4.5 °C in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

more carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere means more little «point sources» for more absorbed EM in the infrared part of the spectrum, (infrared that re-radiated from the earth's surface after sunlight hit it and got absorbed); and since point sources radiate in a spherical pattern, that means more «back radiation» to earth, on balance... and this changes the «standing pattern» of energy flow in and out of the earth system, creating a time differential, so it starts to re-adjust...

He had just completed his doctoral thesis on the atmosphere of the planet Venus where carbon dioxide was dense and the surface temperature was a scorching 460 °C (860 °F), Now he was assigned to the question raised by Budyko — could climate forcings (as they're called) from human causes cancel out natural forcings of cooler temperatures and cause global warming in the near future?