Sentences with phrase «dramatically increases the albedo»

The amount of sea ice is rather sensitive to climate change: meltwater ponding, for instance, dramatically increases the albedo of sea ice, leading to enhanced ice melt.

Well, you can guess it based on the type of clouds — in zones of high pressure the dominant cloud type are the stratus family — thin, layered clouds, that absorb far less energy than cumulus clouds, and can dramatically increase albedo, therefore act as climate coolers.

Not exact matches

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

However, the few rough water albedo studies for low solar angles — solar elevation angles below 20 degrees — that I've found all confirm open ocean (rough water) albedo increases dramatically to a maximum between 0.35 and 0.60 at 4 - 6 degrees.