Sentences with phrase «dust and water vapor»

The organisms can become airborne after being expelled by a coughing dog, carried in the air in microscopic particles of dust and water vapor.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Not exact matches

During one massive dust storm in 2006 and 2007, signs of water vapor were found at unusually high altitudes in the atmosphere, nearly 80 kilometers up.

Another hurricane - moderating hypothesis, this one advanced by Daniel Rosenfeld of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Woodley, an independent weather - modification researcher based in Colorado, holds that seeding a hurricane's lower reaches with microscopic dust particles — perhaps microbits of salt — would generate minute water droplets by giving the vapor something to attach to.

The «factors» are natural phenomena such as water vapor, clouds, sea ice, dust and vegetation — all of which exert varying pulls on the climate.

It is theorized that the process may be similar to what happens on comets, when water vapor lifts tiny particles of dust and ice off the surface.

I guess I am surprised that with better understanding of the importance of water vapor feedback, sulfate aerosols, black carbon aerosols, more rapid than expected declines in sea ice and attendant decreases in albedo, effects of the deposition of soot and dust on snow and ice decreasing albedo, and a recognition of the importance of GHGs that were probably not considered 30 years ago, that the sensitivity has changed so little over time.

I will present new numerical models that treat dust coagulation / fragmentation, dust dynamics, simple gas - grain chemistry, and vapor diffusion simultaneously, and explore the connection between the water vapor in the disk atmosphere and the size - distribution and ice - to - rock ratios of the dust grains growing in the midplane.

The really cold air can't hold all that water vapor so the vapor instead condenses around any microscopic particles of dust, salt or whatever else might be floating in the air and voila, you have a cloud.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that when miniscule particles of airborne dust, thought to be a perfect landing site for water vapor, are modified by pollution, they change cloud properties via ice crystal number concentration and ice water content.

ISON is releasing dust, as well as water vapor, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, astronomers reported Oct. 20 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

MARCI images will be used to document the weather on Mars by observing the comings and goings of dust storms, polar frost, and clouds of water vapor, water ice, and carbon dioxide crystals.

Airborne particles in the form of naturally occurring dusts and human - produced aerosols can serve as ice nuclei, sites around which water vapor condenses into clouds.

Just like the virus that causes the common cold is carried by water vapor, dust and air, the bacteria and viruses that cause kennel cough also spread in every direction.

I guess I am surprised that with better understanding of the importance of water vapor feedback, sulfate aerosols, black carbon aerosols, more rapid than expected declines in sea ice and attendant decreases in albedo, effects of the deposition of soot and dust on snow and ice decreasing albedo, and a recognition of the importance of GHGs that were probably not considered 30 years ago, that the sensitivity has changed so little over time.

Away from the dense network of heat absorbing (daytime) then heat radiating (nighttime) structures which is the Urban Heat Island and above the air with high water vapor content trapped by the valley along the river, not to mention the pall of coal dust over the city, morning low temps were much more like what the natural countryside would experience.

* Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor ``... the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,» Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.

If CO2 in the Anthropocene atmosphere contributes to re-vegetating currently arid areas as it did post-LGM, we should expect an even greater warming feedback from CO2 than is assumed from water vapor and albedo feedbacks, due to decreased global dust - induced albedo and increased water vapor from transpiration over increased vegetated area.

Small forcings due to changes in desert dust aerosols and the pseudo-forcing due to changes in stratospheric water vapor might to some extent be non-anthropogenic in nature.

The Sun, Jupiter, gravitational moment of the remaining planets, Earth angular orbit variations of all kinds, galactic rays, motion of the solar system through the galaxy and dust clouds, the Moon, atmospheric water vapor, ocean currents, configuration of the tectonic plates and continental drift, volcanic activity, the natural biosphere, human urban development, human alteration of the greenhouse water cycle (dam's, rivers etc),,... human produced CO2.

Nearly all of the water vapor and dust in the atmosphere are in this layer and that is why clouds are found here.

The dust particles act as surfaces, or kernels, for water vapor to attach to in low clouds, and for ice crystals to form around in higher clouds.

With scrubbers in place, less dust, vapor, and gases will go through the baghouse filter and up the stacks; but they will create sulfurous acids, suspended fines, and a precipitate in the scrubber water.

«The ozone layer, the water vapor, the clouds, dust and aerosols attenuates it in the following way: 1368 W / m ^ 2 / 1.35 reflected by the atmosphere and Earth's surface = 1013.3 W / m ^ 2 1013.3 W / m ^ 2 / 1.20 absorbed by the atmosphere = 844.4 W / m ^ 2 From this power, the surface only absorbs a power of 692.41 W,»

Outgoing energy varies with cloud, ice, water vapor, dust... Where Δ (H&W) = 0 at points of local maximums and minimums then energy in = energy out and there is maximum entropy in the Earth's energy dynamic.