Sentences with phrase «effect of the atmosphere»

To get the needed resolution — 20 times that of other ground - based telescopes and 3 times that of even the Hubble Space Telescope — Ghez helped develop a technique that involved taking a rapid series of snapshots that could be «averaged» to cancel out the distorting effects of our atmosphere.

To understand the elliptical / spiral nature of the host galaxies of these seven gamma - ray detected sources, Ajello and Paliya intend to obtain deep images with the highest resolution — a challenge for ground - based optical telescopes due to the blurring effects of the atmosphere.

Jun. 24, 2013 by Joe Palca — For Sharpest Views, Scope The Sky With Quick - Change Mirrors «It used to be that if astronomers wanted to get rid of the blurring effects of the atmosphere, they had to... Read more»

«It used to be that if astronomers wanted to get rid of the blurring effects of the atmosphere, they had to put their telescopes in space.

Of course, the actual effects of atmospheres on planets «are much, much less dramatic, but again, over geological timescales, they can matter and they can counter the effects of things like lunar and solar gravitational tides,» Scharf said.

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas - often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers - to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas — often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers — to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

After his first experience painting en plein air with Claude Monet and Pierre - Auguste Renoir in 1863 near the forests at Fontainebleau, Sisley fell in love with landscape painting, devoting himself to capturing the varying effects of atmosphere, mood, season, and light for the rest of his career.

Very clear and easy to understand but I have a question concerning the effect of an atmosphere that warms with height on a hypothetical planet.

Ever notice how cool it gets at night, that's the effect of the atmosphere releasing it's heat back into the cosmos, it's called re-radiation.

It is strange, to me at least, that all the climate wizzards have not considered the heating effect of the atmosphere, as a consequence of the ideal gas law, PV = nRT.

The net effect of an atmosphere comprised entirely of GHGs is that radiation should be flowing in and out nearly as fast as on a planet that has no atmosphere at all.

So a model that is approaching the effects of the atmosphere is far more useful than one that treats it as only a couple of different interacting layers.

While Earth's surface absorbs a significant amount of thermal radiation because of the blanketing effect of the atmosphere, it loses even more through its own emission and thus experiences a net loss of long - wave radiation.

What they do measure is the effect from these so called GHG's if in fact they cause any change to the insulating effect of the atmosphere.

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.

Without the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere holding in the heat, the Earth would be a very cold place.

Energy of all wavelengths leaving the Earth is at most very slightly impeded by the insulating effect of the atmosphere, and the large amount of crud held aloft by Brownian motion, including clouds.

This could be interpreted as the inherent uncertainty due to the unpredictable effects of the atmosphere between June and September.

Because of the cloud cover, the surface temperature of Venus would be a chilly -42 C if were not for the greenhouse effect of its atmosphere.

Fourier admitted that «we are no longer guided in this study [of the temperature effects of the atmosphere] by a regular mathematical theory» Fourier (1827)(also in his 1824 paper); reprinted in Fourier (1890), p. 110.

I had other thoughts about a null hypothesis in science, like for instance, if you want to understand the effect of «greenhouse - gasses» in the atmosphere, the null hypothesis would be, the effect of an atmosphere on a planet without greenhouse gasses.

The real travesty in climate science is that the ubiquitously accepted null hypothesis is that the earth's spectrum without the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere (ie, its surface spectrum) is approximately that of sort of a step function with an (observed) albedo of approximately 0.3 with respect to the sun's spectrum but 0.0 with respect to the approximately 279 kelvin temperature of a gray (flat spectrum) ball in our orbit thus producing equilibrium temperature of about 255 kelvin.

Any effect of the atmosphere to attenuate the ToA flux gets applied after the ToA calculation.

Strictly speaking the above numbers for hemisphere and globe are outside any effects of the atmosphere, they are all ToA values.

The mistake of confusing the greenhouse effect with all other effects of the atmosphere seems to be fairly common on both pro-agw and anti-agw blogs.

Not exact matches

Even though the bulk of the added greenhouse gas effect in our atmosphere comes from carbon dioxide, methane — which is rarer — is much more potent.

In my experience, this «sky's the limit» approach creates an atmosphere of optimism that has a positive effect on everyone.

And whilst our extraction of oil is obviously having significant effects on the earth's atmosphere and oceans they are but a thin veneer on a very very big planet.

If, even in an atmosphere of genuine conversation, the thought of one's effect as speaker outweighs the thought of what one has to say, then one inevitably works as a destroyer.

But since evangelical Christianity is largely a faith of the head, heart and mouth, questions of its accommodation and its effect on military atmosphere are difficult to track and evaluate.

This will contribute to the dialogic atmosphere of a congregation and will also help transform the unintentional negative effects of preaching into counseling opportunities.

On the average each person contributes two metric tons of carbon dioxide a year of which one ton gets into the upper atmosphere to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

In short we may say that faith in Man, by the combined effect of its universality and its elemental quality, shows itself upon examination to be the general atmosphere in which the higher, more elaborated forms of faith which we all hold in one way or another may best (indeed can only) grow and come together.

The textured walls of the bar shimmer with gold and the carefully crafted lighting effects create a sophisticated atmosphere, picking out flashes of the bar's art deco design.

Fans can change an atmosphere but there is little they can do to effect a win if that was the case the home team would always win and we would have won the PL in the past 13 years when we had happy fans for the majority of the time.

Lack of confidence, Arsenal is constantly getting bashed by media, they are insulting everyone, from the manager to players, it creates a very disappointing atmosphere for the players and it will hit them psychologically and it's effects show themselves on the pitch.

I very much doubt whether the attempt by Arsene Wenger to curtail the planned protest from Arsenal fans today will have any effect, unless his ill advised decision to suggest that the Gunners» failures at home were down to the atmosphere created by the fans rather than their lack of grit, ability, spirit or tactics actually make the protest bigger and louder than it would have been.

For all we know he could have signed a contract extension already and might be waiting till the end of the season to tell us so we don't riot and effect the atmosphere at the games any more than we have been with the protests.

The issue is that it makes for systematic talking points, it corrodes the atmosphere, it makes it toxic and reading the interviews of players and coach at the end of the year, it does have an effect on the team, on the end result.

The atmosphere was certainly one of relaxed learning and excitement — visitors wanted to discover new craft and design, which had the knock - on effect of direct sales for stall - holders.

It is easier to relax, because of the water effect and the atmosphere around her with at least intervention as possible

According to the organisation, «The bill will also have chilling effect on freedom of expression in the country, as it will create an atmosphere of fear among bloggers and online activists who may not post critical commentary on Facebook or other social media platforms for fear of being sent to jail.

At the Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn, the atmosphere of a Republican primary race was in full effect Wednesday night at a forum sponsored by the county party committee.

«The DSS went to effect the arrest of a judge and the atmosphere became tense.

The first of three novel techniques exploited by SPHERE is extreme adaptive optics to correct for the effects of Earth's atmosphere so that images are sharper and the contrast of the exoplanet increased.

Besides knowing a lot more about the transport of volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere, modern researchers had communications lines and satellites so that news of an eruption could be relayed quickly and the effects noted as they unfolded.

The gorgeous sliver of azure that colors the winter hemisphere in our images of Saturn is, in effect, a slice of Neptune's atmosphere spliced onto Saturn's.

Atmospheric dust may have a powerful effect on climate, absorbing sunlight and warming the atmosphere at some altitudes while shading and cooling underlying layers of air.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.