Sentences with phrase «entire upper atmosphere»

(on Earth, the mass of the mesosphere and thermosphere are so small that the effect of the entire upper atmosphere above the tropopause on fluxes at TOA and at the tropopause and below can generally be well - approximated by the effect of the stratosphere.

It will orbit the planet in an elliptical orbit that allows it to pass through and sample the entire upper atmosphere on every orbit.

«During the deep - dip campaigns, we lower the lowest altitude in the orbit, known as periapsis, to about 125 km, which allows us to take measurements throughout the entire upper atmosphere.»

Not exact matches

MAVEN is studying the entire region from the top of the upper atmosphere all the way down to the lower atmosphere so that the connections between these regions can be understood.

Add in that if it's the sun, the entire atmosphere will warm, since there's just simply more energy put in to the system, whereas if it is CO2 or other blanketing method, there's no extra energy put in, therefore the ground will warm and the upper air cool (since the upper air isn't getting the warming from the lower layers it used to get and the lower layers aren't losing the heat they used to).

On millennial scales, the oceans take up heat, lots of it; upper 2.5 m has the heat content of the entire atmosphere (from a Wikipedia page with a title I don't recall just now).

In its upper 3 m the ocean contains the equivalent heat capacity of the entire atmosphere of the planet (Peixoto and Oort, 1992).

Further, the upper 700 meters of the ocean for 50 times as much mass as the entire atmosphere.

The evidence from the OHC is pretty good confirmation that it was positive, but even there, unless we know what the entire ocean is doing and not just the upper part, the surface could theoretically be gaining heat from the ocean while losing heat to the atmosphere.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

The same amount of energy that would warm the entire atmosphere up to the tropopause by 1 °C would raise the upper ocean (0 - 700m) temperature by 0.0045 °C and the entire ocean by 0.0007 °C.

Note also a suggestion that the «North Atlantic Oscillation» was driven by changes in upper atmosphere wind patterns around the entire hemisphere, Wallace and Thompson (2002).