Sentences with phrase «ever reach the atmosphere»
Most methane hydrates are buried in ocean water so deep that the journey through the water column is too far for the gas to ever reach the atmosphere, according to Ed Dlugokencky, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The StratoClim observations will provide the first close - up view of the upper reaches of the monsoon, as no prior research flights have ever sampled this critical part of the Earth's atmosphere.
What we need to find out is if it reaches the atmosphere, or if it ever did,» Faverola concluded.
Once this altitude is reached, the continued return of the heat of vaporization to the atmosphere will buoy the column up to ever - greater heights until it runs dry.
Reaching 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere is inching ever closer to the tipping point when methane takes over and kicks global warming into high gear.
Since 76 % of this radiation is reflected by clouds, and most of the rest of the radiation is absorbed by these clouds at the top of Venus» atmosphere, only a tiny 2.5 % of the solar radiation ever reaches Venus» surface.
However, burning trees releases carbon into the atmosphere immediately — more per unit of electricity generated than coal — and any new trees planted won't reach maturity and absorb the same amount of carbon for decades, if ever.