Sentences with phrase «exponentially with temperature»

The capacity of the atmosphere to hold water vapor (saturation specific humidity) increases exponentially with temperature.

The water - holding capacity of the atmosphere is expected to increase roughly exponentially with temperature rises» (Roo: 2011 p. 26).

In fact, given the nature of the forcing, you will not get an inflection point and a reversal in the temperature, i.e. a cooling, if and only if concentrations of the gas increase exponentially with temperature.

In addition, avoiding the cold is generally less expensive and less difficult than avoiding the heat, especially given that absolute humidity rises exponentially with temperature (and so the discomfort index increases very rapidly).

This rather trivial correlation is to be expected in light of evaporation increasing exponentially with temperature, leading eventually to greater cloudiness.

Because the water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature (e.g., Trenberth et al. 2003), a positive anomaly on top of already high SSTs has much greater effect than if located elsewhere.

Therefore, the August - Roche - Magnus equation implies that saturation water vapor pressure changes approximately exponentially with temperature under typical atmospheric conditions, and hence the water - holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7 % for every 1 °C rise in temperature.

Given that atmospheric water - holding capacity is expected to increase roughly exponentially with temperature — and that atmospheric water content is increasing in accord with this theoretical expectation (6 — 11)-- it has been suggested that human influenced global warming may be partly responsible for increases in heavy precipitation (3,5,7).

The factors that determine this asymmetry are various, involving ice albedo feedbacks, cloud feedbacks and other atmospheric processes, e.g., water vapor content increases approximately exponentially with temperature (Clausius - Clapeyron equation) so that the water vapor feedback gets stronger the warmer it is.

Not exact matches

Pat argues that it is the general tendency of climate models when forced with exponentially increasing CO2 concentrations (as were the models used in Dr. Covey's CMIP project) to produce a nearly linear temperature rise into the future.

The additional energy warms the atmosphere and results in more photons — exponentially greater to the 4th power with temperature — cascading around and more escaping the planet just by chance restoring the conditional energy balance.

With regards to what I did, it was mostly to point out that the fitting a model to the rate of change in temperature would be more enlightening when arguing how much contribution from human development there could be (what would be the contribution that increased exponentially).

Choice 3: Can we devise a carbon tax flexible enough to deal with the above uncertainties that: a) is fully refunded to every citizen and exporters, b) collected from importers, c) rises exponentially with future temperature change, d) responds to the willingness and effectiveness of other nations to limit their emissions, and e) provides reasonable economic incentives to reduce emissions if the IPCC's central estimates are correct?

More than 20 million Americans are affected by asthma, a number the National Institutes of Health expect to increase exponentially with every degree increase in ambient temperature.

Finally, we represent the climate — carbon - cycle feedback by adding an extra, temperature - dependent component to the total anthropogenic emissions emitted each year (Ea): where T ′ is the temperature anomaly above an exponentially weighted running mean with a time constant of 100 years, and b5 is the adjustable carbon - cycle feedback parameter.

As the damages of climate change tend to increase exponentially with rising temperatures, many economists argue that the biggest impacts of climate change will occur later in the century, and that the main focus should be on reducing longer - term warming.

The latter suggest a negative feedback with exponentially increasing (to the power of 4) emissions with increasing temperature.

My understanding is that with an exponentially growing forcing, one can not figure out the time constant from the temperature data alone, as there are an infinite number of valid solutions, some with longer time constants and higher heat capacities, and some with shorter time constants and lower heat capacities.