Sentences with phrase «flow of water vapor»

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Next, in vertical distillation columns, hot vapor flows up, condenses, and flows out from different levels: gases from the top of the column, light oils from the upper middle, heavier oils from the middle, water from the lower middle, and powdered carbon — used to manufacture tires, filters, and printer toners — from the bottom.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is transported to midlatitudes on long filaments of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's oceans.

These include the steady flow of energy from the sun, the rotation of the Earth and the release of water vapor from the oceans.

A NOAA website on atmospheric rivers contains this fascinating statistic that illustrates just how much moisture can be transported by winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere: «A strong atmospheric river transports an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 - 15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River.»

Meanwhile, a different physical process in the comet's smooth mid-section was causing water ice to vaporize and flow through porous material to escape as a cloud of water vapor at the same time (NASA news release, and page on «fluffy snowballs;» David Shiga, New Scientist, November 18, 2010; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

The mountainous terrain amplifies the upward flow of cyclone winds and thus intensifying how much, and how fast, water vapor gets turned into rain.

(In the global time average, diffusion of latent heat is in the same direction as sensible heat transport, but latent heat will tend to flow from higher to lower concentrations of water vapor (or equilibrium vapor pressure at the liquid / solid water surface), and regionally / locally, conditions can arise where the latent heat and sensible heat fluxes are oppositely directed.)

Specifically, as global temperatures have steadily increased at their fastest rates in millions of years, it's directly affected things like water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and stream flow patterns, which are all related to the water cycle.

There are those who appear to steadfastly maintain that all thermal radiation is from the surface and the and the convection return flow, which must heat at the dry adiabatic rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters going down — unless it is gobbling up condensed water vapor on the way, and reach the surface before it can be cooled again.

Trenberth notes that global warming has already increased the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by about 4 %, «extra moisture flowing into the storms that produced the heavy rains and likely contributed to the strength of the storms through added energy.»

The way water vapor and CO2 affect climate is through their effect on the flow of energy.

This means that air flowing from the surface and converging into the Pineapple Express would have a chance to be carrying greater - than - usual amounts of low - level water vapor, thus intensifying the moisture channel.»

The above changes mean that the volume of flow is reduced where partial pressure of water vapor is low and is a little larger than that where we have more water vapor.

A detailed and very accurate calculation of the atmospheric flows of moist air must take into account also the effects related to the volume taken by water vapor both when water vapor is added by evaporation and when it's removed in condensation, but these effects are very minor corrections and not a source of anything significant.

Since the water vapor pressure equals the saturation vapor pressure, there is no net evaporation or condensation so there is no flow of energy from the top wall to the water and water vapor or vice versa by radiation or conduction nor to or from the water vapor to the water and the temperature of all components will not change with time.

Some of the heat flowing back toward space from the Earth's surface is absorbed by water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and several other gases in the atmosphere and then re-radiated back toward the Earth's surface.

The addition of water vapor and CO2 to the air layer will reduce somewhat the total net flow, which means that the cooling of the ocean skin layer will be slightly slower.