Sentences with phrase «form of water vapour»

So, if the oceans absorb 3.7 W / m ² of RF from a doubling of CO2, 86 % of that would be returned to the atmosphere continuously in the form of water vapour while only 14 % of it (i.e. ~ 0.52 W / m ²) would remain behind to warm the oceans.

Adding some greenhouse gases (CO2) to a near infinite supply of greenhouse gases in the form of water vapour available to the atmosphere has negligible effect.

[9] The fundamental dispute is about water in the atmosphere, either in the form of water vapour (a gas) or clouds (water in liquid form).

Now images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a large cloud of hydrogen and oxygen — most likely in the form of water vapour — extending from the moon's south pole.

Not exact matches

Each of these raw foodstuffs contains some water, and to heat them up is to eliminate some of this water in the form of vapour.

He says the clumps were probably patches of ice that formed and grew from water vapour freezing onto the leg.

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

This process of smoothing the original water isotope variations from precipitation is dependent on the temperature, as the water molecules in vapour form are more mobile at warmer temperatures.

His results lend support to the theory that the oceans were formed by water vapour released from the hot interior of the young Earth.

The ice in the permafrost of is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapour; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

i.e. the water vapour will tend to carry heat (in the form of warmed air and latent heat) higher in the atmosphere, reducing surface warming.

Sulphur dioxide reacts with water vapour to form long - lived droplets (aerosols) of sulphuric acid, and about 10 million tons of these droplets are known to have accumulated in the stratosphere as a result of the eruption.

Given the lower temperatures and lower water vapour content at higher altitudes and a need for high supercooling to initiate condensation (in the absence of sufficient normal CCN), wouldn't an increased source of nuclei, in the form of GCRs, enhance high - and middle - altitude cloud formation?

When it reaches a level high enough to cool it to it's «dew point» the water vapour condenses out in the form of clouds and rainfall and the Latent Heat of Condensation is released into the upper part of the atmosphere to accelerate the escape of radiant energy to space.

I have made simple calculations with a water vapour content of 1 % and find that liquid water has less volume than the equivalent number of H2O molecules in gas form.

Additionally, the distortions of the lapse rate in ascent are greater than for CO2 because water vapour is lighter than air and contains more energy in latent form which heats the air around it when condensation occurs during uplift.

It all depends on how much, and a t what altitudes, latitudes and times of day that water is in the form of a gas (vapour) or a liquid (clouds).

Water vapour is lighter than air once formed by the acquisition of the latent heat of evaporation so no additional radiative energy needs to be acquired to enable it to rise within the Earth's gravitational field.

Based on evidence from Earth's history, we suggest here that the relevant form of climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene (e.g. from which to base future greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization targets) is the Earth system sensitivity including fast feedbacks from changes in water vapour, natural aerosols, clouds and sea ice, slower surface albedo feedbacks from changes in continental ice sheets and vegetation, and climate — GHG feedbacks from changes in natural (land and ocean) carbon sinks.

Water has a residence time of 8 - 10 days in the atmosphere, so whenever it rains carbon dioxide is being washed out of the atmosphere, because, water (vapour, liquid, solid) in the atmosphere attracts all carbon dioxide in the vicinity — together forming carbonic acid which gives all natural unpolluted rain its pH of around 5.6Water has a residence time of 8 - 10 days in the atmosphere, so whenever it rains carbon dioxide is being washed out of the atmosphere, because, water (vapour, liquid, solid) in the atmosphere attracts all carbon dioxide in the vicinity — together forming carbonic acid which gives all natural unpolluted rain its pH of around 5.6water (vapour, liquid, solid) in the atmosphere attracts all carbon dioxide in the vicinity — together forming carbonic acid which gives all natural unpolluted rain its pH of around 5.6 - 8.

The globe is indeed a water world and water is not featured in the climate models, either in vapour form in clouds nor in liquid form through the movement of currents.

@PMD: water is not featured in the climate models, either in vapour form in clouds nor in liquid form through the movement of currents

In addition, some particles provide opportunities for the condensation of water vapour to form water droplets, the ingredients of fog.

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.

Reviewing the IPCC papers, I see that you are right about the feedback uncertainty being more related to clouds rather than water vapour, although they also state that the precise mechanisms of water vapour feedbacks are quite complex and the form its spacial distribution would take is still not well understood.

Aeroplanes also emit water vapour, chemicals and other substances that can form contrails, changing the natural formation of clouds.

As the planet warms, increasing levels of water vapour in the atmosphere caused by higher evaporation levels form more clouds and snow increasing the albedo of the planet, reflecting heat back into space more efficiently, thus working to regulate the temperature downward.

a) The same amount of water vapour in condensed form and b) That initial quantity of air and c) More air and water vapour imported from the surroundings.

Air containing water in vapour form will rise higher than dry air because it is lighter so when the vapour is removed it must fall back to its «correct» height but because of the air around it becoming warmer as it descends it will remain too dense for its height until it reaches the ground and receives more energy from the irradiated surface.

i) That parcel of air can be caused to expand relative to adjoining air parcels either by direct input of more solar energy where insolation is uneven (as it always is) or indirectly by the injection of potential energy in the form of latent heat of evaporation carried by water vapour.

However, in areas of high pressure, with the air subsides, water vapour does not rise and no rain or clouds will form.

In effect the evaporation sucks energy from the oceans against the thermal gradient within the ocean bulk and despite the warming of the topmost molecules caused by infra red radiation and then expels it to the air in the form of latent heat carried by water vapour.

The hydrosphere is the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of Earth in the form of liquid water, ice, and water vapour.

12 How the Hydrosphere Affects Climate (Page 274) The hydrosphere is the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of Earth in the form of liquid water, ice, and water vapour.

Water vapour is a gas whereas water is a liquid and to achieve that change of state a very large quantity of energy gets tied up in the molecules of vapour in latent form which means that it's presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carrieWater vapour is a gas whereas water is a liquid and to achieve that change of state a very large quantity of energy gets tied up in the molecules of vapour in latent form which means that it's presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carriewater is a liquid and to achieve that change of state a very large quantity of energy gets tied up in the molecules of vapour in latent form which means that it's presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carries it.

Instead it is a composite of the rates of evaporation and condensation, melting and freezing and thus the average time that a water molecule remains in the air in vapour form, or in the ocean as a liquid or in ice and snow as a solid.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?