Sentences with phrase «frozen out of the atmosphere»

As Pluto moves away from the Sun in its 248 - year elliptical orbit, temperatures plummet and these compounds freeze out of the atmosphere and fall onto the surface as frost.

A team led by New Horizons team member Jeffrey Moore, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, has determined that formation of the bladed terrain begins with methane freezing out of the atmosphere at extreme altitudes on Pluto, in the same way frost freezes on the ground on Earth, or even in your freezer.

An examination of these changes gave them new insights into how much of the polar ice cap's carbon dioxide freezes out of the atmosphere during winter.

In the winter, when water vapor is frozen out of the atmosphere, ozone accumulates.

You could send the world back to a «dark age» where that pesky carbon dioxide could be simply be frozen out of the atmosphere if desired.

And on Mars CO2 gas freezes out of the atmosphere in the polar region at winter.

In the far northern latitudes there's not much surface area so the error probably doesn't mean much but then again when water vapor is frozen out of the atmosphere the so - called IR window gets a lot bigger and fewer clouds closing it back up means the error might be significant because radiative cooling efficiency is drastically increased in very cold clear sky.

Not exact matches

So, although Pluto's atmosphere gets thicker and thinner through its orbit of the sun, it may never completely freeze out and «collapse.»

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Continued observations of stellar occultations of Pluto will show us whether its atmosphere freezes out.

If we start out with a balanced system which contains frozen water at the poles, the mid to high latitudes begin to thaw, triggering soil greenhouse gas feedbacks (permafrost thaw and following oxic and anoxic sources add to the greenhouse gas budget), a chronic linear process (which helps to accelerate changes of the equilibrium state, reduces the ability of the atmosphere to break down greenhouse gases — less hydroxide radicals).

Then simply force atmosphere through the interior of the pile and it will freeze out more CO2.

Santa's elves got fed up freezing their asses off in slavish servitude to the jolly elf, and so they all went out and bought heaters, fired»em up, and started the polar ice melting,... which scared the crap out of the reindeer — LITERALLY, more crap, which caused more greenhouse gases to enter the atmosphere, which caused more polar warming, which caused more ice to melt, which caused wind patterns to change, thus, driving the wee cloud - warming fairies out of their warm clouds, creating colder temperatures, transferred by the changing wind patterns, intercepted by all Northern Hemisphere unicorns that inhaled it and exhaled it about the continent to produce record cold temperatures.

The normal CO2 sinks shut down in freezing conditions but volcanoes continue belching it out into the atmosphere regardless of amount of ice cover on land & ocean.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and the ongoing global warming driven by carbon dioxide will inevitably force it out of its frozen reservoirs and into the atmosphere to amplify the warming.

Because the basics of anthropogenic global warming are fairly straightforward — CO2 is a greenhouse gas, because of the lapse rate water vapor condenses or freezes out in the troposphere and acts mainly to amplify the effect of CO2, humans are burning a lot of fossil C and increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth is warming, the cryosphere is retreating, the climate that supports civilization is rapidly changing, and consequently we are facing an uncertain future — but the details are complex, it's easy to «misunderestimate» the way climate works in detail.