Sentences with phrase «governs cloud formation»

It is relative humidity not absolute humidity that governs cloud formation.

this whole discussion about the various temperatures and cooling or warming rates of the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere seems to me totally pointless in view of what I said earlier i.e. it is the factors that govern cloud formation & overcast conditions that drive global temperatures.

Not exact matches

Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation.

The suggested hypothesis, is that in regions devoid of dust (e.g., over the large ocean basins), the formation of cloud condensation nuclei takes place from the growth of small aerosol clusters, and that the formation of the latter is governed by the availability of charge, such that charged aerosol clusters are more stable and can grow while neutral clusters can more easily break apart.