Sentences with phrase «greater thermal capacity»

The water, due to it's much greater thermal capacity, cools much slower than the air would in the absence of heat inflow, so this also limits the rate of cooling of the air.

Not exact matches

The delayed action is a property of the climate system, which also affects greenhouse gases, and is caused by the oceans which act as a flywheel due to their great heat capacity and thermal inertia.

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Then the atmospheric temperature starts dropping and, because the thermal capacity of the water is much greater than that of the air, we soon reach the point where the water temperature is greater than the air temperature, even if it was colder to start with.

``... whereas the thermal lag of water by contrast is great and whilst energy is being absorbed due to its large heat capacity the response is slow...»

A thin sheet of metal quickly absorbs the solar energy, and having good conductivity, quickly converting it into an increase in heat whereas the thermal lag of water by contrast is great and whilst energy is being absorbed due to its large heat capacity the response is slow.

Have no idea who the «climate clique» is, but the greater energy storage capacity and greater thermal inertia of the oceans combined with the fact that net heat flow is always from oceans to atmosphere would dictate that the oceans would show more consistent long - term warming than the atmosphere.

The main difference between H2O and CO2 (apart from the numerical differences of their specific physical properites such as degree of freedom, thermal capacity, physical mass, etc) in terms of their effects on the atmosphere is that water is capable of condensing into liquid to form clouds and readily and rapidly moves between surface and atmosphere, daily, seasonally, annually and on even greater time scales, but CO2 does not liquify in the biosphere and transfers over mostly long time periods between surface (primarily oceans, seas, etc) and the atmosphere.

You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no heat capacity to spit at, it can trap heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?

For centuries, it has been known that land warms or cools faster than the oceans — the reason is that the latter exhibits much greater thermal inertia due to its enormous heat capacity, and also because evaporation moderates ocean warming.

iii) The thermal capacity of the oceans is vastly greater than that of the air and incoming solar energy penetrates the oceans by up to 200 meters.

Whilst bearing in mind that ~ 70 % of global insolation strikes ocean surface and ocean «thermal capacity» (Cp) is greater than land Cp, ocean Cp can be seen to provide energy to land Cp where land surface temperatures are low (as can be seen from diurnal atmospheric observations between land and ocean surfaces).