Sentences with phrase «heat by a different mechanism»

Not exact matches

Cox et al.'s calculations were also based on another assumption somewhat related to different time scales for different feedback mechanisms: a constant «heat capacity» represented by C in the equation above.

The half - life for air is probably different than that of water, but the question is «How can anyone dismiss the impact of heat emissions without knowing how rapidly this heat is dissipated, by whatever mechanisms, into outer space?»

Heat picked up at the surface is thus rapidly vertically mixed and transported by all three mechanisms — conduction, convection and radiation — acting at different length scales and with considerable and non-ignorable chaotic and self - organized emergent mesoscale structure — to produce an atmosphere that, as you note, ends up somewhere between the DALR and isothermal most of the time, although inversions (warmer on top) or with a gradient even larger than the DALR happen all the time, and are unstable or transiently metastable states with some lifetime and break apart and perhaps reform somewhere else as the conditions that favor them recur.

The mechanism is named after the effect of solar radiation passing through glass and warming a greenhouse, but the way it retains heat is fundamentally different as a greenhouse works by reducing airflow, isolating the warm air inside the structure so that heat is not lost by convection.»

The greenhouse effect and a real greenhouse are similar in that they both limit the rate of thermal energy flowing out of the system, but the mechanisms by which heat is retained are different.

For instance, heat is not so much radiated in space as carried by air currents — an entirely different mechanism, which can not cause global warming.