Sentences with phrase «high altitude clouds form»

If it gets too hot, the oceans heat up, evaporation increases, high altitude clouds form, and they reflect back sunlight and shade the surface more, compensating and regulating temperatures so that life survives.

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The extremely low temperatures and rapid freezing were crucial to forming cubic ice, Wyslouzil said: «Since liquid water drops in high - altitude clouds are typically supercooled, there is a good chance for cubic ice to form there.»

«But freezing in high - altitude clouds happens too fast for that to be the case — instead, freezing might be thought as starting from a disordered pile of bricks that hastily rearranges itself to form a brick wall, possibly containing defects or having an unusual arrangement.

This image suggests that the polar vortex clouds form at a much higher altitude, where sunlight can still reach, than the surrounding haze.

Monteverde is best known for its incredible cloud forests, which are forests at higher altitudes where water vapor hugs the land in the form of billowing mist.

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?

The authors speculate that the main reason hurricanes show this delta is that more of the precipitation is coming from high altitude (depleted in O - 18 based on gravitational potential) and in the form of large drops that do not have time to equilibrate wrt O - 18 in lower regions of the cloud as they fall.

It is caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles or liquid droplets which form at high altitudes in extreme cold.

Ozone holes are caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles, or liquid droplets, which form at high altitudes in the extreme cold of the polar regions.

These are the wispy, nearly invisible clouds that form at high altitudes.

Cirrus clouds — high - altitude clouds of ice crystals — typically form as a byproduct of the life cycle of cumulus towers created by rising updrafts of heated, moist air.

Could it be forming «clouds» of tiny droplets at some high altitude, & could these escape notice somehow?