Sentences with phrase «high atmosphere»

While it takes into account earlier planning exercises in arctic research, it also includes some ideas that have not been explicitly articulated previously, such as defining NSF's possible role in contaminant studies, the importance of long - term observations and monitoring as a foundation for basic research in the Arctic, and the significance of the Arctic in high atmosphere studies.

MAVEN will also determine how much Martian atmosphere has been lost over time by measuring the isotope ratios of other elements in the very high atmosphere, such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and noble gases like argon.

Geoengineering methods that don't remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere don't undo the other effects of high atmosphere carbon - dioxide concentrations such as ocean acidification, and our ability to adequately control geoengineering with sunlight - reflecting particles is not certain.

«Climate scientists find warming in higher atmosphere: Elusive tropospheric hot spot located.»

The only place where different atmospheric gasses can be thought of to possess different temperatures is in the very high atmosphere (edge of space) where densities are so low that collisions between molecules are rare.

The company is producing something it calls «energy kites,» where a wind turbine is positioned on them to gather energy in a higher atmosphere that an ordinary one can't reach.

«Scientists have wondered why the high atmospheres of Saturn and other gas giants are heated far beyond what might normally be expected by their distance from the sun,» said Sarah Badman, a Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team associate at Lancaster University, England.

In the high atmosphere, ozone plays a crucial role in shielding the surface from harmful levels of ultraviolet light.

Factors that could perturb rainfall regularity include the higher holding capacity of moisture of the warmer air, but also more complex phenomena like cooling in the higher atmosphere which changes current pressure and thereby rainfall patterns.

The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for global warming, including temperature over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting ice.

The process is thought to begin in the high atmosphere, at altitudes above 400 kilometers (250 miles), where ultraviolet light breaks down methane and nitrogen molecules.

The fact that the mesosphere / thermosphere cools with higher CO2 (where the temperature declines in the mesosphere), and indeed that the high atmosphere of Venus is even colder than Earth, should also be independent validation that ozone is not a pre-requisite for upper atmosphere cooling.

«For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the Sun and the climate of Earth's thermosphere, the region above 100 km, an essential step in making accurate predictions of climate change in the high atmosphere.»

«They are detectable in the high atmosphere, but when you get down to the surface, there is so much other stuff going on that it's been really hard to get a clean signal,» he told me.

The high atmosphere over the Arctic lost an unprecedented amount of its protective ozone earlier this year, so much that conditions echoed the infamous ozone hole that forms annually over the opposite side of the planet, the Antarctic, scientists say.

The higher the atmosphere is allowed to rise within the gravitational field the more of its energy content takes the form of potential energy.

The higher atmosphere does result in air circulation changes that potentially have a climate impact but that is another story that I have dealt with elsewhere.

We have determined that a higher atmosphere requires more work to be done constantly in order to maintain the new higher atmosphere.

«If there's no material injected into the high atmosphere (the stratosphere) then there will be minimal climate impact, since the sulfur has a low lifetime in the lower parts of the atmosphere closer to the surface (the troposphere).»

They are much thicker than sea - ice though, being up to several kilometres thick and penetrating into the colder, higher atmosphere.

For not only can we stumble through the rarefied, oxygen depleted, air of the world tallest peak, we can pump the higher atmosphere full of climate changing greenhouse gases.

Clouds and aerosols shade the surface but is there not still heat trapped in the atmosphere above them but below the GHGs in the higher atmosphere?

A single return flight from London to New York — including the complicated effects on the high atmosphere — contributes to almost a quarter of the average person's annual emissions.