Sentences with phrase «high cirrus clouds»

Regarding clouds, recent trends suggest a slight decline in total cloud cover over several decades, due to a reduction in low clouds, which exert a net cooling influence, while high cirrus clouds, which are net warmers, have remained relatively constant.
Now, if we could just get the weather people to stop identifying the aerosol spraying feathering out as «high cirrus clouds,» we'll be happy!!!
Another approach involves thinning of high cirrus clouds, which are involved in regulating the amount of heat that escapes from the planet to outer space.
And lastly, I'm also fed up with our local meteorologists looking at videotape of chemtrails and calling them «High cirrus clouds» I want to slap them.
What I like about this approach is that it can be matched to observational data on humidity, ice extent, cloud extent and type (low, cooling clouds and high cirrus clouds that can exert a warming effect).
Meteorologists here still falsely reporting SRM trails as «high cirrus clouds» Lots of MORONS around these days and not just in White House.
The premise of Lindzen's hypothesis was that as the climate warms, the area in the atmosphere covered by high cirrus clouds will contract to allow more heat to escape into outer space, similar to the iris in a human eye contracting to allow less light to pass through the pupil in a brightly lit environment.
High cirrus clouds may occur in long feather - like streaks.
Intense laser light pulses increase the brightness of high cirrus clouds.
In high cirrus clouds, which consist purely of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number of ice particles by up to a factor of 100 within only a few seconds.
Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in heterogenous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.
Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in heterogeneous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.

Not exact matches

High - altitude clouds like cirrus warm the planet by trapping heat.
Floating high in the sky, well above other clouds, cirrus sometimes have a translucent silky sheen to them.
Some of the loveliest sights result from the high, wispy cirrus clouds that often precede storms.
Four other instruments on board the aircraft measure the physical properties of droplets and ice crystals in high monsoon and cirrus clouds.
For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude cirrus clouds and all of the major low level cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus clouds.
Small details, like the tiny knobs of yellow popping out of the mist in «Profile (Orb)» (2015), seem to blossom into revelations, enticing you to peer more deeply into the surface, as if the picture plane were an aerial view high above cirrus clouds, offering hazy glimpses of the Earth below.
Their argument is that tropical Cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds procuce less high - level cirrus - cloud outflow when sea surface temperatures (SST's) are warmer and atmospheric water vapor is higher.
At the recent European Geophysical Union conference, there were posters on banner clouds on the Zugspitze, the role of cubic ice crystals in high cirrus formation, and the role of global cooling in the fall of the Neanderthals.
goodsprk: It relies on not simply CO2, but on feedback from increased CO2 raising the temperature which increases the water vapor in the atmosphere which the alarmist assume will actually breaking up the low level clouds and forming high level cirrus clouds that will trap more heat.
It relies on not simply CO2, but on feedback from increased CO2 raising the temperature which increases the water vapor in the atmosphere which the alarmist assume will actually breaking up the low level clouds and forming high level cirrus clouds that will trap more heat.
If the Sun is close to the horizon and feathery cirrus clouds sit high in the sky, «ghost» images of the Sun will sometimes materialize on either side of it, giving the appearance of three Suns shining in the sky.
The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag, convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase clouds ● Shallow and deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ● Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer clouds, CFMIP, cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol - cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies on aerosol - cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role of convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development
The overall effect of the high thin cirrus clouds then is to enhance atmospheric greenhouse warming.
At the moment, Lindzen is pursuing a theory that says increased amounts of water vapor — from warming surface temperatures — will reduce heat - trapping high - cirrus clouds, which will help balance the planet's temperature.
The high, thin cirrus clouds in the Earth's atmosphere act in a way similar to clear air because they are highly transparent to shortwave radiation (their cloud albedo forcing is small), but they readily absorb the outgoing longwave radiation.
The reprocessing of ISCCP produced a better distinction between the radiative effects of high opaque and cirrus clouds, in better agreement with the 3I results.
High - altitude cirrus clouds, both natural and jet - induced, are unlike thicker low - altitude clouds, which block sunlight from reaching the surface.
This value is lower (0.56) when considering clouds with an optical depth larger than 2, and higher when counting subvisible cirrus clouds.
The authors propose that higher ocean surface temperatures directly cause the decline in cirrus clouds by changing the dynamics of cloud formation and rainfall.
In high clouds, such as cirrus, cirrostratus, and deep convective clouds, there is some evidence that dust particles over wetter regions south of the desert provide surfaces for ice crystals to form around.
It indicated that contrails — white lines of Vapor left by jet engines — also have big knock - on effects by adding to the formation of high - altitude, heat - trapping cirrus clouds as the lines break up.
For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude cirrus clouds and all of the major low level cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus clouds.
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