Sentences with phrase «in atmospheric constituents»

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Initial data from the Cassini - Huygens spacecraft, which began exploring the Saturnian system in 2004, show that methane is indeed a minor atmospheric constituent but a very important one, possibly playing a role analogous to that of water vapour in Earth's troposphere.

Considering the heat capacity of the oceans is about 1,100 times greater than the air, would not even a modest change in cloud cover affect the radiative balance with far greater magnitude than a parts - per - million change in an atmospheric gas constituent?

Human activities — primarily burning of fossil fuels and changes in land cover — are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents or properties of the surface that absorb or scatter radiant energy.

When Oreskes quotes, ««Human activities... are modifying the concentrations of atmospheric constituents... that absorb or scatter radiant energy... [M] ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions», her quotation is accurate and she actually emphasizes the word likely.

Bailey, A., J. Nusbaumer, and D. Noone, 2015: Precipitation efficiency derived from isotope ratios in water vapor distinguishes dynamical and microphysical influences on subtropical atmospheric constituents.

i) The total exchange of radiation between Space and the TOA and between surface and the TOA is sufficiently large that an increase in the radiative capabilities of an atmospheric constituent that amounts to 0.04 % of the atmosphere would appear unlikely to have any significant effect.

In turn, these optical depths may be used to derive information about the column abundances of ozone and water vapor, as well as aerosol and other atmospheric constituents.

In atmospheric physics, lidar is used as a remote detection instrument to measure densities of certain constituents of the middle and upper atmosphere, such as potassium, sodium, or molecular nitrogen and oxygen.

In order, the most abundant greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are: Non-greenhouse gases [edit] Although contributing to many other physical and chemical reactions, the major atmospheric constituents, nitrogen (N 2), oxygen (O 2), and argon (Ar), are not greenhouse gasesIn order, the most abundant greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are: Non-greenhouse gases [edit] Although contributing to many other physical and chemical reactions, the major atmospheric constituents, nitrogen (N 2), oxygen (O 2), and argon (Ar), are not greenhouse gasesin Earth's atmosphere are: Non-greenhouse gases [edit] Although contributing to many other physical and chemical reactions, the major atmospheric constituents, nitrogen (N 2), oxygen (O 2), and argon (Ar), are not greenhouse gases.)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology covers climate modeling, climatic changes and climate forecasting, micro - to mesoclimate, applied meteorology as in agro - and forestmeteorology, biometeorology, building meteorology and atmospheric radiation problems as they relate to the biosphere; effects of anthropogenic and natural aerosols or gaseous trace constituents; hardware and software elements of meteorological measurements, including techniques of remote sensing, among other topics of current interest.

Of great urgency are the climate consequences of the increasing atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents... [that] interact strongly with the Earth's energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warming.

Radiatively, the only thing that distinguishes a «forcing» from a «feedback» is that injection of the forcing constituent into the climate system does not depend on the atmospheric temperature, while the feedback constituents are temperature dependent in response to local meteorological conditions.

And, there is plenty of empirical data at every level: There is empirical data on the basic absorption lines of the various atmospheric constituents, there is a wealth of empirical data backing up the basic equations of radiative transfer that are applied in calculating the greenhouse effect in just the same way that engineers and scientists use these equations everyday in other calculations, there is empirical spectra looking both up from the surface of the earth and down from satellites.

This effective radiating level depends on atmospheric composition and, in particular, on those constituents that absorb terrestrial radiation.

If I were choosing a model to describe with as much quantitative fidelity as possible the greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere, then the model I would choose would be a state - of - the - art convective - radiative transfer code using the actual composition and empirical absorption / emission lines for the atmospheric constituents.

«Human activities (primarily burning of fossil fuels and changes in land cover) are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents or properties of the surface that absorb or scatter radiant energy.

-LSB-...] In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: «Human activities... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents... that absorb or scatter radiant energy.

«In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: «Human activities... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents... that absorb or scatter radiant energy.

Since we can not measure any individual forcing directly in the atmosphere, the models draw upon results of laboratory experiments in passing sunlight through chambers in which atmospheric constituents are artificially varied; such experiments are, however, of limited value when translated into the real atmosphere, where radiative transfers and non-radiative transports (convection and evaporation up, advection along, subsidence and precipitation down), as well as altitudinal and latitudinal asymmetries, greatly complicate the picture.