Sentences with phrase «in atmospheric humidity»

We note that this study has not taken into account the potential changes in atmospheric humidity caused by sea ice removal, which should be a focus of future work.
The follow - up study to this work relates heat waves globally to changes in soil moisture.One theoretical consequence of the CO2 - warming hypothesis is that increases in atmospheric humidity will greatly amplify the warming signal due to CO2 alone and will also amplify extremes.
For CO2 to cause dangerous warming it must cause an increase in atmospheric humidity.
There has been a secular decline in atmospheric humidity and by inference cloud cover over the entire period since 1948.
CO2's effect of stimulating plant growth and increasing plant tolerance of aridity contributed to revegetating large areas of land that were desert at the LGM, compounding the effects of an increase in atmospheric humidity, reduced land / ocean surface ocean ration, and increased warmth, all of which combined caused the reduction of airborne dust and atmosperic albedo.

Not exact matches

Ambient Water, a leading provider of atmospheric water generation systems for extracting water from humidity in the air, today announced that Ballast Point Brewing Co. has completed its first two batches of beer made with water produced from Ambient's atmospheric water generation systems.
San Diego, CA — Ambient Water (otc pink: AWGI), a leading provider of atmospheric water generation systems for extracting water from humidity in the air, today announced that Ballast Point Brewing Co. has completed its first two batches of beer made with water produced from Ambient's atmospheric water generation systems.
After allowing for humidity and rainfall, they found that «aerosol optical thickness» — a measure of the concentration of atmospheric particles — decreased by only 10 to 15 per cent compared with the same periods in 2002 to 2007 (Geophysical Research Letters, in press).
The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.
«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
In reality, there are many different types of snowflakes (as in the clich that «no two snowflakes are alike»); this differentiation occurs because each snowflake is a separate crystal that is subject to the specific atmospheric conditions, notably temperature and humidity, under which it is formeIn reality, there are many different types of snowflakes (as in the clich that «no two snowflakes are alike»); this differentiation occurs because each snowflake is a separate crystal that is subject to the specific atmospheric conditions, notably temperature and humidity, under which it is formein the clich that «no two snowflakes are alike»); this differentiation occurs because each snowflake is a separate crystal that is subject to the specific atmospheric conditions, notably temperature and humidity, under which it is formed.
Following a pioneer and a victim Samaras was the founder of a project called the Tactical Weather - Instrumented Sampling in / near Tornadoes EXperiment, or TWISTEX, which used different instruments to gather data on the elements that make up a tornado, including wind speeds and direction, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.
Nano - sized gas sensors in mobile telephones that measure the atmospheric humidity are nothing new as such.
When the atmospheric conditions are right, with relatively low temperature and high humidity, the steam is visible even in summer, as happened in July 2013.
Differences in moisture content of the beans, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, temperature, density of the coffee, and also what flavour qualities am I looking to develop and highlight in this coffee — these are now the questions that I consider every day.
They could have affected sea - surface and land temperatures, atmospheric pressure systems and humidity levels — all of which may have affected the rates of precipitation in California in recent years.
A compilation of surface measurements of downward longwave radiation from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature, humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
The paintings and sculptures of Glenn Brown are deliquescent in the physical sense of the term, the property possessed by certain solid substances of slow liquefaction by gradual absorption of atmospheric humidity.
Presumably the water vapour feedback in models is dealt with by determining / estimating / calculating the radiative forcing from water vapour and then making some assumption about the water vapour response to atmospheric warming (e.g. assuming constant relative humidity).
In 2002 the Aqua satellite was launched with AIRS instrumentation for measuring humidity at all atmospheric layers.
The (apparent) slower rate of projected model warming for a higher absolute temperature may be related to other factors like cloud amount and geographical distribution at higher absolute humidity, or increases in convective transport (due to more atmospheric instability) at higher absolute humidity.
I also usually try to include the change in the Relative Humidity, (if it can be found), in my graphs as humidity plays a part in the atmospheric heat Humidity, (if it can be found), in my graphs as humidity plays a part in the atmospheric heat humidity plays a part in the atmospheric heat content.
Now suppose that atmospheric circulations don't change at all and that humidity in the lower troposphere increases, following Clausius - Clapeyron.
Emanuel (2005) makes a compelling case that the warming ocean temperatures (and associated changes in atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles) are behind the increased TC intensity in the Atlantic.
A clear and more detailed explanation can be found in Section 2.1 of the Simmons et al 2010 JGR article «Low - frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets» (doi: 10.1029 / 2009JD012442).
3 A) CLIMATE VS. WEATHER Climate is the weather pattern in one place over a long period of time Weather is the current atmospheric conditions, including temperature, rainfall, wind, and humidity at a given place
If relative humidity (RH) of the air were to remain constant as atmospheric temperature rose then the water vapor (q) amount in the atmosphere would accordingly rise.
ii) The oceans appear to vary in the rate at which they release solar energy back to the air which affects atmospheric composition via humidity, clouds and global albedo.
Simmons, A. J., K. M. Willett, P. D. Jones, P. W. Thorne, and D. P. Dee, 2010: Low - frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets.
In a third paper, accepted for publication by the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology, three scientists — two Australians and one American, revisit data on upper - atmospheric humidity.
Low - frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets
Beginning in the 1980s, schemes were developed to adjust land surface states to ameliorate systematic atmospheric model errors in temperature and humidity.
Miskolczi found in the balloon sounding record that as atmospheric CO2 rose absolute humidity declined in direct proportion such that the extra greenhouse effect from CO2 was exactly cancelled by less greenhouse effect from water vapor.
One could record sun angle, actual sea and air temps, humidities and winds and match these to the different atmospheric dynamics in the tropics and develop a quantitative formula (I guess this is called a model these days).
Here's two sentences to get you started: Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time.
Surface measurements of downward longwave radiation A compilation of surface measurements of downward longwave radiation from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature, humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
A compilation of surface measurements of downward longwave radiation from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature, humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
But, just in case you were semi-serious: With oceans covering 70 % of the earth's surface, you could never change atmospheric humidity — water vapor pressure is a function of atmospheric temperature, increasing as temperature rises.
The variability is due to day - to - day variations in temperature, strength of the surface - based temperature inversion, atmospheric humidity, and the presence of «diamond dust» (near - surface ice crystals).
Temperatures are continuing to rise with consequent increases in evaporation and atmospheric humidity and reductions in snow amount and snow season length in many regions.
«Trends in U.S. Surface Humidity, 1930 — 2010 -LSB-...] Increasing evidence from observations and climate models indicates that anthropogenic activity is increasing atmospheric moisture (Boucher et al. 2004; Willett et al. 2007; Santer et al. 2007; Min et al. 2008).
This increased flow of water out of the plants results in an increase in atmospheric moisture (humidity) over the same areas.
As water warms more evaporation occurs carrying energy higher in the troposphere where it can be lost more easily — but there are considerations of wind speed and atmospheric humidity.
Perhaps Weather should be defined as variations in atmospheric parameters (temp, humidity, etc) which are caused by atmospheric circulation.
If» a warmer world will have an atmosphere with more water vapor,» why has atmospheric water vapor declined since satellite measurements began in 1983, and why has tropospheric relative and specific humidity declined since 1948?
The lapse rate, strictly speaking, applies to elevation above ground level (which is strongly affected by local atmospheric conditions such as absolute humidity and the rate of change of the absolute humidity in space and time) and this should be considered when making certain kinds of comparisons.
For the authors of the paper to assess the spectral results against theory they needed to know the atmospheric profile of temperature and humidity, as well as changes in the well - studied trace gases like CO2 and methane.
For Europe specifically, it is estimated that the CO2 flux from land vegetation contributes to reduce the global net flux associated with atmospheric growth of CO2, but the relative magnitude of this sink has been decreasing since the 1990s (from capturing 40 % of the global growth previously, to about 20 % now), likely further to changes in the atmospheric transport of heat and humidity over Europe.
I meant satellite data in which humidity is calculated for each vertical velocity versus reconstructions based on that data in which humidity is calculated for various atmospheric pressure (using velocity information from the reanalyses to make this determination).
Current observations are, I believe, consistent with these principles, in that as the climate has warmed, atmospheric water has increased, but continues to play «catch up» in that relative humidity has tended to decline slightly.
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