Sentences with phrase «in the atmosphere as»

The amount of water needed to cover the entire world is far too much to be stored in the atmosphere as water vapor.

At night, an «airglow» lingers in our atmosphere as molecules radiate away the heat they soaked up during the day.

In urban areas, emissions from consumer goods such as paint, cleaning supplies and personal care products now contribute as much to ozone and fine particulate matter in the atmosphere as do emissions from burning gasoline...

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

But deforestation increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as trees are burned or start to decompose.

In urban areas, emissions from consumer goods such as paint, cleaning supplies and personal care products now contribute as much to ozone and fine particulate matter in the atmosphere as do emissions from burning gasoline or diesel fuel.

Therefore, we should make every effort to understand the processes in the atmosphere as best we can and avoid any form of conscious or unconscious manipulation that would have an unknown outcome.»

Volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides from Asian cars and industry mix in the atmosphere as they cross the Pacific Ocean and convert in sunlight into ozone, a main ingredient in smog, Jaffe explains.

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

The progressively earlier occurrence of these high CO2 levels — not seen in somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years — points to the inexorable buildup of heat - trapping gas in the atmosphere as human emissions continue unabated.

The team also presented the first observational evidence that WASP - 33b's atmosphere contains titanium oxide, one of only a few compounds that is a strong absorber of visible and ultraviolet radiation and capable of remaining in gaseous form in an atmosphere as hot as this one.

And the researchers suggest the cyclone shift may be linked to that growth, which is connected to more heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity.

Some of the same chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere as a result of smog and ozone are actually taking place in your house while you are cleaning.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.»

The scientists found greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity have increased the risk of extreme rainfall in the southern part of the country by about 25 per cent.

I very much doubt that all the melted ice will end up in the atmosphere as water vapour; be interesting to see if someone has some figures on this.

The amount of carbon stored as vegetation is similar to the amount in the atmosphere as CO2.

The findings give scientists a better handle on the earth's carbon budget — how much carbon remains in the atmosphere as CO2, contributing to global warming, and how much gets stored in the land or ocean in other carbon - containing forms.

The Arctic is already warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe as heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other gases build up in the atmosphere as the result of human emissions.

A byproduct of this work is that we also have a very nice record of atmospheric 13C variations through time, and what we find is that at no time in the last 10,000 years are the 13C / 12C ratios in the atmosphere as low as they are today.

Mercury is found in almost everyone from consuming fish, although it's also in the atmosphere as a result of coal burning.

I think you can have fun in any atmosphere as long as you enjoy the person you're with.

Next a trailer showing a robed figure walking through a desert with stones floating in the atmosphere as a colossal winged construction rose out of the sand.

We are numbed in this atmosphere as young children and young people.

On a picky note: Burning carbon does not change the number of molecules in the atmosphere as each CO2 substitutes for an oxygen.

There are two rival ideas as to why this is happening; a dramatic increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere as proposed by the proponents of AGW; and extraterrestrial factors, notably the sun, as proposed by the deniers.

A byproduct of this work is that we also have a very nice record of atmospheric 13C variations through time, and what we find is that at no time in the last 10,000 years are the 13C / 12C ratios in the atmosphere as low as they are today.

It is impossible to know whether or not this event would have taken place if we had not increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as much as we have.

increase in the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere as the atmosphere warms as indicated by the Clausius - Clapeyron equation.

The 4 W / m2 TOA forcing is the consequence of an imposed change in CO2 — all changes to LW absorption in the atmosphere as a consequence of that initial change (through water vapour, cloud or temperature profile responses) are feedbacks.

Jim Hansen, as you reported here on Dot Earth, recently released the figure 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere as the target for humanity.

Duration could vary: a more intense storm may peter out more quickly by having used up the available energy in the immediate vicinity (from convergence in the atmosphere as air spirals in, to surface moisture from evaporation in the strong winds) unless it moves into a new environment.

-- The great importance of the carbonic acid in the atmosphere as a factor in determining the climate of the earth has been confirmed by the researches of a considerable number of investigators.

The amount of carbon stored as vegetation is similar to the amount in the atmosphere as CO2.

«Humans have driven CO2 rise in the atmosphere as large as the CO2 rise that helped end the last Ice Age, but the man - made CO2 rise has happened 100 times faster», he said.

Clearly we are already in trouble and need to stop accumulating carbon in the atmosphere as soon as possible.

We are just in the warming phase of the climate pattern and this increased the sea level and the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere as shown:

Predictability and stability of well mixed CO2 across the globe extends vertically in the atmosphere as well.

Seventy percent of the earth is covered with water, but only a tiny amount occurs in the atmosphere as vapor or ice crystals.

We clearly don't even properly understand what happens to the gases we emit — simply saying they are going to end up in the atmosphere as forcings is clearly incorrect.

The UN explained this, saying «Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.

Established climate models assume constant humidity at all levels in the atmosphere as the temperature rises.

Other types of greenhouse gases, like methane — which does not last as long in the atmosphere as carbon but which traps more heat — are left out of the proposal.

I assume that any solution will consume energy, and view the CO2 in the atmosphere as a «flat battery» in need of recharging.

The more carbon pollution in the air, the more the sun's energy gets trapped in our atmosphere as heat.

Among the Earth's blanket of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide is the one you probably hear about most often, because it is increasing in the atmosphere as we burn a great deal of coal, oil, and gas for energy.

The upward slant reflects the increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as forests decrease and the burning of fossil fuels increases.

Also note that human induced warming probably will trigger natural C02 / methane emissions leading to further warming so anthropogenic source will probably play a decreasing role in the amount of C02 in the atmosphere as the planet moves to a new equilibrium point.

I am also not sure that, «half of the amount of CO2 we emit is matched in the atmosphere as a concentration increase, thus the other half must be going elsewhere, such as in ocean acidification», is also correct.