Sentences with phrase «km above»

1 km above the surface warms much more than the tropopause, closer to the surface is convectively coupled to the relatively stable ground.

Source of Gas Leak Found, Fire Fighting Ships Arrive Now this really gives you a sense of the extreme conditions in which this drilling is happening: The Guardian reports that Total has said it believes it has found the source of the leak, a gas pocket in a rock formation 4 kilometers below the sea bed, and 1 km above the actual gas reservoir that the rig was tapping.

Since the gravitational signal is stronger closer to Earth, the «arrow - like», five - metre long GOCE satellite has been designed to cut through of what remains of the Earth's atmosphere at just 250 km above the surface of the planet.

The southern hemisphere has much more ocean than the north, and there is a massive quantity of ice, some over 2 km above sea level.

The T4 or TLS channel in representative of the temperature in the lower stratosphere with a peak weighting function at around 17 km above the earth surface.

At 1 km above the surface the temperature will be between 4 K and 10 K cooler than the surface.

Well, when most of the Earth's carbon has been converted to CO2, life will only be possible 60 km above the surface, where the temperatures will be comparable to those of the 21st century.

The temperature drops with height due to convective adjustment (standard atmosphere vertical temperature profile with decreasing temperature with height) and the radiative heating profile (Fleagle and Businger 1980; Houghton 1991; Peixoto and Oort 1992; Hartmann 1994), and equals the emission temperature of 254 K at around 6.5 km above the ground (Fig.

It is the radiation at about 5 km above the surface — the altitude where more radiation goes up than goes down.

The Tropopause is less than 8 km above Antarctica, so there is very limited atmosphere above the South Pole.

Radar expertise at the lab includes the operation of wind profiling radars for obtaining profile of the wind (depending on the radar) to heights of 8 - 10 km above the surface.

However, it allows you to make a prediction that smoke that is starting to rise from the base of the flume might one - day speed up once it gets 200 km above its starting point.

This suggests that, if ocean and air temperature were the same, the average DLR photon is emitted about 1 km above the ocean's surface.

Over the past 30 years, the Earth's surface temperature has increased 0.2 - 0.4 °C, while the temperature in the mesosphere, about 50 - 80 km above ground, has cooled 5 - 10 °C (Beig et al., 2006).

Is that satellite orbiting the Sun [as it keeps its altitude 1000 km above the surface] or the barycenter?

The shell is 2 km above the surface of a planet that has a radius of 6370 km.

Moving water into the gas phase, 1 micron away from the surface of droplets (evaporation) needs the same amount of work required to lift it to a height of 230 km above Earth's surface.

The earth's protective atmosphere or «skin» extends beyond 3,200 km above sea level to the large magnetic fields, called the Van Allen Belts, which can capture the charged particles sprayed through the cosmos by the solar and galactic winds.

The data indicates that the lower troposphere (up to eight km above the earth's surface) has warmed roughly by 17 degrees Celsius since the beginning of satellite temperature records in [continue reading...]

The temperature in the middle of the troposphere is 255 K at 5 km above the surface (and at 50 km.)

But also it seems to me that the atmosphere would have a lapse rate - 10 Km above the surface it would be cooler than the surface.

In spite of decades of measurements they still can't find the fabled hot spot 10 km above the equator at all.

The lower red graph shows the amount of water between 680 and 310 mb, corresponding to altitudes from about 3 to 6 km above sea level.

40 Km above the surface and it should have some effect in terms of heating Venus.

These satellites measure the temperature of the lower troposphere and capture average temperature changes around 5 km above the surface.

The Antarctic has been above average for about 2 years now - it's 0.961 million sq. km above average right now.

1 km above surface - it will probably do nothing in terms of warming Venus.

The aerosols travel west over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, where they interact with the stratocumulus cloud beneath them, about 1 km above the sea.

All agree that direct IR radiation in the main CO2 bands is absorbed well below 1 km above the earth.

If you could position yourself to view the earth's rotation say 1M Km above the sub-solar point the weather (from east to west) would always look much the same, only varying (on any centennial timeframe) according to the sun's annual declination and the consequent local geographical (land or ocean) effects.

By 15 km above the surface, over 95 % of the UV has been expended in the creation of ozone.

This process occurs variously from 20 to 40 km above the surface in the Ozone Layer.

The boundary between the two, the tropopause, is about 18 km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain).

The troposphere is 6 to 10 km above the surface and the thunderstorm chimneys rush the moist hot air rapidly up as high as 15 + km.

Ozone forms in the stratosphere, between about 10 and 50 km above the Earth and above the troposphere where terrestrial species live.

Meaning one get an effect similar to the higher troposphere one gets on Earth with the tropics: «At latitudes above 60, the tropopause is less than 9 -10 km above sea level; the lowest is less than 8 km high, above Antarctica and above Siberia and northern Canada in winter.

The two most important large - scale variables severe thunderstorms are convective available potential energy (CAPE - a thermodynamic measure) and the vertical wind shear (magnitude of the difference between the horizontal winds near the surface and aloft, say, near 6 km above the ground.)

Of course, satellites are not relevant to everyday human life, as the temps that denialists like to point to are measured from 4 - 7 km above the surface of the earth, and humans don't live in dirigibles or airships.

Consider how a continental ice sheet it built up and maintained: snow falls on top — i.e., a couple km above sea level, where it is pretty cold — and is slowly compressed to ice.

The volcanic «fog» is about 10 km above the trees.

Hence, whereas the planet is heated at the surface, it's main heat loss takes place from a height about 5.5 km above the ground, where most of the radiation is free to escape out to space.

The stratosphere lies roughly 12 to 50 km above the surface and is marked by a temperature profile that increases with height.

According to the figure above, there has been an increase in the global overturning indicator for the middle atmosphere (between 1 and 6.5 km above the surface).

If this were true though, we would see a hotspot about 12 km above the equator — as the «climate models» predict, no such hotspot has materialised though, which essentially invalidates the theory.

The Republic of Bolivia, is a mountainous landlocked country that boasts the highest capital city in the world at 4 km above sea level.

Auto transmission gear ratios are identical for both 2.0 - litre and 2.5 - litre, which levels the playing field a bit as the bigger engine is not asked to pull a higher cruising gear to assist with economy (we achieved 7.3 L / 100 km in the SP25 and 6.8 L / 100 km in the Maxx hatch, both roughly 1.0 L / 100 km above the official figures).

The coolest layer of the Sun is a temperature minimum region about 500 km above the photosphere, with a temperature of about 4,000 K.

«Those winds are about 100 km above the surface of Pluto,» Summers said.

This new approach, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, offers remote monitoring of large swathes of inaccessible ocean from satellites that orbit the Earth some 700 km above our heads.

Bolton explains how: «Swooping as low as 5000 km above the cloudtops, Juno will spend a full year orbiting nearer to Jupiter than any previous spacecraft.