Sentences with phrase «km height»

How long does a CO2 molecule at 5.5 kms height hold on to that absorbed IR photon before it is released (emitted or transferred though collision to another atmospheric molecule)?

Preventing the updraft at 2 - 5 Km height from skipping away would be a real challenge, since the entire energy generating process is working at that height.

Total fresh water inflows into all world seas and oceans is about one million m ^ 3 / sec, or looking at it another way, one million metric tons of water is lifted into clouds (at x km height).

During a campaign above the sea near the Canary Island of Tenerife, the scientists conducted six measurement flights to determine the isotope composition of water vapor up to 7 km height.

[Response: The troposphere extends from the surface to between about 8 and 18 km height (depending on latitude).

The Institute of Atmospheric Physics investigates the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere from the Earth's surface up to the upper boundary of the middle atmosphere at about 120 km height.

«The ionosphere (according to the understanding at that time) that part of the atmosphere between 65 and 80 km and 280 - 320 km height, will be disrupted by mechanical forces caused by the pressure wave following the explosion.

There is a choice of vertical resolutions between 38 levels extending to ~ 40 km height (of which 29 are below 18 km), 63 levels extending to ~ 40 km height (of which 50 are below 18 km), and 85 levels extending to 85 km in height (of which 50 are below 18 km), the latter allowing improved representation of stratospheric processes.