Sentences with phrase «km less atmosphere»

Some bits are 20 odd km closer to the Sun than others, with 9 km less atmosphere to get in the way.

Not exact matches

According to the MAVEN data, solar particles that caused the «Christmas lights» penetrated deeply into the Martian atmosphere — sparking auroras less than 100 km from the surface.

All that the gravito - thermal GHE does is redistribute the heat from the only energy SOURCE the Sun, more to the surface (the 33K G - T) and less to the upper troposphere (the even larger NEGATIVE -LRB--35 C) ANTI-GREENHOUSE EFFECT) from the center of mass of the atmosphere at 5.1 km to the top of the troposphere.

Remote - sensing systems called profilers have been developed to provide almost continuous measurements of wind and, somewhat less accurately, of moisture and temperature throughout the lowest 10 km (6 miles) of the atmosphere.

Satellite radiometric soundings have also been used to provide temperature readings in layers in the atmosphere from near the surface up to about 25 km (16 miles) or so, although these measurements offer less vertical and spatial resolution than in situ measurements.

At 17 km for a tropical atmosphere the amount of water vapor in a given volume is less than 1 % as much as the amount of CO2.

While that's theoretically correct and consistent it's difficult to see any relevance choosing such a column as starting point as nothing like that can ever occur in real Earth atmosphere at latitudes less than 100 km.

The atmosphere is over a hundred kilometers thick, and even the portion containing most of the air is 17 km thick at the equator (more by day, less at night due to the solar tide).

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

You are looking at sun disks penetrating 200 km of high arctic troposphere, and clearly 2005 disk shows by a refraction analysis a less colder atmosphere than 2004.