Sentences with phrase «known as water vapor»

Indirectly, human activity that increases global temperatures will increase water vapor concentrations, a process known as water vapor feedback.

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As water vapor comes in contact with your cooler swim goggle lenses, it reaches its saturation point, causing water droplets to form during a process known as depositioAs water vapor comes in contact with your cooler swim goggle lenses, it reaches its saturation point, causing water droplets to form during a process known as depositioas deposition.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent pictures back to Earth depicting an icy Saturnian moon spewing water vapor and ice from fractures, known as «tiger stripes,» in its frozen surface.

Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we knoWater vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we knowater, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we know it.

But the bubbles that denote the rapid transformation of water from a liquid to a vapor, otherwise known as steam, actually slow the process.

Water vapor «is actually fairly common in the universe,» she says, «what is rare is liquid water, and that's the key to life as we know it.&rWater vapor «is actually fairly common in the universe,» she says, «what is rare is liquid water, and that's the key to life as we know it.&rwater, and that's the key to life as we know it.»

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

«People may know the expression, «It's too cold to snow» — if it's very cold, there is too little water vapor in the air to support a very heavy snowfall, and if it's too warm, most of the precipitation will fall as rain,» O'Gorman says.

Another process knows as a «runaway greenhouse» occurs due to the increased greenhouse effect of water vapor in the lower atmosphere, which further drives evaporation and more warming.

Knowing the right combination other warming agents, such as water vapor, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide, will also help us assess habitability of the hundreds of billions of other Earth - like planets estimated to reside in our galaxy.

Knowing this, the researchers could look at the wavelengths of infrared light and, like a fingerprint, link it to what share was from a CO2 buildup in the air, and what share was due to other things, such as water vapor.

«If you leave the lid off of it, that sugar starts to get clumpy after a while because it's absorbing water from the atmosphere,» he explains, the reason being that sugar is what's known as a hygroscopic material (one that readily absorbs water vapor from the air).

In particular, aircraft jet engines produce carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of sulfur (SOx), unburned or partially combusted hydrocarbons (also known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs), particulates, and other trace compounds.

«It is now widely known that the water vapor feedback in general circulation models (GCMs) is close to that which would result from a climate ‐ invariant distribution of relative humidity [Soden and Held, 2006], as long anticipated before the advent of such models [e.g., Arrhenius, 1896; Manabe and Wetherald, 1967].»

What we will all now over time, or those who come after will know, is that warming and cooling of the climate is almost entirely dependent upon the sun, its activity, our orbit of it, etc... Of course other things such as volcanism matter, and clouds, and water vapor, and so many other things which are all natural and have happened over and over through the ages.

(ie all these things are important, but would be minor contributors (so far as I know) to climate feedbacks, relative to the Planck response, water vapor, snow, ice, lapse rate, biological stuff, etc..)

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

35, L20704, doi: 10.1029 / 2008GL035333, 2008], due to Andrew Dessler and his colleagues, who (as you would know) used the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite to show that the water - vapor feedback is strongly positive, tending to double the initial warming due to CO2 itself.

People that don't know why there are water towers are supposed to understand atmospheric water vapor, CO3 (as in CaCO3!

How many people know how water vapor and carbon dioxide relate (or don't relate) to each other as they both relate to the temperature of the Earth's climate and to the greenhouse effect?

1) Scientists have long known that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — such as carbon dioxide, methane, or water vapor — absorb certain frequencies of infrared radiation and scatter them back toward the Earth.

Major Gases: Water vapor and Carbon dioxide Makes life as we know it possible on Earth

The adiabatic theory would hold that CO2 actually acts as a coolant to the atmosphere, by trapping heat and carrying up to TOA to be released,... just as the other well known GHG, water vapor, does.

Then more water evaporates (as an avid student of 50 + years of scientific literature, you must know that the water vapor is the worst greenhouse gas of all), thus potentially exacerbating the warming.

Once water vapor gets into the normally dry stratosphere, it can in theory interact with manmade chlorine compounds known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, to destroy ozone molecules.

Indeed, strong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.Direct human impact is through changes in the concentration of certain trace gases such as carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapor, known collectively as greenhouse gases.

CO2 absorbs IR radiation primarily at 12 to 15 microns, inside what is known as the «Water Vapor Window».

We know by lab measurements that CO2 and water vapor are greenhouse gases (as are methane, nitrogen oxides etc).

«People may know the expression, «It's too cold to snow» — if it's very cold, there is too little water vapor in the air to support a very heavy snowfall, and if it's too warm, most of the precipitation will fall as rain,» O'Gorman says.

As far as I know, this last sentence can not be true: it would mean that the weight of water vapor in the static column would be fixed by surface temperature, and vice versAs far as I know, this last sentence can not be true: it would mean that the weight of water vapor in the static column would be fixed by surface temperature, and vice versas I know, this last sentence can not be true: it would mean that the weight of water vapor in the static column would be fixed by surface temperature, and vice versa.

I don't need to know all of the subtle characteristics and interactions in a climate model to understand that it doesn't account for water vapor forming additional clouds which act as a negative feedback on warming.

This is the change of ice (solid water) to water vapor (a gas); you know it as freezer burn.

There are amplifiers in the climate system (clouds, aerosols, soot, and non-cloud water vapor to name a couple), but they'd amplify non-solar factors as much as they amplify solar factors, so those are no good.

Gases that absorb and trap this IR radiation, such as water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are known as «greenhouse gases».

32 Human Impact on Climate Change The Greenhouse Effect Is a natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and surface Makes life as we know it possible Major Gases: Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Humans have added more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fossil fuels

Probably not a soul on this site knows that the computer models all assume that water vapor (50 times as prevalent as co2) has an impact 2 to 3 times that of the corresponding increase in co2.

The reasons why the Arctic is warming so quickly — a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification — has to do with factors that are unique to the Arctic environment, involving feedbacks between sea ice, snow, water vapor and clouds.

As far as I know, water vapor is the aerosol with by far the largest effect on climatAs far as I know, water vapor is the aerosol with by far the largest effect on climatas I know, water vapor is the aerosol with by far the largest effect on climate.

I know the data say that 99 % of all the atmospheric Water Vapor (WV) is to be found in the Troposphere, so yes it is very likely to be some in the «tropospause» and even maybe as high up as in the Stratosphere.

The water vapor condensing out releases latent heat, which means that the air parcel no longer cools as quickly as if it were not saturated.

When you said «What we KNOW is that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, much less important than water vapor,», you don't understand, or won't understand, AGW; as somebody said, a stressed denier.

As you might know, there's a difference in how much water can exist as vapor at a given temperaturAs you might know, there's a difference in how much water can exist as vapor at a given temperaturas vapor at a given temperature.

There are several gases in Earth's atmosphere known as «greenhouse gases» because they exacerbate the greenhouse effect: Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor and ozone are among the most prevalent, according to NASA.