Sentences with phrase «large role of clouds»
Researchers are beginning to turn a corner in accurately simulating the large role of clouds and fine particles in setting Earth's temperature
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She decided to study the role that organic particles play in cloud droplet formation, because a large proportion of marine aerosols — which have a significant climate impact — are organics.
Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.
«Southern Ocean clouds play a large role in the global climate, and hopefully this will help us get a better sense of how sensitive the Earth is to greenhouse gases,» said Burrows.
CLOUD's genesis is in the mid-1990s, when space physicist Hendrik Svensmark hypothesized that cosmic rays as mediated by solar effects, play a very large role on the physics of climate, and could explain the warming and cooling trends.
So it appears that reflected incoming SW radiation from increased low altitude clouds is playing an important role in the total energy balance, and that IPCC's «largest source of uncertainty» may be getting cleared up.