Sentences with phrase «less cloud cover»

Second, with less cloud cover, more infrared radiation can escape to space, thereby creating a strong climate - stabilizing negative cloud feedback that prevents significant warming from increasing greenhouse gases.

Higher trade winds yield less cloud cover over the central and eastern tropical Pacific, which in turn yields more downward shortwave radiation, which in turn yields warmer water.

To give just one hint that it is shockingly deficient in some respects, note that our oceans have much less cloud cover than our land and are not limited by the availability of water, yet they can not even average 60 % of the productivity of our land.

Less cloud cover reduces the Earth's albedo.

He and his team have analyzed a unique type of cloud formation; their findings, which appeared recently in Science indicate that in pre-industrial times, there was less cloud cover over areas of pristine ocean than is found there today.

The new findings, published in Science Advances, show that less cloud cover and more summer sunshine allows increased solar radiation to reach the surface providing more energy for melting.

In northern climates, lakes are losing their ice cover earlier, and many areas of the world have less cloud cover, exposing their waters more to the sun's warming rays.

The result is less cloud cover, and a warming planet.

The more active the Sun, the less the cloud cover, causing an increase in insolation.