Sentences with phrase «like water vapor»

Bill Illis, that satellite picture looks like a water vapor channel.

Why shouldn't it separate from heavier gases and rise like water vapor — or does it?

-- many gases including water vapor are transparent to visible light, but some like water vapor condense into particles / droplets.

Many papers differentiate between clear skies and cloudy skies because the measurements of various parameters like water vapor are not well - known under clouds.

The SGM doesn't have clouds and even if you put in an absorber with a different scale height like water vapor, it's never saturated, so there are no phase changes above the surface.

Since the CO2 forcing can account for much of 0.6 C increase, how do we know «instant» positive feedbacks like water vapor will overwhelm negative feedbacks before slightly longer timescale feedbacks have a chance to kick in?

Earth has a natural «greenhouse effect» that results from gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane absorbing heat radiated from the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere and radiating that heat back towards the surface.

There are other greenhouse gases as well, like water vapor and methane, but those have a steady effect on the Earth, relatively unchanging over time.

Clouds don't do anything except respond, like water vapor.

Without GHG's like water vapor and CO2 the surface of the Earth would cool so effectively by IR radiation that the surface would be tens of degrees colder than it's now (how much depends on what the albedo of the cold earth would turn out to be).

The academic art of misdirection: Folks, ignore all those crazy climate variables like water vapor, clouds, solar and oceanic variability, that have been the drivers of climate since the beginning of time («still poorly understood» IPCC AR4).

Other greenhouse gases, like water vapor, occur naturally and we can not control them.

Some (positive) feedbacks (like water vapor) amplify the warming while others (negative feedbacks) do the reverse.

It's not really condensing, but its behavior is very similar to the condensing gases like water vapor, only the removal time is a bit longer, but still very short.

So while the consensus that CO2 is a «greenhouse» gas, meaning that like water vapor and methane it absorbs and radiates solar energy in known quanta, there is no consensus on the effect or «sensitivity» Earth's climate has to increases or decreases in it.

The principles of absorption and emission of radiation by various atmospheric trace gases like water vapor and CO2 rely on the theory of quantum mechanics.

I'm with righwing and find it hard to believe that a major greenhouse gas like water vapor is at the mercy of a minor greenhouse gas like CO2 it is much more likely that what ever warming we maybe see from CO2 gets offset by water vapor.

Specifically, as global temperatures have steadily increased at their fastest rates in millions of years, it's directly affected things like water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and stream flow patterns, which are all related to the water cycle.

But methane is a reactive gas and its presence leads to other greenhouse forcings, like the water vapor it decomposes into.

There are natural - born cynics, and if they turn the rest of us into cynics then we are their amplifiers, just like water vapor is an amplifier of carbon dioxide's greenhouse effect.

Some of these things are feebacks like water vapor, clouds and sea - ice, which could be reasonably presumed to be relevant to the future as well as the past.

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).

If the CO2 rise is a carbon cycle feedback, this is still perfectly compatible with its role as a radiative agent and can thus «trigger» the traditional feedbacks that determine sensitivity (like water vapor, lapse rate, etc).

Some of these things are feebacks like water vapor, clouds and sea - ice, which could be reasonably presumed to be relevant to the future as well as the past.

The spraying and bounding candy released from the piñata is like the water vapor in a real cloud that's continuously mixed and swirled by turbulence.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

Not exact matches

Sears vapors on about the sameness of his search for love and potable water, and Cheever's own peroration reads almost like a transcendentalist hymn to the cosmos for «the great benefice of living here and renewing ourselves with love.»

The river appears black inthe dull light, and water vapor rises like smoke off the surface, marking itserratic course until it meshes in the distance with the gathering mist.

The researchers do know that the presence of certain aerosols plays a large role in the formation of ice that leads to precipitation, but they also need to tease out the importance of that with other factors, like the amount of available water vapor and vertical storm winds.

So far, exciting finds such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane have been spotted mostly in the mammoth atmospheres of super-Jupiters, which, like super-Earths, are gargantuan versions of worlds familiar to us.

Rocky planets like Earth, Mars and Venus gained their atmospheres as volcanic gasses like carbon dioxide and water vapor were released from the planets» interiors.

Given a few months total of telescope time stretched across perhaps three years, Lovis and Snellen say, they could image Proxima b and probe the planet's atmosphere for signs of oxygen, water vapor and methane — all crucial measurements for determining whether that faraway world is actually much like Earth at all.

Habitable zone planets like Earth orbit at a distance from a star where water vapor can stay liquid on the surface.

Formed in the presence of sunlight by water vapor and pollutants like ozone and nitrogen oxides, hydroxyl is hard to measure, because it persists for just a second in the air before it reacts away.

This effect makes the atmosphere act somewhat like a blanket that becomes thicker when amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, increase.

Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.

The group also evaluated the permeability, with water vapor, of the nanomesh conductor — along with those of other substrates like ultrathin plastic foil and a thin rubber sheet — and found that its porous mesh structure exhibited superior gas permeability compared to that of the other materials.

First noticed by amateur astronomers, the massive storm works like the much smaller convective events on Earth, where air and water vapor are pushed high into the atmosphere, resulting in the towering, billowing clouds of a thunderstorm.

A new argument is hurtling up the Skeptic Leaderboard, leaving old stalwarts like mid-century cooling and water vapor in its wake.

An Earth - like planet tends to increase its water vapor content as its mean temperature increases.

With JWST, a few hours of integration time will be enough to detect Earth - like levels of water vapor, molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide and other generic biosignatures on planets orbiting a white dwarf; beyond that, observing the same planet for up to 1.7 days will be enough to detect the two CFCs in concentrations of 750 parts per trillion, or 10 times greater than on Earth.

Soon other substances, including water vapor, will begin pouring out, revealing their presence in the spectrum of light from the comet to instruments on the ground and those, like Spitzer, in space.

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.

Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano - like ice geysers on its surface.

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

The Spitzer Space Telescope, which like Webb studies the infrared light from the universe, found that at least half of all protoplanetary disks around stars roughly the size of our Sun contain water vapor.

This isn't news to top climate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius»).

Small amounts of water vapor is present in the air and can carry things like mold, bacteria, and allergens.

Thanks to the vapor distilled technology, it's like drinking water from the clouds.