Sentences with phrase «maintain atmospheric temperature»

At night, the ground gives up heat stored during the day to try and maintain atmospheric temperature.

But we could ask the question is it more likely the planet tries to maintain a atmospheric temperature, an ocean temperature or a sea level?

Not exact matches

For their part, though, global warming skeptics such as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more human deaths than warm temperatures and heat waves.

This provides a stable reference temperature structure for the fast feedback processes to operate and maintain the amounts of atmospheric water vapor and clouds at their quasi-equilibrium concentrations.

This simple radiative example (convective transport is not being allowed) shows that any finite surface temperature Ts can be supported in radiative equilibrium with any arbitrarily cold «upper atmosphere» temperature Tt, by prescribing the appropriate LW opacity TAU for the atmospheric layer, with the energy required to maintain a fixed Ts adjusted accordingly.

Because of the increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere a higher average temperature is maintained through simple atmospheric radiative effects.

Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that emission reduction targets are not on schedule or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG reductions.

Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and a few other atmospheric gases trap heat energy and maintain Earth's temperature range.

-- In the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to Congress a plan identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional greenhouse gas reductions, including any recommendations for legislative action.

After the solar radiation gets absorbed the remaining free energy appears as such temperature differentials that can maintain atmospheric circulation.

If the parcel is raised (maintaining it at local atmospheric pressure and temperature), then the net force is zero and the net work done is zero.

But it is surely also true that an atmosphere warmed at its base by conduction will transmit that heat throughout the atmospheric column, maintaining its temperature and lapse rate, yet with most of the molecules in that column having the same kinetic energy (the same heat, but not the same temperature).

Once the enhancement of the surface temperature required to mechanically maintain atmospheric height is deducted from the observed surface temperature then the surface can be seen to be at the temperature predicted by the Stefan Boltzmann Constant.

That is governed by the Gas Laws and the energy needed in order to maintain atmospheric height also requires a surface temperature enhancement.

The key point is that the surface can not maintain a uniform 1 DegC no - feedback atmospheric temperature rise.

Climate models (for various obscure reasons) tend to maintain constant relative humidity at each atmospheric level, and therefore have an increasing absolute humidity at each level as the surface and atmospheric temperatures increase.

The changes in atmospheric composition and surface properties, indicated here, which maintained a global temperature difference of 5 ± 1 °C between the ice age and the interglacial period, are known accurately.