Sentences with phrase «major radiation effects»

Earlier studies in the 4,200 km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone showed major radiation effects and pronounced reductions in wildlife populations.

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But their major effect would have come from radiation, which the KU astrophysicist said would have packed doses equivalent to one CT scan per year for every creature inhabiting land or shallower parts of the ocean.

«Proton beam is another major advance in managing late effects of radiation therapy,» says Wharam.

In the troposphere, major volcanic events have a strong cooling effect, as stratospheric aerosols reflect away some incoming solar radiation before it enters the troposphere.

Net solar radiation at Mauna Loa Observatory, relative to 1958, showing the effects of major volcanic eruptions.

In February, the National Academies of Science released two major reports on geoengineering, one on carbon dioxide removal technologies (to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hence reduce the greenhouse effect) and the other on «albedo modification» or solar radiation management technologies (to reflect a fraction of sunlight back to space and thereby cool the planet).

We find that the major effects of clouds on radiation change are linked to known physical processes that are quite consistently simulated by models.

The major effect of clouds is to reflect incoming solar radiation during daylight hours.

In the thermosphere, there are relatively few (compared to the troposphere) other sources of climate change; our results largely account for the effects of the major source, solar EUV radiation.

Callendar's own calculations, giving a 2 °C temperature rise for a carbon dioxide doubling, were slated: one major criticism was that they dealt only with radiation and left out the effects of that other important way in which heat is moved around, convection, despite what Hulburt had already written about that.

Although back radiation is real, it does not play a major role in the greenhouse effect — mostly because of the lapse rate, which is mostly set by convection.