Sentences with phrase «measuring air parcels»
For five weeks we sampled air from the roof of the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center in hope of measuring air parcels contaminated with smoke from residential wood stoves.
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«CAPE is a measure of how potentially explosive the atmosphere is, that is, how buoyant a parcel of air would be if you got it convecting, if you got it to punch through overlying air into the free troposphere,» Romps said.
Is this, 64w / m ^ 2, perhaps a measure of that portion of the blackbody radiation energy emitted from the earth («earthshine») that is blocked by the saturated H2O absorption spectrum as opposed to the relative ability of any given parcel of air to capture or export heat via the H2O photon radiation path?
Thus a parcel of air into which water vapour is injected will rise without any change in ambient temperature.The reduction of density from surface upwards is what initially reduces air pressure as measured from the surface.