Sentences with phrase «more stable atmosphere»

So, we know that weakening northerly winds and a more stable atmosphere are important ingredients for severe haze episodes.

Not exact matches

Because cells incorporate carbon from the atmosphere into their DNA as they divide, the proportion of carbon - 14 to the more stable carbon isotope carbon - 12 acts as a time stamp for when a cell was born.

Every spring in the high Arctic, stable mercury in the air gets converted to a more reactive form that drops out of the atmosphere.

As less radiation reaches the surface, the atmosphere may become more stable and clouds more persistent than usual, and less water will evaporate from the surface, a finding corroborated by Qian's China study.

Many fungi consume carbon in the soil, converting it into a more stable form; however, a portion of the consumed carbon is unavoidably respired as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The process transforms the biological matter into a more stable form of carbon, slowing the release cycle and thereby keeping more carbon out of the atmosphere.

One of the leading hypotheses is that while warming throughout the atmosphere can make it more stable (bad news for tornadoes), it also means the atmosphere can hold more moisture (good news for tornadoes).

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

In atmosphere having an accuracy of 0.005 C would probably be of little value, but in the ocean temperatures are much more stable and temperature differentials smaller.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

The planet's atmosphere was surely so vast and stable that outside forces, ranging from human activity to volcanic eruptions, could have no more than a local and temporary effect.

If anything else tries to disturb the temperature (or more accurately energy content) derived from those 3 characteristics alone then all one sees is a change in circulation adjusting the flow of energy throughput to keep top of atmosphere radiative balance stable.

On the other hand, an isothermal atmosphere is a stable state and won't mix spontaneously unless you stir it by some means, but that is true of all stratified states, not just isothermal, but temperature inversions that are even more stable.

Knutson and Tuleya (2004) show that climate models run with increasing CO2 project that in the tropics the atmosphere should become more stable as there is more warming aloft than at the surface.

Given there is much more water vapour in the lower levels of the atmosphere, the study really found that there was a decline in overall global relative humidity when global warming theory suggests it should stay more - or-less stable.

The tropopause is the boundary between the lowest layer of the atmosphere» the turbulently mixed troposphere» and the more stable stratosphere.

While excess carbon in the atmosphere is toxic to life, we are, after all, carbon - based life forms, and returning stable carbon to the soil can help us grow more food faster.