Sentences with phrase «much sunlight reached»

By counting the number of scales left behind at various levels of the sediment cores, the researchers determined how much sunlight reached the bottom of the pond in a given year, allowing them to estimate the pond's water depth, clarity and chemistry over time.

If you put more CO2, say, into the stratosphere then that doesn't change how much sunlight reaches the Earth's surface much and the surface warms up as much as before.

SRM describes an array of methods — all of which remain hypothetical — for artificially reducing how much sunlight reaches the Earth's surface in order to dampen global warming.

Mars undergoes temperature swings influenced by how much sunlight reaches the surface, which also affects its polar ice caps (another great influence on the atmosphere.)

The poleward shift of high - altitude clouds affects how much sunlight reaches Earth's surface because when they move, they reveal what's below.

These cycles cause small fluctuations in how much sunlight reaches different parts of the Earth.

Not exact matches

If one sets out well before dawn, and arrives at the top in time to see the sunrise, one will find oneself walking as much in the clouds as through the trees, and there is a brief period (twenty minutes or so) when the sunlight first reaches the ridge, at a sharply lateral angle, and one is all at once passing through shifting veils of translucent gold.

Our bathroom doesn't get much natural sunlight and the light switch is a bit too high for my son to reach, so he needed someone to come with him to turn on the light.

We also use other filters to look at the sun to get direct readings of how much sunlight is reaching the surface.

Using this input, a sophisticated computer model developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, was used to determine which areas receive direct sunlight, how much solar radiation reaches the surface, and how the conditions change over the course of a year on Ceres.

When the sun sets, it is much lower in the sky, which means that the sunlight has to pass through more air in the atmosphere to reach your eyes.

This image suggests that the polar vortex clouds form at a much higher altitude, where sunlight can still reach, than the surrounding haze.

Using everyday objects, like disposable bags from fast food restaurants or the cardboard inside toilet paper rolls, Yuken Teruya consciously cuts paper, which branch out and form a chain like a tree reaching for the sun and scattering its leaves in space to capture as much sunlight as possible.

For example, if the Earth got cold enough, the encroachment of snow and ice toward low latitudes (where they have more sunlight to reflect per unit area), depending on the meridional temperature gradient, could become a runaway feedback — any little forcing that causes some cooling will cause an expansion of snow and ice toward lower latitudes sufficient to cause so much cooling that the process never reaches a new equilibrium — until the snow and ice reach the equator from both sides, at which point there is no more area for snow and ice to expand into.

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).

Climate models projecting that much less sunlight will be reflected by low clouds when the climate warms indicate that CO2 concentrations can only reach 470 ppm before the 2 ℃ warming threshold of the Paris agreement is crossed — a CO2 concentration that will probably be reached in the 2030s.

The sulfur dioxide prevented much sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, lowering the overall temperature, and killing crops and many creatures as a result.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Hansen and other climate scientists rierslot.net estimate aerosols may have offset global warming by as much as 50 percent by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface.

Varying degrees of shade Knowing how much direct sunlight (if any) reaches your plants is key to matching plants to the site.

Also if there isn't enough sunlight reaching the forest floor oak trees won't have much of a chance to grow.