Sentences with phrase «oceans evaporates»

The reality is, CO2 within the oceans evaporates out of it in warmer climates and the levels rise, like popping the top on a cold can of soda and then watching it go flat as the liquid heats to room temperature.

Scientific research suggests that global warming causes heavier rainfall because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture and warmer oceans evaporate faster feeding the atmosphere with more moisture.

The ultraviolet technique used in this study also may spot the signature of oceans evaporating on smaller, more Earth - like planets.

Rock salt, also known as halite, forms as oceans evaporate.

When a climate heats up, oceans evaporate.

Oceans evaporate more water as the air right near the surface gets warmer.

Venus succumbed early to a «runaway water vapor greenhouse,» in which the increased water vapor content arising from increased temperature reached an end state with much of the ocean evaporated into the atmosphere.

leftover after prehistoric oceans evaporated, with huge mines in Ohio, Michigan, New York, Kansas, and Louisiana.

Road salt is basically sodium chloride — much like table salt — and comes from deposits leftover after prehistoric oceans evaporated, with huge mines in Ohio, Michigan, New York, Kansas, and Louisiana.

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This will raise the surface temperature on Earth, causing oceans to evaporate faster, and extinguishing most, if not all, life on Earth.

If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial gap for microbial life on the planet.

Warm ocean waters provide the fuel for hurricanes, and warm air causes the water to evaporate.

You'd think that generally, all the water of the oceans would be enough to put out any fire, but throw them on the sun, and they'd evaporate faster than a drop of water on a sizzling skillet.

The sun evaporates water from the ocean, water vapor rises and becomes clouds.

Our Smoked Sea salt is all natural, solar evaporated, and is gathered from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

Unlike salt harvested from deposits in the earth, sea salt comes from evaporating ocean water.

«This is a sign to us that these chemicals are indeed evaporating out of the ocean,» she said.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

Moisture that evaporates from the ocean tends to be lighter than water vapor released into the atmosphere by plants.

However, the oil's fate is highly uncertain, as it may burn, evaporate, or mix into the surface ocean and contaminate the environment for an extended duration.

Warmer air temperatures cause more water containing the heavier isotopes oxygen - 18 or deuterium to evaporate from the surrounding ocean.

The huge increase of radiation and the strong stellar winds that will accompany the process of stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire planet is finally melted.

In addition, now that sea ice blankets the Southern Ocean off the western Antarctic Peninsula far less than before, more water is evaporating and forming precipitation, largely in the form of snow.

De Pontieu compares the mission with studying the air just above the ocean, watching as water evaporates and condenses: «You're seeing the process that feeds the clouds, and the process that depletes the clouds.

Scientists used to suspect that methane would behave like water on Earth — evaporating from oceans on Titan, then raining back down.

«During the evaporation of the water from the ocean, the water molecules formed by lighter isotopes will get preferentially evaporated, while during condensation the heavier isotopes will condense more effectively,» he says.

Due to shrinkage of its connection with the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea was transformed into a giant saline lake that was partially evaporated by the dry climate of the region, six million years ago.

The warm ocean water evaporates, adds moisture to the air and falls as precipitation over nearby regions.

Water evaporating from the oceans may set off a runaway greenhouse effect that turns Earth into a damp version of Venus, wrapped permanently in a thick, white blanket of cloud.

Scientists believe Venus once had oceans, but because of its proximity to the sun the planet became so hot that all the water evaporated, according to NASA.

That limits the amount of water evaporated from the oceans and, as a result, the greenhouse effect by water vapor.

This much CO2 in the atmosphere would cause such a severe and irreversible greenhouse effect that the oceans would evaporate and disappear,» states Mario Trieloff.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

We are literally awash in it: If the water were evaporated from the world's oceans, we'd be left with 4.5 million cubic miles of salt, equivalent to a cube measuring 165 miles on each side.

The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.

If scientists could spot this hydrogen evaporating from a planet that is a bit more temperate and little less massive than GJ 436b, that is a good sign of an ocean on the surface.

Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds, precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean.

With all the forms of positive feedback we already see, what's going to create negative feedback while life is still possible on Earth, like before the oceans have finished evaporating and adding to greenhouse gasses?

Extra water vapor in the atmosphere traps more heat, causing the oceans to heat up and evaporate even more quickly.

An ice - free Arctic Ocean absorbs solar radiation during the long summer days, and evaporates more water into the Arctic atmosphere.

On Venus, solar wind evaporated the oceans, broke up water vapor and stripped away hydrogen, leaving behind CO2 which caused a runaway greenhouse effect.

C. Carreau, ASPERA - 4 & MAG teams, Venus Express, ESA Annotated image illustrating loss of hydrogen through plasma wake Venus may have lost oceans of water due to a runaway greenhouse effect which evaporated water into the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet light dissociated water into ionized atomic hydrogen and oxygen (some later incorporated into carbon dioxide) that were blown away by the Solar wind due to the lack of a strong magnetic field like the Earth's (more).

With hotter temperatures, more water evaporates off the oceans, and the atmosphere can hold more moisture.

Ocean water is evaporated leaving behind the salt, which contains trace amounts of minerals in varying amounts (depending on where it's from).

Sea salt comes from evaporated ocean bed kind of.

Despite the heavy snow — a symptom of our evaporating oceans, just as Al Gore explained in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — protesters, and one Sasquatch, happily trudged down Main Street wearing much - needed pink knit hats.

As the last ice age began, some 125,000 years ago, part of the water evaporated from the world's oceans and fell as snow at the poles and in the northern parts of the continents to slowly form ice caps and glaciers.

It flows along the line of least resistance to find its way to the ocean, where it comes and goes in tides and waves, evaporates to the sky, and reappears as precipitation.

What prevents most of that from evaporating water instead of heating the deeps of the oceans?

Our distribution loop got clogged with low density water and we had a backup of heat until our heater over heated and blew off steam in the form evaporating ocean water which made a swirling cloud called a hurricane.