Sentences with phrase «of high altitude clouds»

In addition to revealing the composition of these high altitude clouds, the in - cloud observations will be used to refine the methodologies used to infer cloud microphysical properties from the long - term data collected at the ARM Climate Research Facility sites in the Tropical Western Pacific.

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In some regions of Latin America, coffee is grown at high altitudes where clouds provide shade and additional tree cover would be counter-productive, or is grown in areas (like the Brazilian cerrado) that wasn't forested to begin with.

«But freezing in high - altitude clouds happens too fast for that to be the case — instead, freezing might be thought as starting from a disordered pile of bricks that hastily rearranges itself to form a brick wall, possibly containing defects or having an unusual arrangement.

He adds that better understanding of such high - altitude processes will help explain why «noctilucent» clouds have become more common in the past 50 years.

Researchers created ice crystals with a near - perfect cubic arrangement of water molecules, in order to better understand how high - altitude ice clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere.

The false colors represent the altitudes of the various cloud layers — blue being the highest and red being the lowest.

Not only is WASP - 39b not known to have a ring system, it also has a puffy atmosphere that is free of high - altitude clouds.

The most visible effects might include seeding clouds at very high altitudes, a process that could boost the frequency and thickness of such clouds for some as - yet - unknown interval, Moores says.

Cubed ice crystals — which may exist naturally in cold, high - altitude clouds — could help improve scientists» understanding of clouds and how they interact with Earth's atmosphere and sunlight, two interactions that influence climate.

While aloft, the birds were found to leverage the circular movements of upward drafts, originating under cumulus clouds, to soar to higher altitudes.

While the large atmospheric pressure at the surface and the high altitude of the Venusian cloud layer appears to exclude the possibility of cloud - to - ground lightning (Gurnett et al. 2001; Aplin 2006), several authors have suggested that lightning discharges above, between or within clouds may occur (Borucki 1982; Russell & Scarf 1990; Gurnett et al. 2001).

[Response: Note also that more low clouds would unambiguously mean a cooling effect, but more high clouds could lead to either a warming effect or a cooling effect, depending on the altitude of the clouds and the typical particle size in the GCR - induced clouds (if any).

To minimize this problem, radio telescopes are placed at high altitudes — the tops of mountains or high desert plateaus — but incoming clouds, rain, or snow can still take an observatory offline.

For the implementation on board of the high altitude aircraft they developed nine instruments measuring physical and chemical characteristics of dust particles and clouds.

They also acknowledge the participants of the INSPECT and CLACE field studies, the support of the High Altitude Research Foundation Gornergrat and Jungfraujoch, and the experimental group at the Aerosol Interactions and Dynamics in the Atmosphere cloud chamber of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has detected two unexpected phenomena in the short time since making orbit around the red planet — an aurora occurring deep in the Martian atmosphere, and an as of yet unexplained high altitude dust cloud.

By now most people paying attention know that «clean» diesels no longer smell bad, emit clouds of smoke, clatter excessively, suffer reliability issues or difficulty starting and driving in extreme temperatures or high altitudes.

The high altitude of Monteverde Cloud Forest ensures a steady supply of clouds that contain moisture which is distributed from the highest point of the rainforest to the ecosystems below

Monteverde is best known for its incredible cloud forests, which are forests at higher altitudes where water vapor hugs the land in the form of billowing mist.

Cloud forest is defined as forest at such a high altitude that it's penetrated by cloud cover, which makes the lush forested sides of the Andes a great place for a range of wildlife rich aCloud forest is defined as forest at such a high altitude that it's penetrated by cloud cover, which makes the lush forested sides of the Andes a great place for a range of wildlife rich acloud cover, which makes the lush forested sides of the Andes a great place for a range of wildlife rich areas.

You will notice that the cloud forest is a lot more lush than the lower rainforest and offers a cooler temperature because of the higher altitude.

This exotic slice of tropical heaven offers visitors a plethora of adventures and attractions, from climbing active volcanoes, hiking through ancient rainforests, or exploring high - altitude cloud forests that are home to a variety of wildlife and birds.

The presence of weather in some levels will have some effects on your HUD, if it is raining your HUD will have water on it, especially in the cockpit perspective but if you reach a high enough altitude, you can get scale above the clouds and out the rain.

For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude cirrus clouds and all of the major low level cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus clouds.

Downstairs we find shots taken from a high altitude plane at the edge of space — the top half of the photograph fades from blue to the blackness of space while the bottom half is a brilliant white as it captures the tops of clouds.

Given the lower temperatures and lower water vapour content at higher altitudes and a need for high supercooling to initiate condensation (in the absence of sufficient normal CCN), wouldn't an increased source of nuclei, in the form of GCRs, enhance high - and middle - altitude cloud formation?

Rule of thumb is high altitude clouds warm the climate, low altidude clouds cool it.

The authors speculate that the main reason hurricanes show this delta is that more of the precipitation is coming from high altitude (depleted in O - 18 based on gravitational potential) and in the form of large drops that do not have time to equilibrate wrt O - 18 in lower regions of the cloud as they fall.

And, as the satellite observations of Spencer and Braswell showed, as the planet warms over a period of several months, clouds act as a net negative feedback (the reflecting low - altitude clouds increase more than the absorbing high - altitude clouds with warming).

Spencer + Braswell have shown that over the tropics on a shorter - term basis, the net overall feedback from clouds with warming is negative; this is largely due to an increase in reflection of incoming radiation by increased clouds with a smaller effect from the reduction of energy trapping high altitude clouds, which slow down outgoing radiation by absorbing and re-radiating energy.

It is caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles or liquid droplets which form at high altitudes in extreme cold.

Ozone holes are caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles, or liquid droplets, which form at high altitudes in the extreme cold of the polar regions.

Troposphere - The lowest part of the atmosphere, from the surface to about 10 kilometers (~ 6 miles) in altitude at mid-latitudes (ranging from 9 kilometers (~ 5.6 miles) at high latitudes to 16 kilometers (~ 10 miles in the tropics on average), where clouds and weather phenomena occur.

The risk they face from wind energy facilities is likely greater during conditions of high winds, heavy rain, fog, or low cloud cover, which can affect flight altitude and bring them within the rotor - swept area of the turbines.

He was seen to enter the base of the thunderstorm at 3000 feet and then some time later seen to come out of the side of the cloud at a very high altitude.

Studying Chinese summer thunderclouds the researchers found that an increase in aerosols led to larger and more persistent convective cloud systems, with larger anvils at several kilometers of altitude that may reflect more sunlight, but trap even more heat — as their high - resolution model showed.

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

A new NASA analysis of 30 years of satellite data suggests that a previously observed trend of high - altitude clouds in the mid-latitudes shifting toward the poles is caused primarily by the expansion of the tropics.

However, in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, the high - altitude clouds usually clear out of the way to reveal lower altitude clouds below — which continue to reflect sunlight from their white tops, causing little effect on the solar radiation reaching the surface.

Vaughan, «In doing so it raises the temperature at higher altitudes by an amount equivalent to adding 80 W / m2 (averaged over the Earth's surface) to the thermal energy of clouds.

It is similar to cloud seeding, except at high altitudes, and is designed to produce thin layers of cloud.

High - level cloud cover exhibited the least amount of valid correlation tests of any cloud cover altitude.

And of course changes in albedo make the dry adiabatic lapse of stratsosphere a moot point because high altitude clouds reject insolation before it ever gets a chance to reach the troposphere.

Cirrus clouds — high - altitude clouds of ice crystals — typically form as a byproduct of the life cycle of cumulus towers created by rising updrafts of heated, moist air.

Jensen, E.J., and A.S. Ackerman, 2006: Homogeneous aerosol freezing in the tops of high - altitude tropical cumulonimbus clouds.

Could it be forming «clouds» of tiny droplets at some high altitude, & could these escape notice somehow?

It indicated that contrails — white lines of Vapor left by jet engines — also have big knock - on effects by adding to the formation of high - altitude, heat - trapping cirrus clouds as the lines break up.

If that doesn't happen, we should seek a causal explanation of it — in principle this could include changes in solar input, GHG effects, high - altitude clouds or some other cause that manages to increase the retention of heat energy in the earth to counteract the higher IR emissions from the warmer surface and atmosphere.

For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude cirrus clouds and all of the major low level cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus clouds.