Sentences with phrase «of the atmosphere over»

«The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability,» said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

But on balance most planets start to lose some amount of their atmosphere over time.

Soot has already been implicated in the melting of the polar ice caps, and heating of the atmosphere over India was directly measured in 2007 by Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues.

While RealClimate has called into question the soundness of the paper's quite narrow conclusions of discrepancy between model predictions and measurements of the relative rate of warming of different levels of the atmosphere over the tropics, this paper is being touted by the deniers as showing that the models are wrong to predict any warming at all, and that predictions of future warming and climate change can be entirely discounted.

Each displays the average sulfur dioxide content of the atmosphere over three years, with the brightest red showing the worst pollution levels.

Haarsma et al (2015) argue on the basis of model calculations that the weakening of the AMOC will be the main cause of changes in the summer circulation of the atmosphere over Europe in the future.

Doug and his colleagues packed an aircraft with a large number of complementary instruments provided by multiple principal investigators to characterize the composition of the atmosphere over the remote Pacific, between 0.5 and 6 kilometers above Earth's surface at latitudes between 70 ° N and 58 ° S.

Notably, by studying the clouds over a limited region of the atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean, as well as over nearby land masses, the team at the university's International Pacific Research Centre have declared themselves firmly in the latter camp, warning that, as temperatures continue to creep steadily upwards over the next 100 years, cloud cover will become thinner and more - sparse, thereby serving to exacerbate the problem.

In the 5 % of the atmosphere over land up to 1,000 m, there is a lot of exchange and the measurements there are unsuitable for the calcuation of any form of «global» CO2 level.

The measurements at MLO, Barrow, Samoa, south pole represent 95 % of the atmosphere, where only seasonal variations and a continuous increase are seen, not (or limited) the influence of local / regional biological decay or uptake, car exhausts or chimneys as in 5 % of the atmosphere over land where such variations are measured for other reasons than a global CO2 level...

Which is all very good news because it means we are very helpfully returning CO2 to the atmosphere from which it originally came and thereby being good citizens in the carbon cycle... unlike the the greedy and stupid plants which sucked most the CO2 out of the atmosphere over the last 175 million years without giving any thought to the sustainability of what they were doing.

Doug Cotton, doesn't it strike you as odd that the simple physical model that Geoff Wood presents, and that your and fellow members of Principia Scientific International (PSI) defend so vociferously, applies with equal force to (1) the water molecules in the 10,000 - meter gravitational column of the oceanic Challenger Deep, and (1) the air molecules in the 100,000 - meter gravitational column of the atmosphere over the Challenger Deep.

If Gov. Brown can some how significantly reduce the mass of the atmosphere over California the result will be significant cooling.

Also characteristic of the atmosphere over urban centres are substantially higher concentrations of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, hydrocarbons, oxidants, and particulate matter.

According to their modeling studies, the difference in the amount of incoming solar radiation, in this case, primarily in the ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, during the minima and maxima of the 11 - yr solar cycle are large enough to produce a characteristic change in the winter circulation pattern of the atmosphere over North America... When the NAO is in its negative phase, more cold air can seep south from the Arctic and impact the lower latitudes of Europe and the eastern U.S., which helps spin up winter storm systems.

I don't see anything in that paper about optical depth of the atmosphere over 60 years or other long term behavior — is that in Miskolczi 2010?

In fact, they do not even measure the same portion of the atmosphere over different locations of the globe.

He speaks about the fast residence time of CO2, But that only says how much CO2 is going in and out of the atmosphere over the seasons (about 20 %) but that doesn't influence the total amount of CO2 after a full cycle, if ins and outs are equal, Only how much is added or removed over a year is important, not how much circulates, And that is far less (about 4 GtC / year) than what is circulating...

We all know there's a «hole» in the ozone layer — a section of the atmosphere over Antarctica where the concentration of ozone is a lot lower than it should be.

This is definitely part of the QBO, and as such will work its way down into the lower part of the atmosphere over the next year or so.

Climate refers to the condition of the atmosphere over a large area, averaged over many years.

Using NOAA database of weather balloon observations that goes back to 1948 he studied the infrared absorption of the atmosphere over time.

During those months the insolation at the top of atmosphere over the arctic is higher than anywhere else in the world.

Note that changes in axial tilt and eccentricity do not, in and of themselves, change by one iota the amount of insolation at the top of the atmosphere over the course of year it merely changes how the insolation is delivered across the surface and across the seasons in a year.

This could be random variation of the atmosphere over a short period, or random measurement error, or some combination.

It seems that a lot of people have embraced Miskolczi's theory because there is an interesting conclusion regarding total optical thickness of the atmosphere over time.

The water contents of the atmosphere over desert and polar regions, subject to maximum warming, is low to very low.

It should be entirely possible to create a wide area BB radiator that ONLY radiates a black body spectrum at 273 K in the Arctic (ie no convection heating of the atmosphere over this cold light source).

Not exact matches

There are many conference centers popping up all over the UK either inner city or on the outskirts of towns and create a professional atmosphere.

Those figures come in an atmosphere of low interest rates, which depress bond yields, and a relatively flat S&P 500 over the 12 months ending June.

Over time, reiteration of these symbols and general atmospheres can lead to higher brand awareness, a better brand reputation, and therefore, a higher customer acquisition rate.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

Having worked as a firefighter for over thirty years, having worked as a grief counselor for over five years, having experienced lots of pain, suffering and sorrow as a hypnotherapist, to allow those in grieve, to be able to share their feelings and emotions in a non-judgmental atmosphere is huge.

... The «cambrian explosion» happened over 300 million years... and also coincidentally was around the time oxygen became a large component of our atmosphere, allowing the diversity of life to explode since aerobic life tends to be much more efficient at metabolising food.

Over the centuries there has been a basic human desire for some kind of invisible mental or spiritual atmosphere which connects in some mystic way all the minds and hearts of mankind.

The FAITH Winter Session attracts scores of young Catholics from all over Britain and offers a unique blend of catechetical, spiritual and social activities in a relaxed holiday atmosphere.

A series of Cataclysmic events will take place, to mention a few, earthquakes, Yellowstone, the coming California earthquake August 9, 2011, the earth wobble, the volcanic eruptions, the oceans rising, the earth splinting open spilling lava all over, the atmosphere will be consumed killing all living things.

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

Earth itself would not support most of the life on this planet... enter the cytoplasm, which over many million years, slowly changed the atmosphere into one that was oxygen rich.

The general atmosphere of indiscipline and disobedience, for example with regard to liturgical norms, made for a confusing environment, lacking in those safeguards of virtue that had been proved over time, such as the suspicion of particular friendships.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

«If the earth formed over four billion years ago, all helium should have escaped from zircons, yet the crystals are loaded with this element» «The atmosphere should be full of helium atoms, the byproducts of millions of years of radioisotope decay, but it isn't.»

if you look at the data — that sharp spike alllll the way on the right side of the x / y chart that illustrates global climate change over the last 150 years — has been attributed to the industrial revolution and «man» belching tons of crap out into the atmosphere.

Hell Is A Place Of Everlasting Noise, Where Voices, Plaintive And Obnoxious Cry Over And Over Again Their Favourite Word In constant iteration: I, I, I. Hell Is A Place Where Mirrors Are Black Water, And Rivers Salt, And Atmosphere Like Lead, Where Suffering Is All The Rage And Fashion, And everything is dead except the dead.

The balance between what is taken out of the atmosphere and what is returned has been remarkably constant over the ages until recently.

Meanwhile, there was warmth and laughter over evening snacks in the kitchen, lively talk and a relaxed atmosphere of friendship.

Not the sort of atmosphere one might expect from a gathering of Quakers, but that's what over 1,000 members are experiencing at the Yearly Meeting taking place at Warwick University this week.

Blue Mountain Growers facilities expand over almost five acres of land with seven controlled atmosphere facilities, three cold - storage facilities, a prune and plum shed, an apple line and a state - of - the - art cherry line.

You can not only talk to customers in a relaxed atmosphere over a very short space of time, but also with suppliers and prospects.