what happens to the black.body spectrum
of water vapor as it condenses, joel and ira and other radiation freaks?
There are some aspects of the role
of water vapor as a greenhouse gas that are not well understood, again mainly because we lack the necessary observations to test theoretical models.
Most troubling initially was the effective omission
of water vapor as a greenhouse gas (Figure 1).
In order to «squeeze out»
all of that water vapor as precipitation, there has to be some atmospheric mechanism to cause air to rise, water to condense, and precipitation to subsequently fall.
Atmospheric rivers can carry the same amount
of water vapor as 15 to 20 Mississippi Rivers — and deliver punishing winds, too.
Not exact matches
The amount
of water needed to cover the entire world is far too much to be stored in the atmosphere
as water vapor.
Rather, when the fullness
of time is reached, there is a qualitative transformation,
as in the case
of the acorn becoming an oak, or
water brought to boiling point becoming
vapor, or instinct becoming reflection, or molecular increase becoming cellular.
Measurements
of the
water vapor and
of other molecules, such
as carbon monoxide, suggest there is enough gas to feed the black hole until it grows to about six times its size.
The size and shape
of a snowflake depends mainly on temperature and the amount
of water vapor available
as they form.
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Water Vapor.
If the surface is very cold (below the freezing point
of water) the condensed
water vapor freezes, this is what we see
as frost.
The
vapor accompanying these particles was mostly
water but contained trace amounts
of simple organic compounds,
as well
as carbon dioxide and ammonia — all ingredients important for the sustenance and even origin
of life.
-- A 100 - story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud
of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily
as much
as 12,000 tons
of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant — a total
of 3.5 million tons a year.
Astronomers first classified «Oumuamua (Hawaiian for «scout»)
as a comet, but later observations didn't reveal the telltale signs, including clouds
of dust or
water vapor.
For comparison, a conventional photovoltaic cell made
of crystalline silicon turns nearly 20 percent
of incoming photons to electricity, and lasts much longer because it is not
as susceptible to corrosion by
water vapor.
Walter sees the benefits
of using methane
as an energy source
as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases —
water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»
So far, exciting finds such
as water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane have been spotted mostly in the mammoth atmospheres
of super-Jupiters, which, like super-Earths, are gargantuan versions
of worlds familiar to us.
Prior to an eruption, gases —
water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide — bubble out
of the magma
as it rises, adding more pressure to the volcanic system, she explains.
Early results show that
as water vapor increased, thicker clouds would have reflected up to half
of the sunlight back into space.
Careful analysis
of what frequencies are absorbed, and by how much, can directly reveal the presence
of water vapor and other compounds, and can divulge climate parameters, such
as temperature and pressure, that determine if liquid
water is sustainable.
Some
of it is sublimation: an icy asteroid transforming directly into
water vapor as it makes its way toward the sun.
Ever since 2005, when NASA's Cassini orbiter found plumes
of water vapor spilling out
of cracks in the south pole
of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon's mysterious interior
as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life.
In this case, the source
of the blurring is not
water vapor but the atmosphere
as a whole.
Meanwhile, a chicken fat — free 747 doubles
as a flying observatory, carrying an eight - foot telescope to an altitude
of 45,000 feet, where it rides above the atmospheric
water vapor that hampers Earth - based telescopes.
Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we kno
Water vapor is indicative
of liquid surface
water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we kno
water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life
as we know it.
«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear
as coherent filaments
of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation
of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation
of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University
of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Nobody had ever thought
of this roughly 300 - mile - wide icy satellite
as anything special — until the Cassini spacecraft witnessed geysers
of water vapor blowing out from its surface.
But in February, independent teams
of astronomers armed with Spitzer data reported they could not detect
water vapor in either planet's infrared glow
as it passed behind its star.
In the morning, the chamber is closed, and sunlight entering through a window on top
of the device then heats up the MOF, which liberates the
water droplets and drives them —
as vapor — toward the cooler condenser.
«
Water evaporation and condensation processes as well as the strong greenhouse effect of water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (
Water evaporation and condensation processes
as well
as the strong greenhouse effect
of water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (
water vapor and clouds decisively influence the energy balance
of the atmosphere and the entire planet,» says Matthias Schneider from the KIT Institute
of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK).
This effect makes the atmosphere act somewhat like a blanket that becomes thicker when amounts
of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such
as methane and nitrous oxide, increase.
The impactor's kinetic energy is transformed into heat, which melts the permafrost, releasing methane and
water vapor and expanding the size
of the resulting crater by
as much
as a quarter.
«
As you start varying the hydrological cycle
of Indonesia, you almost have to vary the Earth's
water vapor concentration.
The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition
of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such
as changes in clouds,
water vapor and melting sea ice.
With eruptions
of ice and
water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one
of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially
as interpretations
of data provided by the Cassini spacecraft have been contradictory until now.
And this polluted air and
water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left
as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just
as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake
of a hurricane.
The strength
of the signal also varied over hours, weeks and months, because
of the
water vapor plumes rotating in and out
of Herschel's views
as the object spun on its axis.
The theory
of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from
water vapor and phenomena such
as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.
Rime forms when droplets
of water vapor deposit directly
as ice on surfaces.
These customary phase transitions manifest
as an abrupt change in the state
of matter such
as ice melting to
water, or
water boiling to
vapor, at some critical temperature.
But the bubbles that denote the rapid transformation
of water from a liquid to a
vapor, otherwise known
as steam, actually slow the process.
Chinese scientists have found evidence that our airless, dry -
as - a-bone satellite actually contains enough
water vapor to complicate the operations
of some telescopes.
Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles
of chemical weapons globally
as well
as local stores
of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local
water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi
as well
as treating arsenic in well
water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury
vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.
Launched in 1991, UARS monitors agents
of global warming, such
as water vapor and solar radiation.
The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out
as water vapor leaks into space, and temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all
of which will transform our planet into a Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds
of sulfur and carbon dioxide.
Above the treetops, he checks a cluster
of instruments that analyze the lush canopy
as a collection
of numbers: the amount
of carbon being inhaled from the atmosphere, the concentration
of water vapor in the air and the precise mix
of hues the leaves exhibit.
In December 2015, the Dawn team reported a haze
of water vapor above the crater — a cloud that grew
as temperatures rose during the day, and disappeared at night
as temperatures dropped and the
water vapor condensed into frost.
The upward trajectory
of the air gives shape to the towering cumulonimbus clouds, and if the air is heavily laden with
water vapor, it adds mass to the clouds,
as well.
New theoretical work finds that despite these complications,
water vapor could have been just
as abundant in pockets
of space a billion years after the Big Bang
as it is today.