Sentences with phrase «of water vapour»

The increases in precipitation seen at higher latitudes are a result of increasing amounts of water vapour in the atmosphere.

The level of water vapour in the atmosphere is determined mainly by temperature, and any excess is rapidly lost.

The key to this narrower but much higher estimate can be found in the real world observations around the role of water vapour in cloud formation.

The presence of water vapour reduces the actual lapse rate to about 6.5 C.

The model considers all relevant feedback processes caused by changes of water vapour, lapse - rate, surface albedo or convection and evaporation.

Adding some greenhouse gases (CO2) to a near infinite supply of greenhouse gases in the form of water vapour available to the atmosphere has negligible effect.

The two sites referred to above start out from a clearly false premise: that scientists studying global warming have ignored the impact of water vapour.

This heat leads to great quantities of water vapour introduced in the atmospheric circulation.

This is synonymous to a decrease in the transfer of water vapour.

How CO2 affects the climate is by heating the surface air which alters the planetary albedo by melting ice sheets and increasing cloud cover by encouraging evaporation of water vapour.

Moreover, I think that it does generate different levels of water vapour for different types of vegetation.

In this type of cloud, ice crystals can grow directly from the deposition of water vapour.

Now, consider the respective heat storing capacities of water vapour in the atmosphere and the water in all those oceans.

But this warmer air can hold another bit of water vapour.

[The paper was] the first to assess the magnitude of the water vapour feedback, and was frequently cited for a good 20 years after it was published.

For instance, the concentration of water vapour decreases rapidly above the boundary layer, and is higher in the tropics than at the poles.

A small amount of water vapour won't make the material swell but will help keep the fabric fresh for longer.

My take - I think it is unreasonable to think that mainstream climate theory is ignoring the role of water vapour in the atmosphere.

If CO2 behaves as claimed then surely the lapse rate will show this, especially in presence of water vapour.

As I understand all models they all predict a water vapour based forcing caused by increased temperatures leading to increased levels of water vapour and hence an increased greenhouse effect.

Thus it is a measure of specific humidity (the total amount of water vapour in the parcel).

Once airborne, the salt particles would act as «cloud condensation nuclei», meaning they would facilitate the condensation of water vapour into liquid.

The role of convection and the subsequent condensation out of water vapour into clouds and then rainfall is currently incapable of quantification as a means of slowing or offsetting any atmospheric greenhouse effect but it certainly does those things.

There is also an increasing poleward transport of water vapour from lower latitudes.

The subtropical regions (e.g. the Mediterranean, North Africa and Central America) experience a drying owing to increased transport of water vapour out of this area and an expansion of the subtropical high - pressure regions towards the poles [4].

Instead of heating a fossil fuel, his technique, called solid state ammonia synthesis, works by drawing hydrogen out of water vapour through a charged membrane, and then reacting it with nitrogen.