Sentences with phrase «other atmospheric processes»

A comparison of the radiative equilibrium temperatures with the observed temperatures has indicated the extent to which the other atmospheric processes, such as convection, large - scale circulation, and condensation processes, influence the thermal energy balance of the system.

Of course, this doesn't mean that much, since the «closed» system will not be open to the vacuum of space, and is not subject to other atmospheric processes like convection and to cloud and precipitation feedbacks, all of which render the experiment fairly meaningless.

The factors that determine this asymmetry are various, involving ice albedo feedbacks, cloud feedbacks and other atmospheric processes, e.g., water vapor content increases approximately exponentially with temperature (Clausius - Clapeyron equation) so that the water vapor feedback gets stronger the warmer it is.

Not exact matches

In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atoms.

The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes and to test key technologies in preparation for ESA's contribution to subsequent missions to Mars.

The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.

He wants to know whether the tendency of emitted compounds to end up as long - lived atmospheric components is generally applicable to other compounds and how this process might coexist or compete with other processes occurring in the atmosphere.

So in other words, you know, P is going to be about 1.2, S is going to be about 2, and E, say we do super-well in efficiency, it's a 0.5, because there's a mix of things like lighting that you can do super-well, and things like making fertilizer, where you're literally, unless there's something we're not seeing, we're close to the, you know, taking atmospheric N2 and making fertilizer's got an energy cost that — actually, those processes are so amazing, they're within like 20 percent of what we think that minimum looks like.

There are many other atmospheric observations and models we need to look at to see how this entire process works.»

Her photograms are a direct record of atmospheric conditions during the process of their production: light, humidity, and the outside temperature, among other factors, determine the surface of the final works.

The Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (off Chile and Peru), the Benguelan Current LME (Namibia and South Africa), the Canary Current LME (Morocco), are the other main upwelling ecosystems, all driven by similar oceanographic and atmospheric processes, all on the eastern sides of ocean basins (western sides of continents).

Relevant to other discussions in this thread, rising atmospheric CO2 tends to stimulate forest growth and CO2 uptake, thus mitigating atmospheric CO2 increases, although this process is impeded in areas subject to drought.

Depending on what they are used for, models can also include interactive atmospheric chemistry, ocean biology, and other processes.

Putting those two, theoretical, processes together with some shaky assumptions about aerosols, clouds and other atmospheric phenomena, and arriving at an assumption that the theoretical minor warming of CO2 is tripled is what concerns a true skeptic.

temperature, other climatic variables, and concentrations of aerosols and trace gases; and (2) making raw and processed atmospheric measurements accessible in a form that enables a number of different groups to replicate and experiment with the processing of the more widely disseminated data sets such as the MSU tropospheric temperature record.

To produce a weather forecast we need to model the dynamics of the atmosphere and the physical processes that occur, such as the formation of clouds, and the other processes in the Earth system that influence the weather such as atmospheric composition, the marine environment and land processes.

3 Further complicating the response of the different atmospheric levels to increases in greenhouse gases are other processes such as those associated with changes in the concentration and distribution of atmospheric water vapor and clouds.

How do theories for the Hadley circulation and for atmospheric macroturbulence based on dry dynamics need to be modified in the presence of moist processes, which alter, among other things, the effective static stability of the atmosphere?

«Understanding what drives the meteorology on Saturn, and in general on gaseous planets, has been one of our cardinal goals since the inception of the Cassini mission,» said Carolyn Porco, imaging team lead, based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. «It is very gratifying to see that we're finally coming to understand those atmospheric processes that make Earth similar to, and also different from, other planets.»

JW comment — What is in debate is the process (my words above) has a net effect on atmospheric temperatures when all other atmospheric conditions and processes are involved.

Thus, at least for the spring season, it seems unnecessary to invoke processes other than the atmospheric circulation to explain trends in Antarctic sea ice.

States that other feedbacks likely to emerge are those in which key processes include surface fluxes of trace gases, changes in the distribution of vegetation, changes in surface soil moisture, changes in atmospheric water vapor arising from higher temperatures and greater areas of open ocean, impacts of Arctic freshwater fluxes on the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean, and changes in Arctic clouds resulting from changes in water vapor content

-- the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other GHG's; — the reflective & absorptive characteristics, as a function of wavelength, for the GHG's; — the specific heat and mass of the earth's intermediate - term heat - storage media — the oceans (primarily) and the atmosphere; — the quantity of heat absorbed by phase - changes = ice - melt; and by chemical / biological processes.

Other applications of past geomagnetic field reconstructions include investigations of atmospheric ionisation by galactic cosmic rays (e.g., Usoskin et al. 2008, 2010) or in - situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates to study Earth surface processes (e.g., Pigati & Lifton 2004; Lifton et al. 2008).

Catalytic hydrotreating: A refining process for treating petroleum fractions from atmospheric or vacuum distillation units (e.g., naphthas, middle distillates, reformer feeds, residual fuel oil, and heavy gas oil) and other petroleum (e.g., cat cracked naphtha, coker naphtha, gas oil, etc.) in the presence of catalysts and substantial quantities of hydrogen.

Terrestrial radiation absorbed by CO2 is immediately thermalized, i.e. the radiant energy absorbed by CO2 molecules is immediately (about 0.1 nanosecond) transferred (in a process similar to thermal conduction) to other atmospheric molecules which outnumber CO2 molecules 2500 to 1.

Authors conclude from this and other evidence from process models that warmer climates may enhance tropical forest release of CO2, thus accelerating atmospheric CO2 accumulation through a positive feedback.

As we still don't know how nature put us in ice ages (yes we have the overall picture, but not the details for a model) or get us out again, and what other effects there are from altered atmospheric chemistry we really do not know how the mean of the chaotic process might change in the future.

While this is true, the atmospheric model used to generate the reanalysis must by - pass this shortcoming by letting other resolved processes provide a means for the unresolved flux of energy, mass, and momentum.

Collaboration in evaluation of the statistical results by VS (and others) and the evaluation of the potential physical possibilities by physicists represent an opportunity to add to our understanding of our atmospheric process.