Sentences with phrase «planetary heat»

The variability of the total or planetary heat transport (PHT) is much smaller than the variability in either AHT or OHT alone, a feature referred to as «Bjerknes» compensation».

It will therefore no longer represent the depth from which the planetary heat loss takes place.

However, it has long been established that the bulk planetary heat loss is determined by atmospheric temperatures far above the surface (Hulburt 1931; North 1975).

Convection can therefore compensate for reduced radiative transfer if its mean vertical extent reaches the height of the planetary heat loss.

The planetary heat loss would drop if the emission temperature were to drop, and the planet would no longer be in energy balance, resulting in energy accumulation.

Not enough is yet known about the other planetary heat storage and transfer mechanisms that act with TSI or against TSI to make the switch.

Both greenhouse gases further turn up the planetary heat, cause more permafrost to melt, and create a terrible feedback loop of ever - worsening climate change.»

Moreover, we have known since the mid-nineteenth century that CO2 absorbs infrared radiation and thus acts as a greenhouse gas which impedes planetary heat loss and thus warms up the surface.

• Science is predictive The planetary heat budget will be imbalanced, such that the seas will warm and rise.

Koll, Daniel D. B. & Komacek, Thaddeus D. 2018, The Astrophysical Journal Atmospheric Circulations of Hot Jupiters as Planetary Heat Engines

The planetary heat content — and therefore OHC — must follow the changes in TOA radiant flux by the first law of thermodynamics.

And yet the seas have kept on rising, and the polar ice hs kept on melting, and planetary heat - records keep on breaking

The last time the CO2 level was this high the continental configuration was different and the planetary heat flows were significantly different.

There were no scientific claims of catastrophe UNLESS we do nothing and continue to emit GHGs (and therefore increase planetary heat retention) like there is not even an issue.

Additionally the oceanic warming and cooling cycles introduce constant, rapid and substantial changes not yet reflected in any models and which invalidate any averaged global estimates of the planetary heat budget.

A short while ago I published an article attempting to explain why the so called atmospheric greenhouse effect was insignificant as a planetary heat store in comparison to the oceans.

The newest paper, in the current issue of Science, «Varying planetary heat sink led to global - warming slowdown and acceleration,» argues that the Atlantic not only has shaped the current plateau, but also was responsible for half of the sharp global warming at the end of the 20th century.

Would it not be better to focus on planetary heat fluxes?

The optical depth dictates how deep into the planet's atmosphere the origin is for most of the planet's infra - red light (the main planetary heat loss) that can be seen from space.

The calculations estimate the reduction in the energy flux density with distance away from the sun (Gauss» theorem) and the black body radiation describing the rate of planetary heat loss.

«The transition from solar maximum to solar minimum probably also contributed a small part as planetary heat absorption decreased by about 15 %.»

i.e. converting some to mechanical energy in the form of storms and moving more to the planetary heat sinks of the poles and deeper water.

Partly as an addendum to comment # 1, I'd like to hear if anyone knows of any research which attempts to quantify the likely change to the planetary heat balance in a zero summer sea ice scenario, such as we may see well before 2040.

The second step involved calculating Earth's energy balance for this time period, using estimates of greenhouse gas concentrations extracted from air bubbles in ice cores, and incorporating astronomical factors, known as Milankovitch Cycles, that effect the planetary heat budget.

In the case of Earth, there's another 6300 kilometers of rock and iron beneath the tectonic plates whose churnings constitute the inner workings of a planetary heat engine.

If enough forests collapse, the flame on the planetary heating element could turn from «low» to «high.»

I have to agree with Mike — 20; the need is for action based on the lessons learned from Nature's response to planetary heating.

As scientists say, there is a «major gap» in our understanding» of planetary heating and cooling... and it has not been bridged by greenhouse gases hypotheses.

IF ongoing planetary heating from CO2 back - radiation is continuing but being hidden a-la-Trenberth in the oceans, then this ocean heat would be visible as an increase in sea level rise.

In their attempt to create the illusion of ferocious winter weather on a rapidly warming planet, the geoengineers are actually further fueling the overall planetary heating.

Not exact matches

Swirling winds blustering at more than 1,000 miles per hour, along with heat rising from the planetary interior, create the gold and yellow atmospheric bands.

Jian - Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute found that Comet ISON's sideways orientation allowed the sun to heat just one hemisphere on the way in, which may explain some of its erratic behavior.

These revealed that daytime heating generates a flow of warm, moist air up the mountainside (Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2010.08.001).

«The Importance of Planetary Rotation Period for Ocean Heat Transport» is published in the journal Astrobiology on Monday, July 21, 2014.

They looked at how different planetary rotation rates would impact heat transport with the presence of oceans taken into account.

An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada from Planetary Science institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of Earth.

The team looked at previously dated meteorites that had evidence of explosive heating and ancient argon, and they modeled the collision and its blowback on the asteroid belt to pinpoint the timing of the planetary crash.

Meteorites with dark veins and blobs, like the sample above, experienced high heat when the blast from the planetary collision that formed the moon hit the asteroid belt 4.47 billion years ago.

Asteroid impacts did heat the subsurface, according to the simulations, but even the heaviest bombardment scenarios were not intense enough to sterilize the planet, the researchers report March 1 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).

Heat from the impact that made Occator probably allowed a mixture of ice, salts, and rock in Ceres's interior to become more fluid and rise up to the surface, scientists reported today at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Therefore, the strongest motivation for the current scientific review is the need for a synoptic organization of the available knowledge on the field of interactions at different planetary systems, in parallel with a comparative analysis encompassing the inter-connection among planetary space weather aspects belonging to different disciplines (e.g. plasma variability and its effects on atmospheric heating).

While the cold surface conditions and the lack of illumination and heat from the dim host star eliminate the possibility of the new planet being home to life as we know it, the researchers said in a press release that it will improve their understanding of planetary systems beyond our own.

As significant uncertainties about the thickness of the surface ice still exist, some planetary scientists have identified two possible mechanisms for how possible volcanic heat can escape to the surface from Europa's rocky mantle and be carried upward by buoyant oceanic currents.

David A Rothery, professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, U.K., also says the findings are exciting as «it all fits together» — Cassini observations have now been reconciled with a suitable model of heat transfer within Enceladus.

During solar flares, variation in the solar flux in the spectral range extending from the UV to the X-ray wavelengths can have a direct effect on the ionization of the atmospheres of planetary bodies as well as on their heating and dimensions (for details see Schunk & Nagy 2009).

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

The heat emitted by this radiation causes the so - called planetary envelopes to be blown away, especially because the planets are so close to their host stars.

The TRAPPIST - 1 system has been of great interest to observers and planetary scientists because it seems to contain seven planets that are all roughly Earth - sized, Barr and co-authors Vera Dobos and Laszlo L. Kiss said in «Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST - 1 Planets» that appears in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

The new research considers a phenomenon scientists refer to as «tidal heating,» a side effect of planetary orbital patterns.