Sentences with phrase «reflected by clouds»

(2) A portion of the Sunlight is reflected by clouds and other high - albedo surfaces and heads back through the Atmosphere towards Space.

Since 76 % of this radiation is reflected by clouds, and most of the rest of the radiation is absorbed by these clouds at the top of Venus» atmosphere, only a tiny 2.5 % of the solar radiation ever reaches Venus» surface.

These changes in cloud cover could affect how much of the sun's radiation is reflected by the clouds, leading to a slightly warmer planet, the scientists said.

Then we calculate the TLC reflection from the insolation and the amount of solar radiation reflected by clouds back to space.

Space - based measurements indicate that on average 8.95 % of the incoming solar insolation is reflected by clouds in the TLC regions.

However, since days are generally warmer than nights, the resulting loss of heat by radiation at night is much smaller than the energy reflected by clouds during daytime.

As this radiation travels toward the Earth, 25 % of it is absorbed by the atmosphere and 25 % is reflected by the clouds back into space.

Is the Warmista position that IR is only partially reflected by clouds and that only heating from IR should be taken into account and, therefore, that the decreased surface warming described by Willis is irrelevant to Earth's energy budget?

incoming radiation minus the amount reflected by clouds and the surface, is essentially balanced out by net outgoing radiation

Three impressive volcanoes, and the most beautiful lake in the world is the view from your hotel, the sun shining, and the calm water being reflected by the clouds are just the perfect composition for the best picture, that will make this trip once in a life time experience.

The scientists calculated the amount of light reflected by the clouds and determined that «it ends up being a 60 percent increase in cloud droplets throughout the year, doubling in summer, when the phytoplankton are most active, translating to a 4 - watt - per - meter - squared increase in reflected sunlight, and 10 - watt - per - meter - squared increase during the summer,» McCoy said.

Pollution causes an increase in light reflected by clouds at more locations than previously thought

Rosenfeld and his students have developed an aerosol quantification method that uses satellite - based measurements of the infrared light reflected by clouds.

It is these shorter wavelengths that heat the ocean and of course it is those that get reflected by cloud albedo.

Reflection takes place at many levels or surfaces in the atmosphere with the majority reflected by cloud tops and clouds are a response to energy that actually makes it to the surfaces and sub-surfaces of the planet.

Not exact matches

Neither spelled out whether the slowdown in spending was due to concerns by corporate customers for the global economy or whether it reflected competitive pressures from cloud service specialists such as Amazon Web Services.

Operating income growing faster than revenue reflects Amazon's expanding operating margin, which is being driven by increased operational efficiencies in North America and AWS, its cloud - computing service business.

-- the clouds around their feet a billowed flooringof golden cumulus reflecting moreof them than moon could manage, fallen sensateinto star - thronged eyes by a garden....

The clouds on WASP - 104b — an exoplanet orbiting a star 466 light years away — have been swept away by radiation, leaving a surface that reflects almost no light

By measuring changes in the light reflected from the clouds, they found that the clouds appear to wax and wane in prevalence over a 27 - day cycle.

Instead, radar has been used by spacecraft to penetrate the clouds and map out the surface — both by reflecting radar off the surface to measure elevation and by looking at the radio emissions of the hot surface.

Storm clouds play a big role in keeping the planet cool by reflecting heat back into space — but they're not as effective farther north or south, where there's less solar radiation anyway.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

Such clouds show a strong increase in cooling due to the reflected short waves, but that effect is partly cancelled out by the enhanced, trapped, long - wave radiation coming from underneath.

That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols that can influence climate by absorbing or reflecting sunlight and seeding clouds.

We could launch a vast fleet of ships to whiten the clouds by spraying salt mist, or squirt sulphuric acid into the stratosphere to reflect the sun.

The clouds are lit by the light reflected off Saturn's rings, according to NASA.

Recently observations of the light reflected by these planets provided insight on the cloud distribution on the dayside of these planets: for a handful of planets clouds seem more abundant on the western than on the eastern side of the dayside hemisphere and, more importantly, this asymmetry depends on the equilibrium temperature of the planet.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

The clouds affect the «global radiative balance» by reflecting solar energy or trapping terrestrial radiation.

The simulations confirm that aerosol injection does brighten clouds, but the amount of solar radiation reflected may not be enough to balance the global warming caused by burning fossil fuels.

Brighter clouds reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing the amount of heat absorbed by the earth.

By the time we reached the other end of the gorge, 12 km later, the sun was trying to break through the clouds, and the surface of the river started to glisten as the suns rays reflected upon it.

I liked the performers wearing mirrors reflecting the clouds, staged by artist Eduardo Navarro.

Her work in this exhibition was inspired by a trip across western Canada during the summer of 2010, as reflected in the pale brown trees emerging from the impressionist verticals in her «On the Aspen Trail» with its thickly textured white clouds in a deeply azure sky.

For example, the various forms in the ink drawings hung in the first space are reflected in the image of a mushroom cloud, which in turn is echoed by the shape of a jellyfish.

At first glance, this painting appears to reflect the style of 17th - century Dutch landscape painting, except that the dramatic cloud formations (a trademark signature of that style) are replaced by a flat azure blue sky.

A Certain Slant of Light (2014), created for the glass atrium of New York's Morgan Library, reflected the colors of the four seasons, and his recent solo show at James Cohan, My business is circumference (2016), included installations inspired by fog, the light of a passing cloud, and the colors he noted during a hike through Yellowstone National Park.

Cunnigham's clouds, while the most «cloud - like» of the three, perfectly reflect her early interest in the abstract images created by the interplay of positive / negative space.

He is well known for his use of rich pigment and imposing, yet popular works, such as the vast, fleshy and trumpet - like Marsyas, which filled the Tate's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series, the giant reflecting, pod like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London.

The higher - frequency «solar photons», if reflected by something on the surface (be it an ice - sheet, a body of water, or someone's windshield) will happily change course and zip right out of the atmosphere again, completely unaffected by GHGs (though not by cloud, of course.)

A is the Earth's «bolometric Bond albedo,» the fraction of solar energy reflected away by the Earth's surface and atmosphere (mostly by clouds).

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

This includes the energy trapped by photosynthesis, the majority that is not re-radiated, plus energy that is prevented from re-radiating back by reflecting from cloud cover or aerosols, absorbed by GHGs, and other mechanisms.

So, the question of whether or not more of these clouds would be formed, along with the question of their net effect (given that they reflect sunlight from above, but also trap heat from below), gives rise to some degree of imprecision when it comes to the degree of warming predicted by models.

Normal weather also interferes by generating clouds that reflect the sunshine, and there are fluctuations in the global energy imbalance from month to month.

Thus, any SW energy reflected from the surface or from clouds would be missed by the fact that the instrument is looking nearly straight down.

Well, these days 107 W / m ^ 2 of solar forcing energy is reflected back into space by high clouds (77 W / m ^ 2) and the surface (30 W / m ^ 2).

At some point the clouds caused by increased water vapor reflect enough sunlight that the incoming energy goes down... and then...

Some models suggest that the cooling effect caused by clouds reflecting the Sun's energy back to space could increase in the future while other models suggest that this cooling effect might decrease.