Sentences with phrase «released by condensation»

It is not possible for the sensible energy released by condensation to cause enough heating to prevent the air from contracting cooling and descending so the net result must be an increase not a decrease in surface pressure.

Remove the water vapour and the air which lacks it must descend.The heat released by condensation can never heat it enough to make it lighter than air containing water vapour.

I was unhappy with my comment and so have been looking it up and have confirmed that the energy released by condensation warms the air.

Our estimates suggest that the global mean power at which this potential energy is released by condensation is around one per cent of the global solar power — this is similar to the known stationary dissipative power of general atmospheric circulation.

This paper actually proposes that the sensible heat released by condensation warms the dryer air to a point where it becomes even lighter than air containing water in vapour form.

Is it the heat released by condensation of the water vapor?

Yes, heat released by condensation of water vapor weakens ice.

In the atmosphere there is fundamentally only one dominant driving mechanism — temperature (although modulated by water vapor and the latent heat released by condensation into clouds).

Not exact matches

First, it's a cycle, so all that speeding it up does is to raise the gross amount of heat absorbed to cause evaporation, which is exactly balanced by the gross heat released during condensation.

And the process of condensation where moist air forms clouds is the process by which the latent heat is released — warming the lower troposphere while cooling the surface.

Heat (not latent heat) is removed prior to condensation by conversion of kinetic energy to potential energy which then provokes condensation and when the phase change occurs the release of latent heat causes the air parcel to rise a little further with additional conversion of KE to PE until it reaches the correct lapse rate temperature for its height and then it stops rising and begins to descend.

The open cycle consists of the following steps: (i) flash evaporation of a fraction of the warm seawater by reduction of pressure below the saturation value corresponding to its temperature (ii) expansion of the vapor through a turbine to generate power; (iii) heat transfer to the cold seawater thermal sink resulting in condensation of the working fluid; and (iv) compression of the non-condensable gases (air released from the seawater streams at the low operating pressure) to pressures required to discharge them from the system.

I am thinking the solar energy invested in evaporation (in this case, of irrigation water) is matched by the energy released during condensation; energy released to the atmosphere, raising the temperature of the air.

Condensation is certainly there and it's important because of the release of latent heat, but the loss of gas molecules is compensated automatically by rather small vertical adjustments in the atmosphere and does not drive anything of the kind the paper proposes.

The local pressure reduction pointed to when condensation reduces volume is instantly offset by mass flowing into the original volume from the surroundings and the energy released is not enough to make the air parcel and the liquid contents lighter than air containing water vapour.

1g / kg of condensation releases enough latent heat to warm the air by 2.5 C. 2.

I just tried jotting down, step by step, a sequence of events beginning with evaporation from the sea surface, absorption of latent heat, subsequent condensation at altitude into opaque liquid droplets and the release of selfsame latent heat.