Sentences with phrase «role of water vapour»

The next stage might be to include some of the history of the subject and then proceed to the real experiment which would be to include some science, particularly the following topics, forcing, sensitivity, the role of water vapour, the oceans, feedbacks, delayed warming, finger - prints and understanding the ice cores.

But back then, it was concluded that Arrhenius was wrong and Ångström moved onto other research, despite Arrhenius publishing a paper critical of the experiments and explaining how in the dry upper atmospheric layers, the role of water vapour was of limited importance.

It highlighted the role of water vapour in the greenhouse effect.

The study sought to resolve misunderstands around the relative role of water vapour and CO2 as important greenhouse gasses.

Hall, A., and S. Manabe, 1999: The role of water vapour feedback in unperturbed climate variability and global warming.

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.

That is, while the roles of water vapour and cloud effects are very important in the net greenhouse effect, they function as feedbacks rather than primary drivers of change.

Not exact matches

Initial data from the Cassini - Huygens spacecraft, which began exploring the Saturnian system in 2004, show that methane is indeed a minor atmospheric constituent but a very important one, possibly playing a role analogous to that of water vapour in Earth's troposphere.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

Tropospheric water vapour plays an important role in regulating the energy balance of the surface and TOA, provides a key feedback mechanism and is essential to the formation of clouds and precipitation.

Water vapour plays an important role, by taking energy at the surface of the oceans when water evaporWater vapour plays an important role, by taking energy at the surface of the oceans when water evaporwater evaporates.

Others include, the role of the Sun (being the main heat source), the vast oceans which cover over 70 % of the Earth's surface (and the natural factors which determine the storage and release of CO2 back into the atmosphere), water - vapour being the dominant greenhouse gas comprising 98 % of the atmosphere, the important role of low - level clouds which is thought to be a major factor in determining the natural variation of climate temperatures (P.S. Significantly, computer - models are unable to replicate cloud - formation and coverage — which again — injects bias into model).

The most credible of the contrarians, Richard Lindzen, has relied primarily on arguments that the feedback from water vapour, which plays a central role in climate models, might actually be zero or even negative.

Susan Solomon wrote this paper on water vapor in 2010 and she states this: Scientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes, according to a new study that could fuel further attacks on the science of climate change.

CO2 plays a minuscule cooling role because it also radiates like water vapour, but you won't detect it because its cooling effect is less than 1 % of water vapour's, so why waste time looking?

Carbon dioxide fully part of the water cycle, all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, can only aid the main greenhouse gas water vapour in its role of cooling.

From which they have also expunged the great cooling role of the greenhouse gas water vapour, simply by ignoring it and sticking their fingers in their ears whenever it's mentioned?

One idea was that increased IR radiated from water vapour in these air masses could off - set expansion due to release of latent heat, and ad drive horizontal circulation This had to be attacked as it showed a role for radiative gases in atmospheric circulation.

ANSWER: the role of the upper layers of the water vapour (wv) on the OLR has been said on figures 6 - C and 6 - D; less wv means a higher OLR over significant parts of the water vapour spectrum (figure 6 - A) compared to the ten (s) of cm - 1 of the tropospheric CO2.

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.

Or what the possible role of increasing / decreasing water vapour content in increasing / decreasing the radiative forcing with multi-decadal oscillations?

Instead, the 5 authors have decided that carbon dioxide (24 %) and methane (19 %) are the dominant greenhouse drivers of recent temperature variations, and water vapour and clouds apparently no longer assume any role.

Public discussions about the natural greenhouse effect and climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations often indicate a misunderstanding of the roles of long lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) relative to those of water vapour and cloud feedbacks within the climate system.

This exclusion is ridiculous, not least because aircraft emissions have a particular role in heating the planet, due to the height at which they are released, and the multiplying impacts of the water vapour and other gases the planes produce.

This paper by Sean Davis and others presents water vapour and ozone intercomparisons that were performed as part of the SPARC (Stratosphere - troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate) Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S - RIP).

As regards the role of clouds and water vapour, Schmidt claims that Lindzen is unique in his belief that they act as a negative feedback, adding that there are now strong observational data to the contrary.»

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.