Sentences with phrase «sea reaches the atmosphere»

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Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

Undersea volcanoes could not produce this effect because the dust and aerosols would be absorbed by the sea before they reached the atmosphere.

Heat is passed (largely by conduction) back to the Earth's land and sea surface from the atmosphere (there is also some re-radiation of LWIR back to the surface from the lower reaches of the atmosphere).

Two recent studies of methane emissions from frozen sea - bed sediments, including one published in Science and described in The Times today, found substantial bubbling flows of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, were reaching the atmosphere.

My take on this is that in August the Arctic Ocean's ice carapace reaches its minimum and consequently the maximum surface area of the coldest sea water on the planet is exposed to the atmosphere.

Because the sea surface gets colder, there is less evaporation, and thus less heat transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere during the time it takes for the water to reach the Arctic Ocean.

[Ankh]:» «As for CO2 itself, the old measurements made at sea - level pressure had little to say about the frigid and rarified air in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where most of the infrared absorption takes place.

However the complexity of sea surface makes for instance any application of Henry's law be too uncertain, even impossible, to reach any quantitative results concerning the influence of global sea surface temperature on the CO2 content in atmosphere.

does the 15ppm consider CO2 contributed from deforestation (which as this becomes more extensive against the growing population, the atmosphere breaks well beyond saturation point as trees can not convert CO2 fast enough to combat the production), the burning of peat, the likely disturbances and resulting CO2 emitted from deep sea drilling (i.e. decomposed life forms from the ocean bed reaching the atmosphere) the CO2 deposits from extensive farming, the population of all mammals exhaling CO2, chemical productions with CO2 bi-products and all other man related processes that give off CO2?

Further on you write: «However, the transport of CO2 from the sea floor to the atmosphere is physically and geochemically complex and likely only a fraction reaches the atmosphere (Huybers & Langmuir, 2009).»

I have no idea what's happening with all this undersea CO2, whether the carbon precipitates out and falls to the sea floor or whether it is able to reach the surface and out - gas to the atmosphere.

Most of the methane gas that emerges from the sea floor dissolves in the water column and oxidizes to CO2 instead of reaching the atmosphere.

The other argument is that, even if humans do in the decades to come rise to the challenge, it could be too late: by then greenhouse gas concentrations could have reached a level in the atmosphere that would in the long run condemn the world to sea level rises of several metres, and a succession of economic and humanitarian disasters.

One is that seafloor methane is apparently not reaching the sea surface, and so is not reaching the atmosphere.

And even if that happened, many scientists say that the methane released would largely be consumed in the sea (by bacteria that specialize in eating methane) and would not reach the atmosphere.

I don't know how accurate 510 million km2 is for Earth's surface area; taking 4 * pi * 6371 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 510.064 million km2; but I don't know the formula for an ellipsoid (polar radius is slightly smaller than equatorial radius)(for what it's worth, 4 * pi * 6381 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 511.667 million km2, which gives a sense of why most of the mass of the atmosphere can be approximated as having the same horizontal area as at sea level (a 1 % increase in area is reached at a height of about 31.8 km)-RRB-.

By contrast, in 2010 and 2011, a persistent dip in the jet stream brought a stronger southwesterly flow of air at upper levels of the atmosphere along the East Coast, which helped turn many storms out to sea before reaching landfall.