Sentences with phrase «source of water vapor»

Third, as well as making CO2, the oxidation of methane produces water; this is a major source of water vapor in the stratosphere, which is otherwise very dry.

What was the source of water vapor large enough to build such ice sheets?

One reason for this big influence is that evaporation from the oceans is the primary source of water vapor in the atmosphere.

In the stratosphere, methane oxidation... source of water vapor.

Lack of ventilation is one of the most serious but other sources of water vapor can come from combustion flues which leak into the attic, exhaust fans or sewer vents which terminate in the attic.

Not exact matches

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

The main sources were water - rich asteroids and comets bombarding the surfaces and water vapor hissing out of volcanoes.

In this case, the source of the blurring is not water vapor but the atmosphere as a whole.

The team chose the specific area examined in the study because it is Earth's warmest open ocean region and a primary source of heat and water vapor to the atmosphere.

A surprising discovery: The water vapor emissions from the comet are significantly different from the stores on our planet, suggesting that asteroids, not comets, may have been the main source of Earth's water.

In 2005, while exploring the Saturn system, the Cassini spacecraft made a startling discovery: Cryovolcanoes on Enceladus were spewing jets of water vapor and ice into space, possibly from a liquid water source beneath the surface.

The distribution of water sources on the surface was derived by observing variations in the water signal during the dwarf planet's nine - hour rotation period, which suggested that almost all of the water vapor was coming from just two spots on the surface.

That is the main source of more water vapor and energy (as latent heat) in the air, and consequently weather trouble.

Not so much by direct photolysis of water vapor (not generally a lot of that in the stratosphere), but from CH4, which could build up in a nearly oxygen - free atmosphere, and being largerly of biotic origin, with the H coming from photosynthesis (releasing O); O2 buildup itself was delayed because of geologic O2 sinks (in particular, the conversion of ferrous Fe (naturally present in the crust and mantle and which can dissolve in the oceans) to ferric Fe (precipitates out of the water, the source of banded - iron formations, which humans have used to get Fe).

Moreover, the increase in atmospheric water vapor content in the Arctic region during late autumn and winter driven locally by the reduction of sea ice provides enhanced moisture sources, supporting increased heavy snowfall in Europe during early winter, and the northeastern and mid-west United States during winter.

The distance the water vapor traveled, the admixture of vapor from different sources.

Roughly 97 % of the planet's water is in its oceans, and the oceans are the source of the vast majority of water vapor that condenses in the atmosphere and falls as rain or snow on the continents.

If «ocean based water vapor machines» are the source of moisture for hurricanes, why has not a single «ocean based water vapor machine» ever been photographed or documented in any way?

When a moisture reservoir is located on the exterior of a wall assembly it can act as a source of water that can migrate by a process called vapor diffusion.

Pierrehumbert RT 1998: Lateral mixing as a source of subtropical water vapor.

Sun and Oort also comment on Raval and Ramanathan (1989), the source of the bulk of Clouds and Water Vapor — Part One:

As to my sources, maybe you should read some, I almost always quote from actual peer reviewed science (obviously foreign to you since you think sizes of numbers is science), like this one that says that long lived greenhouse gases are the control knob and that water vapor (with its lifetime of a couple of weeks) just reacts to changes.

Water vapor diffusion, while amenable to simple analysis, is often (but definitely not always) an insignificant source of moisture in modern building envelopes.

Forced changes in irradiance are not only affected by changing concentrations of constituents or other external sources, but also by changes in water vapor and clouds.

A detailed and very accurate calculation of the atmospheric flows of moist air must take into account also the effects related to the volume taken by water vapor both when water vapor is added by evaporation and when it's removed in condensation, but these effects are very minor corrections and not a source of anything significant.

David, Wouldn't you agree that if the seasonal and geographic distributions of atmospheric temperature, water vapor, and clouds distributions of climate model simulations are a reasonably close reproduction of current climate conditions, that atmospheric dynamics is not a major obstacle or source of bias in the modeling of atmospheric effects.

Moreover, the increase in atmospheric water vapor content in the Arctic region during late autumn and winter driven locally by the reduction of sea ice provides enhanced moisture sources, supporting increased heavy snowfall in Europe during early winter and the northeastern and midwestern United States during winter.

By harvesting water vapor from the air and condensing it into liquid, atmospheric water generators can essentially pull water from the air, and these devices hold a lot of promise for providing an independent source of drinking water.

These three sources speak of three entirely different things: a) the water vapor feedback, b) the carbon cycle feedback, and c) effects on precipitation of reduced longwave radiative cooling in the tropical lower troposphere.

Figure 1: Antarctic (Vostok) ice core records of temperature, CO2 (upper) and CH4 (lower) including time - scale adjustment to account for ice - gas age difference associated with the time for air bubbles to be sealed (Petit et al. 1999) and corrected for variations of climate in the water vapor source regions (Vimeux et al. 2002) as described in Supporting Text of Hansen and Sato (2004).

I suppose you'd have to get rid of all the geothermal and volcanic sources to reach zero water vapor in the atmosphere, even with the rest of the planet under entirely below - freezing conditions.

It is probable that even a 1 % variation in atmospheric water vapor equals or exceeds all the effects of human sourced CO2.

Of course not, as water vapor is no heat source.

We propose a different source of potential energy associated with water vapor removal from the gas phase: after the Mayan forests were destroyed, evaporation and condensation ceased to occur over the Yucatan peninsula (irrespective of how its albedo changed).

The simulator does not itself predict changes in water vapor or clouds, and so those feedback variables are a separate source of data with a higher uncertainty, but still likely to change in a manner that does not radically alter the results expected on the basis of current understanding.