Sentences with phrase «sufficient water vapor»

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Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we knoWater vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we knowater, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we know it.

The warming due to water vapor helps the air hold water, but in the Earth's orbit, it is not actually sufficient to keep the air warm enough to keep the water it already has — so you go into the death spiral, with a bit of cooling, less water, then more cooling, and so on to Snowball.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

Due to this instability, if there is a sufficient amount of water vapor in the warm lower atmosphere condensation will occur.