Sentences with phrase «sun warmed surface»

The oceans have a sun warmed surface layer overlaying the cold depths.

When ENSO is in La Niña, the Pacific trade winds blow true and strong causing sun warmed surface water to pile up against Australia and Indonesia.

These turbulent currents don't generally emerge through a sun warmed surface layer.

The deep currents interact with a sun warmed surface layer that is a hundred or more metres deep.

The chilled water sinks and remains cold long after the sun warms the surface again.

As long as the Sun warms the surface of the earth non-uniformly, the atmospheric heat engine will continue to drive the general circulation.

Much of the problem is that everyone is used to looking at anomalies here anomalies there and everyone has lost any sense of the truism that in absolute temperature the sun warms the surface and the surface warms the atmosphere.

In very lay terms, the hypothesis is that the sun warms the surface of the planet, which reradiates some of that energy as infrared energy.

Not exact matches

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.

Unlike what happened on Pluto, any ice that filled up the basin on Ceres» warmer surface would have quickly turned to gas from the sun's heat.

Cassini also resolved a longstanding mystery about why one half of the moon's surface is 10 times as bright as the other: The leading hemisphere of the moon picks up dark debris that is warmed by the sun, while brighter ices condense on the colder, trailing hemisphere.

Here is what scientists think is happening: when Ceres swings through the part of its orbit that is closer to the sun, a portion of its icy surface becomes warm enough to cause water vapor to escape in plumes at a rate of about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) per second.

Besides being simply a search for signs of aliens, Breakthrough Listen's efforts could also narrow down the possibilities for «Oumuamua's composition by looking for signs of water vapor sublimating from any sun - warmed ice lurking beneath the object's red, desiccated surface.

On Earth, temperature inversion occurs because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, preventing it from reaching the surface, protecting the biosphere, and therefore warming the stratosphere instead.

After examining cloud cover and cosmic ray fluxes, Svensmark concluded that declines in cosmic rays lead to fewer clouds, implying that an active sun could lead to warmer surface temperatures.

Each year, the sun shines down on the dark surface of the Indian Ocean, and moist, warm air rises and forms clouds.

But the change from 2004 to 2007 in the sun's output of visible light, and the attendant warming at Earth's surface of 0.1 watt per square meter, is roughly equivalent to the overall forcing of the sun on the climate over the past 25 years — estimated by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to be an additional 0.12 watt per square meter.

It will be a dream - come - true for many of the 18 scientists on board, even if they won't be able to spend much time enjoying the warm climate, the sun and the sea breeze on the surface.

Astronomers had suggested that this discrepancy may be due to the sun warming discrete dark patches on Makemake's surface,» NASA said in the statement.

A relatively tiny amount of nitrous oxide could have trapped enough of the Sun's energy inside ancient Earth's atmosphere to create warm surface conditions favourable to the evolution of life.

Thus the Sun could have contributed roughly 4/8 = 50 % of the global NH surface warming that occurred from 1900 to 2005.

These heating herbs bring blood to the surface of the skin, acting as a radiator of sorts, and warming the body (this is definitely why you crave a cinnamon and ginger hot chocolate in the late afternoon as the sun begins to set).

As a result, the surface of the Earth receives almost twice as much energy from the atmosphere than it receives from the Sun and the surface is about 30 ° C warmer than it would be without the presence of greenhouse gases.

The Earth receives radiation emitted by the sun that is absorbed by the land surface warming.

Suppose you are standing outside, feeling the warm rays of the sun heating up the earth's surface around you.»

One of the more foreign - sounding data - gathering probes — the «Sunload Sensor» — reads incoming sunlight so that the HVAC controller knows how much to compensate for excess heat generated by the sun's rays warming interior surfaces.

They're commonly sighted in Monterey Bay lying on their sides at the surface — supposedly to attract the attention of birds who will eat the parasites off their bodies or to possibly to warm up in the sun.

According to the skeptics, the solar irradiance isn't very important, it is the strength of the sun's magnetic field (that allows or stops cosmic rays from coming in which then causes more or less clouds, which increases or decreases the Earth's albedo, which then causes warming or cooling of the Earth's surface).

The sun warms the earth's surface.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

Specifically, he states «Research indicates, more and more, that recent warming at the surface of the Earth is mainly influenced by cyclical changes at the surface of the sun...» I am not in the field but I was not aware of any recent research about the sun affecting recent warming.

I still don't understand the fixation on proving that CO2 causes global warming, when basically all surface heat is actually derived from the sun.

With climate and Greenhouse Gas thoeries of Global warming, it appears to me that of most interest is the interface between the Earth's atmosphere and space and the flow of radiated heat from the sun, what's reflected back from Earth's surface and the consequences of any change in that balance.

As we know from laboratory experiments, mathematical calculations, and observations of Venus and other planets in the Solar System, greenhouse gases change things in two ways: they trap heat from the sun in the lower atmosphere, thus making the surface of the planet warmer; and they keep heat from rising, thus making the upper atmosphere colder.

To your point 3 the answer is yes — the ocean surface is on average warmer than the overlying air, because the ocean absorbs a lot of heat from the sun, part of which it passes on to the air above.

«The GHG «theory» based on CO2 is a thermodynamic impossibility» Yes, the climate alarmists peddle their pseudoscience claiming that the ghe works by transferring heat / thermal energy from the cold atmosphere to the warmer surface of the earth, more heat / thermal energy than is transferred by the Sun.

Surface temperature is an imperfect gauge of whether the earth has been warmed by an imbalance between incoming radiation from the sun, and outgoing radiation, because of the role of ocean currents in the distribution of heat between deeper and surface Surface temperature is an imperfect gauge of whether the earth has been warmed by an imbalance between incoming radiation from the sun, and outgoing radiation, because of the role of ocean currents in the distribution of heat between deeper and surface surface waters.

The sun's rays warm the top layer of the ocean down to 10's of meters below the surface.

Once thermal equilibrium has been reached between surface and atmosphere the surface will have become warm enough to both cycle energy between the surface and the atmosphere in perpetuity via conduction and convection AND have enough warmth left over to emit energy from the top of the atmosphere as fast as new energy comes in from the sun.

That is what happens to the surface of the Earth when it is warmed by the sun.

Multiple people have pointed out to him that the mere fact that Venus is warmer than Mercury despite being farther from the sun, and that Earth is warmer than the moon, despite being the same distance from the sun, show conclusively that atmospheres do in fact result in warmer surface temperatures via the greenhouse effect.

For example, clouds can cool the sea by blocking the warming rays of the sun or reduce surface salinity by bringing rain.

Waters at this depth can not be warmed directly by the sun or greenhouse effect as solar radiation penetrates only to 100 metres depth, while infra - red radiation from the greenhouse effect can only warm the immediate surface «skin» of the ocean.

In addition, if the warming had been caused by an increase in the Sun's energy, we would expect to see warming throughout the layers of the atmosphere, from the surface all the way up through the stratosphere.

All the sea surface water, warmed by the tropical sun, is blown to the west of the Pacific and, to compensate part of the imbalance, cooler deep ocean waters well up on the western shores of Latin America (and spread all the way up to the Solomon Islands).

IF we had say, a bowl of frigid ocean water — and we immersed a sun warmed rock into that bowl of frigid ocean water, till 70 % of it was covered — then whipped the exposed surface of the rock with air that was many degrees colder than the exposed rock surface --

This formula allows them to claim watts of «forcing» from GHGs are nearly 3 times more effective at warming the surface than watts from the Sun, so the nonsense continues.

The sun plus GHG radiation combine to heat the surface, warming the air.

«The Sun may have minimally contributed about 10 to 30 percent of the 1980 - 2002 global surface warming,» the researchers said in a statement today.