Sentences with phrase «takes parcels of air»

Convection takes parcels of air upwards — and if this was the only process then the relative humidity (above the boundary layer) would be at 100 %.

Not exact matches

Most contributors seem to have ignored the fact that in the DALR cylinder all the heat losses and gains have been elininated and thus it takes an infintesimally small amount of energy to lift a parcel of air fron the bottom to the top hence an infintesimally small amount of energy will maintain the DALR.

«Take two identical volumes (parcels) of air, taken from somewhere at a midlevel in the troposphere, with each parcel containing an identical number of gas molecules and the same amount of heat energy to start.

The parcel of air that higher in the atmosphere is going to expand and cool because it finds itself under lower pressure.This kind of process, one which takes place without heat energy entering or leaving the parcel, is called an adiabatic process.»

At the surface, evaporation takes energy from the water surface or from the surface on land and reduces the density of the air parcel above so that the air parcel becomes lighter and can rise.

And for EPA, reliability and affordability of the electricity supply is part and parcel of how we're going to do this rule, because the section of the Clean Air Act that we're working [section 111 (d)-RSB- in requires us to take those issues into strong consideration.

It is the temperature trajectory a parcel of saturated air takes.