Sentences with phrase «than colder air above»

The air particles speed up, in other words their temperature increases, the hotter air is less dense than colder air above and hence moves up (convection).

Not exact matches

Light travels faster in the hot, thin air close to the road than it does in the cold, dense air above, and that difference in speed is what causes it to shift direction as it crosses the boundary between the two.

At night, when the air near the ground may be colder than that above, it can have a warming effect.

When fall arrives and cold air moves in again, all the energy stored in the water gets released into the atmosphere, which, in turn, causes the air above the water to warm up more than usual.

You've got a real miracle on your hands — a layer in the middle that stays colder than the air above and below.

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Rather than flow around the arctic in a circular manner, the movement of the cold air becomes wavier, bringing the mass further and further south (see the pictures above).

In reply to people above who want to argue that the GHE isn't real, or can't work on the basis of a «trace gas», or because the air above is colder than the surface below — all I can say is «piffle».

If i measure IR temp from clouds above I find that its much colder (density of the air) than on the ground, so this is not where the IR is re-emitted to ground.