Sentences with phrase «than the atmosphere near»

The spot is 10 °C (50 °F) warmer than the atmosphere near it.

Not exact matches

Conditions are otherwise favorable for intensification through Sunday, with a moist atmosphere, light wind shear less than 10 knots, and very warm ocean waters near 30 °C (86 °F).

In the First Epistle of Peter the reader is aware of an atmosphere which seems in some respects nearer to that of the primitive Church, as we divine it behind the early chapters of Acts, than anything else in the New Testament.

At night, when more VLF signals can pass through the Earth's atmosphere, a French satellite called DEMETER measured more electrons near the inner belt when a powerful transmitter in Australia was turned on than when it was off.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio transmitters and antennas that are used to heat up the ionosphere — the uppermost region of the atmosphere — creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The facility has been used to produce an artificial aurora and to study how charged particles behave in the ionosphere, at a total cost of more than $ 250 million to build and operate.

Co-author Dr Grant Wilson, from Energy2050 at the University of Sheffield, said: «Having a longer - term view, it is likely to prove vastly cheaper not to emit a tonne of CO2 into the atmosphere over the near - term, rather than to have to take it back out of the atmosphere after 2050.

On that same day, a 19 - meter - wide space rock plowed through the atmosphere and exploded over southwestern Russia near Chelyabinsk, shattering windows and causing more than 1,600 injuries.

As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.

Looking at shows that the spatial resolution afforded by the TMT in the near infrared (~ 1 - 5 µm) is more than adequate to resolve the 11 km scale height of the Martian atmosphere.

Interestingly, the extremely bright storm seen by the 10 - meter Keck II telescope in the near infrared is not the one seen by the amateurs, which is much deeper in the atmosphere than the one that initially caused all the excitement.

For example, 2005 is near solar minimum in the 11 year cycle, and radiance now is about 1 - 2 W / m ^ 2 less than a few years ago, which means Pluto and Mars are getting LESS solar radiance on the time scale of the atmosphere and polar cap changes, EVEN IF the radiance averaged over the whole cycle was higher.

Natural variability is primarily controlled by exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere, but it is an extremely complex process and if we want to develop better near - term predictive skills — which is looking not at what's going to happen in the next three months but what's going to happen between the next year and 10 years or 20 years or so — if we want to expand our understanding there, we have to understand natural variability better than we do today.

While larger planets could have sufficient gravity to attract a massive hydrogen - helium atmosphere, smaller planets — like Mars or Mercury that have less than half the Earth's mass — located in or near their star's habitable zone may lose their initial life - supporting atmosphere because of low gravity and / or the lack of plate tectonics needed to recycle heat - retaining carbon dioxide gas back into the atmosphere (Kasting et al, 1993).

This orbits places the planet near the inner edge of its host star's habitable zone, where liquid water could exist in liquid form under favorable conditions such as an albedo of 0.52 with an orbital eccentricity of 0.11 and more than 52 percent cloud cover under a sufficiently dense atmosphere of water, carbon dioxide, and molecular nitrogen like Earth's (ESO science release; Pepe et al, 2011; and Kaltenegger et al, 2011 — more below).

For all its atmosphere, Weathering does begin to meander aimlessly, suggesting it might be better at nearer 200 pages than 300.

Stalos is situated near the popular beach resorts of Malia and Hersonissos, and offers a selection of golden sandy beaches and a more relaxed atmosphere than its neighbouring resorts.

Argentea offers a family atmosphere that is created through the introduction of parkland near the residential precinct; there will be more than 50 acres of green space and wildlife corridors throughout Argentea Palm Cove.

It's a game that wants you to embrace a more realistic atmosphere, but allows players to park a tank in a bush, creating an invisible predator that's near - impossible to detect; and of course it's a game that rewards patience, but includes a short - cut just in case you're looking to get a little bit of an edge sooner than later.

In none of your model scenarios involving realistic near - term Carbon releases (1000 gigatonnes or less, based on the consideration that the 1990 - 1999 release is estimated in IPCC TAR to be 6.3 gigatonnes per year) does more than 20 % of the injected CO2 remain in the atmosphere for 1000 years.

There may be far more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the entire prior century than in previous ones — but that hasn't translated into anywhere near temp.

Likewise a perturbation to the T ^ 4 pattern that gradually decays downward into the atmosphere may be necessary to balance the anomolous cooling near TOA and some anomalous warming below that due to the darkness of space (the anomalous warming would be from the intensity in all directions downward from space not only being not more than 0 but also being not less than 0 — continuation of the T ^ 4 pattern would after all require negative values at some point).

Although this is an over simplified model, I believe it is closer to the truth than the current idea that a change in the height of layer of atmosphere near the tropopause, around 100 mb, can affect the temperature of the planet at the 1000 mb level.

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

At a given level in the atmosphere, any low that is generally characterized by colder air near its center than around its periphery; the opposite of a warm low.

In addition, a combined analysis of the response at the surface and through the depth of the atmosphere using HadCM3 and the solar reconstruction of Lean et al. (1995) concluded that the near - surface temperature response to solar forcing over 1960 to 1999 is much smaller than the response to greenhouse gases (Jones et al., 2003).

CO2 concentrations: — Are slightly higher near the ground than for instance 10 km up in the atmosphere, in the size 10 ppm.

By measuring changes in winds, rather than relying upon problematic temperature measurements, Robert J. Allen and Steven C. Sherwood of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale estimated the atmospheric temperatures near 10 km in the Tropics rose about 0.65 degrees Celsius per decade since 1970 — probably the fastest warming rate anywhere in Earth's atmosphere.

This is because over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global warming itself in both the deep past and the very near future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced greenhouse gases than had been hoped.

By measuring changes in winds, rather than relying upon problematic temperature measurements, researchers estimated the atmospheric temperatures near 10 km in the Tropics rose about 0.65 degrees Celsius per decade since 1970 — probably the fastest warming rate anywhere in Earth's atmosphere.

So would this hypothetical atmosphere be isothermal, or much nearer to isothermal than our real atmosphere?

So the partial trapping of solar energy near the Earth's surface by clouds and greenhouse gases does cause the atmosphere to fill a volume greater than it otherwise would at that temperature.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

Satellite radiometric soundings have also been used to provide temperature readings in layers in the atmosphere from near the surface up to about 25 km (16 miles) or so, although these measurements offer less vertical and spatial resolution than in situ measurements.

And Mars drier than anyplace on earth - it's a dry, very cold airless desert - and that in it's wetter and warmer areas:) Venus has such a huge atmosphere that it holds about as much water vapor in it's atmosphere that it has somewhere near as much a earth does in it's atmosphere.

It is my view that the atmosphere will always find a way to lose energy to deep space by some means at or near its top, and will thus always have a troposphere lapse rate which implies that the planetary body will always be warmer with an atmosphere (regardless of gas mix) than it would be without one.

This sounds wild, but really no wilder than warming by a gas (CO2) that makes up a near trivial portion of the atmosphere.

There is a near infinite supply of greenhouse gases available to the atmosphere in the form of water vapor from the ocean to provide the greenhouse effect, but the relative humidity in the atmosphere is much less than one.

The world's climate is way too complex... with way too many significant global and regional variables (e.g., solar, volcanic and geologic activity, variations in the strength and path of the jet stream and major ocean currents, the seasons created by the tilt of the earth, and the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which by the way is many times more effective at holding heat near the surface of the earth than is carbon dioxide, a non-toxic, trace gas that all plant life must have to survive, and that produce the oxygen that WE need to survive) to consider for any so - called climate model to generate a reliable and reproducible predictive model.

It is lucky that it is denser than air, if not then all the methane generated near the surface of the terrasphere would whisk its way off into the atmosphere.

Ridley: «The failure of the atmosphere to warm anywhere near as rapidly as predicted was a big reason: there has been less than half a degree of global warming in four decades - and it has slowed down, not speeded up.»

As Lubos points out, the atmosphere is hotter near the ground than in the high atmosphere.

We have been adding more CO2 to the atmosphere than the rate at which it increased in the atmosphere by a factor near two.

Further, there is little doubt (except from Bart and Salby and a few others) that humans are the cause of the CO2 increase in the atmosphere, as humans emitted twice the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than observed, which is in near exact ratio to the human emissions:

Any additional heat in the atmosphere, therefore, will tend to radiate out into space (an infinite heat - sink) or into the oceans (which, being 1000 times denser than the atmosphere and having an enormous volume, are a near - infinite heat - sink).

-- The δ13C level of all CO2 from volcanoes of the world and from the oceans is higher than of the atmosphere, all CO2 measurements in the atmosphere and the ocean surface give a steady decline in δ13C in near perfect ratio to human emissions.

If the gas gets removed from the atmosphere in less time than that, it will tend to be found in higher concentrations near its source and its concentration will be variable with place and time.

Upper atmosphere water vapor is important because as reported in a previous guest post https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/06/nasa-satellite-data-shows-a-decline-in-water-vapor/ «A water vapor change in the 300 - 200 mb layer has 81 times the effect on OLR than the same change in the 1013 - 850 mb near - surface layer.»

Regarding heat flow between the ocean and atmosphere, keep in mind that hte average surface temperature of the global oceans is about 17C, which is warmer than the near - surface atmosphere (on average).

Fortunately, at least for a part of the day, CO2 levels near the surface over land are average a lot higher than in the bulk of the atmosphere.