Sentences with phrase «than water vapor»

Remove the heat shield over the turbo and inspect the engine to find where the water, rather than the water vapor, is coming from.

CO2 will not cause the same type of behavior (density and concentration variation) and it absorbs much less overall energy than water vapor does.

Too much CO2 could even cool it, due to increased proportions of CO2 which is less effective than water vapor as a heat - trapping gas.

I'm trying to understand the reasoning for giving more weight to the impact of CO2 than water vapor.

Evaporating water has a different effect than water vapor in the atmosphere (which can also move around).

Moisture that evaporates from the ocean tends to be lighter than water vapor released into the atmosphere by plants.

The main difference between the liquid ocean and the water vapor in the atmosphere is that condensed water is a much better infrared absorber across the spectrum than water vapor (due to collisional effects), and that the entire atmosphere contains only about as much water as a few centimeters of ocean, so absorption is spread out over a bigger distance in the atmosphere.

The sensible load is always higher than the latent load, though, because there's much more air than water vapor and, more important, most of the heat that comes into the house (by conduction through walls, ceilings, windows, and floors, for example) is sensible heat, not latent heat.

Still more important was another study, co-authored with the eminent spectroscopist G.B.B.M. Sutherland, advancing quantitative knowledge of atmospheric gases other than water vapor.

When you said «What we KNOW is that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, much less important than water vapor,», you don't understand, or won't understand, AGW; as somebody said, a stressed denier.