Sentences with phrase «thick cloud cover»

[update] From the realclimate article I mentioned: «In one sense, Venus is rather similar to Earth: it has nearly the same mass as Earth, and while its orbit is somewhat closer to the Sun, that effect is more than made up for by the sunlight reflected from Venus» thick cloud cover.

Temperatures would still become dangerously hot during the day and dangerously cold at night, with Venus having a far more light - weight atmosphere while retaining its thick cloud cover.»

Venus has a much higher albedo (reflectivity) than Earth because of its thick cloud cover (and would even have a high albedo without the clouds due to Rayleigh scattering from the dense CO2 atmosphere).

Sun beams in the distance were breaking through the thick cloud cover, providing a diffuse but beautiful light.

This photo was taken on a rainy day with a thick cloud cover in the sky.

Our HST spectral maps demonstrated that L / T transition brown dwarfs have thin / thick cloud cover and not cloud / cloud - free patches, as predicted.

It was less than a three - hour drive from Drumheller to Banff, which was only slightly less spectacular than usual due to the thick cloud cover and intermittent rain.

It was snowing; a thick cloud covered the mountaintops and much of the landscape.

Exoplanets with thick cloud covers blocking the detection of water and other substances may be less desirable targets for more extensive study.

Thick clouds cover the Sunday skies above Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit in Norfolk, England.

Not exact matches

The cloud could cover a region 500 miles wide, and would rain gray ash back to the ground up to four inches thick.

The moon and the stars are covered by thick clouds, and the only light available to the traveler crossing a meadow is provided by sudden flashes of lightning.

The BRICA Bath Kneeler is really thick and feels like you are kneeling on a cloud, and the waterproof covering on the foam is easy to dry and clean.

«The emission can be absorbed by thick clouds of gas and dust covering the AGN,» Boorman continues.

By the time the cloud finally departed, villages within twenty miles of the volcano were covered with ash nearly forty inches thick; those a hundred miles away found eight to ten inches of ash on the ground.

A few minutes before sunset, the Galileo probe will take the first measurements of conditions beneath the thick clouds that cover Jupiter.

Its higher mass may give it a thicker atmosphere and more cloud cover than Earth has.

A thick cloud of soot covers most of India, produced in part by millions of small cooking stoves, which typically burn wood.

Located between the orbits of Mercury and Earth, Venus has a very thick atmosphere that is covered by a layer of clouds that produces a «greenhouse effect» on the planet.

The planet is covered with thick white and yellowish clouds made of sulfuric acid droplets, instead of water.

Frequently, particularly during the «May gray / June gloom» period, a thick «marine layer» cloud cover keeps the air cool and damp within a few miles of the coast, but yields to bright cloudless sunshine approximately 5 — 10 miles (8.0 — 16.1 km) inland.

Large areas still remain covered in the thick cloud forest giving an insight into how the first explorer's felt arriving at this deserted city.

The varied conditions have created an ideal environment for the growth of diverse plant life that runs from thick jungle like the cloud forest to the sparsely covered mountain tops.

It was originally known as the Forest of Light, and under the White Maiden's control, until a thick cloud of darkness covered northwestern Hyrule and corrupted it into its present state.

For the early Earth, Goldblatt and Zahnle have done a good job showing that you need a number of implausible changes to clouds (such as 100 % tropical cloud cover, thicker, and higher / colder clouds to make this solution a plausible one).

The change in low cloud cover in the 1997 - 1998 El Niño came mainly as a decrease in optically thick stratocumulus and stratus cloud.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

«Zhu et al (2007) found that «the change in low cloud cover in the 1997 - 1998 El Niño came mainly as a decrease in optically thick stratocumulus and stratus cloud.

Obviously if they think there would be isothermal conditions, then they are never going to be able to explain why a region of the surface covered with thick clouds for several days and nights, still warms by day and cools by night.