Sentences with phrase «thin high clouds»

There were intermittent thin high clouds for part of the afternoon.

A mostly sunny day with some very thin high clouds, and an occasional lower altitude cloud drifting in.

Not exact matches

Choked by a high, thin cloud, the sun had lost its brightness, «so much so that many have mistaken it for the moon.»

But it's not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they're made of ice or snow, whether they're thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.

It's even more dramatic when a thin layer of high clouds is present.

THE world's highest - flying spy plane, the Russian M - 55, is about to give European scientists their first close - up view of the thin, stratospheric clouds that destroy ozone.

Based on the available data, the astronomers concluded that the planet's atmosphere is either a thin but dense layer rich in water steam or a thick layer of high clouds or hazes, similar to those seen in the atmospheres of Venus and Titan in the Solar System.

There is some thin high - level cloud crossing from the west.

Weather wise out there this morning it was a mainly blue sky but there is some high and thin cloud moving over now at 10.15 AM.

The overall effect of the high thin cirrus clouds then is to enhance atmospheric greenhouse warming.

From a Brazilian research tower high above it, a fuzzy grey sylvan view emerges from the thinning gloom, vastly undulating, more granular than a cloud.

The high, thin cirrus clouds in the Earth's atmosphere act in a way similar to clear air because they are highly transparent to shortwave radiation (their cloud albedo forcing is small), but they readily absorb the outgoing longwave radiation.

«High - resolution photography of clouds from the surface: Retrieval of optical depth of thin clouds down to centimeter scales.»

The sun was generally good, but there were some high thin clouds moving in and out — I tried to pick periods of relatively constant sun intensity for each flow rate run.

Preliminary investigations suggest that these biases are related to the fact that the model has persistent high thin clouds that reduces incoming solar radiation at the surface forcing an artificially low land skin temperature.

The 12 - and 11 - µm ΔBT helps to distinguish between high, thick clouds and high, thin clouds by delineating cloud phase (ice or liquid water) and cloud particle size (small or large).

Another approach involves thinning of high cirrus clouds, which are involved in regulating the amount of heat that escapes from the planet to outer space.

Like other high, thin clouds, contrails reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.

Rather than having a thin atmosphere and solid - and - liquid surface like Earth, Saturn is a gas giant whose deep atmosphere is layered with multiple cloud decks at high altitudes.

The Nature study suggests that global warming will mix growing amounts of higher, drier air with ocean clouds over the course of the century, thinning out the clouds and reducing their cooling effect.

It is similar to cloud seeding, except at high altitudes, and is designed to produce thin layers of cloud.

Atmospheric aerosol science is pretty thin, including their role in low - level (warming) and high - level (cooling) cloud development, PM agglomeration, PM and VOC oxidation, condensation and precipitation effecting albedo.

Well, you can guess it based on the type of clouds — in zones of high pressure the dominant cloud type are the stratus family — thin, layered clouds, that absorb far less energy than cumulus clouds, and can dramatically increase albedo, therefore act as climate coolers.

Increases in high, thin clouds would suggest a larger sensitivity, while increases in low, thick clouds would make the value smaller.

Low and dense cloud banks cut down the outgoing effective radiation of a blackened surface to about 0.015 calorie per cm.1 per minute; in the case of high and thin clouds the radiation is reduced by only 10 to 20 per cent.