Sentences with phrase «thin low clouds»

The study found a positive correlation between low altitude cloud amounts and dust at the coast of North Africa, which supports the theory that dust particles act as a place for water droplets to form around in thin low clouds.

This creates more thin low clouds, and less rain.

Not exact matches

Like Chile and California, Namibia has a near - constant coastal fog: a bank of low - lying, relatively thin stratocumulus clouds sitting just offshore.

In the case of thin cirrus overlying low clouds, 3I will determine the effective cloud amount of the cirrus, whereas ISCCP's information from the visible channel includes the lower cloud.

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.

Even relatively thin clouds will cut concentrated solar power radically, and hence concentration systems have much lower availability fraction than flat plate systems.

Biases in cloud top temperatures have been reduced to ≲ 2K for lower - level clouds and ≲ 4 K for optically thin, upper - level clouds, except when they occur over lower - level clouds.

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.

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

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.

Specifically, we compare climate model simulations of two end - member scenarios: one in which the climate is warmed entirely by CO2, and another in which it is warmed entirely by reduced cloud albedo (which we refer to as the «low CO2 - thin clouds» or LCTC scenario).