Sentences with phrase «to absorb sunlight»

This type of carbon is particularly good at absorbing sunlight.

On a bright, sunny day, a plant might only be able to utilize 20 percent or less of absorbed sunlight.

And by knocking down trees, which absorb sunlight, a mammoth could cause more sun to be reflected, increasing the cooling albedo effect on the permafrost.

Scientists have in the past focused on above - ground characteristics, primarily leaf traits and the efficiency with which plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, he said.

Another source of uncertainty comes from the direct effect of aerosols from human origins: How much do they reflect and absorb sunlight directly as particles?

They are the most efficient production scale solar cells for absorbing sunlight and creating electricity, but are also the most expensive to produce.

I am inclined to believe that the tape is actually running hotter because it is heating up from absorbed sunlight.

After all, isn't absorbing sunlight kind of a core part of what being a plant is all about?

The screens absorb sunlight, unlike like LCD screens, which create glare in sunlight.

Your body absorbs sunlight using cholesterol, which helps convert sunlight into a form of vitamin D that your body can use.

Dark seas absorb sunlight and continue to get warmer.

They could store a charge from wind energy at night and absorb sunlight hitting their rooftop solar cells if parked during the day.

During the day, the tire absorbs sunlight and heats the rocks stuffed inside.

After a nuclear blast, however, loads of black smoke would settle into the upper atmosphere and absorb sunlight before it reaches our planet's surface.

The black pan absorbs the sunlight and heats up the water to support evaporation, and each device provides up to 1.5 liters of clean water per day.

Black carbon has the effect of warming the atmosphere because it is effective at absorbing sunlight.

Plants absorb sunlight, convert it through the process of photosynthesis, and store it as chemical energy.

Soot particles, also known as black carbon aerosols, affect climate by absorbing sunlight, which warms the surrounding air and limits the amount of solar radiation that reaches the ground.

``...» Because the dust is composed of minerals, the particles absorb sunlight as well as scatter it.

While drifting in the atmosphere or after settling on the ground, soot efficiently absorbs sunlight, warms up, and radiates heat.

They found that in regions where the amount of snowfall was low and any snow that did settle was sublimating away, enough dust would have accumulated to change the surface albedo sufficiently so that the Earth absorbed sunlight and thawed (Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009jd012007, in press).

Dark upper surfaces, in particular, help modern - day marine reptiles such as leatherback turtles absorb sunlight while they bask at the surface.

«You can't use today's commercially available switchable glass for this application because in the darkened state the windshield still absorbs sunlight and becomes hot,» said Goossen.

The formation of binary minor planets, tumbling action, and period change are most likely due to the YORP effect, which is a thermal process where absorbed sunlight, re-radiated as heat, can affect the minor planet's rotation period and even spin axis orientation.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

Chloroplasts absorb sunlight and use it in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant.

Abdelkefi's team discovered that a wing's black upper surface absorbs sunlight very efficiently, causing it to be around 10 °C warmer than the lower surface.

The researchers have found that when the fulvalene diruthenium molecules absorb sunlight, they switch to a higher energy state, in which they can remain stable indefinitely.

Four - pronged impact Like carbon dioxide, black carbon absorbs sunlight and infrared radiation, trapping heat in the atmosphere — including the boundary layer closest to Earth's surface.

The dark layer of cryoconite and the creatures in the hole absorb sunlight, warming the walls around them and melting a wider hole.

Increasing levels of ozone, in turn, trap more heat, exacerbating the urban heat island effect: Cities are normally about five to 10 degrees hotter than surrounding suburbs because asphalt and cement absorb sunlight, generating a vicious cycle of escalating pollution and heat.

The darkest blue indicates deeper water, but it's also this shade for another reason: the rich blue hue comes from dye added to speed up the rate at which the water absorbs sunlight and warmth, aiding evaporation.

The fine material absorbs sunlight almost as well as carbon dioxide — a well - known greenhouse gas — and may contribute to accelerated snowmelts and increased global temperatures.

A second way is that carbon particles can float around in the spaces between water droplets, similarly absorbing sunlight and converting it to heat.

Phytochemicals in plants absorb sunlight giving them their rich colors and vibrant flavors.

«The fresh paving last year meant that the track surface was dark and really absorbed the sunlight, so the temperatures got pretty high.»

If the greenhouse effect (that checks the exit of longwave radiation from Earth into space) or the amount of absorbed sunlight diminished, one would see a slowing in the heat uptake of the oceans.

The researchers foresee a substantial additional local warming influence from this change in landscapes, with the darker foliage absorbing sunlight that would otherwise be reflected back to space.

The black color absorbs sunlight and accelerates melting.

Partly because of the thinning ozone layer, which normally absorbs sunlight and turns it into heat, but part of it is a temporary trapping of heat lower down in the atmosphere by man - made greenhouse gases (Ramaswamy et al., 2006).

With ice cover shrinking in the Arctic during the summer months, less sunlight is reflected off the icy surface, which means the ocean absorbs the sunlight instead.