Sentences with phrase «to escape to space»

The effect of this disparity is that thermal radiation escaping to space comes mostly from the cold upper atmosphere, while the surface is maintained at a substantially warmer temperature.

The only route of escape to space is radiative.

The additional water vapor, acting as a greenhouse gas, absorbs energy that would otherwise escape to space and so causes further warming.

They do not block all sensible heat and only temporarily delay escape to space.

The atmosphere is an open system, with heat energy always escaping to space.

Only one thing wrong — reality isn't cooperating, and indeed IR radiation in the CO2 band does make it to the stratosphere, and even escapes to space.

The visible solar radiation mostly heats the surface, not the atmosphere, whereas most of the infrared radiation escaping to space is emitted from the upper atmosphere, not the surface.

Satellites measure less heat escaping to space at the exact wavelengths that greenhouse gases trap heat.

Satellites over the past 40 years find less heat escaping to space at these wavelengths (Harries 2001, Griggs 2004, Chen 2007).

And atmospheric species can also escape to space from the top of the atmosphere, and NASA's MAVEN mission is studying this.

Greenhouse gases absorb energy radiated from the surface, blocking a portion of the radiation that is emitted from the surface so it can't escape to space directly.

It should have long ago escaped to space because of tiny Pluto's low gravity.

Help the blobs escape from the laboratory and escape to space in this fun physics based platformer.

If one could see the IR light, an opaque atmosphere would make the pattern of emitted IR diffuse since only the IR from the upper levels of the atmosphere escape to space after it has been absorbed and re-emitted by the greenhouse gases (this of course depends on the wavelength of the IR and the absorption spectrum, but we can use this assumption for heat loss integrated over the whole IR spectrum).

The troposphere has a limited heat capacity and the heat must eventually escape to space.

The dayside of a planet close to an M dwarf, however, might become so hot that water escapes to space; on the frigid nightside, the atmosphere could freeze to the surface.

«By measuring the extended upper atmosphere of the planet, MAVEN directly probes how these atoms escape to space.

After Earths distant colonies are devastated by an alien menace called The Covenant, a group of soldiers escapes to the space station HALO.

This increased opacity means less energy escapes to space for a given temperature.

For the top part of the figure: The «window» regions are those levels where radiation from the surface and lower troposphere can easily escape to space, and so the blue squiggly curve tracks the blackbody spectrum for hotter temperatures (between 280 and 300 K).

What * does * drive warming is that, as the mean free path length of thermal radiation shortens, the mean altitude at which radiation escapes to space rises.

Solar energy splits the bond, and what H isn't quickly grabbed by something escapes to space; The freed O quickly unites with whatever is handy, but as a gas mostly grabs the C from freed up carbonates to make CO2 the predominant molecule in the atmosphere.

With the advantage of hindsight, I didn't need to use harmonic means, instead I could have again broken the atmosphere radation band into fractions, and instead of harmonic means, used the fraction escaping to space.

In the pre-industrial era, more infrared energy would escape to space from this level, but as CO2 levels rose, an increasing amount was sent back to Earth, warming the surface and oceans.

This is due to the fact that carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation — the heat energy that would otherwise escape to space is captured by carbon dioxide, and the overall effect is to warm the planet's surface.