Sentences with phrase «to increase albedo»
Another proposed technique that is starting to turn heads is the idea of increasing the albedo of buildings in order to reflect more sunlight.
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Also, the reduction in forests caused by the ice's expansion increases albedo.
It's negative because clearing rainforests to plant endless fields of identical crops increases the albedo, reflecting more sunlight and producing a slight cooling effect.
Nevertheless, a trend of increasing albedo remains from 1999 to 2003.
There, the particles would spur the formation of new clouds or increase the albedo of existing clouds.
Forests have a lower albedo than open land so deforestation increases albedo (but for the record, no, chopping down all our forests is not the solution to global warming).
Most of the GMT drop has been attributed to radiative forcing decreases from increased albedo due to equatorward ice extension and from decreased greenhouse gas concentrations; vegetation and atmospheric dust are thought to play secondary roles (20, 21).
The amount of sea ice is rather sensitive to climate change: meltwater ponding, for instance, dramatically increases the albedo of sea ice, leading to enhanced ice melt.
I seem to recall from a talk by Ken Caldeira this summer that one is talking about increasing the albedo by 10 % only over the region from 80 - 90 north latitude.
Any tiny amount of logarithmic CO2 forcing is mostly offset by the added cloud cover / increased albedo caused by increased ocean evaporation.
However, I had to wear my white dress, because it's perfect for being outside in the heat (white increases your albedo, and a higher albedo means more sunlight reflected off of you, so you don't feel as warm!).
He goes on to claim that «Pollution increases the albedo of thin clouds because but, contrary to the present theory, decreases it for thick clouds.
if deforestation creates increased albedo, why is so much depicted for little Central America, and barely any at all for Brazil?
If we really put the nuts and bolts in place, we can get close to 100 per cent of urban areas increasing the albedo of surfaces.»
As for recent albedo trends, earthshine data shows increasing albedo from 1999 to 2003 but little to no trend from 2003.
Then, increased winter precipitation in the mid-latitudes will ice up the winters, thus increasing albedo, plunging us 8 degrees C. over the span of a few decades, as it would appear to have happened in one of the last ice ages.
For example, the initial development of a continental ice sheet increases albedo over a portion of Earth, reducing surface absorption of sunlight and leading to further cooling.
The clouds increase albedo, but the clouds also block IR loss from the warm tropical ocean currents as they move into the polar oceans.
With regard to his «other hypotheses, predict the opposite» he may be referring to increased albedo due to the expectation that increased global warming increases snowfall in the northern and southern latitudes; or the shutdown of the thermohaline circulation of the ocean.
Today because there is less energy coming from the sun through reduced incident solar energy and increased albedo from greater cloud formation the Earth is cooling and the OLR will change accordingly.