Sentences with phrase «to reach the stratosphere»

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The substances in question were not considered damaging before as they were «generally thought to be too short - lived to reach the stratosphere in large quantities,» explains Oram, a research fellow of the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

If one takes into account that sulphur dioxide may also reach the stratosphere via the OH hole over the tropical West Pacific, it quickly becomes obvious that the atmospheric elevator over the South Seas not only boosts ozone depletion, but may influence the climate of the entire Earth.

Short - lived substances, on the other hand, will have a minimal effect on delaying ozone recovery because they are more likely to degrade before reaching the stratosphere, she said.

«When volcanic ash reaches the stratosphere, it remains for a long time,» explains Hufford.

And so the extraordinarily fine sulfur particles from Tambora that reached the stratosphere remained suspended in the air for years, freely transported around the globe by the winds.

Robert Sausen of the German government's Institute for Air and Space Travel (DLR), near Munich, told New Scientist that «within five years I think we will be able to draw up flight paths that would avoid emissions from aircraft reaching the stratosphere.

Whether a substance reaches the stratosphere or not is the prime factor that dictates which category of compounds to worry about, said co-author Susan Strahan of NASA Goddard.

As increased levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide trap more solar heat radiating from the Earth's surface, less warmth reaches the stratosphere, which cools as a result.

of the chlorine still reaches the stratosphere, however, which is why HCFCs are being phased out via the Montreal Protocol.

After a period of several years, ODC molecules reach the stratosphere.

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That depends on the rate at which the stratosphere reaches equilibrium once it has been disturbed, from below, and the rate at which the troposphere blocks the Earth's heat from reaching the stratosphere.

If there wasn't enough data for our script to calculate the change point, we skipped that balloon, e.g., some of the balloons burst before reaching the stratosphere.

It sends pollutants soaring up the Himalayas, with some reaching the stratosphere, where they are high enough to drift over the Pacific and help shade the Northern Hemisphere.

The reason for this is that once they have reached the stratosphere, their degradation products remain up there for many years and spread over the entire globe.

Thanks to the OH hole that the researchers discovered over the tropical Pacific, greater amounts of brominated hydrocarbons can reach the stratosphere than in other parts of the world.

There, during the South Pole's winter, a fast - moving, high - altitude jet stream called the polar - night jet extends from the troposphere into the upper atmospheric layers — helping the Andes mountain waves (and the glider) to reach the stratosphere.

There have been large volcanic eruptions that have contributed to short - term cooling of Earth from the SO2 that reaches the stratosphere, which is what happened following the Philippines Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991.

Pollutants that gather from India and China in the lowlands around the mountains can be boosted as high as 18 kilometers, reaching the stratosphere — the atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere that contains most of Earth's ozone.

It neutralizes most of them before they can reach the stratosphere, preventing them from damaging the ozone layer and wreaking havoc on global climate.

Even a smaller eruption that manages to have an eruptive plume that reaches the stratosphere could very well have greater implications on global temperatures if there's more water vapour for SO2 to react with.

In fact, the stratosphere tends to have somewhat lower CO2 than the troposphere, because the industrial CO2 released in the troposphere hasn't all reached the stratosphere.

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Thus this is a direct negative feedback of (cooling) low clouds on solar changes in the stratosphere, not possible for CO2 (but may be partly applicable for other GHGs like methane, if they reach the stratosphere).

When they reached the stratosphere, however, their behavior changed.

The height of the eruption is what allowed the SO2 to reach the stratosphere.

Scientists had thought that VSLSs would not persist long enough in the atmosphere to reach the stratosphere and affect ozone.

Because volcanic aerosols can reach the stratosphere, they hang around much longer than man - made aerosols.

It and its successors have phased out production of a range of man - made chlorine and bromine compounds thought to persist for the several years needed for them to reach the stratosphere.

Bromine atoms released from bromine - containing compounds that reach the stratosphere also destroy ozone by a similar mechanism.

Previous research has shown that as the planet warms, the lower layers of the atmosphere will expand, making it much harder for the gasses to reach the stratosphere.

On average, there are anywhere from three to five eruptions that reach the stratosphere every year.