Sentences with phrase «trace gas»

Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.

CO2 and other trace gases are far too small a proportion of the atmosphere to have any significant effect in comparison to the water vapour effect.

You and your lot will continue believing trace gas CO2 is the control knob of the world's climate no matter what.

This thesis presents the results of several general circulation model simulations aimed at studying the effect of ocean circulation changes when they occur in conjunction with increased atmospheric trace gas concentrations.

These projected changes in anthropogenic emissions of trace gases from year 2000 to year 2100, making different assumptions on population development, energy use, and technology.

The principles of absorption and emission of radiation by various atmospheric trace gases like water vapor and CO2 rely on the theory of quantum mechanics.

This absorption is due to trace gases which make up only a very small part of the atmosphere.

This will vary slightly against the global mean sea level figure but, with such a well - mixed trace gas, the differences are trivial.

Its instruments will also look for water - ice hidden just below the surface, which along with potential trace gas sources could guide the choice for future mission landing sites.

That's precise enough to ensure detection of small increases in trace gases due to large, distributed sources such as cities.

Experts need to rapidly identify trace gases when detecting toxic industrial chemicals, identifying disease indicators, or monitoring the proliferation of nuclear or chemical weapons.

You are helping her body work like it's supposed to by literally tracing the gas right out of her body.

They carefully selected ions that react with volatile trace gases, but don't react with abundant compounds in breath such as oxygen and nitrogen.

They also add that his careless actions to eliminate the useful trace gas CO2, may actually cause the deaths of millions.

CO2 is not the driver of our climate, the sun is, CO2 is a very precious trace gas, of which we need more of, NOT less.

The present warming is almost entirely due to increases in man - made greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 but also methane and other trace gases.

See lifetime for a different definition of response time pertinent to the rate of processes affecting the concentration of trace gases.

Of course a life essential trace gas is our salvation, not harmful.

It is a completely harmless trace gas that you would be unaware of if people didn't have sensitive instruments to measure it.

But few of us appreciate what exactly it is in the atmosphere that makes the effect work and why small changes in trace gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) might make a difference.

Severinghaus appears to be very current on the proxy temperature record and has developed measures of multi-millenial temperature records of Greenland based on trace gases in ice cores.

Zehner says that the agency plans to build and launch at least five «sentinel» satellites to monitor not only trace gases that indicate pollution in the atmosphere, but also the surface temperature of the oceans, the movement of ice and the shifting of land masses.

If they mean he resists unsubstantiated theories about a single, naturally occurring trace gas essential for life on earth causing the planet to incinerate before our very eyes, then your President is hardly Robinson Crusoe.

Most of the heat radiated by the surface is absorbed by trace gases in the overlying atmosphere and re-emitted in all directions.

We will investigate the clustering of trace gas molecules onto ions.

The most prevalent trace gases do not generally nucleate new aerosols (or even condense onto existing ones), because they are too volatile (i.e. they have a high saturation vapor pressure and thus evaporate readily).

Indeed, strong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.Direct human impact is through changes in the concentration of certain trace gases such as carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapor, known collectively as greenhouse gases.

Reconstructing recent atmospheric trace gas concentrations from polar firn and bubbly ice data by inverse methods

For the authors of the paper to assess the spectral results against theory they needed to know the atmospheric profile of temperature and humidity, as well as changes in the well - studied trace gases like CO2 and methane.