Sentences with phrase «trap warm air»

Igloos and snow caves operate more or less like any enclosed space: they trap warm air.

Wool and silk are superior to cotton because they can trap warm air.

Birds who are cold or sick fluff up their feathers to try to trap warm air next to their bodies.

Cover the carrier or trap with sheets, towels or blankets to trap warm air and preserve body heat.

It uses over a hundred individual cells to trap warm air and conform to your body in case you move around while you sleep.

Today I'm layered up with thermal base layers (cropped thermal leggings and an under top with a high neck) to trap warm air next to my body.

This traps warm air between each layer and keeps you much warmer than one heavy layer.

It traps warm air next to the skin, keeping pets» internal temperature in the normal range of 99 - 102.5 degrees.

The entrances were dug a bit below the level of the house, trapping warm air in.

A greenhouse works by trapping warm air; Earth uses gravity to achieve that effect.

(Despite the name, the greenhouse effect is different from the warming in a greenhouse, where panes of glass allow the passage of visible light but hold heat inside the building by trapping warmed air.)

For instance, the relatively snowless and mild winter in the U.S. of 2011 - 12 resulted from an inversion of the jet stream; its «U» course though the North America flipped upside down, trapping warm air over much of the central and eastern U.S.

Any camper who constructs a shelter such that it relies primarily on trapped warm air will be exposing themselves to potential carbon - monoxide poisoning.

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Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

Future wet suits with surface textures like the thick fur of otters that trap insulating air layers could keep tomorrow's divers warmer in icy waters.

This time of year, the stratosphere tends to warm up with the breakdown of the polar vortex, a cyclone that traps cold air.

Although there is much less of it in the air, it is 33 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere and adding to greenhouse warming.

Most fabrics, whether cotton, fur, or feathers, trap a layer of air next to our body to keep us warm.

Warmer air traps more water vapor, and scientists expect that additional water to fall in already wet parts of the Earth.

An isotopic analysis of wood suggests that firs in northern forests can trap heat and keep their needles warmer than the surrounding air.

In winter, particulate levels can be twice as high as during the summer, because «inversion layers» of warm air trap cold air close to the ground.

Volcanic eruptions may have put enough heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the air to warm methane frozen in the seafloor and allow it to belch to the surface, a team led by Micha Ruhl of Utrecht University in the Netherlands writes in the July 22 Science.

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

As the Arctic warms at twice the global rate, the long - frozen soils thaw and decompose, releasing the trapped greenhouse gases into the air.

Slipping a cozy vest under a jacket or pulling on a pair of soft socks before donning slippers makes a difference because more layers can trap more warm air.

I like skirts too - there's that trapped layer of warm air.

It traps air more efficiently and keeps you warm even on the coldest days.

This traps a layer of air between the warm skin and the cold night hair.

Muscles in the skin allow Bear to fluff his coat up, thus trapping a layer of air warmed by his body temperature between the skin and the environment.

[1] As it cools, the surface air becomes denser than the warmer air above it, and thus becomes trapped below it.

It also made no sense to trap myself in an air conditioned room with all this warm and wonderful tropical nature around me to use as a playground.

Its a phenomenon caused by refraction, when light gets trapped at the interface between a cold surface cooled by the long night and encroaching warmer Upper Air not readily disappearing after warm cyclonic incursions.

Up high, it uses «the naturally warm rising air which becomes trapped in the ceiling space of your home,» and it's also conveniently out of the way.

I asked Lee and McPhaden how a connection to greenhouse - driven warming could be made, given the possibility that the Pacific shift could be the result of long - term oscillations in conditions in the ocean unrelated to the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the air.

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Although greenhouse gases make up only about 1 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, they regulate our climate by trapping heat and holding it in a kind of warm - air blanket that surrounds the planet.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

What's so frightening to them is that after one of the regular warming periods begins, they can see (in air bubbles trapped in glaciers from those past times) that CO2 starts increasing, and they know that this is because of the warming and thawing of vast natural stores of carbon dioxide in the oceans — as well as in the frozen or frigid earth of the northern tundra.

The air and snow surface temperatures warm when storm clouds pass over the site, acting as a blanket that traps heat, and then they gradually cool as heat radiates to space after skies clear.

More clouds both drastically reduce energy input from the sun and simply slow release of what energy there is trapped in the lower troposphere, but the long term effect would be a fall in average temperature because of the significantly reduced input power but the atmosphere's ability to cool is aided by air current circulation whereby the warmer air rises above those low clouds and that infra - red is more easily re-emitted into space, whereby the low clouds now block that re-emission from hitting the ground again to any significant degree.

The CO2 will warm the air by trapping the ground IR radiation, I believe this is the established part of the AGW theory both day and night.

This strategy could help policy makers overcome a fundamental conflict in the debate over global warming: carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas in the air, is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal and oil — and combustion of fossil fuels is the foundation of industrial societies.

During the night, the air would continue to remain just as warm, since the heat was trapped.

Jeff «Id» Condon moderates a small blog called the Air Vent which is frequented by lukewarmers — a group of global warming enthusiasts that believe that CO2 does trap energy and could be warming the planet, but questions the magnitude of the problem and the certainty of climate science.

A warmer stratosphere would in turn affect air circulation patterns that currently keep cold air trapped over the continent.

With the cold air no longer trapped, the Antarctic would warm up.

Subsurface ocean warming explains why global average air temperatures have flatlined since 1999, despite greenhouse gases trapping more solar heat at the Earth's surface.

Their promotional embellishments have also corrupted the meaning of «greenhouse effect,» a term originally relating the loose confinement of warm nighttime air near ground level by cloud cover, to hot air trapped inside a greenhouse,» Kondis explained..

This heat - trapping, warming influence of the blanket of air over the Earth's surface is called the greenhouse effect, and it will become even stronger as greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor increase in concentration.

As the Arctic warms at twice the global rate, the long - frozen soils thaw and decompose, releasing the trapped greenhouse gases into the air.