Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere affects»
The $ 750 million UARS mission was designed to measure ozone and other chemical compounds found in Earth's ozone layer in order to better understand how the upper atmosphere affects our planet.
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Unlike CFCs, pentane does not affect the upper ozone layer, but does contribute to impurities in the lower level of the atmosphere.
Its goal is to better understand how both solar and terrestrial storms affect the ionosphere, an upper atmosphere region crucial for radio...
To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.
The beam's energy, although strong enough to affect overflying airplanes, which have an operating ceiling of about 26 kilometers (in Earth's stratosphere), is too diffuse by the time it reaches the ionosphere, part of the planet's upper atmosphere.
The speed of the slow solar wind affects the temperature of Earth's upper atmosphere, and impacts climate.
Its goal is to better understand how both solar and terrestrial storms affect the ionosphere, an upper atmosphere region crucial for radio communications.
This must affect the upper atmosphere, so would there be an induced affect on the lower atmosphere?
The upper atmosphere is generally cooling and contracting, and related changes in chemical composition are affecting the ionosphere.
What takes place at lower altitudes affects the relative temperatures in the atmosphere and on the surface, but as a whole the increased temperatures at a fixed height of the upper troposphere lead also to a warmer lower troposphere and surface.
The new ideas provoked a few scientists to take a look at how the upper atmosphere might be affected by another ambitious project — the hundreds of space shuttle flights that NASA hoped to launch.
i) Solar variability as regards the mix of particles and wavelengths appears to have an effect on the composition of the upper atmosphere which can then affect clouds and albedo in the way I have described elsewhere.
I gave some examples above already, e.g. ionisation and photo dissociation in the upper earth atmosphere affect the thermal structure there significantly.
The speed of the slow solar wind affects the temperature of Earth's upper atmosphere, and impacts climate.
The postulated effects are from increased solar ultraviolet output, affecting upper atmosphere chemistry, and from stronger solar wind — the continuous flow of charged particles emanating from the sun that bathes the whole solar system.
The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.
They cause negative affects on Earth's delicate environment such as the depletion of Ozone in the upper atmosphere.
Erl Happ and Svensmark have some nice ideas on the response of the upper atmosphere from solar forcings which could be made to fit my proposition that the rate of energy loss to space is affected by the amount of turbulence on the solar surface which does have an effect on the thermosphere and possibly all the other portions of the atmosphere from stratosphere upwards.
The El Ninos have become increasingly severe and frequent through the 1980s and 1990, leading to suggestions that they are being affected by global warming, caused by an increase in heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere.
Recently evidence has emerged that the sun's state may affect upper atmosphere chemistry much more powerfully than it was previously believed.
This has affected the orbits of orbiting satellites, due to decreased drag, since the upper atmosphere has shrunk and moved closer to the surface (Lastovicka et al., 2006).
Knowing the different formation mechanisms will help scientists predict the amount of water vapor in the upper atmosphere, which affects the balance of warming and cooling that determines the Earth's climate change.
The reason why Figure 9.1 in IPCC AR4 is disconcerting is that the temperature anomaly in the upper tropical atmosphere bears the signature of increased moist convective activity, which means that the hydrological cycle probably gets perturbed by increased GHG forcings, hence affecting rainfall patterns.
Possibly some physical mechanism in the ocean changed - changes in rate of upper and lower ocean turnover, changes in locations of the turnover, changes in ocean currents, changes in the atmosphere affecting how much and where radiation reaches the surface or changing the heat transfer to the ocean, etc..