Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere comes»

Hydrogen in Mars» upper atmosphere comes from water vapor in the lower atmosphere.

During solar minimum, the replenishment of methane in Titan's upper atmosphere comes from its lower layers.

So where does the energy to heat their upper atmospheres come from?

Not exact matches

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

THE comings and goings of noctilucent or «night shining» clouds in the extreme upper atmosphere may be linked to the sun's rotation.

He said that since people don't think much about the upper atmosphere, they can come to rational, albeit scientifically incorrect, conclusions.

«We think the 15N15N enrichment fundamentally comes from chemistry in the upper atmosphere, at altitudes close to the orbit of the International Space Station,» Yeung said.

The results will help them understand how particles are ionized in Saturn's upper atmosphere and will help them put a decade of ground - based telescope observations of Saturn in perspective, because they can see what disturbance in the data comes from Earth's atmosphere.

«The magnetic oscillations come down and hit the upper atmosphere in a particular location and then spread out from that location,» says Rae.

Most of the antiprotons come from antineutrons, which are generated when energetic cosmic rays strike the upper atmosphere tens of kilometers above Earth's surface, Bruno notes.

Some of the best evidence so far comes from the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, which obligingly conducted a large - scale experiment for us on the effect of injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere.

«What we're going to do is examine the structure and composition, the energy inputs into the upper atmosphere, the solar wind, the solar ultraviolet - light, and solar energetic particles that come out of major storms on the sun, and see how the atmosphere responds,» Jakosky said.

Not enough and rapidly vanishing carbon sinks and too much livestock and people pumping CO2 into the air which a part will make it's way into the upper atmosphere over the coming decades.

For the upper - atmosphere cooling, I simply remark that infrared coming up from below is blocked more, as more greenhouse gases are added, so of course it's cooler above the blocking.

IF the atmosphere is optically thick, then most of the OLR is not coming from the surface, and in fact is coming from the upper atmosphere — in a region whose optical thickness is smaller than the total atmosphere (hence, «reduced»).

However, in cooler temperatures, the water vapor in the planet's upper atmosphere blocks the light of specific wavelengths which come from deeper layers towards space.

With the maximum molecule - molecule reactions going on near the surface, because that is where the atmosphere is at its densest, much of the measured LWIR could well come from the lowest 30m instead of the much colder upper troposphere.

We know what the current state of the atmosphere is more or less, from piecing together a series of surface and upper air observations that may come from ground - based weather stations, balloons, aircraft, and satellites.

Long term conditions such as warmer - than - average sea - surface temperatures and low wind shear in the upper atmosphere are among the factors expected to fuel activity in coming years, forecasters say.

Since any increase in solar energy would heat both the lower and upper atmosphere, the observed drop in upper atmospheric temperatures in the past 30 years argues against an increase in energy coming from the sun being responsible for global warming.

The effect of this disparity is that thermal radiation escaping to space comes mostly from the cold upper atmosphere, while the surface is maintained at a substantially warmer temperature.

Obama is the first American president who seems really willing to engage reality on this front, and reality comes with a number now: 350, the safe upper limit for C02 in the atmosphere in parts per million.

Previously, scientists had been reluctant to put a number on the upper limit of tons of carbon pollution we could put in the atmosphere and still avoid the worst that will come with a temperature rise of more than 2 °F.