Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere stays»
Shock waves from turbulent winds in the spot and other storms help explain how the planet's upper atmosphere stays warm so far from the sun.
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Expelled from tall stacks, mercury stays in the upper atmosphere until rain carries it down over the eastern Pacific, where it joins mercury from other sources as bacteria and other microorganisms transform it into methylmercury.
And how do we know that in the past when the lower atmosphere warmed, so to did the upper atmospthere, or did it just stay the same.
If the CO2 content in atmosphere increases, the sinks — mainly sea surface on upper latitudes — determine how much CO2 from total amount of CO2 emissions stays in the atmosphere to increase its CO2 content.
When released into the air, they float into the upper atmosphere, where they stay for up to 260 years and rapidly warm the planet.
This so - called 450 scenario, named after the upper limit of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (450 ppm) that still provides a reasonable chance of staying under a 2 °C average temperature increase, is regarded as possible but not very likely to happen.