Sentences with phrase «upper atmospheres contain»

The upper atmosphere contains both the thermosphere, where the aurora borealis lights up the sky, and the exosphere, where the atmosphere meets space.

Not exact matches

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

Hope will probe the link between processes in the lower atmosphere, which contains most of the martian atmosphere's water vapor, and the escape of hydrogen and oxygen from the upper atmosphere.

In its upper 3 m the ocean contains the equivalent heat capacity of the entire atmosphere of the planet (Peixoto and Oort, 1992).

Living things — including you and me — contain 14C that is continuously generated in the upper atmosphere (and from above - ground nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s).

Section 1 contains five subsections with results on 27 - day response of low - latitude ionosphere to solar extreme - ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, response to the recurrent geomagnetic storms, long - term trends in the upper atmosphere, latitudinal dependence of total electron content on EUV changes, and statistical analysis of ionospheric behavior during prolonged period of solar activity.

The upper 3.5 meters of ocean alone contain the same heat as the total atmosphere.