Sentences with phrase «upper levels of the atmosphere»

Carbon dioxide and water - vapour had their own sets of absorption - lines that did not exactly coincide and it was reaffirmed that water vapour was relatively unimportant in the dryer upper levels of the atmosphere.

By contrast, in 2010 and 2011, a persistent dip in the jet stream brought a stronger southwesterly flow of air at upper levels of the atmosphere along the East Coast, which helped turn many storms out to sea before reaching landfall.

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.

El Niño, the large - scale weather pattern that creates strong wind shear in the upper levels of the atmosphere, disrupts storm formation.

These fast - moving bands of winds are found in the upper levels of the atmosphere and are created due to Earth's rotation, and its air being warmed up by solar radiation.

When snowfall is high in Siberia, the resultant cold air enhances atmospheric disturbances, which propagate into the upper level of the atmosphere, or stratosphere, warming the polar vortex.

If one could see the IR light, an opaque atmosphere would make the pattern of emitted IR diffuse since only the IR from the upper levels of the atmosphere escape to space after it has been absorbed and re-emitted by the greenhouse gases (this of course depends on the wavelength of the IR and the absorption spectrum, but we can use this assumption for heat loss integrated over the whole IR spectrum).

The thermal emission seen by the satellites is expected to be influenced by both energy flow associated with convection warming the upper levels of the atmosphere as well as that of radiation in various bands.

just siphoning the heat up into the upper levels of the atmosphere where it can be lost to space?

In the upper levels of the atmosphere over the pole, the stratosphere was warming up.