Sentences with phrase «upper part of the atmosphere»

The experts suggest that, by using sophisticated computer modelling, scientists could develop a greater understanding of the relationship between events in the upper part of the atmosphere, and the effect they have on the weather experienced across the globe.

When it reaches a level high enough to cool it to it's «dew point» the water vapour condenses out in the form of clouds and rainfall and the Latent Heat of Condensation is released into the upper part of the atmosphere to accelerate the escape of radiant energy to space.

The ozone layer is in the upper part of the atmosphere (the stratosphere) and it helps to block out ultraviolet (UV) radiation coming from the sun from getting to Earth and doing things like hurting our eyes and causing skin cancer.

«CO2 absorbs the outgoing infrared energy and warms the atmosphere» — or — «CO2 traps part of the infrared radiation between ground and the upper part of the atmosphere»

Although the atmosphere technically stretches out thousands of kilometres into space, the density of the atmosphere is so small in the upper parts of the atmosphere that most people choose an arbitrary value of 100 kilometres as the boundary between the atmosphere and space.

Manmade chlorofluorocarbons drive ozone depletion (not the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide), but scientists say that global warming has likely exacerbated ozone loss because it cools the upper part of the atmosphere even as it warms the lower part.