Sentences with phrase «vapor than colder air»
Warmer air holds more water vapor than colder air, so global warming will make the lower atmosphere wetter.
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Warmer air holds more water vapor than colder air, so the amount of water vapor in the lower atmosphere increases as it is warmed by the greenhouse effect.
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold air does, so the air is more humid than a few years ago.
First, warm air holds more water vapor than cold air — and the rising air temperatures since the 1970s have caused the atmospheric water vapor content to rise as well.
Not exact matches
While the ECS factors in such «fast» feedback effects as changes in water vapor — water itself is a greenhouse gas, and saturates warm air better than cold — they argued that slow feedbacks, such as changes in ice sheets and vegetation, should also be considered.
The air at the top of the troposphere is colder than the air at the ground because of a. water vapor b. expansion of gas c. light energy d. ozone
This is why gardeners will put water vapor in the air and water liquid on the ground around their garden on a clear cold night — it protects the local area from cooling as fast because water vapor and liquid both 1) cool much slower than dry air due to their massive heat capacity, and 2) cool even slower because they release their massive latent heat, which means that heat energy is released from them without requiring a drop in temperature — once they're in the latent heat release phase, they just keep shedding energy without dropping in temperature any further.
Warm air can hold a lot more moisture (water vapor) than colder air.
(A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)
[99] The atmospheric concentration of vapor is highly variable and depends largely on temperature, from less than 0.01 % in extremely cold regions up to 3 % by mass in saturated air at about 32 °C.