Sentences with phrase «vapour in the atmosphere»

A rise in water vapour in the atmosphere fuelled 30 per cent of the global warming that took place during the 1990s.

«As in our own atmosphere, where ultraviolet sunlight breaks molecules apart, ultraviolet starlight can break water vapour in the atmospheres of exoplanets into hydrogen and oxygen.»

Water vapour in the atmosphere blocks certain wavelengths of light.

The lack of water vapour in the atmosphere there allows terahertz radiation from space to reach the ground and be detected.

Astronomers have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of 51 Pegasi b — which lies just 50 light years away

The level of water vapour in the atmosphere is determined mainly by temperature, and any excess is rapidly lost.

It is closed for practical purposes, but some of the water vapour in the atmosphere precipitates out.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

It is then amplified by increased water vapour in the atmosphere resulting from the warming caused by the CO2.

Increase water vapour in the atmosphere = > increased GH effect.

[Response: This indeed is a small effect, but it is actually dwarfed by the bigger effect that changing water vapour in the atmosphere has on the pressure.

It is noteworthy that the influence of warmer temperatures and increased water vapour in the atmosphere (Section 2.5.3) are not independent events, and are likely to be jointly related to increases in heavy and extreme precipitation events.

It is happening, it is a natural effect of the water vapour in the atmosphere.

CERES also measures water vapour in the atmosphere, clouds and the temperature in the bottom 50 kilometres of the atmosphere.

Now, Rob, this is the most ludicrous and unsubstantiated statement in Pierrehumbert's «gold standard» where, on page 100, he clearly assumes (from his incorrect computations) that 10 % water vapour in the atmosphere would raise the temperature from 250K to 350K whilst at the same time reducing the temperature gradient.

Warmer temperatures do not necessarily translate to more water vapour in an air - water vapour mixture, Chris please explain how «warmer the oceans and the atmosphere» equate to «more greenhouse effect from water vapour in the atmosphere.»

Now, all clean pure rain is carbonic acid, because water vapour and carbon dioxide have a strong yen for each other, water vapour in the atmosphere will pick up whatever carbon dioxide is around and bring it down to earth in rain.

And what, pray tell, determines the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere?

And even though on average more warmth will mean more evaporation, and therefore more water vapour in the atmosphere and more precipitation in some of those zones that already have ample rainfall, the pattern could be different in the arid lands.

It is understandable you need to change the subject, considering you are wrong to assert that warming simply equates to more water vapour in the atmosphere.

Considering warmer temperatures do not automatically equate to more water vapour in the atmosphere?

The theory is that increasing CO2 will cause a small bit of warming and this will increase evaporation rates (which occur fastest in the tropics) and dumps more water vapour in the atmosphere (water vapour is by far a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) and this feedback amplification is meant to continue until Earth settles down and finds a new equilibrium temperature.

This assumption means that if temperatures increase for any reason, the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere increases.

The fact that the actual measured planetary warming is less than the lowest IPCC model prediction warming and is found only at high latitudes (which is not predicted by the IPCC models) logically supports the assertion that the planet's response to a change in forcing is to resist the change (negative feedback, planetary clouds in the tropics increase reflecting more sunlight in to space) rather than to amplify the change (positive feedback) due increased water vapour in the atmosphere.

As the planet warms, increasing levels of water vapour in the atmosphere caused by higher evaporation levels form more clouds and snow increasing the albedo of the planet, reflecting heat back into space more efficiently, thus working to regulate the temperature downward.

The volume of monomer water vapour in this atmosphere is huge.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

As the CO2 and CH4 (methane) level goes up, H2O vapour in the atmosphere falls which — because H2O is 30 times more important than CO2 as a «greenhouse gas» offsets the effect of CO2 on temperature, while cloud cover and albedo increases because warmed moist air rises to form clouds, further cooling the world.

The average residence time for water vapour in the atmosphere is about 7 days.

Further evidence for forced changes arises from widespread melting of the cryosphere, increases in water vapour in the atmosphere and changes in top - of - the atmosphere radiation that are consistent with changes in forcing.

My contention is that man made CO2 and other man made trace gases are not only a miniscule proportion of the naturally occurring CO2 and trace gases but in turn CO2 and other trace gases have only a miniscule proportion of the heat storing capacity of the water vapour in the atmosphere AND ADDITIONALLY the atmosphere stores only a miniscule proportion of the heat stored by the oceans.

Now, consider the respective heat storing capacities of water vapour in the atmosphere and the water in all those oceans.

There is the lack of evidence supporting positive water vapour feedback, suggesting that nature has a mechanism to limit the concentration of water vapour in the atmosphere.

It is likely that every year annual variance in the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere exceeds the warming effects of human CO2.

This is because the warming means there is more water vapour in the atmosphere,» says Johannessen.

Oh and, while the water vapour content of air may be dependent on temperature, cloud cover certainly isn't No, not entirely, but increased water vapour is the main contributors to cloud formation, and, as you almost point out, increased temperature increases water vapour in the atmosphere.

Total water vapour in the atmosphere may increase as the temperature of the surface rises, but if at the same time the mid - to upper - level concentration decreases then water vapour feedback will be negative.

And with more ocean exposed I would expect to see more water vapour in the atmosphere which implies that radiation of heat into space will be slower.

The extra water vapour in the atmosphere would likely lead to more snowfall in the upper latitudes, also raising the albedo.

Almost three quarters of the energy of all radiative forcings was used to increase the turbulent fluxes and hence water vapour in the atmosphere.

The particles help turn water vapour in the atmosphere into clouds.

However, it is a result of the feedback described above which increases water vapour in the atmosphere.

The sun didn't get hotter, but the positive feedback of water vapour in the atmosphere doubled it.

The increases in precipitation seen at higher latitudes are a result of increasing amounts of water vapour in the atmosphere.

«Few people realise that water vapour in the atmosphere provides 96 per cent of the greenhouse effect...»

They claimed a CO2 increase would cause a temperature increase and higher evaporation with more water vapour in the atmosphere.

This claimed that a CO2 increase causes a temperature increase, which increases evaporation and more water vapour in the atmosphere.

That said, the distribution of CO2 is still FAR more even than water vapour in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

One problem with this proposed frozen sea is that there is very little water vapour in the Martian atmosphere today.

For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune - sized planet outside the solar system.