Sentences with phrase «vertical gradient»
The phrase "vertical gradient" refers to the change or difference in something as you move up or down vertically. It indicates how something may vary when going higher or lower. Full definition
There are many factors that can affect the number and intensity of storms — not just the temperature gradient between pole and equator, but also east to west gradients and vertical gradients at both larger and local scales.
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That suggests a role for vertical temperature gradients in strengthening winds, such vertical gradients should increase with more global warming.
Horizontal temperature gradients are equivalent to vertical gradients in wind velocity, implying implications for the Polar Jet, for example.
Too much UV leads to increased heating in the middle atmosphere that weakens the vertical gradient and destroys the signal.
Obviously CO2 is not just a lid on the atmosphere so there must be some effect of the vertical gradient (even if small), and since it depends on the absorption and reemission of radiation, there must be some effect by latitude.
As a little bonus — I did a vertical gradient using 5 of the 6 shades I received!
A2) The Sun is the source of all this energy as it is the hottest thing around, and by the greenhouse explanation above the GHGs redistribute insolation into the ocean until their heating from above and the tendency for warm water to rise once again cancel each other out and the new stable (w.r.t. averaging over 24h) vertical gradient is attained.
As it is, a Hadley cell that conserves angular momentum develops large wind shears and the flow becomes baroclinically unstable (it can be shown through the so - called thermal wind equation that the vertical gradient of the horizontal wind velocity is proportional to the horizontal temperature gradient).