Sentences with phrase «volume of the atmosphere»

MAVEN focuses on hydrogen and oxygen as ways to trace water and carbon dioxide, and neutral argon as a way to measure the sheer volume of atmosphere loss.

Featuring a triplet of outstanding performances by Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain — the latter slipping into uncharted villainous territory like she's been playing baddies her whole career — the film also drips volumes of atmosphere and boasts a production design to die for.

Since December 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's polar - orbiting satellites have measured upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen, and Spencer and Christy use this data to calculate the temperature of broad volumes of the atmosphere.

This is very interesting, not the missing data or that stuff, but the ocean surface temperature looks to be tightly constrained by the specific volume of the atmosphere and the freezing points of water.

New Horizons co-investigator Michael Summers estimates the volume of the atmosphere is 350 times the volume of Pluto itself.

In addition to precipitation, clouds influence the climate in various ways: they cover 70 % of Earth's surface and represent nearly 15 % of the volume of the atmosphere.

Without this elastic property of the atmosphere, the temperatures in tropical regions would be higher than we observe since the volume of the atmosphere would would be less as described by PV = nRT.

An illustration shows the volume of all the world's liquid water if put in the form of a sphere (green) and the volume of the atmosphere (pink) if the air were all at sea - level pressure.

Adam Nieman, a British illustrator with a doctorate in science communication, is adept at turning data into images that force the mind to consider familiar ideas in new ways — for instance, by viewing the volume of the atmosphere and the world's liquid water as spheres adjacent to the planet.

Condensation diminishes the volume of the atmosphere in the same proportion as vaporization increases it.

Note that the mass (m) of the atmosphere remains the same, surface pressure (P) remains the same at a given strength of gravitational field whatever the volume of an atmosphere and kinetic energy (T) for the atmosphere as a whole stays the same because no additional energy is being added to the system from outside.

The heat capacity of water when it changes from liquid to vapor or vice versa is 50,000 times greater than that of the CO2 in a volume of atmosphere with 1 % H20 and 500 ppm CO2.

The volume of the atmosphere will therefore vary depending on the average molecular weight of the atmosphere but again that is all about mass.

The gas constant therefore sets the volume of atmosphere needed to leave the surface temperature at the level required to both support the atmosphere AND achieve radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere.

If the surface tries to become too warm the volume of the atmosphere rises to restore thermal balance and if the surface tries to become too cool then the volume decreases to restore thermal balance.

In either case, however, the volume of the atmosphere is highly variable and, in most respects, undefined.

Shine a beam of light (infrared) through a volume of atmosphere and measure the amount of infrared coming out the other side.

It is an empirical fact that adding CO2 to a volume of atmosphere in the lab will absorb more heat than the same volume without the added CO2.

That results from the volume of the atmosphere being unconstrained other than by gravity so the more energy the sun puts in for a given strength of gravitational field the more the atmosphere will expand upward and the hotter the surface becomes.

3) Thus with the help of the term nR the surface temperature of a planet with an atmosphere can be determined from the strength of the gravitational field and the mass of the atmosphere which together produce pressure at the surface (P), the level of solar input which produces temperature (T) and the volume of the atmosphere (V)