Sentences with phrase «warm upper atmosphere»

If they didn't, the bulk transport of heat upward would gradually warm the upper atmosphere, and as I note above, a warm, less dense, upper atmosphere is utterly stable without conductivity or radiation.

-- warm the upper atmosphere so it radiates more heat away?

The amounts that are in Pluto's atmosphere are enough to absorb infrared radiation (heat) from the sun and warm the upper atmosphere.

Radiation from the warmed upper atmosphere, along with a small amount from the Earth's surface, radiates out to space.

Heat from anomalously warm ocean temperatures is transported vertically and eventually northward by unusually active tropical convection (thunderstorms), warming the upper atmosphere in the lower latitudes.

Not exact matches

2017 was a strong season due to warm Atlantic waters, a cooler upper atmosphere, and nothing in the weather to blow the storms apart or steer them away from our shores.

While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount of snow will be limited by the direction of the wind and relatively dry air in the upper atmosphere.

Shock waves from turbulent winds in the spot and other storms help explain how the planet's upper atmosphere stays warm so far from the sun.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

To slow Earth's warming, some scientists have proposed pumping tons of tiny light - scattering particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space.

The hypothesis relates to an important component in tornado formation: the mixing of warm air on the surface and cold air in the upper atmosphere.

Reanalyzing the satellite temperature measurements, Quiang Fu of the University of Washington and his colleagues concluded that a cooling in the upper atmosphere had been masking what is in fact a large warming of the lower atmosphere.

10 Most Atlantic hurricanes are born off the western coast of Africa, where warm water and a cool, windy upper atmosphere conspire to create a spiraling storm.

One theory is that heat from tropical rain warms parts of the Earth's upper atmosphere in ways that favor the formation of the classic «wavenumber - 5» pattern that has alternately drenched and dried parts of California.

And the warming of the upper 2 kilometers of the world ocean — a huge heat sink relative to the atmosphere — continued apace through the 2000s.

The increase in solar radiation will warm the Earth, making water vapour mix into the upper atmosphere.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

computer models... suggest the upper atmosphere should have warmed substantially in recent decades.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

There are also numerous «fingerprints» which we would expect to see from an increased greenhouse effect (i.e. more warming at night, at higher latitudes, upper atmosphere cooling) that we have indeed observed (Figure 6).

In addition to these multiple lines of empirical evidence which contradict the GCR warming theory, the galactic cosmic ray theory can not easily explain the cooling of the upper atmosphere, greater warming at night, or greater warming at higher latitudes.

These fast - moving bands of winds are found in the upper levels of the atmosphere and are created due to Earth's rotation, and its air being warmed up by solar radiation.

The researchers have found yet another peculiarity of Venus» upper atmosphere: early in the morning it is warmer than in the evening, while it should be the other way round.

During the long night the upper atmosphere cools, so at night it should be warmer than in the morning.

When snowfall is high in Siberia, the resultant cold air enhances atmospheric disturbances, which propagate into the upper level of the atmosphere, or stratosphere, warming the polar vortex.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

This recent slower warming in the upper ocean is closely related to the slower warming of the global surface temperature, because the temperature of the overlaying atmosphere is strongly coupled to the temperature of the ocean surface.

* If warming warms the lower atmosphere more than the upper atmosphere, then the vertical gradients will likely increase.

computer models... suggest the upper atmosphere should have warmed substantially in recent decades.

The outgoing longwave radiation is composed not just of the radiation that leaks through to the top from the warm lower layers, but also of the «cold» radiation emitted from the upper atmosphere.

Surface is warming but the upper atmosphere is cooling equally to surface warming, and there is no energy imbalance.

Lower Atmosphere is warming, oceans upper layers are warming, arctic summer sea ice is disappearing, WAIS and Greenland are both losing mass annually and the majority of the earths glaciers are losing mass too.

Thus, adding absorption to some new band will initially tend to warm the colder upper atmosphere and radiatively cool the lower atmosphere and warm the surface (The forcing at any level will be positive, so the surface + troposphere will warm; if some of the increased flux escaping in parts of the spectrum where the abover layers have sufficiently small optical thickness, some of the upper - level cooling will persist.

Less TOA cooling will occur if bands are placed where, in the upper atmosphere or near TOA, they absorb more of the increases in radiation from below from surface + tropospheric (+ lower stratospheric) warming.

«The rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Hawaii.

As we know from laboratory experiments, mathematical calculations, and observations of Venus and other planets in the Solar System, greenhouse gases change things in two ways: they trap heat from the sun in the lower atmosphere, thus making the surface of the planet warmer; and they keep heat from rising, thus making the upper atmosphere colder.

- temperature sensors on satellites report much less warming in the upper atmosphere (which the theory of global warming predicts should warm first) than is reported by temperature sensors on the ground.

Add in that if it's the sun, the entire atmosphere will warm, since there's just simply more energy put in to the system, whereas if it is CO2 or other blanketing method, there's no extra energy put in, therefore the ground will warm and the upper air cool (since the upper air isn't getting the warming from the lower layers it used to get and the lower layers aren't losing the heat they used to).

With no ozone, the atmospheric temperature would decrease monotonically, and we would instead have to speak of cooling of the «upper atmosphere» in conjunction with the surface warming due to increasing GHGs.

A hotter sun would warm the whole atmosphere, but we know that the upper atmosphere has been cooling.

This would actually not be true at sufficiently high latitudes in the winter hemisphere, except that some circulation in the upper atmosphere is driven by kinetic energy generated within the troposphere (small amount of energy involved) which, so far as I know, doesn't result in much of a global time average non-radiative energy flux above the tropopause, but it does have important regional effects, and the result is that the top of the stratosphere is warmer than the tropopause at all latitudes in all seasons so far as I know.

The lack of ozone is chilling the middle and upper atmosphere, altering wind patterns in a way that keeps comparatively warm air from reaching the surface.

I would argue that if we use a simple radiative model with a variety of assumptions, no upper atmosphere cooling but only warming will occur with increased CO2 (see # 333), based on the radiative transfer equations and the Second Law of thermodynamics, but when other complexities are introduced, this might change.

The condition that portions of the upper atmosphere are significantly warmer than otherwise via direct solar heating should (so far as I know) enhance the GHG - induced cooling at those levels.

«Sunlight passes through the atmosphere largely unhindered and warms the Earth's surface; the warmed surface radiates heat and some of this radiation is absorbed in the upper atmosphere and re-emitted, about half of the re-emitted energy returning to the Earth's surface.

We can divide the atmosphere into a lower part (LP), which includes the surface and is the source of IR, and an upper part (UP), which we are asked to assume will cool when CO2 increases, in conjunction with the expected warming of LP from the enhanced greenhouse effect.

As more optical thickness is added to a «new» band, it will gain greater control over the temperature profile, but eventually, the equilibrium for that band will shift towards a cold enough upper atmosphere and warm enough lower atmosphere and surface, such that farther increases will cool the upper atmosphere or just that portion near TOA while warming the lower atmosphere and surface — until the optical thickness is so large (relative to other bands) that the band loses influence (except at TOA) and has little farther effect (except at TOA).

Re 346 ziarra, again: «The radiation from a cooler upper atmosphere can warm the surface because it counteracts the even greater amount of radiation in the other direction, thus reducing the net flow of heat.»

``... point out that cooling trends are exactly as predicted by increasing greenhouse gas trends,... It is interesting to note that significant solar forcing would have exactly the opposite effect (it would cause warming)» (of the upper atmosphere)

In that optic, is the cooling of the upper Atmosphere sufficient to counterbalance the warming of the troposphere, or is it necessary to investigate variations in the ocean temperature?