Sentences with phrase «water absorbs sunlight»

The darkest blue indicates deeper water, but it's also this shade for another reason: the rich blue hue comes from dye added to speed up the rate at which the water absorbs sunlight and warmth, aiding evaporation.

Not exact matches

There are more, however, including the amount of sunlight an ice sheet is able to reflect; the larger an ice sheet, the more sunlight is reflected, but the smaller an ice sheet, the more ocean there is surrounding the ice sheet to absorb the sunlight which in turn heats up the surrounding waters increasing the melt which decreases the size of the ice sheet which in turn... and so goes the cycle.

The result is ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate, molecules that condense with others of their kind, plus water, to form tiny particles in the air that absorb sunlight and block visibility — smog.

Chloroplasts absorb sunlight and use it in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant.

Sunlight would strike the top electrode, which would absorb photons and catalyse the water - oxidation process.

But not all the sunlight would be absorbed by this electrode: light with a wavelength longer than 600 nanometres isn't absorbed by the rust - coloured water in the top cell so would pass through to strike the lower electrode, powering the production of hydrogen.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

They incorporated a photocatalyst in a moisture - absorbing, semiconducting paint that can produce hydrogen from water in the air when exposed to sunlight.

Warmer temperatures melt the Arctic ice and exposes water, which absorbs more sunlight than ice.

«The job of the photoanode is to absorb sunlight and then use that energy to oxidize water — essentially splitting apart the H2O molecule and rearranging the atoms to form a fuel.

The scientists focused on bismuth vanadate, a thin - film semiconductor that has emerged as a leading candidate for use as a photoanode, the positively charged part of a photoelectric cell that can absorb sunlight to split water.

Ice and snow scatter, transmit, and absorb sunlight and radiant heat much differently than water.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

Hot spring water rich in silica and other minerals absorbs all the colors of sunlight except for the deep blues that make many of Yellowstone's hot springs so beautiful.

Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton absorbs sunlight, which it stores in sugars it makes from CO2 and water.

While staring at the ocean or at rivers spilling into Bristol Bay, he began to absorb the way sunlight, shadows, and wind affected the color and texture of the water.

And what part of the SW of incoming sunlight is absorbed by water vapour, and how much (W / m2)?

Some gases in Earth's atmosphere — mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide — let sunlight pass through mostly unhindered, but absorb infrared light from the ground.

The exposed open water caused by the wind divergence may absorb some additional sunlight and melt more ice than usual over the next few weeks (temperature - albedo feedback)[related NASA animation], but given that the sun is well on its way to setting for the winter, I think this effect will be fairly minimal.

If something triggers a cool spell, such as an orbital variation reducing incident sunlight, then water freezes at the poles, which increases the Earth's albedo, while the cooler oceans absorb more CO2, reducing the greenhouse effect.

This is of particular concern to scientists because of the albedo effect, where the replacement of highly reflective sea ice with darker open water greatly increases heat absorbed from sunlight.

When bright, white, reflective ice melts to reveal darker ocean water, sunlight that would normally bounce back into space is absorbed instead.

Enhanced water vapor absorbs more incoming sunlight and reflection from snow and ice declines.

Additionally, the less sea ice covers the surface of the ocean, the more sunlight is absorbed by the water, which scientists warn could accelerate the Arctic's warming.

Water breeds more water because it absorbs most of the sunlight falling oWater breeds more water because it absorbs most of the sunlight falling owater because it absorbs most of the sunlight falling on it.

Global warming has a larger affect in polar areas, as the loss of snow and ice leads to more open water, which absorbs more sunlight and warmth.

Now if had bowl of water and sunlight shines thru the water, the «dark light» would be absorbed by the water, yes?

We know that more open water will put more water vapor in the air, and increase the sunlight absorbed each summer, both of which will lead to yet more warming.

Sunlight absorbed by the water is the source of energy in the system (explained well by Bob Tisdale above) so it's ocean temperatures that drive the winds.

There is nothing implausible about dark water absorbing more sunlight energy than ice, and there is nothing implausible about more energy resulting in warmer temperatures.

It absorbs 1 / 7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing 1200 times as much heat making 99.9 % of all «global warming.»

They merely trigger the condensation of water vapour (which saturates very easily in low pressure air) into cloud droplets which reflect back sunlight to space, rather than absorbing infrared as water vapour does.

Basically, Dr Ferenc Miskolczi's life as a NASA climate research scientist was made hell because he discovered that the extra water vapour being evaporated is not having a positive - feedback (increasing the CO2 warming effect by absorbing more infrared from the sun), instead it is going into increased cloud cover, which reflects incoming sunlight back to space.

Water vapour molecules absorb wideband infrared, so the sunlight filtered through water will tend to lose the far red end of the spectrum, and appear slightly bWater vapour molecules absorb wideband infrared, so the sunlight filtered through water will tend to lose the far red end of the spectrum, and appear slightly bwater will tend to lose the far red end of the spectrum, and appear slightly bluer.

And, in this case, what Dr. Meier is referring to is the fact that the albedo (reflectance) of ice is higher than water so that when the arctic is ice - covered, more sunlight gets reflected and less is absorbed.

When sunlight strikes ice and snow, most of it is reflected back into space, but if it instead strikes land or open water, then much of the energy in the light is absorbed and converted into heat, leading to higher temperatures.

A lot of visible sunlight is absorbed during the day by water that is part of the subskin layer.

An example of a feedback loop is when melting ice turns to water, absorbs more sunlight because water is darker than ice, heats up, and causes more melting.

The process was accelerated because dark, open water absorbed more sunlight.

Water is fairly transparent to visible light allowing sunlight to penetrate to a depth of about 100 meters before it is completely absorbed.

While pollution in some areas provides nuclei for water to condense on to form clouds, in other places there may be soot particles, which could absorb sunlight and cause the cloud to burn off (evaporate) during the day, leaving less cloud to warm the night.

The only way CO2 could absorb any more IR than it is already absorbing is if 1) the surface started re-emitting more IR, which could only happen if more sunlight reached the surface, or 2) atmospheric water vapor levels dropped, freeing up more IR to be absorbed by CO2, in which case, warming would not occur, because that radiation was already being absorbed by the water vapor that disappeared.

The caveat is that these molecules can weakly absorb sunlight in the near IR and visible on combination and overtone bands, mostly of water vapor, and on weakly absorbing forbidden transitions such as the Chappius bands of ozone, and for very low concentrations of dimers.

By draping black, carbon - dipped paper in a triangular shape and using it to both absorb and vaporize water, they have developed a method for using sunlight to generate clean water with near - perfect efficiency.

I'm sure some of it is absorbed by living organisms, that may do all sorts of things with it; most mpost of the ocean waters don't have living organsims everywhere to use the sunlight for something.

This is quite different from the positive feedback that follows when Arctic ice — which reflects sunlight — melts and gives way to blue water which absorbs solar energy, thus accelerating the melting.