Sentences with phrase «water vapour freezing»

My question then is did the water vapour freezing out of the air provide a positive feedback to the temperature drop?

Richard111 Mar 3rd 2011 My question then is did the water vapour freezing out of the air provide a positive feedback to the temperature drop?

He says the clumps were probably patches of ice that formed and grew from water vapour freezing onto the leg.

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This makes the water vapour in the air (and you can make sure there is some by putting the can on a wet paper towel) condense and freeze on the can.

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

Planetary scientists have seen a lot of evidence for frozen water at the Martian poles, and water vapour in the planet's atmosphere.

The ice in the permafrost of is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapour; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

This is because the top of the troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the stratosphere.

Instead it is a composite of the rates of evaporation and condensation, melting and freezing and thus the average time that a water molecule remains in the air in vapour form, or in the ocean as a liquid or in ice and snow as a solid.

It may be that oceans around the Equator would not freeze such that there would always be some water vapour.