Sentences with phrase «where albedo effect»

Increases in forest cover generally cause cooling in the tropics where the ET effect dominates (Claussen et al. 2001) and warming in mid - and high - latitudes where the albedo effect is strong (Betts 2000).

Stopping tropical deforestation and increasing tree planting in REDD + countries, where the albedo effect is smaller than the carbon effect, makes sense from an energy balance point of view.

summer is where the albedo effect of the ice comes into play and the loss of ice significantly changes the amount of energy absorbed in the system.»

Not exact matches

For starters, one simply can not equate the positive feedback effect of melting ice (both reduced albedo and increased water vapor) from that of leaving maximum ice to that of minimum ice where the climate is now (and is during every interglacial period).

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

I even saw mention of experiments where humidity determined the size at which dust clustered — and how this further affects what is called the «imaginary index of refraction» at different wavelengths — which no doubt plays an important role in determining the associated albedo and greenhouse effect.

The mechanism which they claim to have identified is actually the opposite of what Lindzen described, where he claimed that clouds would increase as the result of the greenhouse effect and their albedo effect would hold down temperatures, but in the tropics the clouds that Spencer et al were dealing with presumably become fewer in number.

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.

One of the biggest concerns is that these sudden forests will decrease the albedo (literally «whiteness») of the tundra where snow cover bounces solar radiation back into the atmosphere creating a cooling effect.

The sub arctic snow in winter primarilly falls on land where it can remain in situ and have a major contribution to albedo effects.

Albedo is the effect where light colored surfaces reflect light and dark colored surfaces absorb light.

The largest warming is not occurring where the black carbon is, so that's a clue about its effect relative to GHGs and albedo.

If we had snow on the ground it would be much colder because of the albedo effect, and any warming that is happening right now is due to the fact that the snowless surface is absorbing energy, where a snow covered surface would be reflecting the energy back into space.

If Anthony had been familiar with the area, he would have known that Longyearbyen and Svalbard Lufthavn have no sun between 27th October and 15th of February (3.5 months, or almost 1/3 of the time), with the result that the albedo part of the AHI - effect would be zero in that whole period, in comparison to summer months, where there will be an albedo effect 24 hrs a day.

These are the first order effects, where a second order effect is that cloud cover eclipses or reveals surface albedo, so a net albedo effect is important.

I have issues with the second tier where albedo decrease is lumped in with CO2 effects.