Sentences with phrase «while lower clouds»

High clouds reflect light, cooling the earth, while lower clouds trap heat.

«While low clouds have a predominantly cooling effect due to their shading of sunlight, most cirrus clouds have a net warming effect on the Earth,» Spencer said.

Not exact matches

Rometty has been steering Big Blue toward areas such as cloud - based services, security software and data analytics, while trimming its traditional hardware business by exiting low - margin businesses.

Other sources provide services to keep costs low: Science Exchange connects scientists with experts; and Transcriptic is a cloud - based biotech lab testing experimental drugs, while Gingo Bioworks designs custom microbes for customers.

Lightspeed grew its customer base by staying on top of retail trends, constantly adding new features like mobile checkout functionality, and adapting its business model to the cloud, giving clients access to data and analytics while keeping overhead low.

While the benefits — such as lower upfront costs, reduced management requirements, on - demand scaling — are widely understood, managing, optimizing and securing cloud infrastructure is a different story.

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

Our understanding of these phenomena and our ability to model them are primitive,...» While there are doubts about the link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, there is an observed significant link between (low) cloud cover and solar radiation within the last two sun cycles.

And one other piece of bad news: Warming clouds tend to shift higher in the atmosphere, where they trap more heat while reflecting no more sun than they would have lower down.

Alcohol lowers inhibitions and clouds judgment, as well, which could lead a person to engage in risky behaviors like having unprotected sex or driving a car while drunk.

Businesses using the cloud now expect the whole package — high performance, security and low costs — all while receiving a personalised service that meets their needs.

This is much like the Chromebook strategy of using slightly low powered hardware while relying on cloud computing to get the work done.

This combination of lackluster hardware with top - notch content and cloud services put the Fire in the peculiar spot of changing the definition of what a low - price tablet can and should be, while still leaving me unfulfilled and waiting for the Kindle Fire 2.

In terms of storage space, the new e-reader comes with 2 GB of internal memory, but also with free cloud storage for all Amazon content, while in terms of battery life you should get up to one month of autonomy based on low use.

While mortgage shoppers should not ignore the gathering economic and financial clouds, those lower mortgage rates should remain their primary focus.

Cloudy Highland is a dull and very grey stage, with a long winding road and low clouds; Industrial Complex is a fascinating maze of pipes, cranes and scaffolding underneath a brown sky; Snow Mountain is an awesomely large mountain covered in - erm, snow, with a few aqueducts and tunnels - while Ghost Forest is a stage we didn't get to see.

While the Harrier is a low - color sprite (as are the enemies in the latter version), everything else, including the clouds, trees and bullets, are just featureless colored rectangles.

A low - slung horizon of men and women on tractors sweeps up to a blue sky intersected by a parachute, while a passing cloud casts a shadow across much of the frame.

In the Arctic, to take an important sub-case, it's very possible that heavy low - level cloud in June will cool, while the same cloud in early September will warm.

And the process of condensation where moist air forms clouds is the process by which the latent heat is released — warming the lower troposphere while cooling the surface.

Our understanding of these phenomena and our ability to model them are primitive,...» While there are doubts about the link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, there is an observed significant link between (low) cloud cover and solar radiation within the last two sun cycles.

(Note that radiative forcing is not necessarily proportional to reduction in atmospheric transparency, because relatively opaque layers in the lower warmer troposphere (water vapor, and for the fractional area they occupy, low level clouds) can reduce atmospheric transparency a lot on their own while only reducing the net upward LW flux above them by a small amount; colder, higher - level clouds will have a bigger effect on the net upward LW flux above them (per fraction of areal coverage), though they will have a smaller effect on the net upward LW flux below them.

If solar is enhanced (by some factor like stratospheric and / or cloud responses), then the model fits the Moberg reconstruction, while with lower solar variability, the low - variability reconstructions are within the model margins...

While computational advances alone will not bring about a resolution of the low - cloud problem soon, recent computational advances, paired with the availability of unprecedented observational data, do enable new approaches to the parameterization problem.

While there are some similarities between the approaches, an important difference is that the slab - ocean approach allows surface and MBL temperatures to adjust to the energetic perturbation: positive energetic forcing of the surface leads to warming, weakens the inversion, and reduces low - cloud cover and liquid water path (LWP).

In - depth analysis reveals that the model's shallow cumulus convection scheme tends to significantly under - produce clouds during the times when shallow cumuli exist in the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the day.

Here is more on HIRS and ISCCP Cloud Trends, indicating that low clouds (which predominantly cool) have tended to decline or remain unchanged, while the ratio of high clouds (which tend to warm) to low clouds has tended to increase.

I'll go out on a limb and speculate that cosmic rays might alter the vertical distribution of water droplets and shift cloud cover from high to low level while keeping shortwave albedo the same.

On the other hand the projected positive feedbacks you support, which are COMPLETELY theoretical, depend on the LEAST understood aspects of the affect of water vapor and cloud formation, so the strong feedbacks PROJECTED are the least dependable, while the «OBSERVATIONS» used by Lindzen, Spencer, and others, support the lower estimates of climate sensitivity.

I could say that the sun is weaker than it has been for a while in this cycle, yet global cloud cover is lower, which is evidence that the Svensmark theory is wrong, while this evidence consistent with AGW and positive cloud feedback.

For everyone who did not monitor the Polar sat pictures, the regular Mid-April clouding over of most of the Arctic Ocean has happened, that was and is good news, it is a slow starter, but from a second lowest maximum volume, sea ice needs all the good news it can get, which will likely not come until mid June onwards, for a little while.

The observations showed that when the usual shallow cumulus clouds give way to the MJO's towering cumulonimbus storms, radiant heat trapped by clouds and moisture gradually warms a deeper column of the lower atmosphere while the tops of the storms radiate heat into space, cooling the upper troposphere.

While we are hesitant to extrapolate from very short data series (always a dubious procedure) it is entirely plausible that reduction in low cloud over the period could conservatively be estimated to have increased heating at Earth's surface by 5 - 10 Wm - 2, an amount more than sufficient to account for all the estimated warming over the period.

A recent study used NASA satellite observations to test the skill of climate models in simulating this cloud - type transition, and found that high sensitivity models simulate it more accurately, while low sensitivity models tend to overemphasize its climate cooling effect.

Regarding clouds, recent trends suggest a slight decline in total cloud cover over several decades, due to a reduction in low clouds, which exert a net cooling influence, while high cirrus clouds, which are net warmers, have remained relatively constant.

Increases in high, thin clouds would suggest a larger sensitivity, while increases in low, thick clouds would make the value smaller.

Clouds with low bases are most efficient in reducing the daytime maximum temperature and DTR mainly because they are very effective in reflecting the sunlight, while middle and high clouds have only moderate damping effects on DTR.

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) values (Huffman et al. 2009) are considered most reliable for precipitation (Trenberth et al. 2007b), while results from CloudSat (e.g., Stephens and Haynes 2007) may help improve on these, with prospects mainly for increases in precipitation owing to undersampling low warm clouds.

He proposed that an increase in low level cloud coverage would result in lower temperatures as they acted like a shade over the earth, while also reflecting more sunlight away from the earth's surface.

While those costs are low, it may not make sense to store every bit sent over the 15 - year life of a washing machine in the cloud, especially if manufacturers can't come up with a business model that keeps the lights on in that data center.

The Cloud Cam's microphone is surprisingly sensitive, and picked up raised voices from across our small home while delivering crystal clear audio for even low - level in - room conversations.

Pro-gaming optimized, HyperX Cloud is HiFi capable and delivers intense audio with crystal - clear low, mid and high tones plus enhanced bass - reproduction so you can lose yourself while you win.

While the Doorbell Cam Pro's price is in - line with Ring's Video Doorbell 2 and the SkyBell HD, it has lower video resolution, a narrower field of view and a higher cloud storage fee.

While I already got most of what I needed for a much lower price, I'm happy to pay more for PS Vue's robust cloud DVR, access to local channels, and, perhaps most importantly, a properly working app that's simply a joy to use.

While the Delta earphones played the track in a cloud of sound, the Jive managed to be sharper and more nuanced, thanks to the right amount of definition between the lows and mids.

The cloud's impact will be to lower the cost of ownership while enjoying greater access to a broader array of computer capabilities.