Sentences with phrase «while water vapour»

Oh and, while the water vapour content of air may be dependent on temperature, cloud cover certainly isn't No, not entirely, but increased water vapour is the main contributors to cloud formation, and, as you almost point out, increased temperature increases water vapour in the atmosphere.

Oh and, while the water vapour content of air may be dependent on temperature, cloud cover certainly isn't

The study showed that while water vapour provides the strongest feedback of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is not the cause (forcing) of global climate change.

[6] The difference is that while water vapour remains in the atmosphere only a few days or weeks, and hydrogen gas about two years, carbon dioxide lingers for more than a century.

He knew that the absorption of infrared radiation was due to CO2 and water vapour, and he also knew that CO2 is a forcing while water vapour is a feedback.

Not exact matches

While developing a dialysis machine that could use distilled water, Kamen (who's perhaps best known as the inventor of the Segway) discovered the process of vapour - compressed distillation, or VCD, which is central to the Slingshot's operation.

- All over camo print - Mesh side panels - High waist - Breathable fabric - resists water while allowing water vapour through - Wicking fabric that moves moisture away from the body - 4 way stretch material - length and width wise - Larissa is 5» 9.5» / 176.5 cm and wears size S * Size Guide: XS — UK 4 - 6, S — UK 8 - 10, M — UK 12 - 14, L — UK 16 - 18 *

Disaster agency spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Twitter that the white column derived from water vapour, while the dark grey was produced by magma.

And while it is true that CO2 constitutes around.04 % of the atmosphere, never the less it contributes around 20 % of the greenhouse effect, with water vapour contributing the other 80 %.

How can you hold water vapour constant while examining a reduction in temperature?

To claim that the entire system of atmospheric temperature moderation has been described by the fluctuations of atmospheric CO2 content while excluding the other obvious factors such as atmospheric water vapour content, solar flux and orbital mechanics is just nonsense.

While what I have described is a bit simplistic, it gives the gist of why the CO2 emissions are significant: not only is CO2 a greenhouse gas, but its effect causes other significant changes to take place, such as increased uptake of water vapour into the atmosphere.

To date, while various effects and feedbacks constrain the certainty placed on recent and projected climate change (EG, albedo change, the response of water vapour, various future emissions scenarios etc), it is virtually certain that CO2 increases from human industry have reversed and will continue to reverse the downward trend in global temperatures that should be expected in the current phase of the Milankovitch cycle.

While the total water vapour amount increased from 1988 to 2001, the water vapor decline in the upper atmosphere overwhelms the increase in the lower atmosphere by its greater greenhouse effect.

A slight change of ocean temperature (after a delay caused by the high specific heat of water, the annual mixing of thermocline waters with deeper waters in storms) ensures that rising CO2 reduces infrared absorbing H2O vapour while slightly increasing cloud cover (thus Earth's albedo), as evidenced by the fact that the NOAA data from 1948 - 2008 shows a fall in global humidity (not the positive feedback rise presumed by NASA's models!)

T0 can be taken as more or less constant near 255 K while P0 is latitude dependent near 400 mbar at the equator, and near the ground in the polar regions (as there there is very little water vapour and the optical thickness of the air on most of the thermal infrared spectrum is low).

Hence while the bulk of the water vapour in the lowest layers (2.3 km) closely tracks the temperature of the surface, it's the water vapour content of the high troposphere that controls the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and the global balance of the absorbed solar radiation with the OLR.

That is, while the roles of water vapour and cloud effects are very important in the net greenhouse effect, they function as feedbacks rather than primary drivers of change.

Light waves can be reflected / scattered, absorbed, refracted, or transmitted to pass through matter unchanged and different materials will have different effects in these encounters; high energy light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rainbow.

And while not topical in the context of this thread, and while this is an oldish paper, his conclusions re the effects of CO2 are interesting, tho perhaps not as interesting as his conclusions with respect to water vapour forcings and the GHE of CFCs and HCFCs...

So, if the oceans absorb 3.7 W / m ² of RF from a doubling of CO2, 86 % of that would be returned to the atmosphere continuously in the form of water vapour while only 14 % of it (i.e. ~ 0.52 W / m ²) would remain behind to warm the oceans.

«The implication of attributing 18C of warming to CO2 while saying -LSB-...] «About 98 % of the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere is due to water vapour» is to imply that in the absence of CO2 and H2O, the temperature would be 900C lower, i.e. well below the physical limit of absolute zero.»