News tagged with water vapor
Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Global warming likely to be amplified by slow changes to Earth systems
Researchers studying a period of high carbon dioxide levels and warm climate several million years ago have concluded that slow changes such as melting ice sheets amplified the initial warming caused by greenhouse ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2009 |
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The Chance for Life on Io
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Could it also be a habitat for life?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career
How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Pair claim they can make ammonia to fuel cars for just 20 cents per liter
(PhysOrg.com) -- John Fleming of SilverEagles Energy and Tim Maxwell from Texas Tech University, say they have developed a way to make ammonia that is cheap enough so that it could be used as fuel for cars. If th ...
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card
A 10 percent drop in water vapor ten miles above Earth’s surface has had a big impact on global warming, say researchers in a study published online January 28 in the journal Science. The findings might help e ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Earliest watery black hole discovered
Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Evidence for ocean on Enceladus: Tiny Saturn Moon Could Be Targeted in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plumes spewing from a tiny moon of Saturn - a moon roughly the width of Arizona - are filled with molecules that suggest that the moon, Enceladus, is likely another place in the solar system ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Positronium scatters like an electron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Positronium atoms have been found to scatter off gas particles in the same way as lone electrons, a finding which could help astronomers interpret some of their more puzzling observations, ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Asteroid strike into ocean could deplete ozone layer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Texas say if a medium-sized asteroid were to crash into the ocean the ozone layer could be depleted, allowing high levels of ultraviolet radiation to reach the surface.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to using climate models to assess the causes of the increased amount of moisture in the atmosphere, it doesn't much matter if one model is better than the other.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Space shuttle science shows how 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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More reasons to hate humidity: It expands global warming, prof says
Here's yet another reason to hate humidity: it expands global warming, says a Texas A&M University professor.
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Water vapor
Water vapor or water vapour (see spelling differences), also aqueous vapor, is the gas phase of water. Water vapor is one state of the water cycle within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be produced from the evaporation or boiling of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice. Under normal atmospheric conditions, water vapor is continuously generated by evaporation and removed by condensation. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas along with carbon dioxide and methane.
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