Questions tagged [atmospheric-science]
The study of the composition or dynamics of the gaseous layers around planets, often applied to questions on Earth's atmosphere but can be applicable to all planets & moons in the solar system.
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What would the temperature of the tropics be if the atmosphere did not try to balance out heat the latitudinal surplus and deficit
The atmosphere acts to even out the heat imbalnce between the surplus at the tropics and the deficit at the poles. Assuming that the composition and density of the atmosphere stay the same, what ...
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Surely $\rm CO_2$ reflects incoming solar infrared radiation?
Is the greenhouse effect not cancelled out by the $\rm CO_2$ in the atmosphere reflecting solar infrared radiation back into space? It seems logical to me that, if $\rm CO_2$ reflects infrared shifted ...
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How does gravity overpower a vacuum?
While watching experiments with vacuum chambers, I had a thought.
If you put a sealed box at normal atmospheric pressure inside a vacuum chamber, pumped out the air and pierced the pressurized box I'd ...
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What is the range of noon sun color temperature, when a light meter reports full expected sunlight (+/- epsilon)?
My question came from trying to find what uncertainty bounds, if any, I can assign to a color temperature sensor, without access to an artifact with a precisely calibrated output spectrum.
This leads ...
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Why can't we see green color in the sky? [duplicate]
From sunrise to sunset we can see a variety of colors in the sky.
For example, during morning the most dominant color is blue whereas during sunset orange,red,yellow and there shades are more dominant....
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Can we use thermonuclear explosion to fight climate change? [closed]
Nuclear war can create nuclear winter, which is opposite to global warming. Can we detonate thermonuclear (because they don't create radiation) bombs somewhere to decrease global temperature?
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Blue color scattering [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand, in terms of cross sections, why is the sky blue? Intuitively, blue has a smaller wavelength than the rest of the colors so it can "see" the internal structure of ...
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Expanding the barotropic nondivergent potential vorticity equation: Which vector calculus property/identity to apply for dot product and del operator?
I am trying to expand the barotropic nondivergent potential vorticity (PV) equation [link]
$$\frac{\partial \zeta}{\partial t} = -\vec{V} \cdot \nabla(\zeta + f)$$
where $\zeta$ is the relative ...
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The Darkening of the Sky During a Total Solar Eclipse
During a solar eclipse, the sky maintains a high brightness even when the Sun is, say, 95% eclipsed by the Moon. During the last ten seconds before totality is when most of the darkening of the sky ...
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Besides Beard and Chuang model, any prevalent models for the shape of raindrops?
In Beard and Chuang, 1987, the famous Beard and Chuang model that describes the rotational cross-sections of raindrops in their equilibrium state.
My question is:
Besides this model, any prevalent ...
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Why doesn't gravity causing the adiabatic lapse rate violate the laws of thermodynamics?
I'm looking to fully understand how the adiabatic lapse rate works and why it causing warmer air doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
My understanding is as follows: consider a parcel of air ...
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Atmospheric pressure and gas pressure
Can somebody please explain this to me. How is it possible the cap didn't fall since there's air trapped inside the container? If not mistaken, the trapped air has a pressure same as the atmospheric ...
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Which of the blocked radiation windows will (mostly) open if one where to observe from the surface of Mars, instead of the Earth?
Earth’s atmosphere is composed of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent other gases. Trace amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and neon are some ...
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It is possible to estimate the height of an explosion by its looks?
There's various social media postings (e.g. on reddit or on Twitter) saying this is what an exoatmospheric intercept (by an Arrow) missile looks like (I took 4 frames from the video, in case you don't ...
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Any research or study that monitored the spectrum of the natural light during the entire day?
I am interested in understanding the light spectrum during sunrise, morning, midday, afternoon, golden hour, and blue hour.
Is there anyplace I can look at those?
