The trapping and build-up of heat in the lower atmosphere near a planet's surface. Some of the heat flowing back towards space from the Earth's surface is absorbed by water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and other gases in the atmosphere.
Heat-trapping gases are also called greenhouse gases. They exist naturally in the atmosphere, where they help keep the Earth warm enough for plants and animals to live. But people are adding extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
The effect of trapping heat by the transmission of visible solar energy, and the absorption (or reflection) of infra red heat energy. This can be done by a sheet of glass or a layer of some gases, known as greenhouse gases.
The Greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in the lower atmosphere of the earth caused by certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane) that trap energy from the sun.
Greenhouse effect: A warming of the Earth's atmosphere caused by the presence in the atmosphere of certain heat-trapping gases (e.g., water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane).
greenhouse effect: the effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trapping a certain amount of the sun's heat as it reflects back off the surface of the earth towards space.
Harnessing tidal energy, on the other hand, involves trapping water at high tide and then capturing its energy as it rushes out and drops in its change to low tide. This is similar to the way water makes hydroelectric dams work.
Pitcher plants are insect trapping plants that indicate sites having poor nutritional statuses. The plants trap insects and utilize their nitrogen.
Extermination: the control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping, ...
Technique employed in a stormwater practice to retain storage volumes or prevent clogging by trapping coarse materials before they enter the system.
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The flow of stormwater from impervious cover to pervious cover.
Purge-and-Trap (P&T): Analytical technique (device) used to isolate volatile (purgeable) organics by stripping the compounds from water or soil by a stream of inert gas, trapping the compounds on an adsorbent such as a porous polymer trap, ...
Entrainment zone - The layer between the convective mixed layer and the free troposphere that is caused by a temperature inversion. This inversion inhibits the rising of heat and gases, trapping pollutants closer to the ground.
A colorless, odorless, flammable hydrocarbon (CH4) that is produced by the decomposition of organic matter, and other processes. Methane is a greenhouse gas; one molecule of methane is 25 times more effective at trapping heat than a molecule of ...
Baghouse Filter: A large fabric bag used to eliminate intermediate and large particles. It operates like a vacuum cleaner bag, allowing air and smaller particles to pass through it, while entrapping larger particles.
Greenhouse gases and clouds prevent some of infrared radiation from escaping, trapping the heat near the Earth's surface where it warms the lower atmosphere.
fabric bag, usually made of glass fibres, used to eliminate intermediate and large (greater than 20 PM in diameter) particles. This device operates like the bag of an electric vacuum cleaner, passing the air and smaller particles while entrapping the ...
An atmospheric condition caused by increasing temperature with elevation, resulting in a layer of warm air preventing the rise of cooler air trapped beneath. This condition prevents the rise of pollutants that might otherwise be dispersed. Trapping ...
These species are able to trigger the process of soil formation on bare rock by trapping windblown soil particles and by secreting acids which eventually break down rock. This chemical breakdown is supplemented by physical weathering.
There are several ways of accounting for uncertainty in simulations, such as bootstrapping, Bayesian methods, and Monte Carlo simulations. (see Bayesian, Deterministic, Monte Carlo, Sensitivity Analysis, Stochastic) ...
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