Tag: Water

Water vapour contributing to increase in warming in high-altitude Himalayas

February 16, 2022 Sharika Soukup

New Delhi: Water vapour exhibits a positive radiative effect at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), suggesting an increase in overall warming in the high-altitude Himalayas due to it, a study has shown. Precipitable water vapour (PWV) is one of the most rapidly varying components in the atmosphere and is mainly accumulated in the lower…

Presence of Water Vapour Leading to Increase in Warming Across the High Altitude Himalayas, Shows Study | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel

February 15, 2022 Sharika Soukup

File photo: The Himalayas. (Sajal Mukherjee/BCCL Delhi) Water vapour exhibits a positive radiative effect at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), suggesting an increase in overall warming in the high-altitude Himalayas due to it, a study has shown. Precipitable water vapour (PWV) is one of the most rapidly varying components in the atmosphere and is…

Scientist Uses Ice To Boil Water, Makes Discovery That Adds To 200 Year-Old Principle

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

New Delhi: Can you imagine ice being used to boil water? Well, a researcher from Virginia Tech, a research university in Virginia, United States, has just done that. Montaba Edalatpour, a graduate fellow, along with Jonathan Boreyko, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, has made a discovery about the properties of water that could add to a phenomenon…

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Extracting water from desert air: unique 10GW green hydrogen project set to begin construction in 2022

December 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

The 10GW Desert Bloom green hydrogen project in the Australian outback — which will source water for the electrolysis process from the air — has been granted Major Project Status by the Northern Territory. This means that the regional government will work with developer Aqua Aerem to progress the $10.75bn project to full scale, including…

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20 large weather balloons being launched from Seychelles to study water vapour levels

November 18, 2021 Sharika Soukup

The researchers are using a fleet of 20 long-duration balloons to study the equatorial stratosphere for several months. (Albert Hertzog) Photo license Purchase photo (Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles is being used as the base for an Earth observation programme using stratospheric super pressure balloons led by the French national scientific research centre, CNES. A…

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Researchers Debunk Theory of Ancient Oceans on Venus, Say Temperatures Never Got Low Enough for Water Vapour to Condense | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel

November 5, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Although doomsday on Earth is billions of years away, scientists have been busy exploring the possibility of life on our neighbouring planets. Since one of the primary requirements to sustain life on those planets would be water, researchers have been rigorously looking for any evidence of H20. On Mars, NASA has found traces of water,…

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Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa Has Water Vapour, But In One Hemisphere, NASA Hubble Finds Proof

October 20, 2021 Sharika Soukup

New Delhi: Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has the presence of persistent water vapour, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found. However, surprisingly, the evidence of this was found only in one hemisphere. Europa has an icy surface, underneath which a vast ocean flows. The ocean may provide conditions favourable to support life. This observation is of…

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Hubble Finds Persistent Presence of Water Vapour on Jupiter’s Moon Europa, Hinting At Hospitable Conditions for Life | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel

October 19, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Europa (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute) The Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa have revealed the presence of persistent water vapour, suggesting potential conditions hospitable for life, according to NASA. Hubble is an international cooperation between the US space agency and the European Space Agency. Astronomers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Space and…

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