Article: atmosphere

Article: Earth
A Dictionary of Astronomy;      450 words ......coloration, caused by its atmosphere. The Earth is slightly ellipsoidal...Averaged over a year, the Earth's atmosphere has a composition (by volume...important process early in the Earth's history, but the atmosphere now protects the surface...

Article: Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere
Water:Science and Issues;      700+ words ......considered a trace gas in the atmosphere because it is much less...role in sustaining life on Earth and in controlling the Earth's climate by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The oceans play an important...CO 2 that remains in the atmosphere acts as a greenhouse gas...radiation (heat) in ...

Article: Dead Satellite to Hit Earth Early March
AP Online;  February 7, 2008 ;     412 words ......about 59 miles above the Earth and enters the atmosphere. It will then begin to burn...objects have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. The largest uncontrolled...satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the...

Article: Defunct spy satellite expected to hit Earth the first week of March
AP Worldstream;  February 8, 2008 ;     421 words ......descends to about 59 miles above Earth and enters the atmosphere. It will then begin to burn...objects have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. The largest uncontrolled...satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the...

Article: Preserving the atmosphere as a global commons. (includes related article on the earth's atmosphere)
Environment;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......the shadow of the Earth, the atmosphere appears as a thin...1) Gases in the atmosphere moderate the flow...to and from the Earth, thereby maintaining...surface of the Earth. (For more details...resource terms, the atmosphere is an example of...

Article: Zoom with a view: Mission to Planet Earth. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration program using remote sensing to diagnose problems with ecosystems)
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication;  April 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ......perspective of the earth's environment...ozone layer of the atmosphere. (The ozone layer...composition of the atmosphere will analyze pollutants...retain heat in the atmosphere and contribute...that orbit the earth every eight days...The lithosphere (Earth's crust): Space-bas...be ...

Article: Snowballs from space. (physicist Louis Frank believes that thousands of tiny comets hit the Earth's atmosphere every year; other scientists disagree with him)(Earth Science)
Science World;  October 1, 1997 ;     389 words ......changing into water vapor, in Earth's upper atmosphere for 4.5 billion years. They...continually circulates between Earth and its atmosphere. By suggesting that water...into small pieces. 3. In Earth's atmosphere, sunlight melts the pieces...

Article: Tales from the ice: each year scientists venture south to Antarctica, Earth's most desolate continent. They bore deep into glaciers to draw out long rods of ice. Why? Clues to the mysteries of global warming are frozen within. (Earth Science: Global Warming. Ice).
Science World;  November 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and gases from the atmosphere: ice-locked clues of Earth's climate history...to pass through the atmosphere, but doesn't allow...gases float through the atmosphere, some fall onto Antarctica...holds records of how Earth's climate has changed...

Article: The earth microwave background (EMB), atmospheric scattering and the generation of isotropy.(LETTERS TO PROGRESS IN PHYSICS)
Progress in Physics;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......power in the atmosphere of the Earth is discussed...striking the Earth from all spatial...absorbed by the atmosphere must eventually...universe [2], the atmosphere of the Earth would still...radiation. The atmosphere cannot distinguish...

Article: Our pleasant blue Earth has a sister planet, Venus, of approximately the same size and internal composition.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)
National Review;  August 13, 2007 ;     172 words ......pleasant at all. An atmosphere 93 times heavier than Earth's creates pressure...67 million miles, Earth--93 million). To cook up an atmosphere like that of Venus...years of cooking. The Earth's atmosphere may indeed be entering...

Article: Atmosphere
Encyclopedia of Public Health;      700+ words ...ATMOSPHERE The earth's atmosphere is simple in some...in governing the earth's heat exchange and the motion of the atmosphere, due to its high...particles or by the earth's surface. About...passes through the atmosphere. Stratospheric...

Article: Spaced out! A high-tech race could make space tourism more affordable.(Earth Atmosphere)
Science World;  January 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Neptune 297 km (185 mi) into Earth's atmosphere, or the protective layer of...down through the layers of Earth's atmosphere. With each passing layer, the...amp; Bolts Scientists divide Earth's atmosphere into four main layers: troposphere...

Article: On the earth microwave background: absorption and scattering by the atmosphere.
Progress in Physics;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......radiation by the atmosphere of the Earth is considered...positioned on the Earth's surface. 1...radiation by the atmosphere of the Earth has been highly...means for the atmosphere to provide signal...received, even on Earth. Nonetheless...

Article: general circulation of the atmosphere
The Oxford Companion to the Earth;      700+ words ......does the air in the atmosphere move at all?’...If there were no atmosphere, as for example...the parts of the Earth that are most exposed...However, if the atmosphere, and also the oceans...circulation of the atmosphere were undertaken...equatorwards near the Earth's surface ...