Post by northsphinx on Jul 17, 2010 19:51:11 GMT
I think it is funny to read in CNN www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/16/nasa.upper.atmosphere.shrinking/index.html?hpt=T2
"An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday."
"The collapse occurred during what's known as a "solar minimum" from 2007 to 2009, during which the sun plunged into an unprecedented low of inactivity"
""This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab was quoted as saying in NASA news report."
And not to forget:
"As carbon dioxide increases, it has a cooling effect at such high altitudes, which also contributes to the contraction."
""It could be that we're underestimating the effects [of carbon dioxide] somehow. It could be because there were some physics that we're missing in the region of the atmosphere below the thermosphere, which quickly affects the thermosphere," he said."
all in one article.
Solar influence and CO2 cooling, from NASA. That make my day.
NASA Link science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15jul_thermosphere/
"An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday."
"The collapse occurred during what's known as a "solar minimum" from 2007 to 2009, during which the sun plunged into an unprecedented low of inactivity"
""This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab was quoted as saying in NASA news report."
And not to forget:
"As carbon dioxide increases, it has a cooling effect at such high altitudes, which also contributes to the contraction."
""It could be that we're underestimating the effects [of carbon dioxide] somehow. It could be because there were some physics that we're missing in the region of the atmosphere below the thermosphere, which quickly affects the thermosphere," he said."
all in one article.
Solar influence and CO2 cooling, from NASA. That make my day.
NASA Link science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15jul_thermosphere/
