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when ozone layer is destroyed there will be global warming,then in such a case temperature should increase,how does it decrease?

2007-02-21 11:37:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

8 answers

The actual answer is a complicated one because many factors are involved. However, a quicker answer...

Air pushes down - air pressure. At higher altitudes there's less air above to press down so there's less pressure. As pressure decreases the air is able to expand. The heat contained in the air is then dispersed over a larger area and the air cools down.

It's known as Lapse Rate - if you do a search for this you'll find more detailed answers.

2007-02-21 11:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2 0

The temperature decreases with increase in altitude, because the air is thinner, and not able to hold in as much heat the higher you go.
The thinning of the ozone layer is not what is causing global warming, a combination of other factors, whether they are man made or not is still up in debate, are to blame. Without the ozone layer, Earth would recieve more ultraviolet radiation, but this would not increase the temperature of the planet. It would certainly kill off most life on land though. Fortunately, the ozone layer is quickly repairing itself, and we won't have to worry about that.

2007-02-21 11:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Tikimaskedman 7 · 0 0

Well, you have part of the story correct...

The issue is what exactly is the Sun's rays warming?

At the surface of the Earth you have a dense atmosphere which equates to roughly 14 pounds per square inch of atmospheric pressure. So, the gas molecules are fairly close together. As you go up in altitude away from the surface of the Earth, the atmospheric pressure decreases. That means that the gas molecules are farther apart - more space in between them. And, most significantly, there is less and less "stuff" to be heated or to retain heat. So, it gets colder and colder up there.
Remember that "cold" is the absence of "heat."

When you finally get up into the upper atmosphere where the ozone layer is, it is really cold. Air there is virtually non existant. The only thing that is there is ionized air molecules, and those are spread out very thin in comparison with distances between molecules at the Earth's surface.

The surface of the Earth becomes heated in the daytime, and looses it's heat to the atmosphere in the night. Blow across a spoonful of hot soup sometime. You will notice that the blowing air cools the soup to the point where you can place it in your mouth. Same thing. The moving air takes the heat away from the surface of the Earth at night.

If you wanted to fix the problem with the Ozone, you could probably get some ozone generators and fly them around in hi altitude jet planes and crank out thousands of liters of ozone gas for us.

2007-02-21 13:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0 0

The air around you is heated by the ground and solid objects on it as they are heated by the sun, not the other way around. Also, as pointed out by others, the air is thinner at higher elevations, so it cannot hold as much heat (or water vapor). So, the combination of being further from the ground and that the air is thinner results in cooler temperatures (the adiabatic lapse rate).

As for the ozone, the destruction of it (in itself) shouldn't cause any temperature change, because ozone (triatomic oxygen is generated by the effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on normal diatomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere. UV doesn't have a whole lot of temperature effect on the earth, so if more hits the surface there shouldn't be much change.

2007-02-21 12:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by David A 5 · 0 0

Pressure does heat up an object.

Another reason is because the earth absorbs alot more energy from the sun than the air does, and the Earth radiates its heat into the atmosphere. As the air heats up it will become less dense and will want to rise compared to the denser cold air. But when it rises it looses heat as it gets farther away from the Earth's radiating heat.

Not clear on what you are asking about the Ozone layer.

2007-02-21 11:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Stewart 2 · 0 0

Temp decreases because pressure decreases. Perfect gas law:
PV = nRT
Clearly P & T vary in the same direction and proportionally.

Save ozone for the politics part of answers

2007-02-21 11:45:33 · answer #6 · answered by Steve 7 · 1 0

THE perfect reason is that with increase in altitude ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE decreases that's why TEMP. decreases bcoz pressure is directly prortional to temperature by gas law pv=nrt

2007-02-21 20:50:22 · answer #7 · answered by PearL 4 · 0 0

the answer for the question is that when the sun rays fall to the earth they r directly falling over it and after that they reflect themselves towards the atmosphere opposite to the earth . SO , while they approch towards the atmosphere the heat energy is more absorbed in the earth and while getting higher and higher their temp. decrease.SO THID THE SIMPLEST AND THE EASIEST ANSWER :) ;)

2015-06-04 23:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by Niharika 1 · 0 0

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