These droplets reflect radiation away from Earth and thus have a cooling influence.
Within this larger AVA are several smaller appellations that share the same cooling influence from the Pacific Ocean.
On the mountain ridges above the valley, the cooling influence of the fog can not quite reach the vineyards planted at these elevations.
This has a warming influence that appears to cancel, on average, the cooling influence of the forest's carbon storage.
This has a warming influence on coastal areas in winter and a cooling influence in summer.
Areas surrounded by mountain barriers, like some parts of Sonoma and Napa counties will be warmer due to the lack of this cooling influence.
The cooling influence of the oceans is so powerful that it counteracts the effects of Perihelion.
Though the scientific consensus says that humans are warming the earth by adding heat-trapping gases to the air, there is continuing uncertainty about the possible cooling influence of clouds.
Scientists have long known that clouds reflect the most sunlight back into space, exerting the strongest cooling influence, when they are dense and composed of small droplets.
They were once presumed only to have a cooling influence.