Sentences with phrase «absorbed by the planet»

There's «gee, I hope when I die I go somewhere special,» and then there's the fact of it: you're in a box, buried in the ground, your body breaks down and gets absorbed by the planet eventually, and your nutrients are used to make a plant grow or something to that effect.

More specifically, they will be limited to the solar energy that is normally absorbed by their planet — anything extra, including space - based solar, is out.

The scope could examine the starlight absorbed by a planet's atmosphere and so sniff out its gases.

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

sigmaT ^ 4 is the upward blackbody radiation (based on stefan - boltzmann) at the surface, «a» is the albedo (reflectivity), so (1 - a) is the fraction of incident solar radiation that is absorbed by the planet.

This could affect how much of the sun's energy is reflected back to space and how much is absorbed by our planet.

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

People who consider human activity to have a direct impact on climate generally take the stance that increased urbanization leads to more sunlight being absorbed by the planet (making it warmer).

For a stable climate, the sunlight absorbed by the planet must be balanced by thermal infra - red radiation emitted to space.»

We'd need to add the Bond albedo into Equation 2.3 (making this a gray body instead of a black body in the process) and so about 10 % of the radiation that reaches Venus is actually absorbed by the planet.

Additionally, much of the heat absorbed by the planet is channeled into melting solid water, and that heat is a massive quantity, given the mass of ice being melted and the fact that there's essentially no temperature change as the melting takes place (heat to change phase, as opposed to raising temperature).

This is because energy leaving the planet must be balanced by energy being absorbed by the planet from the sun.

Not exact matches

In particular, they are looking at the planet as it transits, seeking a telltale broadening of its planetary shadow due to starlight being absorbed by a hydrogen - rich atmosphere.

The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.

As a transiting planet passes in front of its star, some starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere and continues on toward Earth — minus certain spectral frequencies that have been absorbed by molecules in the atmosphere.

By seeing which wavelengths are absorbed as the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere, astronomers could determine whether the atmosphere contains water, carbon monoxide, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Clouds do more than just deliver rain and snow: by absorbing and reflecting light, they help control the flow of energy around the planet.

Since different elements and compounds absorb light at characteristic wavelengths, astronomers can determine what chemicals make up a planet's atmosphere by measuring the relative amounts of light that come in at particular wavelengths.

The energy and climate benefits of cool roofs have been well established: By reflecting rather than absorbing the sun's energy, light - colored roofs keep buildings, cities, and even the entire planet cooler.

Intrigued by this surprising discovery, researchers concluded that the light - absorbing gaseous form of titanium oxide has been removed from the dayside of planet Kepler - 13Ab's atmosphere.

Its atmosphere absorbs each band by a different amount, so the planet looks larger in some wavelengths than in others.

We have two guiding principles: we don't use natural resources faster than they can be replenished by the planet, and we don't deposit wastes faster than they can be absorbed.

The smoke from vast fires started by bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas would envelop the planet and absorb so much sunlight that the earth's surface would get cold, dark and dry, killing plants worldwide and eliminating our food supply.

Some substance in the clouds accounts for half of the solar energy absorbed by Venus and gives the planet its yellowish color.

«When an exoplanet passes in front of its star, light can be absorbed at some wavelengths by molecules in the atmosphere, which we can analyze by looking at how light passes through the planet's atmosphere,» said Benjamin Charnay, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Washington Department of Astronomy.

For example, it is assumed that by the gravity between the planets and gas of the disk, the planets will be pulled to the central star and finally absorbed into it.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

That incoming light is absorbed by hydrogen atoms and converted to heat energy, NASA stated, and this steady conversion of light - to - heat makes the planet appear to be pitch - black to onlookers, the researchers found.

[2] The doppelganger revived herself by absorbing massive amounts of Phazon in her storage room, further suggesting that the creature is indeed the Metroid Prime that was somehow resurrected after its downfall on Planet Tallon IV.

Thus, heat absorbed by the oceans accounts for almost all of the planet's radiative imbalance.

The point is that although selection rules will determine whether a molecular vibration can absorb IR radiation, and is obviously necessary for a complete discussion of the issue, the issue can be simply addressed by consideration of the frequencies of absorption by the gas and emission by the planet.

There are subtle effects such as the planet losing more heat from the open sea than from ice - covered region (some of this heat is absorbed by the atmosphere, but climates over ice - covered regions are of more continental winter character: dry and cold).

But by changing the planet's albedo through a large seasonal variation, the total insolation is changed — more sunlight is reflected back into space without being absorbed as heat.

The skin layer planet is optically very thin, so it doesn't affect the OLR significantly, but (absent direct solar heating) the little bit of the radiant flux (approximatly equal to the OLR) from below that it absorbs must be (at equilibrium) balanced by emission, which will be both downward and upward, so the flux emitted in either direction is only half of what was absorbed from below; via Kirchhoff's Law, the temperature must be smaller than the brightness temperature of the OLR (for a grey gas, Tskin ^ 4 ~ = (Te ^ 4) / 2, where Te is the effective radiating temperature for the planet, equal to the brightness temperature of the OLR — *** HOWEVER, see below ***).

However it happens, a planet's atmospheric temperature results from the heat it has absorbed, ie by ALL the molecules... which in any volume, are all at the same temperature.

Modern economics, whether informed by Marx or Keynes or Hayek, is premised on the notion that the planet has an infinite capacity to supply us with wealth and absorb our pollution.

It has been understood since the 19th century that some gases absorb infrared radiation (IR) that is emitted by the planet, slowing the rate at which the planet can cool and warming the surface.

It cools the atmosphere by absorbing some heat — heat flows from warmer to cooler — and by increased cloud cover that changes the energy budget of the planet.

But the overall level of the temperature plot in all planets is anchored by the weighted mean effect of the key absorbing layers, usually in the stratosphere and upper troposphere, where radiative balance with insolation is achieved.

Thats what you guys do when you misrepresent the carbon cycle by only taking into account what the planet emits and not what it absorbs.

«The top - of - atmosphere (TOA) Earth radiation budget (ERB) is determined from the difference between how much energy is absorbed and emitted by the planet.

That greenhouse gases being absent does not effect the one third of solar radiation being absorbed by clouds Or the surface albedo can jump from 12 % to 30 % Or the greenhouse gases being absent but still have clouds to reflect radiation Or the IR (not now absorbed) by the clouds will not obey Kirchoff's Law on reaching the planet surface And so on.

The planet's deep oceans at times may absorb enough heat to flatten the rate of global warming for periods of as long as a decade even in the midst of longer - term warming, according to a new analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

By contrast, when you have the shell there, then some of the heat that the planet radiates (actually, in this simple example where the shell is a perfect blackbody, all of that heat) is absorbed by the shell which subsequently radiates part of it back to the planeBy contrast, when you have the shell there, then some of the heat that the planet radiates (actually, in this simple example where the shell is a perfect blackbody, all of that heat) is absorbed by the shell which subsequently radiates part of it back to the planeby the shell which subsequently radiates part of it back to the planet.

The remaining solar energy is absorbed by the Earth itself, warming the planet's surface.

Eventually, all of the planet's H2O has been absorbed by the atmosphere.

«The most relevant part of that universal what - else is the requirement laid down by thermodynamics that, for a planet at a constant temperature, the amount of energy absorbed as sunlight and the amount emitted back to space in the longer wavelengths of the infra - red must be the same.

Its obvious that much of the remaining solar radiation absorbed by atmospheric CO2 is quickly and efficiently used up by the planets biomass cycle.

While a greenhouse warms the air by allowing in and retaining heat and not allowing in cooling air, greenhouse gases warm the planet by absorbing the Sun's heat and then reemitting it into the atmosphere.