Sentences with phrase «absorbed radiation from»

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You believe that there exists some magical version of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics that prevents colder objects from radiating toward warmer objects... or the warmer objects from absorbing the radiation... or this absorbed radiation from affecting the energy balance, or some other total nonsense that violates the laws of physics.

Environmental cleanup Mushrooms could be used to break down petrochemicals or absorb radiation from contaminated soil and water.

Tinetti says the earlier studies could be a product of the planets» bright sides cooking to the same temperature throughout, which makes atmospheric molecules less likely to absorb radiation from below.

Temperatures in the low stratosphere rise because of molecules absorbing radiation from the star (right).

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

By absorbing radiation from below; but it would radiate both upward and downward, thus making the layer cooler; but if it is optically thick, it could make the lower part warmer.

It depends on each layer receiving and absorbing radiation from above and below, and re-radiating half up and half down as heat energy, capable of raising temperature.

Q. 2: Does this extend to the oceans and / or land surfaces and thus imply that a warmer solid or liquid surface does not absorb radiation from a cooler atmosphere?

You yourself quoted empirical proof of what Claes has proven computationally when you talked about a gas not absorbing radiation from a cooler emitter, but doing so when the emitter got warmer than the gas.

Add 1 «standard greenhouse atmosphere» of a gas that absorbs radiation from 1/10 of the total outgoing spectrum, and is transparent in the rest.

Anthropogenic greenhouse gases absorb the radiation from Earth's surface back into space and send part of it back to Earth.

Presumbly that's converted into radiation by clouds, dust particles, etc which are radiating in roughly the same wavelength's as they absorb radiation from earth's surface.

Not exact matches

Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

The matte black paper absorbs the heat while solar radiation from the sun is reflected from the aluminium foil onto the food.

These sunscreens protect us from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation by absorbing rays before they penetrate deep into our skin.

Limiting exposure to microwaves, dental and medical equipment, and even absorbing too much UV radiation from the sun help keep baby and mom healthy.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

The lack of infrared glow from the galaxy across a broad range of wavelengths, however, suggests that there's very little dust there to absorb and then re-radiate the stars» radiation, the team notes.

Furthermore, most of the radiation had accumulated on the leaves and could be washed off, suggesting that the plants were not absorbing dangerous levels of radioisotopes directly from the soil.

The Sun is close to being a «black body» — that is, the light it emits is very much like that from a hypothetical black surface that absorbs all the radiation falling on it.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

It is a dense absorbing material that is perfect for shielding the detector from incoming radiation.

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.

Ultraviolet light from early, blueish stars (illustrated) interacted with hydrogen gas, causing it to absorb background radiation, and creating a signature scientists have now detected.

Geoengineering schemes use two ways to offset this process: They either remove the gases from the atmosphere, allowing more radiation to exit, or deflect a portion of the sun's light — about 1.8 percent should do the trick — reducing the amount of radiation absorbed by the earth.

The earths surface absorbs visible radiation from the sun, which causes heating.

Pendry discovered that the electrical properties allowing the material to absorb radiation came not from the carbon per se but from the shape of its long, thin fibers.

The British company manufactured a radiation - absorbing carbon material that could hide battleships from radar detection but didn't know the physics of how it worked.

Charcoal - black world HD 149026b (illustrated here) absorbs most of the radiation it gets from its very nearby star, pushing temperatures to 3700 degrees Fahrenheit, above the boiling point of lead.

To a much lesser extent, aerosols also absorb infrared radiation reflected back from the ground.

Up in the stratosphere, the ozone layer absorbs harmful UV radiation coming from space — protecting humans, animals and plants from the damage UV does.

On Earth, temperature inversion occurs because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, preventing it from reaching the surface, protecting the biosphere, and therefore warming the stratosphere instead.

These so - called starbursts are difficult to observe from Earth, as their dusty shrouds absorb much of the optical light from the stars and re-radiate it as longer - wavelength radiation to which Earth's atmosphere is mostly opaque.

A standard atomic clock takes advantage of the fact that an atom can absorb electromagnetic radiation such as light at certain frequencies as its internal structure jumps from one «quantum state» to another.

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

MOST HELLISH PLANET Charcoal - black world HD 149026b (illustrated here) absorbs most of the radiation it gets from its very nearby star, pushing temperatures to 3700 degrees Fahrenheit, above the boiling point of lead.

On Earth, ozone absorbs UV in the stratosphere, protecting our world from a lot of the Sun's harmful radiation.

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

A kilogray is a unit of absorbed energy from ionizing radiation.

Gianneschi and his team found that the synthetic melanin nanoparticles in their experiments were not only absorbed and distributed normally by the keratinocytes in the epidermis, but they also protected human skin cells from UV radiation damage.

Thus when the Earth is radiating with a greater intensity than the back radiation from the air, then the excess radiation will be absorbed by the air molecules, and the air will warm.

It's not totally about how much infrared from the surface that is blocked (currently about 90 % of surface emissions is absorbed by greenhouse gases), its also about the height within the atmosphere from which radiation escapes.

It is dissected by several gullies, cut into the unconsolidated sand by streams (melting from the glacier surface is encouraged by the accumulation of dark wind - blown sand, which absorbs solar radiation)[17].

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) refers to the spectral range (wave band) of solar radiation from 400 - 700 nanometers (the visible wavelengths and the spectrum used by plants for photosynthesis) that is absorbed by the chlorophyll molecule.

Z - COTE LSA provides broad - spectrum protection from long wave UVA rays and medium wave UVB rays by physically scattering, reflecting and absorbing solar radiation.

Under ultraviolet light examination, transient dark and bright stripes mark Venus» atmosphere, indicating regions where Solar ultraviolet radiation is either absorbed or reflected, respectively (more from Venus Express and APOD).

The darker the ice sheet is, the more incoming radiation from the sun is absorbed and the more it can melt.