Not exact matches
By maintaining that orientation, WISE can point its telescope away
from Earth and keep the
sun on one side,
allowing the spacecraft to be shielded
from solar
radiation by its sunshade.
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.
This is where
radiation from distant stars is brought to a focus by the
Sun's gravitational field, which would
allow a visiting probe to resolve objects at the centre of...
(mostly by faster transport of
radiation, which compensates for the CO2 slowdown, since tha amount of energy is fixed by what comes in
from the
sun) The failure to return to equilibrium means that the Laws Of Physics ie the Stefan - Boltzmann Law (SBL) is NOT
allowed to function.
I ask because my limited understanding is that temperature is related to kinetic energy, but would not register an overall increase in potential energy, in which case energy
from the
sun could be partitioned in heat energy emitted
from the planet and work used to increase potential energy, possibly
allowing an energy balance that does not require a
radiation balance, and also does not require a warming effect.
If CO2 and H2O molecules now are cooled below the previous equilibrium point by having their
radiation allowed to escape to outer space, then I believe these molecules must then tend to absorb more energy than yield energy with each interaction with the other components of the atmosphere until that atmosphere as a whole reaches a new thermal equilibrium where the net
radiation going out and the net
radiation coming in (primarily
from the
sun and the surrounding atmosphere) is the same.
Then, for the benefit of the lay reader, who would not be expected to understand the clear (to a competent physical scientist) implication of this simply - stated fact, I wrote: «This in fact indicates that the Venusian atmosphere is heated mainly by incident infrared [not the VISIBLE portion, which is indeed largely reflected, defenders, but INFRARED]
radiation from the
Sun, WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED BUT ABSORBED [or
allowed in to heat the lower atmosphere] by Venus's clouds, rather than by warming first of the planetary surface.
The theory is that the Ozone Hole, by
allowing more of the UV component of the
Sun's incoming
radiation to make it down to low altitude rather than being absorbed in the stratosphere is providing an incremental energy increase to drive the strength of the SAM, and thus the degree to which Antarctica is isolated
from more global weather influences.
«The southern façade, with more
sun exposure, has a natural shade: deciduous climbing plants protect it
from the
sun's direct
radiation in the summer and
allows the
sun to enter in the winter.
The CO2 molecules
allow the shorter - wavelength rays
from the
Sun to enter the atmosphere and strike the Earth's surface, but they do not
allow much of the long - wave
radiation reradiated
from the surface to escape into space.
The first, the Visible Light Window, on the left side of the graphic,
allows visible and near - visible light
from the
Sun to pass through with small losses, and the second, the Longwave Window, on the right,
allows the central portion of the longwave
radiation band
from the Earth to pass through with small losses, while absorbing and re-emitting the left and right portions.