Sentences with phrase «area of earth reflects»

Reflection Some of visible light is reflected back into space by clouds and dust in the atmosphere Visible light is also reflected from Earth's surface 1) Which area of Earth reflects the most sunlight?

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It's an accusation that has often been lobbed at Keith's main area of study: geoengineering Earth's climate to counteract warming by, for instance, injecting particles into the sky to reflect sunlight.

However, there is an additional shortcoming due to the fact that the equilibrium temperature is also affected by the ratio of the Earth's geometrical cross-section to its surface area as well as how much is reflected, the planetary albedo (A).

Using a globe, pinpoint an area of the Earth's surface that you believe naturally reflects more of the sun's light.

The tour is enhanced by the inclusion of some «CGH Earth» hotels, which are harmonious to the local environment with high standards - for example at the Spice Village, Periyar, the fine» 50 - mile» restaurant only uses ingredients from within 50 miles and the colonial style bar reflects its hill station history, whilst «Coconut Lagoon» is only accessible by boat and the «Eighth Bastion» lies within the Fort Cochin area.

For example, if the Earth got cold enough, the encroachment of snow and ice toward low latitudes (where they have more sunlight to reflect per unit area), depending on the meridional temperature gradient, could become a runaway feedback — any little forcing that causes some cooling will cause an expansion of snow and ice toward lower latitudes sufficient to cause so much cooling that the process never reaches a new equilibrium — until the snow and ice reach the equator from both sides, at which point there is no more area for snow and ice to expand into.

And as that permanent ice cap grew it would cover an increasingly larger area and reflect an increasing amount of incoming sunlight back to space (less energy in), causing earth as a whole to cool.

The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect).

Soot, when it falls on snowy areas such as the Arctic and high mountains, causes the earth to absorb more sunlight, instead of reflecting it as snow does.

Since the ocean is 70 % of the Earth's area, the temperature anomaly will reflect that.

Near the subsolar point (dark blue colors), where the Sun is directly overhead, clouds reflect more than 1000 Watts of energy per square meter of Venus's surface area, an amount almost as large as the energy that Earth receives from the Sun.