Sentences with phrase «atmosphere via radiation»

And, therefore, energy exchanged between the surface and the atmosphere via radiation is not proven to be equal.

Not exact matches

With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.

However it appears to me that lower layers of the atmosphere must also be losing energy via long wavelength radiation since they are gaining energy via convection from below.

CO2 reduces the rate at which the atmosphere loses its energy to space via infrared radiation, which in turn reduces the flow of energy from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere.

A side point here is that the ocean loses heat by radiation to both the air (thanks to greenhouse gases) and to space, and to the atmosphere by direct conduction and this, via convection and radiation, ultimately to space.

There is of course a direct heat exchange between the ground and the atmosphere, but the main transfer happens via heat radiation.

What I am hearing, seems to be that it is assumed that ALL of the surface radiation is absorbed in the lowest atmosphere layers EXCEPT Trenberth's ridiculously small 40 W / m ^ 2 that escpaes immediately via «the amosheric window».

Understanding how the earth and atmosphere cool to space via radiation is a critical component in understanding surface temperature changes.

The best papers I've read (so far) that seek to explain how things like the DALR and wet air lapse rates effect the actual transport of heat from the solar - heated surface and atmosphere to where it is ultimately lost via radiation are really quite good.

Although radiation to space occurs over the whole planet there is a general movement of heat from equator to poles via the oceans and atmosphere.

«All the energy that enters or leaves the Earth system does so via radiation at the top of the atmosphere.

(For the earth system as a whole, the only way it can lose heat is via radiation, although heat can be transferred between different parts of the system, e.g., surface to atmosphere by convection and evaporation / condensation.)

That is determined by consideration of the absorption of the atmosphere of terrestrial radiation (and radiation emitted by the atmosphere), which essentially ends up determining at what altitude the temperature has to be determined via radiative balance between the Earth system (earth + atmosphere) and the sun and space [which for the earth system with its current albedo is ~ 255 K].

Hence, the easiest way to figure out what is going to happen to the surface temperature is actually to look at the energy budget at the top of the atmosphere (where we know the only energy transfers are via radiation) and then to incorporate convection and latent heat transfer essentially through understanding the constraints that they set on the lapse rate.

Energy is received by the Earth's surface directly from the sun and also via long - wave radiation from the atmosphere.

If the energy is transferred to other gases via collisions, the heated gases of the atmosphere will radiate according to the laws of black body radiation (i.e. equal in all directions).

Doc, you then remind me: -LSB-[«I should add also that while convection is important within the atmosphere, the only way that Earth as a whole can lose heat is via radiation.

There may be convection and conduction within the atmosphere (up to about 10 Km as found by E. O. Hulburt in 1931), but between the Earth (including the atmosphere) and «space», heat is transferred via radiation since space is a vacuum (you need matter for conduction and convection, also shown by Hulburt in 1931).