Sentences with phrase «atmospheric water vapour absorbs»

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In view of the much larger quantities and absorbing power of atmospheric water vapour it was concluded that the effect of carbon dioxide was probably negligible.»

In 1928, George Simpson published a memoir on atmospheric radiation, which assumed water vapour was the only greenhouse gas, even though, as Richardson pointed out in a comment, there was evidence that even dry air absorbed infrared radiation.

Most GHE is set by the first ~ 1800 ppmV water vapour, restricting atmospheric GHE to non self - absorbing water side - bands, the 23 W / m ^ 2 absorbed in the atmosphere.

By shifting a higher proportion of the IR towards the atmospheric window, less is absorbed in the atmosphere and that has to be primarily water vapour side - bands.

CO2 is irrelevant to atmospheric warming — after the first 120m of traverse of LWIR through the atmosphere water vapour absorbs the IR to extinction and there is nothing left for the CO2 bands to absorb.