Sentences with phrase «back radiation needs»

More back radiation needs to be compensated for by more surface radiation.

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At the end of a visit to the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s, Segre took back to Sicily with him a few bits of an old cyclotron, no longer needed, that had been exposed to radiation during the lifetime of the machine.

«If this view is correct, the need for «back - radiation» to satisfy the first law of thermodynamics at the surface disappears and with it the «problem» with the second law.»

James Hansen was not advanced enough in his understanding of thermodynamics to realise why this heat creep happens, so he wrongly guessed that back radiation was supplying the needed energy.

You do not need to invoke «back radiation».

It makes a big difference, because now we don't need to invent any multiplication of energy by back radiation to explain that extra 33 degrees.

Our solar panels obviously do not need back - up batteries to store electricity or boosters for hot water at night as there is plenty of incoming back - radiation to keep them functional night and day.

If the CO2 was the entire cause of warming due to back radiation would not the atmosphere need to be warming in lockstep with the oceans?

So, if we seek a minimum temperature that earth holds without IR absorbing gases we need to count back radiation of absorbed sunlight, 39 W / sqm, 161 W / sqm absorbed sunlight + 38 % reflection of outgoing radiation we get 322 W / sqm or 0 deg celsius at surface.

You do not need a special kind of «back radiation» that flows from cold to hot to explain it, it only scrambles minds away from what is actually happening.

We could place mirrors in farms just outside the cities and boil water at night using back radiation and use this steam to produce electricity and heat our cities without any need for batteries.

To get close to the K&T back radiation values, there apparently needs to be a LOT of H2O in the atmosphere.

Yet, the characteristics of clouds on which the back radiation is most dependent, such as cloud base, are not well determined from conventional space - based measurements and hence the need for missions such as CloudSat (e.g., Stephens et al. 2002; Haynes and Stephens 2007).