Sentences with phrase «black body radiation»

That hot wire emits what is known as black body radiation, a very broad spectrum of light that provides a warm look and a faithful rendering of all colors in a scene.

This last statement requires that the atmosphere not be able to lose energy via black body radiation or to do so only poorly.

You can also just mention that greenhouse gasses respond differently to different wavelengths of light without asking people to understand black body radiation or use those scary, scary equations.

If the radiation is anything other than isotropic black body radiation at the temperature of the gas, the steady - state population of the excited states can not be thermal.

A more sophisticated comparison might say that since black body radiation is related to absolute temperature to the fourth power,.25 % increase in irradiance would be expected to heat the Earth by.06 %.

2) Black body radiation depends on temperature of object observed.

2) The dipole of water means that unlike linear CO2 and tetrahedral CH4, water has a strong pure rotational absorption spectrum, and this rotational absorption, sitting on top of most of the 277K black body radiation from a «naked» earth, is what is responsible for the natural warming of about 20K.

I don't understand how the Planck function, which is about black body radiation, affects a greenhouse gas.

The researchers took care to rule out the possibility of other sources such as black body radiation and surface polarization as reasons behind the production of visible light.

This how data is cherry picked and has been mentioned before on WUWT that many temperature monitoring stations are near airport runways, where the black body radiation is higher and the heat from the jet engines of the planes is not taken into account.