I am not saying the atmosphere is like the n -
blackbody shell atmosphere.
Finally if I am not mistaken the temperature of the top layer of an atmosphere consisting of n
blackbody shells should be Tg / -LRB-(n +1) **.25) not Tg / (2.
So, indeed, having 10
blackbody shells leads to a higher temperature than having one blackbody shell.
Not exact matches
Below that you are no longer at the
shell of the
blackbody but inside of the black body where radiant energy bounces around until it it finds a home in some spectrum that adds to the emissivity.
It is clear that you have seen diagrams that illustrate
blackbodies as hollow spheres with a small hole in the
shell.
«For simplicity, this model treats both the earth and the
shell as perfect
blackbodies.
By contrast, when you have the
shell there, then some of the heat that the planet radiates (actually, in this simple example where the
shell is a perfect
blackbody, all of that heat) is absorbed by the
shell which subsequently radiates part of it back to the planet.