Sentences with phrase «collisional decay rate»
So, explain how CO2 is able to re-radiate absorbed energy toward the surface, when its collisional decay rate in the troposphere is more than 10x faster than its radiative decay.
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The stratosphere cools with more CO2 because up there, the radiative decay rate is faster than the collisional decay.
The CO2 collisional vs. radiative decay rates are about 15 microseconds and 0.43 seconds, respectively, at 220 K and 1 atm., for a ratio of about 29,000 (Curtis & Goody (1956) Thermal Radiation in the Upper Atmosphere Proc.