Sentences with phrase «downward radiation from the sun»

He uses Kirchhoff's law and the two energy balances (ground to lower atmosphere, upper atmosphere to space) to derive the result: The long wave upward radiation from the surface is limited to 1.5 times the short wave downward radiation from the Sun.

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In fact, on average through day and night and over a whole year over the whole Earth's surface, downward infrared radiation is more important than downward solar radiation from the Sun in warming the surface.»

The 2008 K&T cartoon gives a NET upward radiation flux from the surface of 33w / m2 with a downward adjustment to water vapour to 76w / m2 and conduction to 16w / m2 but the point holds; that point is more net heat is leaving the surface through methods other than radiation, particularly water; that to me means 2 things; water is a dominant mover of heat compared to CO2 and the sun's 168/166 w / m2 is a far more dominant heater than CO2 backradiation.

The term in use in Callendar's day was «sky radiation,» defined as «The downward radiation from the sky, excluding the direct and scattered short wave radiation from the sun.»