Sentences with phrase «for infrared radiation»

First, he used a blackbody at 100C (basically, a pot of boiling water) as the source for his infrared radiation, and measured the transmission relative to the full blackbody emission of the source.

Greenhouse gases affect the atmospheric optical depth for infrared radiation, and increased opacity implies higher altitude from which earth's equivalent bulk heat loss takes place.

Greenhouse gas concentrations affect the atmospheric optical depth for infrared radiation, and increased opacity implies higher altitude from which earth's equivalent bulk heat loss takes place without being re-absorbed.

This must result in about 85 times as much infrared radiation from the Sun, at 3.3 microns wavelength, being sent back into space by the absorption and re-radiation from methane molecules in the upper atmosphere as could be re-radiated into the lower atmosphere for infrared radiation sourced from the warmed Earth.

The albedo of clouds for infrared radiation is likely the same for visible light.

He deduced that the cooperation of these gases has to take the form of an optimal atmospheric transmittance window for infrared radiation, such that if the concentration of one gas, say carbon dioxide, varies and changes atmospheric transmittance, the other components, such as water vapor, will have to compensate for it by changing their concentrations.

Well I read that paper, and it distinctly says they used a 1,000 to 1,200 deg C source for their infrared radiation.

They also used the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for any infrared radiation emanating from the spot.

Not exact matches

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Some astronomers promptly went ahead and searched for Dyson spheres, which would leak telltale infrared radiation.

«For comparison, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2005 was about 380,000 ppbv — so carbon dioxide absorption of escaping infrared radiation is much more important,» Rowland adds.

Part of the JQI theorists» work involves the modelling of the most likely switch for this process, a pulse of far - infrared radiation.

«Sunlight is a mixture of electromagnetic radiation made up of near - UV rays, visible light, and infrared energy, or heat,» said Yueh - Lin (Lynn) Loo, director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Theodora D.»78 and William H. Walton III»74 Professor in Engineering.

On the Earth, red - edge appears between red and infrared (IR) wavelengths, since red - light is absorbed for photosynthesis while IR radiation is reflected.

«Cirrus clouds are known to warm up the atmosphere by attracting infrared radiation,» said Guy Brasseur, director of the Climate Service Center in Germany and a coordinator for ACCRI.

Surprisingly, this dust gives off the brightest infrared radiation in the solar system (except for the sun's), some 300 times brighter than Earth's.

The glass is transparent yellow but blocks infrared radiation, so didymium is used in safety goggles for glassblowing and welding masks.

Human skin emits infrared radiation almost like a perfect black body, and IRT is thus well suited for the measurement of skin temperature.

With an arsenic concentration of 83 percent the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0.15 electron volts, making it predestined for sensors which can detect long wavelength infrared radiation.

Scan from the region of visible light towards the longer wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum and you'll find, sandwiched between microwaves and the infrared, a type of radiation that we have previously had little time for: terahertz rays, or T - rays.

For example, the infrared radiation emanating from the contraction of an interstellar gas cloud can cause the rotation of molecules to quicken, even without changing the speed at which the molecules are travelling.

One recent strategy is to create materials that are transparent to infrared radiation (IR) produced by the body — which accounts for between 40 % and 60 % of lost body heat — thereby allowing it to pass through to the outside air.

In 1983, an orbiting satellite called IRAS discovered far more infrared radiation — which has waves longer than red light — coming from the Vega than expected for small interstellar dust grains found around young, early - type stars (Harvey et al, 1984).

Schlegel, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P. & Davis, M. Maps of dust infrared emission for use in estimation of reddening and cosmic microwave background radiation foregrounds.

61 Virginis is a yellow - orange main sequence dwarf of spectral and luminosity type G5 - 6 V, with about 92 to 96 percent of Sol's mass (95 percent using the isochrone mass estimate of Valenti and Fischer, 2005; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, based on David F. Gray, 1992), 94 to 98 percent of its diameter (96 percent for Valenti and Fischer, 2005; Johnson and Wright, 1983, page 677; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived from the exponential formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980), and around 78 percent of its visual luminosity and nearly 81 percent of its theoretical bolometric luminosity, with infrared radiation (Sousa et al, 2008; Valenti and Fischer, 2005; NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, based on Kenneth R. Lang, 1980).

Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

The micrometre is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria, [1] and for grading wool by the diameter of the fibres.

Instruments for detecting infrared radiation include heat - sensitive devices such as thermocouple detectors, bolometers (some of these are cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero so that the thermal radiation of the detector system itself is greatly reduced), photovoltaic cells, and photoconductors.

If the temperature decreased with altitude, infrared radiation would at some point pass through a region of cooler water - gas, which would absorb the part of the spectrum responsible for the glowing effect, he explained.

For the same reason, infrared astronomy enables researchers to observe cosmic objects through large clouds of interstellar dust that scatter infrared radiation substantially less than visible light.

Accounting for relatively infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be between 0.70 and 0.93 AU around HD 156668 — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database).

The data also will be studied for evidence of a faint, uniform infrared background, the residual radiation from the first stars and galaxies formed following the Big Bang.

Phloretin CF features a patented synergistic combination of 2 % phloretin, 10 % pure vitamin C (l - ascorbic acid), and 0.5 % ferulic acid for enhanced protection against atmospheric skin aging — environmental damage and premature signs of aging caused by free radicals from UVA / UVB, infrared radiation (IRA), and ozone pollution (O3).

Optional: thermally and noise insulated laminated glass for all round more efficient reflection of infrared radiation.

Spread across the two floors of the Hong Kong gallery, the exhibition will present recent developments in Tillmans's portraiture and still lifes, beginning with an infrared self - portrait in which light is blocked out to allow for electromagnetic radiation to reveal thermal energy.

Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

I am still, however, not clear what is the mechanism for warming of still water under still air when subjected to only infrared radiation.

For example simple spectroscopy dictates that the CO2 molecule vibrates, stretches, and rotates creating quantized absorption lines that are Doppler broadened and pressure broadened and absorb the infrared radiation coming from the warmed planet.

Thus, for a well - coupled convecting troposphere, one defines the climate sensitivity (in the absence of feedback) as 1 / [d (SB) / dT] = 1 / (4 * sigma * T ^ 3), where T in this case is actually the emission temperature of the planet where infrared radiation leaks out to space (analogous to the photosphere of the sun, where eventually the outer layers of the sun become optically thin to visible radiation, and allow that energy to escape to space), not the surface temperature.

Seen on a graph, total visible and infrared radiation increases just before a sunspot appears, dips slightly for several days as it crosses the surface, then increases again as it disappears.

The ability for CO2 to warm the surface of a planet through the absorption of infrared radiation is well known.

Now, look at the figures they give for the Sun's energy at TOA in KT97 and ilk — AGWSF has given the total amount of energy which includes the great heat radiation of longwave infrared to shortwaves only.

He used it to study the absorption of infrared radiation by the atmosphere and discovered that absprption had been constant for 61 years while carbon dioxide at the same time went up by 21.6 percent.

Their container for their empty space atmosphere being the non-existant glass of their greenhouse which prevents longwave infrared direct from the Sun entering, which is heat radiation, and for which they have substituted shortwave mainly visible light to heat their imaginary Earth, impossible in the real world.

«Short infrared radiation» is what your remote uses to control your tv (for some reason this appeared in Terminator 4)

What we do get, is real invisible heat from the Sun which comes to us as thermal infrared which in the real world is how heat is transferred by radiation, and we get white light without which we would have no life on Earth because the blue wavelength is essential for photosynthesis.

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Thank you for responding... the question at hand is not about whether carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation: what is being asked for is the replicable experiments which verify the hypothesis (postulated by Mr. Guy Callendar et al) that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere would change the height where the absorption took place.

So what good is this experiment for the real scenario where carbon dioxide temperature is at ambient temperature or cooler and infrared radiation is coming from surface at ambient temperature?

So what good is this experiment for the real scenario where carbon dioxide temperature is at ambient temperature or cooler and infrared radiations is coming from surface at ambient temperature?