Sentences with phrase «fraction escaping to space»

With the advantage of hindsight, I didn't need to use harmonic means, instead I could have again broken the atmosphere radation band into fractions, and instead of harmonic means, used the fraction escaping to space.

Not exact matches

Most of the gas cascades back onto the sun, but a small fraction may escape into the outer atmosphere to feed the solar wind — a steady stream of particles that blows far into space.

An atmosphere that is perfectly transparent to incoming and outgoing radiation can not radiate and all its heat content comes from conduction from the surface and is transported through the atmosphere solely by convection with no loss of energy to space except for the tiny fraction of atoms at the top of the atmosphere that exceed escape velocity.

In that case, my example would have given the amounts 1 * (0.3) + 1/2 * (0.6) + 1/10 (0.1) = 0.61 for the fraction of radiation at earth's surface escaping to space.