Sentences with phrase «how radiation emitted»

Not exact matches

Wu was the first to verify — and later refine — Enrico Fermi's theory of radioactive beta - decay, which describes how some unstable atoms emit radiation when transforming into more stable atoms.

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

To determine the location of a star's habitable zone, one must first learn how much total radiation it emits.

They then looked at another source of data: that of the Clouds» and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instruments which measure fluxes of reflected and emitted radiation from Earth to space, to help scientists understand how the climate varies over time.

But these clocks are constrained in how precisely they can divide time because when caesium electrons jump from a certain state to another they emit radiation with a frequency of only 9 giga - hertz, or 9 billion cycles per second.

«Radio emissions from the regions in which clusters collide were first detected almost 20 years ago, but no one was able to explain how electrons could be accelerated to the point where they emitted radiation in this frequency band.

But pulsars emit gamma rays, and scientists such as KIPAC's Roger Romani can study these to measure their rotation and understand how high - energy radiation is generated in their intense magnetic fields.

What other things in the Earth system will change when it warms up that will affect how much SW radiation is reflected back into space [eg ice - albedo feedback, cloud changes] or affect what proportion of emitted LW radiation is allowed to escape to space [eg Water Vapour, cloud changes].

Miskolczi's optical thickness is how much of the surface emitted IR radiation reaches the top untouched and is equivalent to 15 %.

How can the earth be radiating a crude BB type spectrum corresponding to the surface Temperature when Trenberth claims that only 40 W / m ^ 2 escapes to space in the atmospheric window, and folks insist that the main body of the atmosphere (gases) does not emit thermal radiation.

«The top - of - atmosphere (TOA) Earth radiation budget (ERB) is determined from the difference between how much energy is absorbed and emitted by the planet.

1) Werner Becker of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics said in 2006, «The theory of how pulsars emit their radiation is still in its infancy, even after nearly forty years of work.»

But there may be a difference in how much energy is emitted as radiation versus hot gas.

tallbloke says: August 8, 2011 at 4:46 am 1) Werner Becker of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics said in 2006, «The theory of how pulsars emit their radiation is still in its infancy, even after nearly forty years of work.»

How you conceive of these two sentences, «What happens is that if more radiation reaches the surface, then it warms up and more radiation is emitted to space.

One particularly thorny aspect of the MJO is determining how much heat is transferred between the ocean and throughout the atmosphere by convection and how much heat is absorbed or emitted in the form of radiation.

10 How the Atmosphere Affects Climate (Page 273) Earth's atmosphere can absorb and reflect radiation emitted from the Sun and from Earth's surface.

So radiation has a chance if directed downward to reach the surface no matter how high in the atmosphere it is emitted, it's just that the chance fades quickly as you count lengths or shells.

How is convection going to «wipe out» a molecule's ability to absorb / emit certain wavelengths of radiation?

First, the quote is not dealing with what the result of reabsorbing its own radiation is but how to calculate the total emitted power of a body with a complex shape.

Similarities may exist in the spectral nature of the radiation being emitted from a gas and the radiation being emitted from a differential area on a blackbody surface; but without a clearly defined surface, I don't see how Planck's blackbody radiation law can be applied.

How a gas, atom, molecule, etc responds to thermal radiation, or emits thermal radiation, is dependent on the conditions of the environment it is placed within.

Does Hitran simply use a plank distribution to determine the amount of emitted radiation and if so how does the model determine the temperature?

B) How does» Across the wavelengths where the earth is emitting its own radiation (4μm - 40μm) it has an emissivity close to 1.»

The temperature determines how much long wave IR radiation is emitted by the surface and greenhouse gases.

Shortly after that first staff up - rising had been suppressed by issuing manuals for learning how to type at great speed, they expressed concern that those «machines» allegedly emitted dangerous radiation.