Sentences with phrase «incoming radiation from the sun»

The darker the ice sheet is, the more incoming radiation from the sun is absorbed and the more it can melt.

Surface temperature is an imperfect gauge of whether the earth has been warmed by an imbalance between incoming radiation from the sun, and outgoing radiation, because of the role of ocean currents in the distribution of heat between deeper and surface waters.

In terms of the cooling effect of clouds, the immediacy of feeling that effect is due to the blocked incoming radiation from the sun, just as it would be if you stepped beneath a large shade tree.

Weather and climate on Earth are determined by the amount and distribution of incoming radiation from the sun.

«[A] quantitative estimate of how much that gas disrupts the balance between incoming radiation from the sun and outgoing radiation reflected from the Earth's surface.

In all of these simple models, we assume the atmosphere to have a volume as fixed as a bathtub, we assume that the atmosphere / ocean system is a closed system, we assume that the incoming radiation from the Sun is constant, we assume no turbulence, we assume no viscosity, we assume radiative equilibrium with no feedback lag, we take no account of water vapor flux assuming it to be constant, no change in albedo from changes in land use, glacier lengthening and shortening, no volcanic eruptions, no feedbacks from vegetation.

GHGs typically don't interfere w / short - wave incoming radiation from the sun.

Not exact matches

Climate is driven largely by energy from the sun, and the manner in which this incoming solar radiation is reflected, absorbed, transformed (as in photosynthesis), or re-radiated (as heat).

The paragraph in the OP you quote from as well as the one above it in full are saying that the ice age cycles result from the Earth's changing orbit round the sun which creates changes in the «incoming solar radiation (insolation) at high latitudes» (Roe (2006) PDF).

I think the central point is that of the scale of energy imbalance and the timescale for response: our addition of CO2 reduces outgoing thermal radiation, so incoming energy from the sun is greater than outgoing energy to space.

Is it not also therefore true that the polar areas of least water vapor, where a greater temperature increase from doubling of Co-2 would have the most effect, has the least W / sq - m percentage of both incoming S - W and outgoing L - W radiation due to the incident angle of incoming Sun light, the high reflectivity of the snow and ice, and the greatly reduced outgoing L - W radiation due to this?

Is it not also therefore true that the polar areas of least water vapor, where a greater temperature increase from doubling of Co-2 would have the most effect, has the least percentage of both incoming S - W and outgoing L - W radiation due to the incident angle of incoming Sun light, the high reflectivity of the snow and ice, and the greatly reduced outgoing L - W radiation due to this?

Because the climate system derives virtually all its energy from the Sun, zero balance implies that, globally, the amount of incoming solar radiation on average must be equal to the sum of the outgoing reflected solar radiation and the outgoing thermal infrared radiation emitted by the climate system.

As the incoming 168 W / m ^ 2 radiation from the Sun is generating 324 W / m ^ 2 of greenhouse gas back - radiation into the Earth's surface, the whole system must be self - sustaining so that, once started, the sunshine ceases to be relevant.

W, the energy from the sun, is the incoming solar radiation of 342 W / m2 less the 107 W / m2 that is reflected by the surface and the clouds.

The theory is that the Ozone Hole, by allowing more of the UV component of the Sun's incoming radiation to make it down to low altitude rather than being absorbed in the stratosphere is providing an incremental energy increase to drive the strength of the SAM, and thus the degree to which Antarctica is isolated from more global weather influences.

Nice theory, but, a large part of the UHI effect is retained heat from insolation (incoming solar radiation energy warming concrete etc) and, if no sun, no warmth... which in large part happened in Dallas Ft. Worth just recently with our record snow; and we had continuing overcast afterwards too.