Sentences with phrase «infrared radiation close»

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Four - pronged impact Like carbon dioxide, black carbon absorbs sunlight and infrared radiation, trapping heat in the atmosphere — including the boundary layer closest to Earth's surface.

This is much closer to the star than the dust discs of other main - sequence stars with excess far - infrared radiation.

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.

At a recent House hearing, five top scientists stated that black carbon could account for close to 16 % of the planet's gross warming and that it may be second only to carbon dioxide in its potency as a GHG — ahead of methane.The black carbon absorbs incoming sunlight, converting it into infrared radiation and emitting it to the atmosphere — a process we outlined in an earlier post describing the impact of «dirty snow» on global warming.