Sentences with phrase «long wave radiation»

The model was designed to illustrate one single characteristic of CO2, that being how it reacts with long wave radiation in the context of the «greenhouse effect».

There remains a misunderstanding of the atmospheric GHG effect, especially the effect of the contribution of downward long wave radiation to water.

As only the first few millimetres of the oceans at most absorb long wave radiation emitted by GHGs and it is unlikely that this layer stops evaporation of heat from the oceans how can GHGs influence oceanic heat storage directly?

The climate4you website has a section on long wave radiation which is very informative.

It turns out that the Radiative terms all can be ratioed by the incoming long wave radiation So * (1 - A) / 4 which in equilibrium is equal to OLR.

Of course, there are plenty of negative feedbacks as well (the increase in long wave radiation as temperatures rise or the reduction in atmospheric poleward heat flux as the equator - to - pole gradient decreases) and these (in the end) are dominant (having kept Earth's climate somewhere between boiling and freezing for about 4.5 billion years and counting).

My contribution had its ups and downs — a low point was definitely when Judge Alsup declared «your chart sucks» in response to a powerpoint slide (right) which showed an artist's impression of the Nimbus 4 satellite at the expense of a graph of how the spectrum of outgoing long wave radiation changed in response to rising greenhouse gases between 1970 and 1997.

In equilibrium to maintain the energy balance of the earth you must have just as much long wave radiation passing through (and warming) the top layer as before.

Greenhouse gases are the only gases in the atmosphere that can absorb the resulting long wave radiation emitted by the surface and by the atmosphere.

Unless the air temperature was significantly lower than the bulk water temperature, a skin temperature, albeit slightly elevated versus the bulk temperature, by incident long wave radiation, would have an truly insignificant effect.

Actually, the case for a tropical thermostat was pretty well established about seven years ago when data showed that the outgoing long wave radiation during the 90's was much larger than models said it should have been.

Long wave radiation essentially equals heat.

reducion in long wave radiation leaving the atmosphere 3.

For example we can quantify the ability of CO2 in the upper troposphere to absorb and reflect long wave radiation in manner that the theory proposes, and those who have done so have determined that these regions are saturated and thus the proposed mechanism is invalid.

The upper atmosphere is actually cooling due to a change in the spectra of exiting long wave radiation and the expansion of the atmosphere due to heating.

The non-LTE region does not emit net long wave radiation.

Response: Beacuse i) solar irradiance is not increasing appreciably, and ii) the bigger effect is the reduction in outgoing long wave radiation by increasing GHG concentrations.

This in turns implies we may have underestimated how much the opacity to long wave radiation has increased.

How do GHGs get saturated by long wave radiation and no longer absorb?

If the bond of a GHG absorbs a photon of long wave radiation, how long does it hang on to it?

This page outlines a map of assessment through the unit, including skill based questions, short writing responses and extended writing responses including essays.The atmospheric system, including the natural greenhouse effect and energy balance (incoming shortwave radiation and outgoing long wave radiation) Changes in the global energy balance, and the role of feedback loops, resulting from: Glossary - Student should make...

This will only be balanced (in a quasi-equilibrium way) when the surface temperature rises sufficiently to increase the outgoing long wave radiation.

This in turns implies we may have underestimated how much the opacity to long wave radiation has increased.

I explained to you on your own website that, whether you call them greenhouse gases or not, CO2, CH4, N20 behave differently from N2 and O2: GHGs absorb outgoing long wave radiation and N2 and O2 don't.

Thirdly, CE addresses the shortwave incident radiation without addressing the issue of outgoing long wave radiation that increases earth's temperature beyond unbearable limits.