Sentences with phrase «longwave radiation to space»

The same is true at the top of the atmosphere where the outgoing longwave radiation to space is also unidirectional.

If the troposhere is cold, that means sea surface also is cold, and it is still gaining shortwave energy from the Sun at the same rate while it radiates a lesser amount longwave radiation to space.

Not exact matches

Carbon dioxide, as well as CH4 and other gases, absorb and re-emit longwave radiation back to the earth's surface that would otherwise radiate rapidly into outer space, thus warming the Earth.

So with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we expect to see less longwave radiation escaping to space at the wavelengths that carbon dioxide absorb.

''... Satellite measurements confirm less longwave radiation is escaping to space... Surface measurements find more longwave radiation returning back to Earth at these same wavelengths.»

Satellite measurements confirm less longwave radiation is escaping to space at carbon dioxide absorptive wavelengths.

Absorption of thermal radiation cools the thermal spectra of the earth as seen from space, radiation emitted by de-excitation is what results in the further warming of the surface, and the surface continues to warm until the rate at which energy is radiated from the earth's climate system (given the increased opacity of the atmosphere to longwave radiation) is equal to the rate at which energy enters it.

The imbalance is not between IR absorbed and IR emitted by a layer of atmosphere, but between the incoming shortwave solar energy from space and the outgoing longwave energy emitted to space, due to the increasing difference between the ground temperature and the temperature of the level from which re-emitted radiation can escape to space.

In the absence of solar heating, there is an equilibrium «skin temperature» that would be approached in the uppermost atmosphere (above the effective emitting altitude) which is only dependent on the outgoing longwave (LW) radiation to space in the case where optical properties in the LW part of the spectrum are invariant over wavelength (this skin temperature will be colder than the temperature at the effective emitting altitude).

I make you angry: -RCB- It shows CO2's absorption in the longwave IR band, CO2 slows longwave radiation lost to space which increases temperature which increases evaporation, increasing water vapor in the atmosphere.

Dynamical upward transport by convection removes excess heat from the surface more efficiently than longwave radiation is able to accomplish in the presence of a humid, optically thick boundary layer, and deposits it in the upper troposphere where it is more easily radiated to space, thereby affecting the planetary energy balance.

Rising water vapor content, particularly in the upper troposphere greatly reduce the amount of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) which can escape to space.

By increasing the humidity, the solar energy is used more efficiently, or putting it another way there is less energy lost to space by the emission of longwave radiation because humid air has a strong greenhouse effect.

According to CERES data TOA IR or longwave radiation from the TOA to space is increasing.

Their container for their empty space atmosphere being the non-existant glass of their greenhouse which prevents longwave infrared direct from the Sun entering, which is heat radiation, and for which they have substituted shortwave mainly visible light to heat their imaginary Earth, impossible in the real world.

The paper provides evidence that all the longwave IR radiation released to space comes from the Mesopause, the Tropopause, Cloud tops, and the surface.

So with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we expect to see less longwave radiation escaping to space at the wavelengths that carbon dioxide absorb.

Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, reduce the amount of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) to space; thus, energy accumulates in the climate system, and the planet warms.

''... Satellite measurements confirm less longwave radiation is escaping to space... Surface measurements find more longwave radiation returning back to Earth at these same wavelengths.»

2) Resistance to outgoing longwave radiation reduces due to a weaker inversion at the tropopause, energy is lost to space faster whilst the stratosphere cools.

Yet something puzzling happens: While one would expect the longwave radiation that escapes into space to decline with increasing CO2, the amount actually begins to rise.

This matters because clouds are fundamental regulators of how much solar radiation makes it to the Earth's surface (rather than being reflected back to space by white cloud tops), and how much infrared or «longwave» radiation escapes back to space once again.

The resulting cold conditions around the world led to less longwave radiation back to space, and less convection and fewer clouds over the Pacific leading to increase absorbed solar radiation.

It also means less longwave radiation escaping to space.

The atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse, allowing much of the shortwave solar radiation to travel through unimpeded, but trapping a lot of the longwave heat energy trying to escape back to space.

In that thread, I posted a comment with an analogy of truckloads of orange juice, representing short - wave radiation from Sun to Earth, and truckloads of blueberry juice, representing longwave radiation between Earth and the Atmosphere and back out to Space.

«Clouds also block some of the longwave radiation that would be emitted back to space, so that a decrease in global cloud amount would increase the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface (more heating), but also increase the amount radiated back to space (more cooling).»

2: Resistance to outgoing longwave radiation reduces, energy is lost to space faster.

The violet curve (above right) shows that, assuming a mean temperature of 255 K, Earth System radiation to Space is in a squat, wide «longwave» range, from about 5μm to beyond 40μm, which we call mid - and far - infrared.

An increase in the atmosphere's concentration of carbon dioxide is also a climate forcing: it leads to a situation in which the planet absorbs more solar radiation than it emits to space as longwave radiation.

This NASA site (not GISS: ^) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Clouds/, is about clouds and says, in part: «When a cloud absorbs longwave radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, the cloud reemits a portion of the energy to outer space and a portion back toward the surface.»

More longwave radiation is reflected both to the surface and to outer space (as measured by satellites) under cloud - free conditions at wavelenghts where the various GHG (which are increasing in conc) are absorbing.