Sentences with phrase «of incoming solar»

Forcing is, for instance, the amount of incoming solar radiation at the top of the atmosphere.

The numerical experiments are designed to explore the effects of changing various properties of the ocean (its size, geometry and diapycnal diffusivity), the atmosphere (its water vapour content) and the forcing of the system (the distribution of incoming solar radiation and the rotation rate of the planet).

There is an infrared component of incoming solar radiation that is not only reflected, but also absorbed by CO2 and other molecules, and then reradiated as lower energy radiation.

In the real world, increased concentrations of CO2 would theoretically block a certain proportion of incoming solar insolation so that less solar radiance is absorbed by the ground and oceans, and it would also increase the rate of out going radiation at TOA.

Ramanathan and Inamdar estimated that clouds reflect 48 W / m ^ 2 on average (or 14 % of the incoming solar energy of 342 W / m ^ 2).

Both, however, are efficient at intercepting outgoing infrared radiation from the Earth's surface and atmosphere The disparity is due to the different wavelengths of incoming solar energy and outgoing infrared energy.

Clouds cool the Earth's climate by reflecting about 20 percent of incoming solar radiation back into space.

As I understand it global temperatures are calculated as anomalies, thus removing seasonal swings, but that Heat Content is not, Now our dear planet has an elliptical orbit and is sometimes closer to the sun that others; sure, the shape of the land and oceans doesn't mean that the amount of incoming solar radiation falling on the oceans follows the Earths orbit, but it should be possible to work out the amount of incoming solar radiation each quarter.

Dr. David Evans (personal communication, 2007) has calculated that the characteristic - emission - level value of κ should be diminished by ~ 10 % to allow for the non-uniform latitudinal distribution of incoming solar radiation, giving a value near - identical to that in Eqn.

The surface temperature will rise until it generates thermal radiation equivalent to the sum of the incoming solar and infrared radiation.

ABCs have masked GHG warming by enhancing the albedo (percent of incoming solar radiation re-flected back to space) of the planet.

Fine particles created during powerful volcanic eruptions, such as Mount Tambora in 1815, Mount Krakatau in 1883, and Mount Pinatubo in 1991; can spread out high above the ground, forming an invisible, umbrella - like shield that blocks some of the incoming solar radiation and causes temporary global cooling.

Since there is virtually no latent or sensible heat involved here, this means the sum of incoming solar (not including albedo), outgoing longwave, and incoming (returning) longwave is zero.

If I plug in the radius of the earth squared times pi times a tousand watts per meter squared I get 127000 Terawatts of incoming solar energy.

We can collect and focus the 184 w / m ^ 2 of incoming solar energy and use it to melt salts etc in solar power plants.

-- The surface is, in the EFC, shown to absorb 168 W / m ² of incoming Solar radiation, but does not even attempt to conserve any energy as it gets rid of (24 +78) = 102 W / m ² via thermals and «evapo - transpiration» and then in stead of being contented with radiating away the remaining 66 W / m ², it sends out a whopping 390 W / m ²

The problem I have is whether the atmosphere is warm simply because of the absorption of solar energy (a combination of absorption of incoming solar radiation and absorption of reflected and radiated solar energy from the bottom up) and adiabatic lapse, or whether in addition back radiation from GHGs plays a significant role.

When you say absorbed by earth system, this mostly means amount the surface warms up and the atmosphere itself is only absorbing a small percentage of the incoming solar flux?

Whatever the mechanism one has to note that 23 % of incoming solar light is absorbed today in the atmosphere — not due to GHGs by definition.

According to Trenberth some 78 W / m ^ 2 of the incoming solar energy is absorbed by the atmosphere.

richard verney says: «According to Trenberth some 78 W / m ^ 2 of the incoming solar energy is absorbed by the atmosphere.

Peter Huybers and George Denton went on to show that the glacial - interglacial climate near the North Pole varies with the intensity of incoming solar radiation at those latitudes, while variations in Antarctic climate seem to be governed by changes in the duration of summer (Huybers and Denton, 2008).

Since it takes several hundred years for the deep ocean water to cycle up to the top, where it can be warmed up and lose CO2, it makes sense to suppose that if a warming event is initiated by something else (like changes in the amount and spatial distribution of incoming solar radiation,) the concomitant rise in atmospheric CO2 (which would enhance the initial warming) might lag behind by several hundred years.

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

However, there have been proposals to mitigate climate change not by decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, but by increasing the reflection of incoming solar radiation with mirrors, aerosols (small particles), or other means.

Wildfires are thought to be contributing to the warming process, as soot on glaciers and ice sheets prevents the reflection of incoming solar radiation back out into space.

Thus a proportion of incoming solar energy (in the infrared) never gets into the oceans to affect the ocean heat content (I prefer the term ocean energy content and will use it from now on).

A small localized change in surface temperature can cause a convection burst (thunderstorm) and a large increase in convection height, improving both reflection of incoming solar radiation, and conveying sensible heat to a higher altitude where it can then escape to space via radiative processes with far less interference.

He believed that the amount of incoming solar radiation (insolation) just south of the Arctic Circle, at a latitude of 65 ° N, was essential.

This is because there would be no reflection or absorption of incoming solar radiation.

Blackbody temperature at 235 W / m2, the amount of incoming solar radiation entering our planetary system, is 255K, or -19 C. Thus the earth has «an internal temperature higher than a black body», something which you claim is impossible under any conditions.

So they let most of the incoming solar radiation through but absorb most of the shortwave radiation emitted from the surface (and at all levels).

Heating all comes from that portion of incoming solar flux not reflected by albedo.

Space - based measurements indicate that on average 8.95 % of the incoming solar insolation is reflected by clouds in the TLC regions.

According to the ice - albedo feedback mechanism as the Earth warms more ground and water would be uncovered which would absorb a higher proportion of the incoming solar radiation thus raising the temperature and melting more ice and snow.

And so if we reflected away 2 percent of incoming solar radiation, we could compensate for the warming.

Instead the entire atmosphere would slowly get warmer as CO2 and water vapor were added (assuming no atmospheric absorption of incoming solar radiation).

The albedo factor is due to the fact that the planet reflects approximately 30 % of the incoming solar radiation.

Dr Curry, When considering changes in albedo due to melting, pools, etc, is there also consideration that the Sun is very low in the sky and much of the incoming Solar is reflected off water as glare?

Basically what happens is that these gases are transparent to shortwave light, which is the majority of incoming solar radiation, a thus allow it to pass through to the earth's surface which is thereby warmed.

Their forecast is based on the quantity of incoming solar radiation using 16 - day forecast from the WRF model combined with an assessment of the mechanical stability of the landfast ice cover.

28 M. Fate of Incoming Solar Radiation cont.

Their prediction is based on the quantity of incoming solar radiation and uses 16 - day forecasts from a numerical weather prediction model (WRF).

There is a graph showing the spectra of incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation.

26 L. Fate of Incoming Solar Radiation continued Visible light travels through atmosphere and absorbed by Earth's surface.

With the increase of incoming solar energy, the result is time spans of frequent and more intense droughts.

According to their modeling studies, the difference in the amount of incoming solar radiation, in this case, primarily in the ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, during the minima and maxima of the 11 - yr solar cycle are large enough to produce a characteristic change in the winter circulation pattern of the atmosphere over North America... When the NAO is in its negative phase, more cold air can seep south from the Arctic and impact the lower latitudes of Europe and the eastern U.S., which helps spin up winter storm systems.

In comparison the sunlight which reaches top of atmosphere in one day period is «The Earth receives 174 petawatts (PW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere.»

Students know the fate of incoming solar radiation in terms of reflection, absorption, and photosynthesis.

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.