Sentences with phrase «on long wave radiation»

A real insulator such as Styrofoam, works on the long wave radiation, the same as CO2 and water vapor.

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

Not exact matches

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

Before that, the picture is surprisingly coherent and surprisingly thoughtful, long on talk and heavy with the implication that a local pest - exterminating outfit, experimenting with low - level sound / radiation waves that drive insects nuts, is most likely behind the sudden epidemic of living corpses.

The work is an estimate of the global average based on a single - column, time - average model of the atmosphere and surface (with some approximations — e.g. the surface is not truly a perfect blackbody in the LW (long - wave) portion of the spectrum (the wavelengths dominated by terrestrial / atmospheric emission, as opposed to SW radiation, dominated by solar radiation), but it can give you a pretty good idea of things (fig 1 shows a spectrum of radiation to space); there is also some comparison to actual measurements.

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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.

In terms of building physics, this increases the probability that condensation might form on the outer surface of the façade due to the cooling effect of long - wave radiation of heat during the night.

What will an increase in downwelling long - wave IR radiation actually change on the 70 % of the Earth surface that is water?

In the real world; that being the laboratory where CO2 does its dastardly deed on our climate, the source of the energy that purports to do the heating, is (on average) a black body like source of Long wave infrared radiation having a spectral peak at about 10.1 microns wavelength, and containing about 98 % of its energy in a range of about 5.0 to 80 microns wavelength, at an effective Temperature (on average) of 288 Kelvin.

Please do not drag in the «red herring» of long wave IR radiation, there is just as much IR energy exchange going on in caves as out in the fresh air.

Such an increase is seen in the reanalyses, and the outgoing long - wave radiation has become more diffuse over time, consistent with an increased influence of greenhouse gases on the vertical energy flow from the surface to the top of the atmosphere.

The partition of the outgoing long wave radiation into upward atmospheric emittance and surface transmitted radiation components is based on the accurate computation of the true greenhouse - gas optical thickness for the radiosonde data.