Sentences with phrase «outgoing flux»

For example, the calculations of Haywood et al. (1999) showed that the clear - sky outgoing flux at the TOA over oceans yields excellent agreement with Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) observations when aerosol species are considered.

Clouds could be a negative feedback because they reflect so much of the incoming flux, but they also may reflect some of the outgoing flux back to the surface.

This is also then the approximate location of the spectrally averaged TAU = 1 level from which most of outgoing flux can be said to originate from.

As the atmospheric opacity is increased (e.g., 2xCO2), the physical location of the TAU = 1 level will rise to a higher altitude, but the outgoing flux will still come from the TAU = 1 level since radiation doesn't care about the geometric scale), and the TAU = 1 level will still correspond to the same temperature (since the solar input energy is unchanged).