The process amounts to a heat pump with a frequency cycle of 52 full cycles per annum producing a continuous flow of
outgoing heat energy.
But there is this much physics behind it: both the melting of glaciers and the warming of ocean water is driven by the imbalance between incoming and
outgoing heat energy.
Not exact matches
This creates an imbalance between incoming solar
energy and
outgoing heat.
The amount of water in the tank is the
heat in the Earth system and the input and output valves are incoming and
outgoing energy.
You might say
energy is retained, but it is the vastly more numerous O2 and N2 molecules that are warmed and retain the
heat, even though they can not directly absorb
outgoing infrared
energy themselves.
In other words, greenhouse gases don't retain
heat themselves, but rather redirect
outgoing energy radiated by the surface and lower in the atmosphere, thereby delaying it's ultimate escape to space.
Due to the increased greenhouse effect «trapping» more
heat, there's more incoming than
outgoing energy at the top of the Earth's atmosphere.
A
heat recovery ventilator reduces
energy use by transferring the
heat or cold from the
outgoing stale air and using it to condition the incoming fresh air.
To determine how fast Earth's systems are accumulating
heat, scientists focus on Earth's
energy imbalance (EEI): the difference between incoming solar radiation and
outgoing longwave (thermal) radiation.
The evolution of global mean surface temperatures, zonal means and fields of sea surface temperatures, land surface temperatures, precipitation,
outgoing longwave radiation, vertically integrated diabatic
heating and divergence of atmospheric
energy transports, and ocean
heat content in the Pacific is documented using correlation and regression analysis.
An atmosphere that is perfectly transparent to incoming and
outgoing radiation can not radiate and all its
heat content comes from conduction from the surface and is transported through the atmosphere solely by convection with no loss of
energy to space except for the tiny fraction of atoms at the top of the atmosphere that exceed escape velocity.
Assume a fixed rate of
energy per unit time is being absorbed by and / or generated within an object; and at temperature T the object is in «
heat transfer» equilbrium — i.e., the amount of
outgoing energy per unit time is equal to the incoming radiation per unit time.
Any system where
energy is being accumulated in the form of ordering will by definition have a discrepancy between incoming «low - entropy»
energy (visible photons) and
outgoing «higher entropy»
energy (
heat).
A temporary reduction in OLR means the incoming exceeds the
outgoing radiation, which causes
heat energy in the climate system to rise until the surface and troposphere temperature increases enough to restore the top - of - atmosphere radiation balance by increasing the OLR to the previous value.
To be
energy or more properly,
heat transferred, the one - way upwelling radiation from the surface absorbed by the air should be reduced by subtraction of the down - welling radiation of the air absorbed by the surface Note that by subtraction of the (about 20 W / m ² in global average) flow surface to cosmos of both terms of GH, GH expression becomes GH = (radiation from the surface absorbed by the air) minus (
outgoing longwave radiation from the air) which has absolutely no physical sense!
Where there is
outgoing energy defecit, the atmosphere
heats, lowering the height of the Tropopause.
The greenhouse effect
heats the earth because greenhouse gases absorb
outgoing radiative
energy and re-emit some of it back towards earth.
In other words, * we can observe the increase of CO2 in atmosphere above the ocean, * CO2 absorbs some part of the
outgoing radiation from the surface of the ocean which increases somewhat the temperature of the air * The increasing of temperature causes the (slight) increase of the (already existing) back radiation * This (now increased) back radiation is absorbed by the surface skin layer of the ocean which means that the
energy delivered by the back radiation to the surface skin layer is now slightly higher * This additional
energy will now be distributed over the channels that are participating in the
heat transfer from the absorbing surface skin layer to both the air above the skin layer and the bulk of the ocean.
I get upset when I see «The greenhouse effect
heats the earth because greenhouse gases absorb
outgoing radiative
energy and re-emit some of it back towards earth.»
The influence of atmospheric CO2 on the balance between incoming
energy from the Sun and
outgoing heat from Earth (also called the planet's
energy balance) is well established.
The influence of atmospheric CO2 on the balance between incoming
energy from the Sun and
outgoing heat from the Earth (also called the planet's
energy balance) is well established.
Maps of the long - term monthly and annual means of the net surface
energy flux together with the four components of the total flux (latent
heat flux, sensible
heat flux, incoming radiation, and
outgoing radiation) for the global oceans are presented.
Secondly, the Solar
energy which the cartoon claims converts to
heat to produce this
outgoing Thermal IR is composed of UV, Visible and Near IR, none of which are actual thermal IR,
heat on the move, we can not feel them, and there is no attempt made to prove that these
energies convert to enough
heat of land and sea to raise the temperature of the Earth.
But what makes me uneasy is that in order to calculate the
outgoing energy, I need a temperature, which I get by dividing the
heat capacity into the accumulated
energy.
[38] Greenhouse gases absorb and emit some of the
outgoing energy radiated from Earth's surface, causing that
heat to be retained in the lower atmosphere.
A real greenhouse primarily restricts
heat escape by preventing convection while the «greenhouse effect»
heats the Earth because «greenhouse gases» (GHG) absorb
outgoing radiative
energy and re-emit some of it back towards Earth.
The data is ocean
heat — and incoming
energy less
outgoing.