Sentences with phrase «per square meter»

That implies that if the effective temperature is 288 K, watts radiated per square meter of surface will not be 390.7 but 0.95 * 390.7 = 371.165 watts

For the total amount of energy radiated to be the same, the watts per square meter have to go down.

32 Solar Energy Source - Sun Solar Energy Source - Sun The earth's upper atmosphere receives about 1,400 W per square meter of energy from the sun.

Thus, it does not matter what the actual amount of watts per square meter is at the center of the sphere, or at the interior of the shell, because the radiation is calculated to be measured at the surface of the sphere, not of the center of the sphere or the interior surface of the shell.

SRM techniques are all fundamentally focused on altering the Earth's energy budget, assessed in terms of radiative forcing measured in watts per square meter.

After billions of research dollars spent and over a decade of trying, the energy budget of planet as measured by CERES and other low - Earth orbit satellite systems is out of whack by about 6 watts per square meter.

It has a range of some 10 watts per square meter.

Every kind of natural system is amped up, holding more power — about 3/4 of a watt extra energy per square meter of the Earth's surface, thanks to the carbon we've poured into the atmosphere.

Thou shalt not heat or cool thy house mechanically, unless thy mechanical systems also provide fresh air or if thou canst do so whilst still consuming less than 15 kilowatt - hours per square meter per year of treated floor area and less than 120 kilowatt - hours per square meter per year excepting.

Rahmstorf references Willis et al. (2004), which found an oceanic warming rate of 0.86 ± 0.12 watts per square meter (W / m2) of ocean.

(Feedback parameters larger than 3.3 Watts per square meter per degree Kelvin (Wm - 2K - 1) indicate negative feedback, while feedback parameters smaller than 3.3 indicate positive feedback.)

The total downward IR radiation is powerful, it amounts to around 300 watts per square meter on average.

And you get 1100 watts per square meter as compared to 1000 watts per square meter.

Monckton clearly stated, «I pointed out, correctly, that she had identified a naturally - occurring reduction in cloud cover from 1983 - 2001 that had exercised a radiative forcing of some 6 Watts per square meter.

Or if sunlight is 1000 watts square, one would be making equal 1010 watts per square meter.

Vaclav Smil has made some interesting analyses of the reality of attempting to continue BAU with renewable energy - basically you can't - because of «energy density» - the amount of power per square meter of generator that can be produced.

I pointed out, correctly, that she had identified a naturally - occurring reduction in cloud cover from 1983 - 2001 that had exercised a radiative forcing of some 6 Watts per square meter.

sunlight's composition at ground level, per square meter, with the sun at the zenith, is about 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation.

Representative Concentration Pathway 6.0 (RCP6) is a pathway that describes trends in long - term, global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), short - lived species, and land - use / land - cover change leading to a stabilisation of radiative forcing at 6.0 Watts per square meter (Wm − 2) in the year 2100 without exceeding that value in prior years.

If there is a GH layer at 200K, then in that chunk of the spectrum it radiates (2/3) ^ 4 =.2 times the power it would have radiated, per square meter, at 300K.

THE CRUX: What I can not seem to answer: How can nearly 1,000,000 kg per square meter of atmosphere as on Venus have the huge thermal gradient removed by merely making there no thermal input at all at the base (remove the 5W / m2 at the surface) and that is then supposed to cause the entire column over time to be isothermal.

In order to determine the solar contribution, we have to start with the solar radiative forcing, which is the change in total solar irradiance (TSI) in Watts per square meter (W / m2) divided by 4 to account for spherical geometry, and multiplied by 0.7 to account for planetary albedo (Meehl 2002).

Lab results by the Carnegie group indicate that sea cucumbers around Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be responsible [because they are so abundant — about one sea cucumber per square meter] for about half of the nighttime CaCO3 breakdown, simply by grazing the coral sands of reef systems.

Scientists have learned that about 1,361 watts per square meter of solar energy reaches Earth's outermost atmosphere during the sun's quietest periods.

There is 10 tons of atmosphere per square meter - this has a high thermal capacity and during the night this air mass cools.

, four watts per square meter is the AGW - hypothesized increase in net radiative forcing one gets by doubling atmospheric CO2.

Artificial photosynthesis is one obvious way forward, and when fully developed will maximize the energy output for every square meter that sunlight strikes, delivering hundreds of times more energy per square meter than any photovoltaic could ever do.

«Oh it's only a few watts per square meter difference so we'll ignore it.»

THE CRUX: What I can not seem to answer: How can nearly 1,000,000 kg per square meter of atmosphere as on Venus be physically rearranged vertically and lifted against a gravitational field merely by removing 65W / m2 of energy input that is then supposed to be isothermal.

However, when I did a Fermi estimate of the heating, while the total energy involved was suitably impressive, the power per square meter of surface was utterly ignorable.

They estimate these cause 1.6 watts per square meter, which is much lower than most natural forcings.

The stratospheric ozone depletion resulting from these ozone - depleting gases has amounted to a -0.16 watt per square meter (medium understanding compared to the well - mixed GHGs).

The non-CO2 GHGs have added 1.17 watts per square meter (44.5 % of total from all GHGs) of climate forcing from 1750 to 2000.

Compare this e.g. to solar variations, which have a peak forcing (difference between solar max and solar min) of only 0.2 Watts per square meter.

The increase in CO2 to date causes a climate forcing of 2 Watts per square meter of Earth's surface.

As a good comparison, the natural greenhouse effect that warms the Earth's surface by 35 K is, on average, ~ 150 watts per square meter.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that aerosols cool the planet by between 0.1 and 1.9 watts per square meter (Wm2)(a small air conditioner cools by 60 Wm2).

Tropospheric ozone, which is produced by man - made emissions of O3 - forming gases, has increased 35 % from 1750 to 2000, and adds 0.35 watt per square meter with also a medium degree of uncertainty.

Scientists measure it in units of watts per square meter (W / m2 or W · m - 2).

So infrared part should guessestimate around 640 watts per square meter.

At 2000 nm the watts per meter per nm is around.1 watt At around 3500 nm the watts per meter per nm is.01 watt As guess, from 2500 to 5000 nm one getting an average of.01 watts so total would around 25 watts per square meter.

«Sunlight's composition at ground level, per square meter, with the sun at the zenith, is about 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation.»

A clear sky at noon with sun at Zenith stops about 360 of the 1360 watts per square meter at top of atmosphere.

And the 5 sections of IR have more power than one section of UV and Visible light: «Sunlight at zenith provides an irradiance of just over 1 kilowatt per square meter at sea level.

These energy savings will help Hyatt Hotels Corporation achieve their company's goals of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission by 25 % per square meter worldwide by 2020.

So for believers that 1 C warming is significant - 25 watt per square meter is not insignificant.

So SWAG of 5000 to 10,000 would be around 5 watts per square meter or less.

So total 350 watts per square meter.

H2O blocks just over 100 watts per square meter.

And adding up the near infrared: 250 + 200 + 62 + 50 and gives 562 watts per square meter [I over guessestimated it] it's suppose to be 527 watts per square meter for the infrared.