Sentences with phrase «radiation absorption due»

This can be affected by warming temperatures, but also by changes in snowfall, increases in solar radiation absorption due to a decrease in cloud cover, and increases in the water vapor content of air near the earth's surface.2, 14,15,16,17 In Cordillera Blanca, Peru, for example, one study of glacier retreat between 1930 and 1950 linked the retreat to a decline in cloud cover and precipitation.18

Not exact matches

In our stratosphere, upper level warming is due to ozone absorption of solar radiation.

Another confirmation test would be to use a time series of stratospheric temperature as a proxy in this regard, since the stratosphere warms at volcanic eruption peaks due to the absorption of longwave radiation from below and also near - IR absorption.

Since seawater absorption is nonzero at many wavelengths, increased atmospheric back - radiation due to a heightened greenhouse gases would inevitably warm the ocean, just as it warms the land.

On the other hand both records have shown dramatic cooling in the stratosphere, where cooling is indeed expected due to increasing greenhouse gases and decreasing ozone (which heats the stratosphere due to its absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation).

Starting with small amounts of absorption, the transient cooling should extend through most of the atmosphere (except the troposphere) because each layer's emission and absorption of radiation from the surface would increase equally if not for the increased absorption of radiation from the surface by lower layers, while the increased absorption of radiation from other layers would be a smaller effect due to the small emissivities — this would be true in the troposphere as well except the convective coupling with the surface would prevent it.

The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).

Heating of the thermosphere is due to absorption of highly energetic solar radiation by the small amount of residual molecular oxygen still present, and temperatures can rise to 2,000 deg.

We all have been told that the greenhouse effect is due to the absorption of outgoing infrared radiation by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

For example, until fairly recently, it was not even known that CO2 also has absorptions in the UV region, which is how we now can identify it, qualitatively at least, on other planets, due to its back radiation... (= cooling)

The inappropriately - named «greenhouse» effect is actually the effect of absorption / emission of IR radiation due to radiatively - active gases combined with the effect of declining temperature with height of the atmosphere (lapse rate).

The brownish color of the cloud (which is visible when looking at the horizon) is due to absorption of solar radiation at short wavelengths (green, blue, and UV) by organic and black carbon aerosols as well as by NOx.

On top of that and regardless of any absorption / emission properties there is thermal radiation that is only due to the fact that charges that compose the molecules accelerate by vibration and collision and this property is general for any form of matter.

The increased absorption due to higher CO2 decreased the outgoing radiation within a portion of the thermal radiation spectrum (10 - 11 microns).

He knew that the absorption of infrared radiation was due to CO2 and water vapour, and he also knew that CO2 is a forcing while water vapour is a feedback.

Thermospheric temperatures increase with altitude due to absorption of highly energetic solar radiation by the small amount of residual oxygen still present.

The abstract of this report says most of the absorption [and thus radiation] observed in the atmosphere is due to its trace components such as water - vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone.

1) The influence of methane on the Earth energy balance is not due to the absorption peak at 3.3 µm because that wavelength has very little role in solar radiation and even less in IR radiated from the Earth.

There, it is written that the absorption of surface radiation by CO2 is saturated and that the decrease in the global outgoing longwave emission due to more CO2 in the air is only due to the «higher and cooler» emission level of tropospheric CO2 radiating to the cosmos.

Pekka Pirila writes «- The IR absorption due to CO2 in air has been measured accurately and in great detail in laboratory — The downwelling radiation has been measured in many locations with variable accuracy and number of details — The outgoing IR radiation at the top of atmosphere has been measured as a function of the wavelength»

The positive atmospheric forcing is due largely to the soot and dust absorption of solar radiation.

If so, then we can put numbers behind the qualitative discussion on the influence of CO2 on the climate of the Earth since we can now relate the additional heat available due to the absorption of the outgoing radiation by CO2 to the total heat available due to the irradiation from the Sun and the back radiation previously to the enriching of the atmosphere by CO2.

The increase of CO2 gives both the higher value of Tl due to the increased absorption of the outgoing surface radiation and the higher value of T after the radiation from the Sun is «switched off» at the evening.

This linear relationship breaks down for absorbing aerosols, which may have small TOA forcing, but disproportionately larger surface forcing due to absorption of solar radiation (Lohmann and Feichter, 2001; Ramanathan et al., 2001a).

If we now add water vapor and / or CO2 to the air then temperature of the air layer will become Ta» > Ta due to the absorption of a part of the upward radiation by vapor and / or CO2, which will reduce the heat losses from the surface to the layer since we now have h * (T - Ta»).

I have claimed that, despite the 120 meter extinction, the layers above the 120 meter distance also contribute to the downwelling radiation that ultimately reaches the Surface such that, if about 1/2 are due to the first - generation photons being absorbed and re-emitted, then about 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and so on are due to higher - generation photons due to emission and absorption, and re-emisson, and so on and on.

And this process is not linear, as the processes resultant from a net ongoing energy change due a massive increase in external input (a multi million year change — increase — in lower atmospheric thermal radiation absorption and re radiation, in the sense of our geologically recent evolved «temperate» earth climate and global energy balance is massive) is not linear.

The VUV (< 200 nm) absorption due to the O2 Schuman Runge bands essentially wipe out all of the radiation that would be absorbed by methane / CO2 and water vapor as discussed in the here and here.

Where water vapor is important is as a feedback effect... whereby the warming of the atmosphere due to increased CO2 causes the «equilibrium» concentration of water vapor to increase and this then enhances the warming because of water vapor's absorption of infrared radiation.

Temperatures can be elevated on roofs due to the higher solar radiation absorption and re-radiation associated with many roof surfaces including black tar, shingles, stone, and metal.

While weather predictions and long - term climate are very complex and beyond the author's expertise, he feels the single issue of heat absorption and radiation due to carbon dioxide is much simpler, well understood, and better modeled and measured as proposed here.

At maximum absorption, the atmosphere will beome translucent due to back radiation.