Sentences with phrase «radiation at different wavelengths»

The timing and strength of the electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths provided scientists with clues about the nature of the phenomena created by the initial neutron - star collision.

Not exact matches

Radiative transfer in the earth's atmosphere is not particularly amenable to simple formulas because the atmosphere is semi-transparent to differing degree at different wavelengths, which allows radiation emitted locally to interact with the entire atmosphere.

The flow of radiation at different frequencies (wavelengths) don't follow waveguides in that sense, though they can be thought of as different channels of communication.

So I am totally deaf to «lab experiments» where CO2 gas mixtures are subjected to radiation sources that are ten times the real earth ambient source Temperature, and therefore 10,000 times as bright as the earth surface, and emitting a completely different spectrum at one tenth of the real LWIR wavelengths, which have completely different interactions with the CO2.

Well again the science is simple, electromagnetic radiation comes in different wavelengths (sycles) and in return different frequencies, which determines the intensity and penetrating ability... such as gamma rays being able to penetrate solid lead because it is at the high end of the frequency range.

I understand the superficial attractiveness behind the proposition that the atmoshpere contains some gases that are largely transparent to incoming solar radiation and therefore the majority of this solar radiation finds its way through the atmosphere to the surface whereupon it heats the surface and this heat is, inter alia, radiated from the surface at a different wavelength at which wavelength the atmosphere (or some gases within the atmosphere) is not transparent such that some of this radiated enerrgy is «trapped» thereby effectively warming the planet.

(Note, by the way, that what is true for a radiating object is that the amount of radiation emitted AT ANY PARTICULAR WAVELENGTH is an increasing function of the temperature, a fact that is not always obvious because people often tend to normalize the emission curves when showing emission curves for different temperatures on the same graph.)

Because of the different intramolecular forces between water molecules as vapor in air, water, and ice, the wavelengths of emission and absorption are shifted; some of the radiation from the water / ice droplets at the top of a cloud can escape to space because the atmosphere above it is transparent at its wavelengths, whereas the same radiation from droplets at the bottom of a cloud will be absorbed and re-emitted in random directions from the droplets above, including back down to the originating droplets.

Both, however, are efficient at intercepting outgoing infrared radiation from the Earth's surface and atmosphere The disparity is due to the different wavelengths of incoming solar energy and outgoing infrared energy.