Sentences with phrase «radiation energy passes»

When tropospheric air is warm enough for complete absorption, radiation energy passes into gas fluctuations.

Not exact matches

Inside the jar the heat that is generated from the sunlight energy is unable to escape — glass does not allow heat radiation to pass through.

The skew toward high - energy x-rays indicates that the black holes were heavily shrouded by dust and gas, through which only the most energetic radiation could pass.

The dose of high - energy particles resembled the radiation likely to pass through the unprotected hull of a spaceship over the course of a mission to Mars, Limoli says.

Current theory predicts that dark energy would slightly heat the CMB radiation passing through dense regions of galaxies called superclusters, each about a half - billion light - years across.

Another trick is to design a photovoltaic cell that allows visible light to pass through while collecting energy from infrared and ultraviolet radiation.

Few realize that our entire solar system is swinging through space passing through areas of greater or lesser energy fields from cosmic particles and background radiation.

Few realize that our entire solar system is swinging through space passing through areas of greater or lesser energy fields from cosmic particles and background radiation.

In equilibrium to maintain the energy balance of the earth you must have just as much long wave radiation passing through (and warming) the top layer as before.

«Sunlight passes through the atmosphere largely unhindered and warms the Earth's surface; the warmed surface radiates heat and some of this radiation is absorbed in the upper atmosphere and re-emitted, about half of the re-emitted energy returning to the Earth's surface.

Energy is transferred from the Sun to the Earth by radiation, because radiation can pass through a vacuum.

Solar energy arrives in the form of short - wavelength radiation; some of this radiation is reflected away but, on a clear day, most of it passes straight through the atmosphere to warm the earth's surface.

ABSORBED ENERGY The solar radiation that passes through Earth's atmosphere is either reflected off snow, ice, or other surfaces or is absorbed by the Earth's surface.

Next: «Solar radiation at the frequencies of visible light largely passes through the atmosphere to warm the planetary surface, which then emits this energy at the lower frequencies of infrared thermal radiation.

Exactly the same amount of radiation passes through the hohlraum as in the «before» state from the first case, only it never actually spends any time in any internal energy states in the hohlraum.

Then, especially when there is excessive cloud cover over the oceans, the Sun's energy absorbed above the clouds can actually make its way down to the ocean surface (and below) warming the oceans by non-radiative processes, not by direct solar radiation which mostly passes through the thin surface layer and could barely raise the mean temperature of an asphalt paved Earth above -35 C.

Furthermore, most of the solar radiation passes right through that thin transparent layer, warming lower regions in the thermocline from where the energy continues its downward trend.

The light from the Sun passes through the Earth's atmosphere, which is transparent to visible light (that's why our eyes evolved to be sensitive to this kind of electromagnetic radiation), and warms the surface of the Earth, which in turn reradiates the energy, now as infrared radiation, because the Earth's surface isn't as hot as the Sun.

2) None of the surface energy could pass to the atmosphere by radiation, conduction, convection or the latent heat of evaporation (of black - body water).

One suggestion he came up with was that the energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible and ultra-violet light (known back then as «luminous heat») was easily able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and heat up the planet's surface, but that the «non-luminous heat» (now known as infra - red radiation) then emitted by the Earth's surface could not make it back in the opposite direction quite so readily.

In the Itrax WoodScanner system, the sample laths are scanned in increment steps using a focused high - energy X-ray beam and an X-ray line camera that detects the amount of radiation that passes through the sample.

I can think of at least two cases: 1) radiation fog is caused by the surface radiating away energy and cooling enough to bring the temperature of air lying above it down to the dew point or below; 2) advection fog is caused by warmer (moist) air passing over a cooler surface.