Sentences with phrase «radiation from the surface»

Increased amounts of gases such as carbon dioxide make the atmosphere absorb long - wavelength radiation from the surface more strongly and also emit more radiation back down towards the surface.

Only if all the layers of the CO2 opaque atmosphere had the same temperature as the surface would the back radiation to the surface in the CO2 bands be the same as the upwelling radiation from the surface in those same bands.

Of course transpiration - evaporation cools the immediate region but this process is slower than radiation from the surface does for removing heat from the earth.

When Eli last left the bunnies, he was pointing out how gravity explains much of the greenhouse effect, well, except for the part that you need some things in the atmosphere that absorb IR radiation from the surface.

N2 molecules won't be excited by LW radiation from the surface.

For the top part of the figure: The «window» regions are those levels where radiation from the surface and lower troposphere can easily escape to space, and so the blue squiggly curve tracks the blackbody spectrum for hotter temperatures (between 280 and 300 K).

If, in contrast, an atmosphere were comprised exclusively of non GHGs then hardly any upward or downward radiation would be possible and almost all heat shedding would have to be by radiation from the surface rather than from the atmosphere.

CO2 can only absorb a small statistical amount of upwelling 15 micron radiation from the surface.

Although I am no expert in the area, I saw that his approach was new, and seemed an ingenious new way of analyzing heat flow via radiation from the surface of the Earth through the atmosphere.

Viewing the system as a positive feedback loop with open loop amplification A = 1 (no amplification without ghg) it means the feedback factor B [in output = A / (1 - B)-RSB- must be 0.999 i.e 0.999 of the LW radiation from the surface must be sent back to the surface.

There must be an equilibrium at the TOA, but part of the outgoing radiation from the surface is retained by GHGs, including water vapor.

So far all your examples refer to radiation from a surface.

2) If the sole determinants of surface temperature are mass, gravity and insolation then what role is played by upward infrared radiation from the surface (UWIR) and downward infrared radiation from the sky (DWIR)?