Sentences with phrase «radiation leaving the atmosphere»

reducion in long wave radiation leaving the atmosphere 3.

Not exact matches

When lingering near the top of the atmosphere, the O3 molecule provides cover from energetic radiation but closer to the ground it can choke lungs and blight leaves.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

There are contributions from interstellar matter, from the three - degree - Kelvin background radiation left over from the early history of the universe, from noise that is fundamentally associated with the operation of any detector and from the absorption of radiation by the earth's atmosphere.

More greenhouse gas (whether it is carbon dioxide or water vapor) will reduce the ability of thermal radiation to leave the atmosphere, but it will not instantaneously raise the temperature.

As long as there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than before, it will reduce the percentage of thermal radiation which is able to leave the atmosphere, which means that the climate system must heat up if the rate at which energy leaves the climate system is to equal the rate an which energy enters the climate system.

With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.

What happens at the «top of atmosphere» — the level where outgoing radiation leaves for space, not itself a very easy concept — is the restoration of equilibrium, the increase in temperature that, through Helmholtz - Boltzmann at the Earth's brightness temperature 255K, restores the balance between incoming and outgoing energies.

It is the reduced amount of radiation leaving the top of the atmosphere that changes the earth's balance of heat, and therefore defines the «direct radiative forcing» caused by doubling CO2.

Because CO2 makes the atmosphere more opaque to infrared radiation, and because the atmosphere gets colder as you get higher, the «effective radiation temperature» of the infrared radiation leaving the earth is made colder by increasing CO2 (fewer Watts per square meter of infrared radiation leave the top of the atmosphere).

It seems to me that a period where solar energy was entering and then quickly circulated into the depths would leave less IR radiation entering the atmosphere.

The radiation leaving the top of the atmosphere would be the same, but it would start its move toward equilibrium with the sun, which is now zero.

That means less radiation leaving the earth for outer space, So more energy stays in the earth atmosphere system making the surface warmer.

The term «photosphere» for a star has essentially the same meaning as any of the six terms «Effective -LCB- Emission Radiation Radiating -RCB--LCB- Height Level -RCB-» for the atmosphere of a planet, being the altitude at which the gas above has an optical depth of 2/3, i.e. at which about 50 % of the radiation leaving that altitude vertically upwards escapes to space.

The NCAR scientists now state these satellites still see there is more energy radiation entering the upper atmosphere than leaving it, in whatever part of the spectrum.

The spacecraft's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, an instrument that measures infrared heat radiation as it leaves the atmosphere, is expected to provide vastly more and better temperature and humidity readings worldwide than are available now from weather satellites and other sources.

With regard to the diabatic process the exchange of radiation in and out reaches thermal equilibrium relatively quickly (leaving Earth's oceans out of the scenario for current purposes) and once the temperature rise within the atmosphere has occurred then equilibrium has been achieved and energy in at TOA will match energy out.

Research published in 2008 by Arizona State University professor Peter Crozier suggests that this nanoscale atmospheric aerosol species is abundant in the atmosphere over East Asian countries and should be explicitly included in models of radiative forcing (the gap between energy radiation reaching the Earth and that leaving through the upper atmosphere).

(There is little water vapor in the upper atmosphere and most energy leaves the lower atmosphere by convection to or radiation to the upper atmosphere.)

The 30 % is used on the left hand side of this exceedingly simple equation to determine the net radiations hitting the atmosphere and surface taking into account earth albedo.

He forgot to mention conduction, but if he truly meant to leave it out then his conclusion is already obviously false as he left out a physical process that is infinitely faster than thermal relaxation due to radiation in a GHG - free atmosphere, where there is none.

In the real world (our atmosphere) the ground heats the air above continuousy during daylight hours and there are many other processes such as convection, radiation and evaporation that lead to energy leaving the system, so the process is never at rest and the temperature gradiant is maintained.

We have observed an increased greenhouse effect with more radiation reaching the surface and less leaving the atmosphere.

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.

In a real planetary greenhouse, you have a «one - way» hole in the form of an atmosphere that allows solar radiation in and blocks longwave radiation from leaving.

«All the energy that enters or leaves the Earth system does so via radiation at the top of the atmosphere.

I didn't mention the obvious fact that you stated, that the heating will cease, when the upper atmosphere warms enough to restore the equilibrium between radiation leaving the earth and arriving from the sun.

Figure 3: Left: composite global linear trends for hiatus decades (red bars) and all other decades (green bars) for top of the atmosphere (TOA) net radiation (positive values denote net energy entering the system).

The graph on the left shows the actual observed Solar radiation spectrum (in red) as measured at the top of the Atmosphere.

If radiative escape is blocked then that only leaves convection and conduction to get the deeper water to the surface where it can escape through radiation, conduction to the atmosphere, and evaporation.

Left: Actual Solar radiation spectrum observed at top of Atmosphere, compared to black body model.

And the only purely observational study featured in AR4, Forster & Gregory (2006), which used satellite observations of radiation entering and leaving the atmosphere, also gave a best estimate of 1.6 °C, with a 95 % upper bound of 4.1 °C.

Matthew, to clarify what I said - All heat that leaves the earth from the surface or the atmosphere is by radiation.

Thermal radiation comes into the atmosphere from the sun, is converted to different wavelengths, and leaves it again.

It would leave the outer atmosphere by radiation.

That energy leaves the atmosphere by radiation from IR active molecules.