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My feeling is that adding 1K to that temperature would lead to a seriously erroneous outgoing LW radiation spectrum at TOA.

Not exact matches

The balloon - borne microwave telescope (called «Boomerang») examined the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.The angular power spectrum showed a peak value at exactly the value predicted by the inflationary hot Big Bang model dominated by cold dark matter.

This involves determining the composition of a planetary atmosphere by measuring its spectra, the distinctive radiation that gases absorb at their own particular wavelengths.

When astrophysicist Robert Petre of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues analyzed the ASCA data, they found that most of the Lupus supernova remnant had spikes in its X-ray spectrum — the radiation peaked at a few wavelengths.

They then took a closer look at the spectrum of radiation emitted by each of these objects, using optical telescopes in Arizona and the world's largest radio telescope, the 305 - metre dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico.

The x-ray spectrum is consistent with thermal radiation from a hot plasma at a temperature of about 4 x 106 ° K with evidence for a line at 19 angstroms corresponding to the 2p → 1s transition of O VIII.

«In addition, the solar radiation in the optimal spectrum is absorbed and re-emitted at a blue - shifted spectrum.

They produce electromagnetic radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths from long - wave radio to the shortest wavelength gamma rays.

This tight synchronization of the beams at different energies implies that the bright radiation observed in the multi-wavelength spectrum is produced altogether in a rather small region.

Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

They release radio energy in a nearly flat spectrum because of the emission of radiation by charged particles moving spirally at nearly the speed of light in a magnetic field enmeshed in the gaseous remnant.

That the nebula is so much brighter than the star shows that the star emits primarily highly energetic radiation of the non-visible part of the electro - magnetic spectrum, which is absorbed by exciting the nebula's gas, and re-emitted by the nebula, at last to a good part in the visible light.

X-rays are produced in X-ray tubes by the deceleration of energetic electrons (bremsstrahlung) as they hit a metal target or by accelerating electrons moving at relativistic velocities in circular orbits (synchrotron radiation; see above Continuous spectra of electromagnetic radiation).

If the temperature decreased with altitude, infrared radiation would at some point pass through a region of cooler water - gas, which would absorb the part of the spectrum responsible for the glowing effect, he explained.

Extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation is at the low - energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum and is often referred to as the Electric Fields.

My contribution had its ups and downs — a low point was definitely when Judge Alsup declared «your chart sucks» in response to a powerpoint slide (right) which showed an artist's impression of the Nimbus 4 satellite at the expense of a graph of how the spectrum of outgoing long wave radiation changed in response to rising greenhouse gases between 1970 and 1997.

I've restored that spectrum to its rightful place in the version below, as well as adding some more material on molecular dipoles at the beginning, since Judge Alsup (and others since) had questions about how it was that carbon dioxide molecules could act on infrared radiation over a much larger volume than the molecules themselves actually occupy.

Absorption of thermal radiation cools the thermal spectra of the earth as seen from space, radiation emitted by de-excitation is what results in the further warming of the surface, and the surface continues to warm until the rate at which energy is radiated from the earth's climate system (given the increased opacity of the atmosphere to longwave radiation) is equal to the rate at which energy enters it.

The bonds between two atoms in a molecule are particularly strong, and can only vibrate at very high frequencies (emphasize frequencies over energies) well above the frequency of infrared or the solar radiation spectrum.

The sun, which is quite hot (about 5800K), emits most of its energy at between 0.2 microns and 4 microns (solar or short wave radiation, or plain sunlight), while the Earth's surface emits the most energy at wavelengths between 5 and 50 microns (the so - called thermal Infrared region of the spectrum).

Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

CO2 absorbs between the 600 - 800 cm ** -1 region, a very important part of the spectrum for planets or moons which radiate at Earth - like temperatures, and so yes, this substantially reduces the outgoing radiation of the planet for a given temperature.

In the absence of solar heating, there is an equilibrium «skin temperature» that would be approached in the uppermost atmosphere (above the effective emitting altitude) which is only dependent on the outgoing longwave (LW) radiation to space in the case where optical properties in the LW part of the spectrum are invariant over wavelength (this skin temperature will be colder than the temperature at the effective emitting altitude).

BTW, For the radiation fans, they could look at the portion of the solar spectrum absorbed by water vapor that also penetrates below 10 meters in the ocean.

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.

Has anyone actually done any «real» laboratory experiments with CO2 mixtures, using a real 288 Kelvin thermal radiation source that is putting out a 10.1 micron peak wavelength emission spectrum at about 390 W / m ^ 2.

george e smith says: July 18, 2013 at 12:57 pm «So seen from outer space the earth radiation spectrum should be a small (10 % area) 288K thermal spectrum, overlaid with prominent GHG band spectra like CO2 15 micron peaks, and various water peaks, plus the Ozone 9.6 micron peak.

Spectrum of the greenhouse radiation measured at the surface.

The infrared spectrum: «Infrared (IR) light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, extending from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 0.74 micrometres (µm) to 300 µm.»

Because in reality, all these gases have absorption lines somewhere in the spectrum, so they all interact with radiation at various frequencies.

Figure 2: Spectrum of the greenhouse radiation measured at the surface.

From what we know about the distribution of energy in the spectrum of the radiation emitted by a body at 55 o, it is clear that the rock - salt plate is capable of transmitting practically all of it, while the glass plate stops it entirely.

If one looks at the radiation going away — the full top - of - atmosphere outgoing radiation spectrum — the GHE is clearly visible.

Yes, inert gases do absorb incident Solar radiation in the UV and visible spectra, so the atmosphere warms to radiative balance, and the temperature at the base of the atmosphere determines (or «supports») the surface temperature.

Measuring with a spectrometer what is left from the radiation of a broadband infrared source (say a black body heated at 1000 °C) after crossing the equivalent of some tens or hundreds of meters of the air, shows that the main CO2 bands (4.3 µm and 15 µm) have been replaced by the emission spectrum of the CO2 which is radiated at the temperature of the trace - gas.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and for a given increase in opacity the outgoing radiation to space will decrease at a given temperature (which has been observed in studies of radiant spectra).

The earth emits a certain amount of LWIR radiation in a spectrum corresponding to a black body (roughly) at 255 or thereabouts Kelvins.

Thus CO2 does indeed warm the lower atmosphere for a hundred metres or so and that shields the CO2 above from any further surface radiation (at the CO2 spectra remember).

The most highly variable parts of the Sun's spectrum of radiation are found at the very shortest wavelengths — the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray region — and in the very longest and far less energetic band of radio waves.

But for those who want to see a better experiment that compared real and modeled conditions, take a look at Part Six — Visualization where actual measurements of humidity and temperature through the atmosphere were taken, the detailed spectra of downwards longwave radiation was measured and the model and measured values were compared.

Greenhouse Gas (GHG)- Geenhouse gases are those gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, the atmosphere itself, and by clouds.

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

It also may be used to calculate the radiation spectrum from the Earth System (Atmosphere and Surface, see below for explanation) at any assumed temperature.

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

Roughly speaking, in the part of the spectrum where the atmosphere is optically thick, the radiation to space occurs at the temperature of the high, cold parts of the atmosphere.

One should note that if Kirchoff's law was applicable, and the emission spectrum and the absorption spectrum were identical by reason of that law, then by definition the radiation would be a complete black body spectrum at the equlibrium Temperature, and it wouldn't have any holes in it.

We know the resonant frequencies of the CO2 molecule, we know the radiation spectrum of the earths surface at any temperature.

The energized molecules re-emit the radiation at a variety of wavelengths, including in the ~ 7μ and ~ 10μ portions, which is why, looking again at the entire spectrum of the graph, there is proportionately more energy in the ~ 7μ and - especially - ~ 10μ regions.

More compelling still is the fact that we can see the increase in greenhouse warming in both the outgoing infrared radiation spectrum, and in the infrared glow looking up at greenhouse gases from the surface.

The top curve is the new «quasi-Plank» outgoing radiation spectrum, where the low transmittance regions (high absorbance) that Earth emits at show up as ditches in the OLR spectrum.