Sentences with phrase «radiative absorption»

This study seeks to explain the effects of cloud on changes in atmospheric radiative absorption that largely balance changes in global mean precipitation under climate change.

If you are testing for radiative absorption, then the type of gas matters.

Molecules with radiative absorption capability will produce an atmosphere of a different volume at the same surface temperature and mass as compared to an atmosphere without such a capability.

Therefore, for the Earth climate system, radiation is the ONLY heat loss mechanism, and therefore radiative absorption is key.

Oxidation of methane to CO2, which requires reactions with the OH radical, produces an instantaneous reduction in radiative absorption and emission since CO2 is a weaker greenhouse gas than methane, although CO2 has a longer lifetime.

That includes radiative absorption characteristics.

There is just the effect of CO2 on radiative absorption, the effect of land use changes on albedo, and perhaps waste heat itself if you value completeness.

This would require the radiative effect of clouds to change from one that increases atmospheric radiative absorption by about \ (0.5 \, \ hbox -LCB- Wm -RCB- ^ -LCB--2 -RCB- \, \ hbox -LCB- K -RCB- ^ -LCB--1 -RCB- \) to one that decreases it by \ -LRB--3.5 \, \ hbox -LCB- Wm -RCB- ^ -LCB--2 -RCB- \, \ hbox -LCB- K -RCB- ^ -LCB--1 -RCB- \).

If the atmosphere consisted of Oxygen / Nitrogen only, its thermal conductivity would be very low, solar heating would be much the same, and the insulation effect (and the gravitational lapse rate) would produce a substantial temperature differential from the surface to the top of the atmosphere without any radiative absorption.

This is a very different notion than that of a model of radiative absorption and emission in the atmophere, which is a very specific physical process.

The radiative absorption capability of CO2 allows atmospheric molecules to reach a higher temperature than that imparted to them by energy at the surface so they rise to a higher location than would be predicted from their weight and their individual gas constants.

However the radiative absorption capability of CO2 is also high so in practice it has little difficulty acquiring the energy needed to initiate uplift.

We need to examine the Gas Laws in some detail to consider how the radiative absorption capabilities of Greenhouse Gases could be dealt with given that the Gas Laws have no term for the radiative capabilities of molecules.

The reason for this is the presence of convection (heat transport by air motions), which bypasses much of the radiative absorption.»