Since beginning operations, ARM has made significant contributions to improving climate prediction models as they
represent radiative heat transfer, aerosol processes, and cloud processes.
From this layman's perspective you are discussing
NET radiative heat transfer between non-gaseous objects thus infering wide band land wave radiation is emitted / absorbed by the surface of each object.
I would have torn my hair out long ago and the insides of my computer would now be engaging
with radiative heat transfer with the troposphere from their scattered locations around my lawn.
Its main argument is that idealized blackbody calculations did not correctly predict the Moon's surface temperatures in the 1960s because other factors besides
radiative heat transfer equations actually determine real surface temperatures.
There is no underlying physics, Pekka, of
radiative heat transfer anywhere explaining how a warmer object (warmed by an external heat source) gets even warmer when it in turn warms a nearby cooler object.
Fred Souder says (February 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm):» Again,
radiative heat transfer ONLY occurs in the direction from a hot source to a cold source.»