Sentences with phrase «significant radiation emitted»

Does the atmosphere absorb any significant radiation emitted from the surface?

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Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.

This isn't true, for planet Earth at least, because Earth doesn't emit significant IR radiation at the frequencies that these stretching vibrations occur.

Pekka Pirilä: Where the effect of increase in CO2 is important for the energy balance is in the upper troposphere, because a significant part of the radiation emitted upwards by CO2 of the upper troposphere goes trough the tropopause to stratosphere or through it to open space.

Where the effect of increase in CO2 is important for the energy balance is in the upper troposphere, because a significant part of the radiation emitted upwards by CO2 of the upper troposphere goes trough the tropopause to stratosphere or through it to open space.

In which case, does the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere emit significant amounts of radiation (at night for example)?

At higher altitudes radiation heat transfer becomes more significant and OLR is emitted and the parcel cools.

If the N2 was indeed emitting significant amounts of thermal radiation at those wavelengths, where is it?